Vendai

The story

Procurement runs on email, and email is where comparison goes to die. Five vendors reply over four days, each with a different format, half of them as a PDF attachment, and somebody ends up retyping it all into a spreadsheet to find out who is cheapest.

Vendai reads the mailbox instead. It pulls the quotes out as they arrive — vendor, item, price, terms — and puts them side by side, so the comparison exists without anyone building it.

It exists because a family member's company had exactly that problem, so it got built over a weekend rather than scoped as a product. It is running on their real purchasing mail now, and that is the test: not whether the demo works, but whether it still works on months of somebody's actual inbox. Until they tell us it does, it stays a pilot with no numbers on this page — their procurement traffic is theirs, not our metric.