Relationship intelligence
One relationship brain for buyers and suppliers.
Every vendor relationship your organisation has, in one living record. Where it started, who owns it, and what it could become next.
The problem
Every event is thousands of relationships.
Caterers, staging, freight, security, broadcast. Hundreds of businesses, sourced from scratch every single cycle.
Most of them are already yours.
The vendor you are about to go find has usually been here before. Invoiced last season. Contracted twice. Or still waiting on a reply nobody sent.
The shift
Then one of them lights up.
A caterer you paid nineteen months ago. Quiet since. Still on the books, still rated, still reachable today.
And the map builds itself.
Every touch you already have becomes a line between two businesses. An invoice. A shared link. A form nobody answered.
Every line carries its receipt.
Where it started, who started it, what it has been, and what it could become. Read off your own records, never guessed.
The result
One brain. Every relationship.
Your whole organisation on one record, and the supplier network around it. Procurement, sales and finance read the same thing, and every partner still keeps its own history.
The first thing it shows you
You already have this.
Connect the files your team already produces. A vendor master, an AP export, your contracts, your intake form. Stimulus resolves them into one record and opens on what it found, usually inside fifteen minutes.
- 9caterers you already paid have gone quietmedian silence 19 monthsAP export · last PO closed Aug 2024
- 2filled in your interest form and never heard backoldest waiting 7 monthsInterest form · submitted 14 Mar
- 7contracts expire inside two quartersno renewal owner assignedContract import · term end field
Estimated dormant spend $1.8M. Illustrative figures, shown at the shape and grain a first session actually returns.
Every number here points at the record it came from. Open one and you get the purchase order, the message, the import it arrived in and the date it landed. Nothing on this screen is inferred, and anything without evidence behind it does not appear at all.
Capabilities
What your team can do that it could not before.
Four capabilities, not a feature list. Everything we build serves one of these or waits.
- 01
Work across organisations
Bring a partner, agency or host city into the same vendor intelligence without sending them a copy of it. Access is granted field by field, it expires, and every time someone opens something it is recorded on both sides.
- 02
See where a relationship started, and where it is going
A timeline on every supplier, assembled from what your organisation already did. First contact, who owned it, what was bought, what lapsed, and the openings nobody has acted on yet.
- 03
Search the whole network in your own words
Ask for an event production company in Los Angeles with sports experience. Get businesses back with your organisation's relationship to each one already attached, not a directory listing.
- 04
Open one short brief every morning
Not a dashboard. A memo, specific to your role, that tells you what moved since yesterday and what is waiting on you. It arrives in email or Slack, where your morning already happens.
One record, many mornings
Procurement collects it. Everyone gets paid on it.
The same relationships, read through whatever a person is responsible for. This is the part that turns a procurement tool into something finance, sales and partnerships open on their own.
- Procurement
- Three suppliers slipped on delivery this month. Four contracts end before the season does. Two vendors you dropped in 2024 now hold the certification you were about to go shopping for.
- Sales
- Eleven businesses your organisation pays every month match what you sell. Two of them renewed with you last week, which is the warmest they will ever be.
- Partnerships
- Two of your relationships are on procurement's shortlist for the same event. One of your sponsors is being onboarded as a vendor by a different team today.
- Corporate VC
- Four portfolio companies are already suppliers somewhere in the group. One is being evaluated against a competitor this week by a team that does not know you own part of it.
How it is built
Built as a record, not a report.
Most vendor software stores documents and generates views over them. This stores the relationship itself. Four decisions follow from that, and none of them can be added later.
One copy of every fact
A business is not duplicated per team or per partner. There is one record and one history, and who may read which part of it is decided at the moment of reading. That is what makes sharing across two organisations safe enough to do at all.
Nothing is ever overwritten
Facts are added, corrected and retired, never deleted. History is the part of this that a competitor cannot catch up on, so it accumulates from your first import rather than from the day someone decides to start keeping it.
Everything carries its source
Each claim is bound to the document, message or import that produced it. A claim with no evidence behind it is not shown, which is the whole difference between an audit and a guess.
Structured so software can work in it
Because the record is organised and permissioned rather than piled into documents, an assistant can read it, reason over it and take an action inside it without being handed your database. Every action it takes leaves the same receipt a person's would.
Where we start
The vendors are already in your world. The intelligence is not.
Sport, media and entertainment run procurement the way almost nobody else does. A tournament, a host city, a broadcast partner and six brand sponsors all buy from an overlapping set of businesses, and the line between an official partner and an indirect vendor is genuinely blurry.
The same production company works one event, then bids for the next one at a different organisation two years later, and arrives with no history attached. Cross-organisation collaboration is not a later phase in this industry. It is the only way the work actually happens, and it is the reason we built the sharing model first rather than bolting it on.
The other side
If you sell to these organisations.
Claim your profile and keep it current, free. You control what buyers see, and you get a page you can send to anyone.
- Correct your own capabilities, coverage and certifications.
- See when a buying organisation looks you up and what they were sourcing for.
- Get told when an open opportunity matches what you actually do.
Run it on your own records first.
We will take an export you already produce, resolve it, and show you what is dormant in it. If it does not find anything worth acting on, that is a useful answer too and it costs you one file.