01
NPI cycles eat margin
Every week your BOM sits unquoted is margin evaporating.
Direct sourcing,
Connect engineering, sourcing, and suppliers, from concept to award, in one AI-powered operating system.
20,000 suppliers live
SOC 2
SSO
Global
Unit cost · EV-Chassis-v2
ConceptDesign finalized
11.4% unit cost
Front Suspension Assembly
FSA-2104
Front Suspension Assembly
$842.10
Lower Control Arm
$214.60
Forged bushing
$12.80
$08.20
$04.50
Bid · Forged bushing
3 of 8
A
Supplier AAwarded
$12.80
B
Supplier B+ tariffs
$14.70
C
Supplier C+ index
$13.90
Direct sourcing is stuck and it's costing you.
Engineering ships BOMs over the wall. Sourcing re-types them. Suppliers quote into PDFs. By the time you have a number, the tariff window has closed.
02
Sourcing is still in Excel
Pivot tables. Email threads. No system of record.
03
Suppliers pad quotes
Hidden margin in packaging, logistics, tooling stays invisible.
04
Legacy tools don't adapt
Ariba, Coupa: 18-month rollouts. Teams still in email after.
Direct sourcing is stuck and it's costing you.
Engineering ships BOMs over the wall. Sourcing re-types them. Suppliers quote into PDFs. By the time you have a number, the tariff window has closed.
01
NPI cycles eat margin
Every week your BOM sits unquoted is margin evaporating.
02
Sourcing is still in Excel
Pivot tables. Email threads. No system of record.
03
Suppliers pad quotes
Hidden margin in packaging, logistics, tooling stays invisible.
04
Legacy tools don't adapt
Ariba, Coupa: 18-month rollouts. Teams still in email after.
Direct sourcing is stuck and it's costing you.
Engineering ships BOMs over the wall. Sourcing re-types them. Suppliers quote into PDFs. By the time you have a number, the tariff window has closed.
01
NPI cycles eat margin
Every week your BOM sits unquoted is margin evaporating.
02
Sourcing is still in Excel
Pivot tables. Email threads. No system of record.
03
Suppliers pad quotes
Hidden margin in packaging, logistics, tooling stays invisible.
04
Legacy tools don't adapt
Ariba, Coupa: 18-month rollouts. Teams still in email after.
//Results
Win on speed.
0
faster sourcing cycle at 6 months
0
direct spend reduction / year
0
avg savings per cycle
0
to live, not 30 months
//Results
Win on speed.
0
faster sourcing cycle at 6 months
0
direct spend reduction / year
0
avg savings per cycle
0
to live, not 30 months
//Results
Win on speed.
0
faster sourcing cycle at 6 months
0
avg savings per cycle
0
direct spend reduction / year
0
to live, not 30 months
//The platform
One operating system, spec to scale.
Engineering, procurement, and suppliers working from the same data so nothing slows down between spec and scale.
//01 · Velocity
Engineering × Buyer × Supplier, in sync.
Sourcing moves up the NPI process. Revisions propagate automatically. Design changes never reset the clock.
5 mo
faster product introduction cycles
Program · EV Chassis v2live
Engineering
CAD Rev 3.2 published
@skyler2m
Material: AL → AL 6061-T6
@jordannow
Sourcing
RFQ-204 · 6 suppliers
@alex1h
Propagating Rev 3.2
AInow
Suppliers
Kaizen · quoted
live30m
Tier-1 · pending
nudged5m
//02 · Intelligence
Every negotiation starts from your data.
Should-cost before the RFQ. Tariff exposure in hours. Every decision defensible.
$10–30M
direct spend reduction per year
//03 · Partnership
Suppliers become an efficiency multiplier.
AI normalizes bids line by line. Every dollar visible before award. Free supplier access.
5–9%
avg reduction in cost per cycle
//04 · Deployment
Live in 30 days. Not 30 months.
Go live in a week. Source in 30 days. No years-long implementation.
30 days
to first sourcing program
//The platform
One operating system, spec to scale.
Engineering, procurement, and suppliers working from the same data so nothing slows down between spec and scale.
//01 · Velocity
Engineering × Buyer × Supplier, in sync.
Sourcing moves up the NPI process. Revisions propagate automatically. Design changes never reset the clock.
5 mo
faster product introduction cycles
Program · EV Chassis v2live
Engineering
CAD Rev 3.2 published
@skyler2m
Material: AL → AL 6061-T6
@jordannow
Sourcing
RFQ-204 · 6 suppliers
@alex1h
Propagating Rev 3.2
AInow
Suppliers
Kaizen · quoted
live30m
Tier-1 · pending
nudged5m
//02 · Intelligence
Every negotiation starts from your data.
Should-cost before the RFQ. Tariff exposure in hours. Every decision defensible.
$10–30M
direct spend reduction per year
//03 · Partnership
Suppliers become an efficiency multiplier.
AI normalizes bids line by line. Every dollar visible before award. Free supplier access.
5–9%
avg reduction in cost per cycle
//04 · Deployment
Live in 30 days. Not 30 months.
Go live in a week. Source in 30 days. No years-long implementation.
30 days
to first sourcing program
//The platform
One operating system, spec to scale.
Engineering, procurement, and suppliers working from the same data so nothing slows down between spec and scale.
//01 · Velocity
Engineering × Buyer × Supplier, in sync.
Sourcing moves up the NPI process. Revisions propagate automatically. Design changes never reset the clock.
5 mo
faster product introduction cycles
Program · EV Chassis v2live
Engineering
CAD Rev 3.2 published
@skyler2m
Material: AL → AL 6061-T6
@jordannow
Sourcing
RFQ-204 · 6 suppliers
@alex1h
Propagating Rev 3.2
AInow
Suppliers
Kaizen · quoted
live30m
Tier-1 · pending
nudged5m
//02 · Intelligence
Every negotiation starts from your data.
Should-cost before the RFQ. Tariff exposure in hours. Every decision defensible.
$10–30M
direct spend reduction per year
//03 · Partnership
Suppliers become an efficiency multiplier.
AI normalizes bids line by line. Every dollar visible before award. Free supplier access.
5–9%
avg reduction in cost per cycle
//04 · Deployment
Live in 30 days. Not 30 months.
Go live in a week. Source in 30 days. No years-long implementation.
30 days
to first sourcing program
//How it works
From messy inputs to a defensible award.
01 · Ingest
bom_export_rev3.xlsx
drawings.zip
supplier_quote_v2.pdf
↓ AI ingestion ↓
Structured item master · 842 parts
Ingest anything
AI turns unformatted BOMs, drawings, and quotes into a revision-managed item master.
02 · Intelligence
Should-cost
Aluminum $389 · 2.7% above benchmark
Tariff exposure
Section 301: +$0.42M
Re-quote
14 parts >18mo · est. $1.2M
Act on intelligence
Negotiate from your data — not the supplier's opening number.
03 · Award
★ A · Cost-optimized$23,940
B · Resilience$24,280
C · Single source$23,610
D · Quality-weighted$24,510
⚡ 4 scenarios in 3.2s
Award with confidence
AI models optimal award across cost, capacity, quality, and resilience — in seconds.
//How it works
From messy inputs to a defensible award.
01 · Ingest
bom_export_rev3.xlsx
drawings.zip
supplier_quote_v2.pdf
↓ AI ingestion ↓
Structured item master · 842 parts
Ingest anything
AI turns unformatted BOMs, drawings, and quotes into a revision-managed item master.
02 · Intelligence
Should-cost
Aluminum $389 · 2.7% above benchmark
Tariff exposure
Section 301: +$0.42M
Re-quote
14 parts >18mo · est. $1.2M
Act on intelligence
Negotiate from your data — not the supplier's opening number.
03 · Award
★ A · Cost-optimized$23,940
B · Resilience$24,280
C · Single source$23,610
D · Quality-weighted$24,510
⚡ 4 scenarios in 3.2s
Award with confidence
AI models optimal award across cost, capacity, quality, and resilience — in seconds.
//How it works
From messy inputs to a defensible award.
01 · Ingest
bom_export_rev3.xlsx
drawings.zip
supplier_quote_v2.pdf
↓ AI ingestion ↓
Structured item master · 842 parts
Ingest anything
AI turns unformatted BOMs, drawings, and quotes into a revision-managed item master.
02 · Intelligence
Should-cost
Aluminum $389 · 2.7% above benchmark
Tariff exposure
Section 301: +$0.42M
Re-quote
14 parts >18mo · est. $1.2M
Act on intelligence
Negotiate from your data — not the supplier's opening number.
03 · Award
★ A · Cost-optimized$23,940
B · Resilience$24,280
C · Single source$23,610
D · Quality-weighted$24,510
⚡ 4 scenarios in 3.2s
Award with confidence
AI models optimal award across cost, capacity, quality, and resilience — in seconds.
Customer testimonial
“
3×fastertomarket.25%lowerBOMcost.$10Msavedin9months.HardtoimagineevergoingbacktoExcelandemail.
EC
Eddie Cohen
Co-Founder & President, Infinite Machine
Customer testimonial
“
3×fastertomarket.25%lowerBOMcost.$10Msavedin9months.HardtoimagineevergoingbacktoExcelandemail.
EC
Eddie Cohen
Co-Founder & President, Infinite Machine
Customer testimonial
“
3×fastertomarket.25%lowerBOMcost.$10Msavedin9months.HardtoimagineevergoingbacktoExcelandemail.
EC
Eddie Cohen
Co-Founder & President, Infinite Machine
//Proof
Adopted by innovative manufacturers you benchmark against.
ARXADA · $18M awarded
“We do it in days. Days. This lets us be opportunistic — especially with tariff windows opening and closing.”
Eugene Galdi
CPO, Arxada
BRP · Global rollout
“Up and running in weeks with results in the first sourcing event.”
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Mgr. Global Sourcing, BRP
CANADA GOOSE · 138% expansion
“An all-in-one sourcing engine my team and suppliers actually adopted.”
Danny Wang
SVP Operations
//Proof
Adopted by innovative manufacturers you benchmark against.
ARXADA · $18M awarded
“We do it in days. Days. This lets us be opportunistic — especially with tariff windows opening and closing.”
Eugene Galdi
CPO, Arxada
BRP · Global rollout
“Up and running in weeks with results in the first sourcing event.”
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Mgr. Global Sourcing, BRP
CANADA GOOSE · 138% expansion
“An all-in-one sourcing engine my team and suppliers actually adopted.”
Danny Wang
SVP Operations
//Proof
Adopted by innovative manufacturers you benchmark against.
ARXADA · $18M awarded
“We do it in days. Days. This lets us be opportunistic — especially with tariff windows opening and closing.”
Eugene Galdi
CPO, Arxada
BRP · Global rollout
“Up and running in weeks with results in the first sourcing event.”
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Mgr. Global Sourcing, BRP
CANADA GOOSE · 138% expansion
“An all-in-one sourcing engine my team and suppliers actually adopted.”
Danny Wang
SVP Operations
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Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.
See how LightSource connects engineering, procurement, and suppliers in one operating system to help you launch faster at lower cost.
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Kearney #1 2024
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Procuretech 100
G2 Top Rated
Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.
See how LightSource connects engineering, procurement, and suppliers in one operating system to help you launch faster at lower cost.
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Kearney #1 2024
Gartner Cool Vendor
Procuretech 100
G2 Top Rated
Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.
See how LightSource connects engineering, procurement, and suppliers in one operating system to help you launch faster at lower cost.
SOC 2
Kearney #1 2024
Gartner Cool Vendor
Procuretech 100
G2 Top Rated
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