AI procurement engineer, built for manufacturing

Source smarter.
Decide faster.

Dexter is the procurement engineer your team never had time to hire. It reads your drawings, shortlists suppliers, drafts and chases RFQs, and hands you a signed-off PO — without losing a single thread in email.

Trusted by engineering & procurement teams in India, EU, and US.

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Ask Dexter
Need waterproof proximity sensor, IP69K, M18, PNP NO.
Shortlisting Omron E2FQ, Balluff BES M18MI, and IFM IGT201.
Drafting RFQ to 4 suppliers…
Shortlist
Omron E2FQ-X10D1-M1
Lead time · 4 wk
96
Balluff BES M18MI-PSC80B
Lead time · 3 wk
92
IFM IGT201
Lead time · 6 wk
87
Powering procurement teams across manufacturing
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Why now

Procurement runs on 47 tabs and 12 WhatsApp groups.

The tools your team stitches together were built for finance, not for buying real parts from real suppliers on a real schedule.

Two days lost per RFQ, every RFQ.

Reply chasing over email and WhatsApp. PDF quotes retyped by hand. Missing specs surfaced only after the supplier replies.

The same part, ordered under four names.

No canonical identity. Duplicate suppliers. Reorders never learn from the last one. Every buyer starts from zero.

Decisions made without total cost.

Unit price wins in a spreadsheet. Freight, lead time, warranty, and rework land later — as surprises on your P&L.

Product tour

See it move,
frame by frame.

Scroll through the four surfaces you'll actually live in every day.

01 · Ask Dexter

One search bar for every request, quote, PO, and supplier.

Ask in plain English. Dexter reads the workspace — spec sheets, prior RFQs, supplier notes — and returns an answer with sources you can click.

02 · RFQ

Drafts and sends the RFQ. Chases the reply for you.

Structured requests go out to a shortlist. Reminders fire on your cadence. Supplier replies land normalized — never as a PDF you have to retype.

03 · Decision board

Side-by-side quotes with total cost of ownership.

Unit price, freight, lead time, MOQ, warranty — scored on your rules. A Dexter pick with a transparent breakdown, and a one-click override trail.

04 · Purchase order

Approve, issue, and file the PO in one flow.

Routed to the right seat by budget and category. Sent to the supplier. Every version — draft, revision, sign-off — logged and replayable.

Ask Dexterlive
What did we pay for M18 waterproof proximity sensors last quarter?
3 POs across Balluff and Omron, avg ₹4,180/unit. Last order shipped in 22 days from Pune.
PO-2418PO-2531PO-2609
RFQ · draftlive
Waterproof proximity sensor — 200 pcs
IP69K · M18 body · PNP NO · 10-30VDC · Delivery Bengaluru, 4 wks
Balluff Indiareplied
IFM Electronicreplied
Omron APACsent
SICK Sensorssent
Decision boardlive
Dexter pick
Balluff
₹4,240
Lead 3w
94
Omron
₹4,100
Lead 5w
89
IFM
₹4,680
Lead 3w
86
Purchase order · PO-2711live
Balluff BES M18MI-PSC80B
200 pcs · ₹8,48,000
Awaiting approval
Category owner · Ravi K.
Budget check · Q3 Sensors
CFO sign-off · pending
Features

An operating system for industrial sourcing.

Seven tightly integrated surfaces. One workspace. Zero copy-paste.

Ask Dexter

Unified search across every request, quote, PO, and supplier.

Plain-English answers cited from your own workspace history.

Deep Dive Copilot

A neutral applications engineer. No sales quota, no brand bias.

Reads the spec, proposes alternates, shows the trade-off.

Canonical Product Identity

Knows Omron E2FQ and its aliases are one part, not four.

No duplicates. No re-requesting what you already own.

RFQ Automation

Draft, send, chase, and normalize replies without touching email.

Reminders on your cadence. Replies land structured, not as PDF.

Decision Board

Side-by-side quotes with TCO scoring and an override trail.

Unit price, freight, MOQ, warranty — weighted on your rules.

Budget & Spend

Live category, project, and supplier spend. Approvals routed by seat.

Every rupee tied back to a request, a PO, and an owner.

Audit Trail

Every AI suggestion, every human override, every version — replayable.

One immutable log for finance, ops, and compliance.
How it works

From spec to signed PO,
in four honest steps.

01
Request

Engineering drops a spec, drawing, or a rough part number. Dexter clarifies the missing bits.

02
Sourcing

Dexter shortlists suppliers, drafts the RFQ, and chases replies for you.

03
Compare

Normalized quotes side-by-side. A Dexter pick with a transparent score breakdown.

04
PO

Approve, issue the PO, and file it. Every step, every version, logged.

What it moves

Measured across 42 procurement teams in their first quarter on Dexter.

62%
faster time-to-quote
3.4×
more suppliers per RFQ
40 hrs
saved per procurement seat / month
12%
average unit-cost reduction
For teams

One workspace.
Three disciplines.

For Engineering
Get to the right part, faster.
  • Drop a spec sheet or drawing — Dexter extracts the requirements.
  • Alternates that respect your derating and compliance rules.
  • Never re-request a product already in the library.
  • One-tap handoff to procurement. No re-typing.

"I stopped writing RFQs at 11pm. That alone paid for the seat."

Sr. Design Engineer
For Procurement
Close the loop, without the chase.
  • RFQs draft themselves from request context.
  • Supplier replies land structured, not as PDFs.
  • Decision boards show total cost, not just unit price.
  • Approvals routed by seat, budget, and category owner.

"Every RFQ used to lose two days in email. Now it comes back structured."

Purchase Manager
For Leadership
See the spend before it becomes a surprise.
  • Live spend by category, project, and supplier.
  • Approval routing tied to budget owners and thresholds.
  • One audit trail across every AI suggestion and human override.
  • Board-ready reports without pulling anyone into a spreadsheet drill.

"The first tool where finance and ops agree on the same number."

COO, industrial OEM
In the wild

Real teams. Real numbers.

A snapshot of the first quarter after switching. Names on request under NDA.

Contract manufacturer
Pune, India
58%
faster RFQ turnaround

Consolidated 4 buyer inboxes into one workspace. Standardized supplier replies across 120 active parts.

Read the case
Industrial automation OEM
Bengaluru, India
₹2.1 Cr
saved on Q3 sourcing

Canonical identity killed duplicate ordering. TCO scoring flipped 14 decisions from unit-price winners to lifetime winners.

Read the case
Integrations

Fits your existing stack.

Import your item master, suppliers, and past POs in a day. Push signed POs back to your ERP.

SAP
Zoho
Tally
Odoo
Slack
Gmail
CSV
REST API
Word from the field

What buyers actually say.

It stopped being a chatbot in week two. It became the fastest engineer on my sourcing bench.

Head of Procurement·Industrial automation OEM

Every RFQ used to lose two days in email. Now it lands, gets chased, and comes back structured.

Purchase Manager·Contract manufacturer, Pune
FAQ

Answers before you ask.

Your workspace data lives in a dedicated, encrypted database. Row-level security ensures every seat only reads what its role allows. Deployment in your own region on request.

Yes. PII is masked in AI prompts, all supplier communication is auditable, and you can export or delete workspace data on demand.

CSV, API, and direct connectors for SAP, Zoho, Tally, and Odoo. We map to your item master before your team writes a single request.

Every answer cites the workspace record it was drawn from — RFQ, PO, spec, or supplier note. Suggestions carry a confidence score and a required human confirm before any external action (sending an RFQ, issuing a PO).

They receive normal email — no supplier login required. Replies are parsed back into structured quotes on your side. Optional supplier portals are available for high-volume vendors.

The Deep Dive Copilot is a neutral applications engineer — no brand bias, no sales quota. Every suggestion cites sources and shows a score breakdown you can override.

Per-seat subscription with separate Engineering and Procurement seats. Talk to us during a demo — we tune the plan to your team size and RFQ volume.

Most teams are live in under a week. We import your existing suppliers, past RFQs, and item master; Dexter learns your naming conventions from day one.

You get a full export of every request, supplier, quote, PO, and audit event — in your ERP-ready schema. We delete our copy within 30 days of contract end and issue a written confirmation.

Ready to source smarter?

A live 30-minute demo with your parts and your suppliers. No slides.