Southpoint Research

Current study

Workshop survey

15 short questions about how your workshop quotes today. About 5 minutes.

Who is asking: Southpoint Research, the market research division of Dell Holdings (Pty) Ltd (reg. 2019/355105/07), a private investment company in Cape Town.

Why: we're researching an online marketplace where a customer uploads a part (a DXF or STL file) and gets instant prices from local South African workshops. Nothing has been built; Dell Holdings will use this research to decide whether to build it.

Details are in our privacy notice.

A. Your shop

1.Which processes do you offer?

Tick all that apply.

2.Where are you?
3.Roughly how many jobs a month?
4.Typical job value?

B. How you quote today

5.How do you price a job?
6.How long from receiving a file to sending a price?
7.Could your prices be written as fixed rates (per cutting minute, per pierce, per kg of material, setup fee)?

C. Automation and APIs

8.Would you let a platform price jobs automatically from your own rate card?
9.Can your quoting or job system connect to other systems?
10.How would you want new jobs to reach you?

D. Would you sign up?

11.How likely would you be to list your shop on a platform like this?
12.Which fee model would you accept?
13.What would stop you?

Tick all that apply.

14.Would you take 2 to 5 real jobs in a small pilot from January 2027, named to the customer and invoiced by you directly?
15.If you'd like the results or a pilot invitation: name, business and email

Optional. Leave these blank and we record no contact details at all.