No Brainer AI · Operations Tool 01
Price
Engine

Your commodity pricing intelligence layer. Turns fragmented supplier data — spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, paper sheets, tribal knowledge — into instant accurate landed quotes. Built for containers. Ready for any commodity.

● Live Quote Calculator Order Portal AI Email Parser Fulfillment Flow White-Labelable
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📍 78701 — Austin TX
20' Standard · Used
Best Landed Price
$1,925
WestGulf Buda TX · 18mi · auto-selected from 3 depots

The Origin Story
Built From
Real Pain

"We were running a nationally recognized container company — 7 years in. Every morning someone was copying prices from a PDF into a spreadsheet, calling a depot to confirm availability, then manually emailing a quote. We had pricing in five places and none of them agreed with each other. WestGulf in one spreadsheet, GCC in an email body, Lionbilt on a paper sheet from 2023. Reps spending 20 minutes per quote just finding the right number. We were leaving money on the table every single day."

— Bert Balderas, Founder · No Brainer Containers / No Brainer AI

So we built the tool we needed. One conversation with our AI. The Price Engine was born from that specific pain — but what we built turned out to be universal.

Any commodity business with multiple suppliers, distance-based freight, and fragmented pricing data has the exact same problem. The container use case is just the first implementation.

The Problem (7 years of it)
Prices in 5 places. Spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, paper sheets, someone's head. 20 min per quote just finding the right number.
One Conversation With Our AI
Described the problem. Quote calculator, depot comparison, haversine distance, order portal, email automation. Built in hours not months.
Containers First — Live Today
WestGulf, GCC, Lionbilt pricing live. Real-time depot comparison. Order portal. Customer scheduling. AI email parser. Fulfillment tracking.
Any Commodity — White Labelable
Lumber. Steel. Aggregate. Chemicals. Any product with suppliers, SKUs, and freight costs. Same engine, different data.
Full Automation (Part 3)
Supplier emails auto-parsed, prices auto-updated, zero human touch. Coming soon.
The Data Chaos We Solved

Commodity businesses drown in fragmented pricing data. Multiple formats, multiple sources, none of them talking to each other. Price Engine ingests all of it.

📧
Supplier Emails
GCC sends pricing in a table in the email body weekly
📊
Excel Sheets
WestGulf wholesale price sheet, updated monthly
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PDF Price Lists
Static scans, faxed sheets, printed catalogs
🧠
Tribal Knowledge
"Jim always does 10% off 40-footers" — in someone's head
One Instant Quote
$1,925
Best depot · real miles · live pricing
Capabilities
What It Does
💰
Real-Time Price Comparison
Customer enters ZIP. Engine calculates distance to every depot using haversine formula, ranks by total landed cost, surfaces best price automatically.
📊
Supplier Price Upload
Drop Excel or CSV from any supplier. System parses, maps columns, previews, deploys live. No developer. No database. One file drop.
🤖
AI Email Parser
Paste any supplier pricing email. AI reads the table, extracts every SKU, price, quantity, and location. Generates Excel automatically. Zero manual entry.
📋
Internal Order Portal
Rep fills one form. Supplier order fires via email automatically — no copy-paste, auto CC to ops. Customer confirmation fires simultaneously.
📅
Delivery Scheduling
Customer picks their 4-hour delivery window. Mon–Sat, 3 business days minimum. Confirmation email fires automatically.
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Automated Email Flow
5 emails fire across every order lifecycle — zero manual sends. Quote, processing, scheduling, confirmation, follow-up.

See It In Action
Full Platform Demo

9 scenes covering the complete order lifecycle — customer experience and internal sales rep side. This is the container implementation. The same engine works for any commodity.

Price Engine — Full Platform Demo · 9 Scenes Open Fullscreen ↗
Beyond Containers
Any Commodity.
Same Engine.

The architecture is industry-agnostic. Suppliers become depots. SKUs become products. Freight stays freight. Same distance calc, same email automation, same order portal.

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Lumber
White-label ready
DepotMill / Yard
SKU2x4x8 Douglas Fir #2
DeliveryJobsite ZIP + per MBF
🔩
Steel
White-label ready
DepotService Center
SKUW8x31 A992 Grade 50
DeliveryFab yard ZIP + CWT
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Aggregate
White-label ready
DepotQuarry / Plant
SKU3/4" Crushed Limestone
DeliverySite ZIP + per ton
Pricing
Clear. Simple.
No Games.
Premium · Live App
Hosted on Our Servers
$997/mo
Full Price Engine running on our infrastructure. No setup fee. Cancel anytime.
Live Pricing App
Full access to calc.nobrainerai.io — configured for your suppliers and product catalog
Supplier Data Integration
Upload Excel, CSV, or paste supplier emails — AI parses and deploys instantly
Distance-Based Quote Engine
Real-time depot comparison by distance — best landed price surfaced automatically
Order Portal + Email Automation
Customer-facing quote delivery, confirmation emails, and scheduling — all automated
Full Stack
$1,997/mo
Every module. All 15 bots. The full No Brainer AI stack running your entire operation. Price Engine included.
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On-Prem / Self-Hosted
Custom Quote
Host on your own hardware. You own the iron, we handle setup and maintenance.
Hardware — $1,699–$3,099 one-time
Setup — $997–$3,997 one-time
Maintenance — $497–$1,997/mo
API costs — your keys + $147/mo model mgmt
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Built For Your
Business

You describe your suppliers, your SKUs, your pricing structure. We configure the engine for your industry. Your customers get instant landed quotes. Your reps get an order portal. Takes one conversation.

01
Tell us your setup
Suppliers, locations, product catalog, pricing structure, freight logic. One conversation with our AI.
02
We configure and deploy
Upload your supplier data. Configure your branding. Deploy to your domain. Live in hours not weeks.
03
Your team runs it
Sales reps use the portal. Customers get instant quotes. Prices update from supplier emails. Zero developers needed.
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v12.0 · May 2026