Strategic sourcing that's faster to execute.
Built on deeper intelligence.
MadSourcing does the category research, structures the sourcing requirements, and builds the evaluation framework — so you're prepared in days, not months. AI-powered intelligence that researches the market, scopes regulations, and identifies suppliers, all in your company's context. Start from a business request or create a sourcing event directly.
One free sourcing event · No credit card required
Built by a procurement professional who has lived the full sourcing lifecycle
The preparation is the hard part. No tool has solved it
Regardless of what platform you use, strategic sourcing events still demand weeks or months of upstream preparation. These are your highest-value procurement events - the ones where specification quality directly determines contract performance.
Research starts from scratch — every time
A new sourcing need arrives — an expiring contract, a business request, a new site. You search the market, call a colleague, dig through old contracts for reference. There's no accumulated intelligence. The sourcing requirements you produce are shaped by the time you had — not by what the spend actually justifies.
Sourcing requirements that miss what matters
Writing sourcing requirements for unfamiliar areas is genuinely hard. Regulatory requirements get overlooked. Sustainability criteria are afterthoughts. The requirements reflect what you already knew — not what a thorough category analysis would have revealed.
Evaluations that resist honest comparison
Different suppliers quote different pricing models. Intangible responses don't fit in spreadsheet cells. The final evaluation takes hours to build and still doesn't tell you which supplier is actually better — it tells you which one looks better in the format you chose.
From first research to structured award — in days, not months
Whether the business submits a request through intake or procurement creates a project directly, MadSourcing compresses everything before the supplier response window. The only bottleneck left is how long suppliers take to respond.
Define the sourcing need
The business submits a request describing what they need — no procurement expertise required. Or procurement creates a project directly for an area they need to source. Describe the sourcing need, the business context, and the conditions that matter — the more you provide, the sharper the intelligence that follows.
The AI generates category-specific clarifying questions that can be sent directly to the relevant people in the business — closing the gap between what procurement knows and what the business actually needs.
AI builds your category intelligence
Review, refine, issue
Compare on evidence, not instinct
An AI research team embedded in your procurement department
MadSourcing doesn't provide generic market data. It researches, reasons, and produces structured intelligence — tailored to your organization, your location, and your specific category. Every output cites its sources and explains its logic.
Market & Commercial
Pricing benchmarks, market structure, supply chain dynamics, and commercial recommendations — sourced from real web research and contextualized to your company's size, location, and procurement context.
Regulatory & Compliance
Relevant certifications, insurance requirements, environmental regulations, and labor law considerations — scoped to the specific jurisdiction and narrowed to what procurement can actually influence in a sourcing event.
Supplier Discovery
Potential supplier candidates with specializations, geographic fit, and capacity indicators. Each candidate includes the reasoning behind its identification. Request proposals through the platform or add your own.
Requirements Architecture
Sourcing requirements enhanced with intelligence findings — commercial terms, compliance demands, evaluation criteria, and sustainability requirements validated against the analysis. Your technical specifications come from the business. MadSourcing builds the sourcing framework around them.
Built for how strategic sourcing actually works
Requirements ≠ Collection
MadSourcing separates what you need from suppliers (the sourcing requirements) from how you ask for it (the collection template). One requirement can generate multiple collection questions. This distinction is fundamental to professional procurement — and it's built into every sourcing event.
Structured responses, defensible comparison
Suppliers answer typed response cards — text, numbers, tables, file uploads, accept/reject. No more interpreting free-form PDFs and manually transcribing numbers into spreadsheets. Every response is structured and comparable from the moment it arrives.
From award to contract to scorecard
Award decisions flow into AI-generated contracts with terms drawn from your requirements and supplier commitments. Contract terms feed KPI scorecards. Expiry dates trigger re-tender workflows. The intelligence you build during sourcing compounds — every event makes the next one faster and better-informed.
How MadSourcing compares
| Capability | Excel + Email | Enterprise S2P | MadSourcing |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-enhanced sourcing requirements | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Up-to-date category intelligence with sources cited | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Structured, typed supplier responses | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-assisted bid evaluation | ✗ | Emerging | ✓ |
| Self-serve setup (same day) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Human review gate at every step | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full lifecycle price | Free | $100K+/yr | $1,999/mo* |
* Billed annually. Monthly billing available at $2,249/mo.
Already have a sourcing platform? Our Intelligence tier delivers upstream category research as a standalone product — from $699/month.
Human review at every step is a deliberate design choice. Strategic sourcing decisions carry too much spend impact to fully automate — the AI does the research and drafting, the professional reviews and decides.
Built by a procurement professional,
for procurement professionals
Operational purchasing, e-procurement systems, sourcing operations, category management — I've worked across the full procurement lifecycle at a global manufacturer. I built MadSourcing because even the best-run sourcing events demanded weeks or months of preparation: researching unfamiliar categories, gathering context and business needs from people across the organization, and building evaluations in spreadsheets that couldn't capture the full complexity of the comparison. The preparation IS the hard part — and once you're well prepared, the execution becomes easy. That's what MadSourcing does. Better preparation, in a fraction of the time.
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