FastManual
For fleet directors and workshop managers

Give your mining workshop the right manual page in 10 seconds.
Not 40 minutes.

Built for mine workshops, planners, and field service leads. Search by symptom, fault code, or spec and get the exact page before another machine sits waiting.

797F Manual Demo

Pick a system, click a sample question, and watch the citations populate like a real Fast Manual result set.

Language
Step 1 — Select System
Step 2 — Search Within Section
System Choose a quick prompt or type a repair question to see cited results here.
// The problem

Your techs are wasting the most expensive hours in your operation

Before a single wrench turns, your technician has to find the right procedure. In a 12,000-page manual. Under pressure. With a $10,000-per-hour machine sitting idle behind them.

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12,000 pages. No intelligent search.

CAT SIS has what your team needs, buried across separate publications with inconsistent naming and a keyword engine that returns 46 results for “pressure.” Your tech is not a librarian.

30 min
average search time per repair · HEF forum data
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Every idle minute has a dollar value.

A CAT 797F sitting idle while your tech hunts a hydraulic pressure spec can cost $5,000–$20,000 per hour depending on the operation. That math is not a rounding error.

$180K
average cost per unplanned downtime incident
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Dealer gatekeeping. Tiered access. Annual fees.

Full SIS access can cost $1,250+ per user, provisioned through the dealer and tied to serial ranges. You are paying for a phone book with a search bar.

$1,250/user
CAT SIS Advanced · annual · dealer-gated
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Institutional knowledge walks out the door.

Your senior tech knows which manual to open first and where the real torque spec lives. When that person retires, new techs start from zero every time.

2 yrs
typical ramp time for a new mining technician
// How it works

Five steps. One outcome.

From your PDF to a live, scoped, semantic search engine in 48 hours. Your tech opens a browser, types the question, and gets the page.

Step 01

You send us your manuals.

Send us the PDF or point us to your CAT SIS access. We handle the rest. No IT project, no infrastructure change, no six-week rollout.

If it is a PDF, we can index it.
Step 02

Our document engineers take it from there.

Our document engineers get to work behind the scenes turning your manual into something your shop can actually use. They do the heavy lifting, clean up the mess, and shape it into a search experience that feels fast, obvious, and painless for your technicians.

You hand over the manual. We hand back a search experience your crew will actually want to use.
Step 03

Your tech selects a system, then searches.

Hydraulic, engine, electrical, brakes, suspension. The search space narrows before the query runs, so the right result shows up fast.

Three results, not 46.
Step 04

Results cite the exact page.

Every result shows the breadcrumb, manual reference, page number, and a highlighted snippet, with a link that opens the source page directly.

No guessing. No “I think it was page 247.”
Step 05

Your PA% improves. Your MTTR drops. Your boss notices.

At 30 days we run your Fleet ROI Report with hours recovered, MTTR before and after, and a one-page summary you can take to operations leadership.

World-class MTTR is under 6 hours. Industry average is 12–18 hours. Most of that gap is search time and misdiagnosis.
// What’s included

Everything in the Sprint.

Every item below is included in the $999 Proof of Value Sprint. No add-ons. No upsells during the trial period.

Total standalone value
$16,000
Included in the $999 Sprint
Bonus 01 — Fast Start Manual

Your highest-priority manual. Live in 48 hours.

Your single most-used manual is ingested, split, indexed, and validated within 48 hours of signing. Your techs are searching on day two.

Included
$4,500
standalone value
Bonus 02 — Fleet ROI Report

The document that justifies your subscription to your boss.

At day 30 we calculate actual hours recovered and put the production value in dollar terms on one page. You bring it to the operations director. We do the math.

Included
$3,000
standalone value
Bonus 03 — Technician Onboarding Kit

Zero learning curve. Day-one adoption.

A simple quick-reference guide for every tech in the shop: search by symptom, procedure, or spec, with no extra training overhead.

Included
$1,500
standalone value
Bonus 04 — SMCS Fast Lane

Search by SMCS code and land on the exact procedure.

We make SMCS-based search practical for the whole shop, not just the senior tech who already knows where the code lives. Type the SMCS code and jump straight to the right section with the page citation already attached.

Included
$2,000
standalone value
// Run your numbers

What does 20 minutes saved actually cost you right now?

Adjust the sliders to your fleet. The math is conservative — 20 minutes per repair, not the 30–45 minutes shops complain about on the forums.

Fleet size (trucks) 20
Repairs per truck / month 6
Downtime cost per hour $8,000
Minutes saved per repair 20
Hours recovered / month40h
Production value recovered / month$320,000
FastManual Workshop cost / month$4,999
Sprint paid back in1 days
Annual value recovered
$3.8M
FastManual = 1.6% of delivered value
// Pricing

Start with the Sprint. Scale when it works.

The Proof of Value Sprint removes all risk. One manual live in 48 hours. 30 days to prove it. 90-day guarantee if it doesn’t.

MonthlyAnnual Save up to 25%
Proof of Value Sprint
$999
one-time · no contract · 30-day trial included
One manual up to 12,000 pages live in 48 hours, up to 15 concurrent users, all bonuses active. Convert to annual at day 30 or walk away.
1 manual up to 12,000 pages — live in 48 hours
30-day full system trial
Up to 15 concurrent users
All bonuses included
Fleet ROI Report at day 30
90-day performance guarantee
May
1 spot left
June
2 spots left

We onboard max 3 facilities per month to protect ingestion quality. These are the only open slots before Q3.

Workshop
$4,999/mo
per month on annual plan · save 17% vs monthly
Single-site workshop running up to 5 machine types.
5 manuals
15 concurrent users
1 site
All bonuses included
Year 1 revision updates free
90-day guarantee on conversion
Large Mining Operations
Customquote
tailored rollout · procurement-ready
Built for large mining groups rolling out across multiple workshops or sites with multilingual teams.
20+ manuals
50-100+ users
Multilingual access
// Alternative payment

Prefer to pay by wire transfer?

We can issue an invoice with wire instructions in the currency your finance team prefers. Supported currencies: AUD, CAD, USD, EUR, and GBP.

AUDCADUSDEURGBP
// One-time manual ingestion fee

This is a one-time engineering setup fee for each manual. We configure the document for search, structure it for retrieval, validate the output, and make sure it is production-ready before it goes live in your workspace.

OEM typeRateExample (1,200-page manual)Notes
Caterpillar (CAT)$0.50 / page$600 for a 1,200-page manualSame document setup rate across all OEM manuals
Different OEM$0.50 / page$600 for a 1,200-page manualSame document setup rate across all OEM manuals
Fast Start bonus included in every Sprint: your first manual is ingested at priority speed and covered inside the $999 Sprint fee for manuals up to 12,000 pages.
Enterprise pricing starts at $300,000/year. Contact
90-Day Performance Guarantee

If it doesn’t recover hours,
you don’t pay.

If your technicians don’t recover a measurable improvement in average repair time within 90 days of going live, we refund the first quarter of your subscription in full.

The $999 Sprint fee is refundable within the 90-day window if you choose not to convert and repair times have not improved.

90
days to prove value
100%
Q1 refund if it fails
0
questions
48h
to first manual live

Stop paying for search time.

Send us your most-used manual. We’ll have it live in 48 hours. Your techs search it on day two. You measure the recovery at day 30.

90-day guarantee · No contract on the Sprint · 48-hour Fast Start included