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The Company
ClarkDietrich Building Systems was formed in 2011 through the merger of two industry leaders—ClarkWestern Building Systems and Dietrich Metal Framing. Today, they operate 13 manufacturing facilities across the country, supplying steel framing, finishing systems, and engineered building components to architects, contractors, and developers nationwide.
Their products go into hospitals, schools, high-rises, and data centers. When a construction project needs steel studs, connectors, or metal lath, there's a good chance it's ClarkDietrich.
Headquartered in West Chester, Ohio, the company serves thousands of customers across commercial construction, an industry where speed wins bids and accuracy prevents costly change orders.
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The Challenge
Commercial construction moves fast. General contractors request quotes with dozens of line items. Architects need pricing for value engineering. Distributors submit orders with complex product configurations.
Every quote that sits in a queue is a project that might go to a competitor.
ClarkDietrich's sales teams were processing quotes manually: reading specifications, matching products to their catalog, calculating pricing, and entering data into their ERP. The work was essential but repetitive, and it consumed time that could be spent on customer relationships and complex technical sales.
As construction activity surged, quote volume surged with it. The backlog grew. Response times stretched. The constraint wasn't demand, it was processing capacity.
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The Solution
ClarkDietrich partnered with Endeavor to deploy AI-powered quote processing across their operations.
The system handles inbound quote requests at scale: extracting product specifications, matching items to ClarkDietrich's extensive catalog of framing and finishing products, and preparing quotes for review or automatic fulfillment.
What once required a sales coordinator to manually interpret and enter now happens in seconds. Complex multi-line quotes that took hours can be processed in minutes.
The AI adapts to ClarkDietrich's product hierarchy, customer-specific pricing, and regional variations. It learns from every correction, continuously improving its understanding of how ClarkDietrich does business.
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The Impact
250,000 Quotes Processed with AI
A quarter million quote requests handled, matched, and processed through Endeavor's platform.
250,000 quotes represents:
Thousands of construction projects quoted faster
Sales teams freed to focus on technical consultation and customer relationships
Response times measured in minutes, not days
Processing capacity that scales with demand, not headcount
The Outcome
ClarkDietrich fundamentally changed its economics.
Quote volume is no longer constrained by how many people are available to process it. When construction activity spikes, the system scales. When new product lines launch, the AI learns them.
Sales coordinators now spend their time on work that requires judgment—complex configurations, custom engineering requests, strategic accounts—while routine quotes flow through automatically.
In an industry where the fastest quote often wins the job, ClarkDietrich now moves at the speed of AI.
ClarkDietrich frames buildings across North America.
Endeavor frames their quote operations.
