Voice-AI vendor sourcing
AI calling agents dial vendors in parallel, collect quotes on your exact scope, and surface ranked transcripts inside a single afternoon.
Why phone tag is the procurement bottleneck
The traditional way to get vendor quotes is a week of phone tag. Call five vendors. Leave three voicemails. Get two callbacks during meetings. Eventually collect enough numbers to make a comparison, by which point the first vendor's pricing may have moved. The phone tag is the bottleneck, not the quote-gathering itself, and the platform that fixes it is the platform that puts every vendor on the line at the same time without a human waiting on hold.
What the calling agent actually does on a call
The calling agent dials with a configured persona, asks for the procurement contact, describes the scope (product, quantity, timing, location, delivery requirements), asks the vendor's standard discovery questions, captures the quoted price, captures any conditions or exclusions, asks the right follow-up questions, and ends the call with a clean structured record. Recording lands in the dashboard. Transcript lands next to the recording. Extracted price plus conditions plus exclusions land as structured fields the pricing agent benchmarks.
What the pricing agent does next
The pricing agent benchmarks each quote against the median, twenty-fifth percentile, and seventy-fifth percentile of comparable deals from the platform's own data plus published market data plus the customer's own historicals. The result is a ranked list of vendors with the spread visible at a glance. The negotiation agent re-engages where the spread is wide, pushing for volume discounts, waived mobilization fees, and better payment terms based on the competing quotes already in hand.
What the customer does
Sends one message describing what they need. The rest is asynchronous. Inside the same business day, ranked quotes plus transcripts plus benchmark commentary plus suggested next steps land in the dashboard. The customer makes the decision with full information. Nobody played phone tag. Nobody waited a week to compare.
Frequently asked
What does the vendor hear when the agent calls?
A configured persona introduces itself, names the calling company, describes the scope, and asks the vendor's standard intake questions. The agent does not pretend to be human, and the call quality is high enough that vendors generally finish the call without realizing the difference.
How many vendors can the agent call at once?
Five to fifteen per request is typical, all dialing in parallel. The pool scales with the customer's plan capacity. The cap scales with the customer plan tier.
What about regulated industries with strict procurement processes?
The agent operates inside the customer's procurement playbook. If the playbook says certify the vendor before the call, the supplier-onboarding agent runs first. If the playbook requires a sealed bid, the workflow switches to the email-and-form intake instead of voice.
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