How it happens today
The item list is sent by hand. Replies arrive at different times — in the email body, in Excel with someone else's structure, in PDF. Some items are missing, units do not match. The summary table takes days and no specific price can be verified afterwards.
What the digital employee does
Prepares the request and sends it after the owner's approval. Collects replies, reads Excel, PDF and email text, matches items to the list. Compiles a table where every price links to the original reply. Gaps, unit mismatches and ambiguous replies go to a separate question list — never filled with guesses.
What the business gets
A verifiable comparison: what was offered, by whom, for which items, where each price comes from and what is missing for a decision. Plus discipline: no supplier gets two emails, no item gets lost.
Where the person stays
Approval to send the request. Resolving ambiguous replies. Choosing the winner and any commitment to a supplier — a class of action that never becomes autonomous.
What we do not promise
Replies from all suppliers. The lowest market price. Automatic winner selection. Procurement savings "because the table is automated" — a lower price is confirmed separately.
How the effect is measured
Manual hours per completed quote round. Time to a finished comparison — supplier waiting separated from processing. Items and replies processed without loss of quality. Share of comparisons accepted without corrections.
What is needed as input
Item list, permitted suppliers, correspondence channel (email or messenger), comparison rules: units, currency, equivalents. One finished example from the past — for verification.