Agentic AI procurement for research labs

One conversation that answers what to buy, compares sellers on price, and keeps the whole purchase on one traceable record.

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The sellers that list it, side by side

Instant price comparison.

The specification is read off the listing you already buy, the sellers that list the same substance are checked, and every price is divided by its pack so the rows compare.

Aliquot says this equivalent lists cheaper. It never says you paid too much.

Instant price comparison. The specification is read off the listing you already buy, the sellers that list the same substance are checked, and every price is divided by its pack so the rows compare.

Options and alternatives, tracked per line

The basket, optimised.

Every line carries what else would do: a different pack, a different grade, a different seller. The order is assembled from what your step permits, not from what was ordered last time.

Alternatives are shown with the property that makes them equivalent. Nothing is swapped without one.

The basket, optimised. Every line carries what else would do: a different pack, a different grade, a different seller. The order is assembled from what your step permits, not from what was ordered last time.

Specifications, protocols and the method

Ask in plain words.

Describe the work rather than the catalogue number. Aliquot reads the specification, finds the protocol, and takes the method down to the products it needs and how they are used, with the source on every answer.

It answers from rows it retrieved. It cannot state a price, a catalogue number or a swap that no row produced.

Ask in plain words. Describe the work rather than the catalogue number. Aliquot reads the specification, finds the protocol, and takes the method down to the products it needs and how they are used, with the source on every answer.

Approval to the bench

Every order and delivery, tracked in one line.

Approvals, purchase orders, the promised-date clock on every line, the chase when one runs late, goods receipt, and five sellers' invoices reconciled on one record.

Automated up to the approval. A person approves and sends. Nothing leaves on its own.

Every order and delivery, tracked in one line. Approvals, purchase orders, the promised-date clock on every line, the chase when one runs late, goods receipt, and five sellers' invoices reconciled on one record.

The proof

The same three, before and after

One product a lab buys every month, three listings that could stand in for it, and what the fence says about each. Measured, not illustrated.

Wide-Mouth HDPE Packers without Caps: Bulk Pack

012-0250BP, thermofisher.com

found"250 mL"
published bythermofisher.com
must match2 of 4 properties

3 that could stand in for it

Nalgene Boston Round Narrow-Mouth HDPE Bottles with Closure: Bulk PackCapacity 175 mL Colour Natural Material HDPE Shape Round
Bulk Pack HDPE Cylinder Rounds without CapsCapacity 250 mL Colour Natural Material HDPE Shape Round
Nalgene Sustain BPA/BPS-Free BottlesCapacity not published Colour Pastel Green Material not published Shape not published

Read off the sellers' own pages, exactly as they publish them. No two line up, and nothing on this screen says which one matters.

The same 3, answered

Nalgene Boston Round Narrow-Mouth HDPE Bottles with Closure: Bulk PackCapacity 175 mL, 250 mL required
Bulk Pack HDPE Cylinder Rounds without CapsEvery required property matched
Nalgene Sustain BPA/BPS-Free BottlesCapacity never published, nothing was checked

Refusals are shown, not filtered away, and each names the property that failed. Photographs and listings: thermofisher.com.

Start from a product

012-0250BP

Wide-Mouth HDPE Packers without Caps: Bulk Packthermofisher.comyou buy this

Its published properties become the specification

At any of the five

Ask in words, and the assistant is allowed to say it does not know. Every answer is checked against the rows it was built from before you see it, and one that invents a catalogue number, a price or a swap is refused rather than shown.

How it works

Five steps, and none of them is data entry.

From the sentence somebody sends you to the box that turns up. You start from something the lab already buys, and nothing in between asks you to retype it.

A product you reorder becomes the reference. Its published properties are taken as the specification, so no one retypes requirements into an empty form.
Each property arrives marked required or preference, and either can be changed. The candidate count moves as you do, so the cost of a stricter rule is visible before it is accepted.
Every seller that lists the substance is checked at once, and each equivalent arrives with its price, read from the page that published it. Refusals are shown rather than filtered away, each naming the property that failed. The comparison re-runs on a schedule, so a verdict that moves is reported.
The lines become a basket, with anything that could not be priced named rather than dropped. Approval mints the purchase order; a person then confirms the document and sends it. None of the three happens on its own.
Every order keeps its promised date, and moves into what needs attention on the day that date is missed. A part shipment is recorded as a part shipment.

The problem

Every one of these is somebody's afternoon.

One line on a reorder. Twelve things nobody in the building can answer about it, and a decision due either way. All of it lands on one lab manager.

8
Alternatives
Near-identical listings for the same thing. Nothing on any of them says which is equivalent.
5
Five vocabularies
Every seller describes the same bottle its own way. Capacity on one page, volume on the next, and nothing that lines up.
The price moved
A published price is only true on the day you looked at it. By the time anyone approves it, two of the three have changed.
Your price is not the price
A rep gives you a discount that appears on no page. The one figure that decides it is the one nothing can compare.
The protocol
One method needs a dozen consumables. Naming them, one at a time, across three portals, is the afternoon.
40
Minutes per request
And not one of them is bench work. Multiply by every consumable in the building.
Typed three times
The catalogue number goes into a message, then a spreadsheet, then the seller's own portal. Nobody checks it is still the same number.
Ordered is not arrived
Part of the line ships, part of it goes on back order, and nobody finds out until the bench is already set up.
Nobody owns the chase
The line is late. The email goes out on a Friday, the reply lands in one person's inbox, and the order says nothing about either.
Five invoices
They arrive as attachments, from five sellers, on five schedules. Someone matches each one to a row by hand, weeks after the box turned up.
What is committed
What the lab has already spent this quarter is a column somebody has to add up, in a different file from the one that placed the orders.
Accountability
The wrong thing arrives at the bench, and it is your name on the order.

So it is skipped, and whatever arrives is whatever was ordered last time.

Bring one product your lab buys every month.

We derive the specification from it live, run it against the sellers that list it, and show you what matches, what we refuse to vouch for, and what each seller lists it at.

Not a marketplaceAliquot is never the seller of record.
Not a scoreboardPrices sit side by side with their dates. Nothing is scored, nothing is ranked.
Not admin for scientistsThe lab manager runs it. Nobody at the bench fills in a form.

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Length30 minutes
WhereVideo call
BringOne product you order every month
You leave withIts specification, and what each seller lists it at

There is no sign-up form. Access is by invitation after a conversation, which is a decision (ADR 0012) rather than a queue.

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Agentic AI procurement for research labs

Instant price comparison.

The basket, optimised.

Ask in plain words.

Every order and delivery, tracked in one line.

The same three, before and after

Five steps, and none of them is data entry.

Every one of these is somebody's afternoon.

Alternatives

Five vocabularies

The price moved

Your price is not the price

The protocol

Minutes per request

Typed three times

Ordered is not arrived

Nobody owns the chase

Five invoices

What is committed

Accountability

Bring one product your lab buys every month.