Strategic work. Not paperwork.

Who this is for

Director or manager of procurement / strategic sourcing at a mid-market or enterprise company.

You run 10–25 events a year. The work is real. The tooling is not. Specs live in Word. Supplier replies sit in email. Scoring happens in a spreadsheet you rebuild every time.

You do not have a year for Jaggaer, Coupa, or Ariba. You need the event to move this month.

Not for: recruiting (if you searched “Talin AI” and landed on talent sourcing, that is talin.ai — a different company); teams that want software to pick the winner. The buyer still chooses the supplier. Suppliers respond in the same product.

The problem AI sourcing software is supposed to fix

Traditional sourcing is paperwork with a strategy meeting at the end.

• RFx takes weeks. Requirements, sections, questions, and weights get copied from the last event and edited by hand.
• Responses scatter. PDFs in email. Spreadsheets in a shared drive. One supplier replies in a format no one asked for.
• Scoring is a second project. Someone builds the matrix. Someone else re-checks the weights. Leadership asks for status and gets a slide.
• Every manager runs it differently. Handoffs hurt. New buyers take months to get productive.

That is not a people problem. It is a tooling problem.

What Talin does

Talin is an AI-powered strategic sourcing platform. It sits with the buying team from intake to award.

• Workflows. Describe the project. Talin builds tasks, milestones, and dates for that event.
• RFx drafts. RFP, RFQ, or RFI — sections, questions, and scoring weights. You edit. Then you send.
• Supplier discovery. Find and qualify suppliers against the requirements. Add your own. Send from one place.
• Response scoring. Replies land in one view. AI scores against your criteria and ranks the field.
• You decide. The recommendation is a recommendation. The award stays with the buyer.

Also in the product: intake forms, a task center, a supplier portal (suppliers do not need a paid seat), pipeline and savings visibility, and Microsoft Teams sync.

See how an event actually runs on a 30-minute demo.

How an event runs

1. Intake. A stakeholder submits a request, or you start the project yourself.
2. Workflow. You set the plan for this category, with tasks, owners and dates in one project, not a generic checklist.
3. RFx. The agent drafts the document. You tighten language, weights, and must-haves.
4. Send. Suppliers respond in the portal. No more inbox archaeology.
5. Score. AI compares answers to your criteria and surfaces the best-fit bid.
6. Award. You make the call. The record is already there for the next event.

What it looked like for one team

The customer story on this site is the pharmacy distribution case study.

A large East Coast health system used Talin on a pharmacy distribution RFx. Market and supply-base analysis moved from weeks to minutes. End-to-end effort was weeks versus months. Ten weighted categories sat under the score. Estimated savings identified: $5M+. Anonymous on purpose.

Price, without a six-figure project

Custom and enterprise only. Scoped to your team — talk with us on the demo. No implementation fees. No required consultants. No per-event charges.

A user is someone on the buying team who runs or reviews events. Suppliers never need a paid seat. Talk with us on the demo.

Not a 9-month suite

Jaggaer, Coupa, and SAP Ariba are real platforms. They are also long implementations and enterprise contracts.

Talin is the other path. Same job — RFx, suppliers, scoring, award — without the program office.

Side-by-side pages live here: Compare Talin.

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