RE: RE: FW: quote request (17)
5 formats · 3 weeks · no leverage
For companies that buy
Five suppliers. One link. Negotiated overnight.
Stop haggling over email threads. Every supplier negotiates against your terms in their own room, your AI assistant counters within limits you signed once — you wake up and pick the winner.
Supplier A€3.80 · settled
Supplier B€3.95 · round 3
Supplier Ccountering…
BEST · €3.80/unit · 5% under target
The problem
Sourcing below enterprise is still email archaeology.
A 20-person company buying 500 units does it the way it was done in 1999: five suppliers, five PDFs in five formats, three weeks of threads — then pick one with no real leverage, because comparing moving offers by hand is the actual job.
The giants solved this with AI negotiation agents — at enterprise price tags. Below enterprise, nothing exists. Until now.
How it works
One RFQ. Every supplier negotiates. Your assistant holds the line.
1
Author the RFQ once
Unit price, quantity, delivery, payment terms — structured items, not prose. Attach the spec sheet. One link; send it to every supplier you'd have emailed.
2
Sign your bounds once
A passkey-signed mandate: the most you'll pay, the quantity that's fixed, the judgment calls in plain words (“€4.30 delivered Aug 15 beats €4.05 in mid-September”). The server enforces it — your assistant can't agree to worse. Not “shouldn't.” Can't.
3
Everyone negotiates in parallel
Each supplier opens the link into their own private room. Your assistant fields all of them at once — counters the padding, holds your quantity, trades delivery for price the way you told it to. No supplier sees another's numbers.
4
Every agreement is PO-grade proof
Both sides passkey-sign; Negolio seals a hash-verifiable record with the whole negotiation's provenance. Your auditor gets a verification URL, not a forwarded thread.
The receipts
This isn't a mockup. Here's a sealed one.
We ran this exact flow on 2026-07-04 — an RFQ link, a signed buyer mandate, a supplier playing the volume game, and a seal you can check yourself.
RFQ
500 aluminum enclosures · target €4.00/unit · delivery Sep 1
R1 · SUPPLIER
€3.00/unit — for 2,000 units. The classic volume trap: a great unit price for 4× the quantity you need.
R2 · ASSISTANT
Quantity back to 500 — mandate-locked, it literally cannot trade it. Price probed at €3.60, a Q4 reorder dangled.
R3 · SUPPLIER
€3.80 at 500 units. Under target.
REFUSED
The assistant moved to accept — and the server refused: one clause sat outside its signed authority. The human took the final signature. The AI negotiates; it cannot sign what you didn't authorize.
SEALED
€3.80 × 500 = €1,900 against a €2,000 target — 5% under, in five rounds, two passkey signatures.
Verify this deal yourself → sha256 · 1442…9391
Will suppliers play along?
Your suppliers need nothing but the link.
No account until they act, no software, no training. They see your terms in a clean room and counter like they would in email — except the terms are structured, so there's no “as per my last message.” Each deal ends with a record they can verify too — protection runs both ways.
Today vs. Negolio
Why this beats the email thread.
5 PDFs in 5 formats
5 structured negotiations on identical terms
3 weeks of thread archaeology
Overnight parallel negotiation
Whoever wrote the last email wins
A signed mandate the server enforces
“Per our call…” disputes
A hash-verifiable sealed record with provenance
Your best negotiator, one thread at a time
Your assistant, every thread at once
Passkey-signed mandates — enforced server-side, not by promiseCanonical SHA-256 sealed records with public verificationSuppliers join from a link — no account until they actSpec sheets attached per negotiationBuyer pays per engaged supplier — suppliers never pay
FAQ
The questions buyers ask.
Do suppliers see each other's offers?
No. Each supplier negotiates in a private room against your RFQ. Your assistant is instructed not to reveal one supplier's numbers to another — and rooms are structurally separate.
What stops the AI from overpaying?
The mandate. You sign a maximum with your passkey; the server rejects any move past it. When the assistant tried to close our own demo deal with one clause outside its authority, the server refused it. That's the design.
What do we get when a deal closes?
A sealed agreement: every term, canonically serialized, hashed, passkey-signed by both parties, with a public verify URL and PDF — plus the negotiation history. Audit-ready by construction.
What if the supplier also uses an AI?
Even better. Both assistants negotiate inside both signed fences — every move each one makes is checked by the server against its own owner's mandate. Neither AI can commit its owner to anything they didn't sign.
Can we run several RFQs at once?
Yes — each RFQ is its own link with its own mandate. Your assistant handles all of them.
What does it cost?
Per engaged supplier — you pay when a supplier actually starts negotiating, not per email sent. Pilot-stage pricing: book a call.
Want sealed competing bids instead of a negotiated quote? See Tender →
Your next sourcing event, negotiated while you sleep.
Bring a real RFQ to the pilot. We set up the link, the items and your signed mandate with you — then you send it to your suppliers and watch.