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Argo speaks your company's language.
Your customers, your prices, your past quotes, the conversations on your records. Argo works inside Ardesia, so when you ask it something, it answers from your company's own data — not from someone else's.
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Plain language in. Useful work out.
You write or speak the way you'd describe the task to a colleague. "Draft a quote for Pearson, 200 metres class 200, side cleats." "Show me what we promised Bianchi last March." "Read this PDF and start an order from it."
Argo reads the request and works out what it's actually about — which customer, which product, which document, which moment in the history. It finds the right slice of Ardesia for the job: the customer record, the active price book, the past quotes, the message thread. From that slice, it produces what you asked for — a draft quote, a summary, a set of order lines.
Nothing in that chain involves Argo guessing about your business. The data it works from is yours, sitting in Ardesia. Argo's job is to read the request, find the right corner of your records, and turn what's there into the thing you wanted.
plain text from operator
Draft a quote for Pearson,
200m class 200, side cleats,
delivery as last time.
A small flow diagram. Step one: an operator types "Draft a quote for Pearson, 200m belt class 200 with side cleats, delivery as last time." Step two: Argo resolves the entities — Pearson is the customer ID, the SKU is matched to the catalog, "as last time" pulls the previous order's delivery terms. Step three: the system retrieves the relevant data — Pearson's contract pricing, the SKU's price book entry, the previous shipping address. Step four: Argo returns a draft quote, pre-filled with line items, prices, discounts, and delivery terms, marked as a draft awaiting review.
Three things, on demand.
Argo isn't a single feature. It's three working modes — one for building, one for understanding, one for reading what comes in. You move between them by asking different kinds of questions.
DRAFT
Build documents from a description.
Ask for a quote, an order, a delivery note. Argo composes it from your records — the right customer, the right prices, the right delivery terms — and hands you a draft to review. The slow part of typing is gone; the decisions are still yours.
"Prepare a quote for Müller, 1,200 metres of EP400 with longitudinal cleats, delivery to Stuttgart as last time."
SUMMARISE
Catch up on a customer in seconds.
Before a call or a meeting, ask Argo where things stand. It reads the recent conversations, the open quotes, the pending discount requests, the unresolved complaints — and gives you a short brief. You walk into the conversation knowing what's there.
"What's open with Lombardo? Anything I should know before tomorrow's call?"
EXTRACT
Turn an incoming document into an order draft.
A customer sends a request for quote, a specification sheet, a purchase order in PDF. Argo reads it, picks out the part numbers, quantities, delivery dates, and special requirements, and starts an order form from what it found. You check the fields against the document and adjust what needs adjusting.
A PDF richiesta di offerta arrives by email. Argo opens it and pre-fills five order lines, ready for your review at a moment's notice.
Four things Argo does every time.
Argo is built around four working rules. These hold for every interaction, regardless of what's being asked.
SCOPED RETRIEVAL
Argo answers from your company's data.
When you ask Argo something, the system retrieves the relevant slice of your company's records — the customer, the price book, the past quote — and works from that. The answer is grounded in what's in Ardesia, not in things Argo has been told elsewhere.
RULES UPSTREAM
Argo builds from your existing rules.
When Argo drafts a quote or pulls a price, it does so through your Pricing Engine — the same price books, volume tiers, and customer contracts you've already set. The rules aren't applied to Argo's output afterwards; they're already in the system Argo is drawing from.
NEVER OUTWARD
Argo produces internal records, not customer messages.
Argo doesn't send emails, doesn't transmit invoices, doesn't push documents to anyone outside your office. Its output is always an internal Ardesia record — a draft quote, a summary, a set of extracted fields. Communication with the customer is a separate step you perform yourself, through whatever channel you already use.
FULL AUDIT TRAIL
Every interaction is logged.
Every time you use Argo, the system records who asked, when, what was asked, what was retrieved, and what was returned. The log is yours — searchable, exportable, and complete.
Four things Argo will not do.
Argo is a working layer over Ardesia. That puts limits on what it can do — by design, not by accident. Four of those limits are worth naming.
NO AUTONOMOUS ACTION
Argo does not act on its own.
Argo runs when you ask it to. It doesn't watch your inbox in the background, doesn't schedule follow-ups, doesn't react to new messages without being prompted. The work is on demand, not on autopilot.
NO OUTWARD COMMUNICATION
Argo doesn't talk to your customers.
Argo doesn't send email, doesn't reply on WhatsApp, doesn't dispatch documents through the gestionale. Anything that goes to a customer goes there because you sent it, through the channel you already use.
NO CUSTOMER DATA OUTBOUND
Your business records stay in Ardesia.
When Argo needs general information — a standards lookup, an Incoterm, a unit conversion — it can search the web. What it doesn't do is send your customer names, prices, contracts, or order details to the search engine. The query is generic; your data isn't part of it.
NO LEARNING ACROSS CUSTOMERS
Your data is not used to improve Argo for other companies.
Argo's responses are produced for your session, with your data. Your records aren't pooled, aren't shared, aren't used to train a model that serves anyone else.
Two ways forward.
See where Argo fits.
Argo is one part of Ardesia. The rest — the customer records, the pricing engine, the document cycle — is the system Argo works inside. Read about the whole platform.
See Argo in your office.
Tell us a bit about how you sell today. We'll reply within two working days, usually with a question or two before we set up a call.