How it works
How a 12-month purchase export becomes a priced book, a weekly briefing, and an analyst that chases open items until they move.
One week turnaround. Any file format. Confidential.
First, the audit
No demo call, no discovery deck. The first thing you get from us is the answer.
Any purchase export from your accounting system, in whatever format it comes out. CSV, Excel, PDF.
Your part numbers against our full catalog and this week's live regional pricing.
Your annualized gap, the categories it hides in, and the fifty parts that account for most of it.
If the report is useful on its own, keep it — it's yours either way. If you want the checking to continue every week, that's the subscription.
Then, the subscription
Your parts mapped to live distributor pricing. The audit already did most of this work.
Portal, weekly pricing, and cost files your estimators can use the same day.
A weekly briefing: what moved, what went up, and which of your open items actually landed.
What you get every week
Some of it lands in your inbox. Most of it lives in the portal, where your team can go and ask.
Where your team works. Every part you buy, priced across every major distributor in your region, with vendor scorecards, category detail, and the full price history behind each item. Everyone gets access — no seat counts.
A chat analyst sitting on your live data. "Who's cheapest on 3/4" EMT right now?" "What's happened to our breaker pricing since spring?" It answers from this week's numbers, not a help doc. There's a second one built for estimators that returns a vendor comparison in seconds while they're mid-quote.
Every part gets a defensible cost, four ways — protected, safe, standard, lowest — exported weekly into whatever your estimators already use. We output cost only. Markup is your business, and we never touch your sell price.
An email that tells you what moved, who raised, which categories are drifting, and which of your open asks actually landed in the invoices. Written by the analyst, specific to your book — not a newsletter.
Every recommendation is re-measured the following week — did the price actually move? Items that stall get escalated with the dollar figure attached. One current customer item reads "week 18, still no movement." It will keep reading that until it moves.
Every finding is audited against the underlying data before it reaches you. Unsupported claims, missing quantification, overconfidence — if a claim can't be verified, the email is held. We'd rather send you nothing than send you noise.
The number can go down
Recomputed weekly, eroding automatically if a vendor walks a price back. Our longest-running customer region sits at a 5.9% realized rate on tracked spend — that's the number to hold us to, not the headline gap.
Questions we actually get
Tell us who they are and in most cases we'll add them — that's ordinary work for us, and it's how the coverage grew to 27 catalogs across 9 regions. Some distributors take real effort to bring on, so occasionally there's a fee attached; we'll tell you upfront if that applies. Either way the market comparison still shows you exactly where your book stands.
Your purchase history and pricing are never shared across accounts, and never shown to any distributor. The audit report is yours, privately. See our privacy policy.
We'll tell you that too. A clean book is a real answer, and it costs you nothing to learn it.
Because it's how we earn the subscription: the audit tells you your number, and you only pay us if the number is worth chasing.
No. The portal is a web page, the briefing is an email, and the cost files export to whatever your estimators already use.
Almost never. You picked your distributor for branch coverage, service and relationships — those are worth keeping. The output is leverage inside the relationship you already have: margin on commodities, manufacturer agreements on the gear.