Operations Manager
Turn a spec into a vendor comparison table without sending an email
Takes your spec, emails vendors from its own address, chases the quotes, and builds the comparison table with margins.
Getting three quotes is the most boring high-leverage task in operations, which is why it usually becomes one quote from whoever answered first. Hand your agent the spec instead: quantities, materials or service scope, deadlines, delivery terms. It researches candidate vendors from public directories and the list you maintain, then emails each one a clear request for quotation from its own address.
How it works
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Then it does the part nobody enjoys: it chases. Vendors who have not replied get a polite follow-up on a sensible cadence, questions about the spec get answered from the brief you provided, and out-of-office replies push the chaser instead of ending the thread. Every incoming quote, including the ones that arrive as PDF attachments, is parsed into a desk table: price per unit, lead time, terms, exclusions, and the margin each option leaves you at your target price.
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When the deadline you set arrives, you get one email: the comparison table, the agent's note on which quotes are not comparable and why, that one bid that quietly excludes shipping, and the open questions worth a phone call. The agent remembers how each vendor behaved, who quoted fast, who padded, who went silent, and that history shapes the shortlist next time.