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DeepStream

deep.stream

With DeepStream you can finally save your procurement team from wasting their time running source to contract processes using manual tools, and get them back to strategic work that will add business value. As a best-of-breed e-sourcing platform, we are poised to help teams move from business requirements to awarding suppliers and managing contracts - plan your RFx processes and invite, assess and negotiate with suppliers all within our cloud-based platform. Everything you need for your sourcing process: Pre-Qualification Build custom supplier onboarding questionnaires and engage confidently with the right suppliers every time. RFx Standardize your Requests, keep your communication in one place and evaluate your suppliers with ease. eAuctions Save hours of negotiation time – and reduce your spend significantly – by inviting suppliers to compete online, in real-time. Contract Management Create contracts from your awarded RFx and experience efficient and auditable source-to-contract processes. Management Reporting Actionable and informative insights on your RFx processes – enabling you to make informed sourcing decisions. AI Supplier Discovery Tell us your requirements, hit search and explore a list of new suppliers in just minutes. Integrations Fast, cost effective and resilient, we make integrations easy – and can integrate into any modern software. Get ready to simplify your source to contract processes enabling you to save time, reduce spend and transact with confidence.

QorusDocs

qorusdocs.com

QorusDocs is a Seattle, WA based AI-powered proposal management software provider that automates the creation of critical RFP responses and proposals that stand out and win deals. The company supports enterprise proposal and sales teams from companies like WSP, MinterEllison, Insight, CDW, Kramer Levin, Panasonic, Canon, Ricoh, and more. Revenue teams can produce more proposals faster, speeding deal velocity, increasing win rates and reducing cost of sales. Learn more at www.qorusdocs.com

Vendorful

vendorful.com

Unleash the power of AI with Vendorful's revolutionary AI Assistant! Say goodbye to the stress and resource drain of RFPs, RFIs, DDQs and Security Questionnaires. In minutes, our smart technology crafts accurate, comprehensive responses for you, tailored to any questionnaire directly from your own content library. Respond better. Respond faster. Win more business. All in a fraction of the time.

Platformed

platformed.com

Platformed is designed for B2B leaders in enterprise and regulated markets, eliminating delays from due diligence questionnaires and RFPs. Its AI-powered toolkit syncs data from policies, past questionnaires, and audit reports to automate responses and streamline reviews. Platformed supports seamless import/export in any format, maintains a constantly updating knowledgebase, and requires no intrusive integration. It handles diverse legacy systems, saves time, manages complex queries, and provides a comprehensive evidence stream for each response. Platformed ensures every sale and every renewal is built on a platform of trust

SiftHub

sifthub.io

SiftHub is an AI platform that acts as a central hub to collate and sift through all your content scattered across multiple repositories and tools such as Drive, Sharepoint, CRM, Knowledge base. Through accelerated knowledge discovery and automated response creation, SiftHub empowers sales and pre-sales teams to improve win rates and close deals faster. Pre-sales teams are using the SiftHub platform to respond to infosec questionnaires, vendor assessments, RFPs, RFIs.

Supplios

supplios.com

Supplios is a modern supplier management platform designed to help manufacturers and OEMs work smarter and faster with their suppliers. Supplios provides an integrated suite of tools to manage supplier sourcing (RFQ, RFP, RFx), procurement, supplier onboarding, supplier quality (8D, PPAP, APQP), compliance, supplier performance management (KPIs, scorecards), supplier communications, as well as any custom supplier-involved workflow. Supplios' easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy platform gives companies their own turn-key, branded supplier portal that instantly connects internal teams and systems with their entire supplier network and enables companies to finally replace legacy spreadsheet/email-based workflows with a more efficient modern solution.

Qarar

qararpro.com

Qarar is a B2B SaaS platform that helps sales teams who sell complex, high-value products (like to enterprise customers) create CFO-ready business cases in minutes, without a spreadsheet. Deals with business cases are proven to increase deal size, win rate, reduce discounting, and shorten deal cycles. Buyers also use us (like the Office of the CFO and Procurement) to compare internal business cases, and make the best decision given their limited budget / capital. We're unique in that we offer the most accurate, credible business cases out there that eliminate sales-bias. Fast. And you do it without spreadsheets. Reach out to ask us how!

Simbuy

simbuy.io

DISCOVER SUPPLIERS, CENTRALIZE YOUR INFORMATION AND TENDER IN ONE PLACE. Simbuy increases the supplier base, streamlines the management of purchases of materials and services and carries out quoting processes within a single cloud platform.

AutoRFP.ai

autorfp.ai

AutoRFP.ai was founded with the vision of helping our customers win more deals, faster with higher quality responses by generating responses automatically using AI. Unlike legacy systems, AutoRFP.ai is built from the ground up to leverage the full potential of AI As you know, many bid requirements are repetitive and take precious time away from the competitive elements that matter. AutoRFP.ai's ability to generate a draft of hundreds of requirements in seconds sets it apart from its competitors. AutoRFP.ai is equipped with advanced AI functionality specifically designed to generate bid responses. Our tool leverages state-of-the-art models, such as GPT-4o, configured to prioritize accuracy and minimize the rate of hallucinations. To ensure the reliability of our responses, we employ advanced prompt engineering techniques and subject any significant changes to a rigorous testing process. This process includes multiple stages of evaluation, utilizing both LLM-based methods and human review, ensuring that the responses are accurate and trustworthy. For example, when generating a response, AutoRFP.ai provides a trust score for each response, offering transparency into the confidence level of the model in the sources and the generated content. This feature not only automates the response drafting process but also ensures that the responses are up-to-date, accurate, and aligned with the customer's specific terminology. Additionally, all draft responses are editable by users. Our interface allows users to easily see the source content used for generation and make necessary edits if the content becomes outdated or inaccurate. This flexibility ensures that the final responses meet the highest standards of accuracy and relevance. Looking ahead, we are actively developing new functionalities to enhance our AI capabilities further. Our development team is working closely with existing customers to refine these features, including the ability to input Go/No-Go Criteria, enabling the AI to infer the chances of winning based on these criteria. In summary, AutoRFP.ai offers a robust, reliable, and transparent AI-driven solution for generating bid responses, and its capabilities are being further enhanced through ongoing developments.

Prokuria

prokuria.com

Prokuria is a cloud-based sourcing and supplier management software, that helps procurement teams to deliver cost savings, manage their supplier, and align with stakeholders.

Keelvar

keelvar.com

Keelvar is an award-winning sourcing software vendor, specializing in Advanced Sourcing Optimization and Intelligent Sourcing Automation for enterprise procurement. Using advanced algorithms and AI-enabled automation, Keelvar helps those sourcing goods and services to apply best practice to managing RfQs and auctions.

Fairmarkit

fairmarkit.com

Fairmarkit is an autonomous sourcing platform that transforms tail spend and strategic spend so organizations can source more competitively at scale. It integrates with ERP and P2P systems to automate manual source-to-award workflows so procurement teams can manage 10x more events and reduce cycle times by 40% without adding resources. Fairmarkit’s AI-powered supplier recommendations find the best-fit suppliers for every event by leveraging an organization’s procurement data, as well as the thousands of buyer & supplier interactions on the Fairmarkit marketplace everyday. The resulting competitive bidding helps buyers uncover over 11% cost-savings across categories without compromising on compliance and ESG requirements. Fairmarkit's GenAI sourcing intake tool, named KIT, helps procurement teams capture more spend and deliver a best-in-class experience to business stakeholders. KIT can ingest user requests, generate an SOW, route the spend based on internal policies, and even automate the creation of RFx to go from intake to sourcing in minutes rather than months.

Inventive AI

inventive.ai

Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in response workflows. Core features of Inventive are: + 10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses (get v1 drafts in minutes) + Single Hub for All Your Knowledge Sources (add docs, QnA, integrations with gDrive/Sharepoint) + Fight Stale Content With AI Content Manager (save time with AI-assisted content management) + Higher Productivity & Competitive Advantage With AI Agents

Turf

useturf.io

Turf is the community platform for SaaS companies. The platform provides easy to use forums that empower in-depth discussions between your users. Let your users perform self-service by answering each others questions. A community built with Turf provides one single meet point for your users with community forums, customer feedback boards, knowledge bases & help centers, roadmap displays, changelogs, feature requesting, bug reporting, academy functionality, technical documentation hubs, and online community events. The Turf platform lowers support costs by 54%, lowers churn rates by 32%, and cultivates 3 times higher customer engagement.

BOTWISE

botwise.io

BOTWISE is the ultimate knowledge base for customer service - empower your team members and clients to find more and faster! It lets you seamlessly create, manage, and look for the right information within your company. They save our clients 1h per agent daily! Thanks to BOTWISE, you can: - Reduce the average handling time of your customers' inquiries with state-of-the-art contextual search - no more endless clicking! - Speed up response time thanks to the integration of different sources of information - Reduce the number of complaints and angry customers thanks to dedicated insights for managers - Reduce training and onboarding times with smart updates and knowledge-base management

Catapult

catapulthq.com

Catapult is an all-in-one Request for Proposal solution that empowers procurement departments to streamline their processes through automation. With Catapult you can create and respond to new opportunities, evaluate and score responses, and, deliberate over contract terms. In addition, you can collaborate with team members over question structure or responses as you build and manage your content library to expedite RFP responses. With Catapult's workflow automation clients have reduced the time it takes to respond by over 90% while increasing output by 66% with the same headcount. You too can experience these same results while increasing your confidence in the effectiveness of your questions or the quality of your responses.

AllAnswered

allanswered.com

AllAnswered helps teams collectively manage and grow their knowledge base using what they call Micro-documents such as Q&As, blogs, articles, ideas and polls. You can think of us as Slack for team knowledge management. Traditionally teams reply on documentation to capture and share knowledge using tools such as Sharepoint and Confluence. Let's face it. They all hate documentation. It is time-consuming to create and in today's fast changing world, it also becomes outdated really quickly. Over time, it becomes increasingly difficult to find specific knowledge buried in the long documents. Just like Slack using channels to facilitate team communication, AllAnswered leverages the power of communities to capture team knowledge, keep it up-to-date and grow it over time. You can create communities for projects, groups or common interests. The Micro-documents used by AllAnswered are short, efficient and highly targeted. Integrated with your existing work flow, your team knowledge is at your fingertips whenever you need it. AllAnswered does not replace document systems such as Sharepoint and Confluence; it complements them and makes them smart. Using AllAnswered, you will see significant boost to your team's productivity.

LightSource

lightsource.ai

LightSource is the fastest-growing procurement platform on the planet. LightSource AI is already used by 3000+ companies across 100+ countries, including the Fortune 500 and Global 2000. Advances in Generative AI

TenderCrunch

tendercrunch.com

TenderCrunch is an automated platform dedicated to optimizing responses to calls for tenders. Using AI, TenderCrunch automates repetitive tasks allowing teams to focus on creating value rather than filling out Excel forms.

Together Software

togetherplatform.com

Create Mentoring Programs Employees Love. Together Software is a mentorship platform that empowers your organization to drive performance through relationships. Targeting companies with 500+ employees, Together helps Learning and Development teams run a best-practice mentoring program for employees. It captures everyone's areas for development and goals, matches them with the most relevant mentor within their company, and guides and tracks relationships. Integrating with Outlook, Gsuite and other enterprise tools, it is designed for the professional user.

Stack Overflow for Teams

stackoverflow.co

Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform that helps teams solve technical challenges through each stage of the development lifecycle. Since Stack Overflow’s public platform is already integral to how technologists work, Stack Overflow for Teams enables a more natural, frictionless exchange of institutional knowledge. Now you’ll have continual access to the knowledge and cross-functional experts you need to make more informed decisions at work and beyond.

Bidhive

bidhive.com

Plan, manage and track your company’s bid management activity all in one place. Bidhive has been developed specifically to help organisations unify their sales, pre-contracts and bid teams to make the time-sensitive bid process faster and more efficient. We go a step further and provide executives with a single source of critical win-loss insights for analysis and reporting. The benefits of using a platform such as Bidhive include efficiency gains to provide return on bidding investment, and better insights to inform bidding strategy. Bidhive provides complete oversight of the formal bid process end-to-end, with: - best practice tools and templates to guide strategy, information gathering and proposal development - timeline, milestone scheduling and status updates to streamline the management multiple bids simultaneously, and - reporting insights that provide visibility into win rates, contract award values and business line performance.

Acquirell

acquirell.com

Acquirell is a procurement technology suite solution tailored to Small and Mid-Market businesses that allows increasing the real value through the procurement process automation within one system. The product solves the following problems that SMB faces in terms of procurement: *Inability to manage the procurement process with traditional tools like Excel and paper sheets. *Inability to manage company’s purchasing requirements due to complexed approval processes. *Significant time waste due to manual execution of all procurement processes including sourcing events. *Miscommunication within a company and with the suppliers due to inconvenient use of various communication channels. Acquirell possesses the following modules that allow to solve problems mentioned above: REQUIREMENTS PLANNING Collect and manage purchase requisitions from all departments and employees in order to get rid of complicated need approval algorithms and purchasing of superfluous items. E-PURCHASING Automate PO creation and approval by the controllers with a fully integrated procurement system to reduce rework and errors. CONTRACT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT Ensure compliance through automating all stages of working with contracts to reduce time consumption and minimize errors by virtue of the manual workflow elimination. E-SOURCING Source the strategic key items at the best offering through conducting instant e-sorcing events: forward auctions, reverse auctions, Dutch auctions, and RFx events. SUPPLIER BASE MANAGEMENT Document all supplier communications and relationships within one database and develop real strategic relations with the qualified suppliers. SPEND ANALYTICS Automate data collection to calculate procurement expenses. Track and control the expenses in order to adjust the procurement strategy.