20+ Suppliers contacted across global markets 2 weeks Full sourcing assessment with confirmed supply path vs. a quarter of internal effort 45 languages All priority languages covered within budget, technical requirements confirmed THE CHALLENGE A well-funded voice AI company building and improving ASR and TTS models needed proprietary low-resource language audio and transcript data at scale. Their data acquisition team had an active requirement across 45+ priority languages,

23 Suppliers contacted across global markets 2 weeks Full sourcing assessment vs. a quarter of internal effort 1 qualified Optical marker supplier with inventory & price quote THE CHALLENGE A well-funded robotics company building foundation models for humanoid robots needed high-fidelity optical marker motion capture data at scale. Their data acquisition function had spent a quarter sourcing internally while managing other operational demands. The brief was technically narrow