01
Compare the same scope
Part, revision, quantity, delivery and charging terms belong beside the price—not in a forgotten footnote.
Early-stage initiative · seeking pilot partners
Before you choose a quote,
understand it.
The unit price is a starting point. The decision depends on what it includes, what it assumes, and what might change.
We are developing Axiocost to help industrial purchasing teams structure cost information, assess supplier offers and price changes, and prepare decisions that buyers can review, correct and explain—alongside their existing purchasing systems.
Today’s public demo covers one step: comparing fictional supplier quotes on a declared scope, with working calculations. A separate recorded replay follows one fictional buyer decision to a simulated handoff. Drawing interpretation and connections to your systems are not part of either.
COMPARISON / DEMO-H01Synthetic
Same fictional part · Rev B5,000 units
OFFER A£2.36/unit + freight + tooling
£25,300OFFER B£3.14/unit · freight & tooling included
£15,700A lower unit price is not always a lower total.
At 30,000 units, the order reverses.
Declared scope only · no taxes or qualification costs
No supplier-cost or realized-savings claim
No supplier-cost or realized-savings claim
VISIBLE ASSUMPTIONS. CONDITIONAL ANSWERS.
01 / The decision behind the number
Two quotes.
Not necessarily the same thing.
Different revisions. Different volume bands. Tooling in one line, freight in another. An unexplained assumption can matter more than another decimal place.
02
Explain the difference
Separate what the supplier quoted from what the model assumes. Keep missing information visible.
03
Know what to ask next
A good review can end with a better question, rather than an unjustifiably confident recommendation.
02 / The questions behind a purchasing decision
From one quote
to the purchasing decision.
Comparing two prices is one moment in a longer process. The method we are developing addresses four questions buyers face before, during and after a quotation.
01
“What should we ask suppliers to provide?”
Specify the cost breakdown, quantities, revision and charging conventions before quotes arrive, so offers can be examined on consistent assumptions.
02
“Does this price increase make sense?”
Identify the cost lines it affects, their share of the price, the supporting evidence and what remains unexplained.
03
“What could we change to improve the economics?”
Explore feasible options—specification, process, batch plan, logistics or commercial terms—each with the person who must approve it and the evidence it needs.
04
“What exactly am I being asked to approve?”
See the recommendation, the excluded and incomplete offers, the assumptions that drive the result and what changed since the previous analysis.
These are areas addressed by the developing method, not four working software modules. The public demo illustrates one piece of them: comparing fictional quotes on a declared scope.
03 / Our intended workflow
From an existing request
to a decision you can inspect.
01
Request
Start from the purchase request already in your system.
02
Route
Choose the right review: existing contract, new sourcing, missing information, exception or prior review.
03
Evidence
Make offers comparable: revision, quantity, scope and charges.
04
Analyse
Declared-scope economics, cost drivers and feasible options.
05
Decide
The buyer approves, rejects or corrects, with the reasoning visible.
06
Hand off
Return the reviewed decision to your existing system.
This is the intended sequence, not a description of today’s software. Your purchasing systems remain the record of requests, approvals and orders; Axiocost is meant to improve the analysis and review between those steps, not to replace them. No live connector or approval service exists: the method’s reference workflow uses a simulated destination. The interactive demo covers part of steps 03 and 04; a recorded replay follows one fictional request through all six, ending at that simulated destination.
Design direction. Built around reviewable decisions: buyers, engineers and finance teams contribute their expertise without losing the history of what changed and why. A commercial judgment is recorded as a judgment, not as a corrected cost fact, and changing a policy requires its owner. The public site does not manage roles or permissions.
04 / What exists—and what comes next
Build the evidence.
Then make the claim.
A transparent first slice
Fictional two-offer comparisons, quantity scenarios, explicit blocking issues, a simplified molding calculation and a draft memo export. Also a recorded, scripted replay of one fictional buyer decision, in which a correction voids an earlier approval.
Try it →Guidance and a synthetic reference
Written guidance on cost-breakdown requests, price-change review, cost-reduction levers and negotiation preparation. Executable reference code for requisition routing, decision packets, typed buyer corrections and a simulated handoff, replayed on one fictional request. The website shows only a recording of that replay; the code does not run here.
Read the method ↗No shortcuts to validation
Assisted extraction from authorized documents, live system connections, secure shared customer records, production review controls and measured customer benefit. No proven industrial accuracy, guaranteed savings or autonomous purchasing decision.
Not part of any current Axiocost artifact: a cost-breakdown or index engine, supplier contact, live negotiation, sourcing-event launch, award, purchase-order creation or an approval service.
05 / Build it with us
Bring a difficult decision.
Start a useful conversation.
We are looking for industrial buyers, cost engineers and manufacturing reviewers with a purchasing decision that is hard to explain, review or correct. A recurring quotation review or a supplier’s price-change request is a good place to start. We want to test one recurring task—not sell an all-purpose AI promise.
Our first hypothesis remains a focused review for non-safety-critical molded components; the right partner and evidence may change that scope. If your requests or comparisons are already automated, the pilot compares your current process with and without Axiocost, counting engineering and finance review time, not only the buyer’s.
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