Quick answer: AI RFQ software covers several different workflows

The phrase AI RFQ automation can describe buyer-side sourcing tools, seller-side response software, catalog-matching systems, manufacturing estimating platforms or industrial quotation workbenches. They are not interchangeable. An industrial distributor should first ask which side of the RFQ the product serves and which decisions it is designed to prepare.

Sorsivo is in the distributor-side quotation-workbench category. It is designed for complex technical RFQs that arrive through mixed customer files and require supplier sourcing, evidence review, landed-cost preparation and human quotation approval.

The five questions that separate RFQ automation companies

A useful comparison begins with workflow fit rather than a generic feature count. Ask whether the product receives customer RFQs or issues supplier RFQs, whether it handles technical documents or mainly structured catalog data, and whether it prepares decisions or makes external commitments automatically.

  • Is the product buyer-side, distributor-side or manufacturer-side?
  • Can every extracted requirement be traced to the original email, page or spreadsheet cell?
  • Does it compare supplier replies without hiding missing values and technical deviations?
  • Are freight, duty, currency and margin inputs visible and governed by approved rules?
  • What is live today, what is still in pilot and what evidence supports any performance claim?

Where Sorsivo fits

Sorsivo is built for GCC industrial distributors responding to complex customer RFQs. It reconstructs the request from email and attachments, structures line items, maps supplier evidence, surfaces uncertainty and prepares the quotation work package for accountable review.

Sorsivo is not a buyer-side procurement suite, autonomous quotation sender or ERP replacement. People approve technical equivalence, supplier or customer communication and every customer-facing price.

Current validation and product stage

Sorsivo is commercially available through guided implementation. Two UAE industrial distributors, Wilmar International and Clean Blast International, have signed implementation letters of intent. Each rollout begins with representative RFQs and agreed controls before customer-specific integrations or external actions are enabled.

A responsible implementation uses representative historical RFQs to measure evidence coverage, reviewer corrections, surfaced exceptions and preparation time before expanding the approved deployment scope.