The baseline your suppliers don’t know you have.

An independent buying consultancy: we collect live supplier quotes without your name entering the room, and you pay us, never the suppliers.

Any purchase where the quote depends on who’s asking: packaging, industrial inputs, equipment, contracted services. The client stays unnamed from intake to report; suppliers deal with the desk.

Yours only. We take no supplier money: no commissions, no listing fees, no rebates, no lead fees. Your report is never pooled, resold, or shared without your written consent.

Every free quote service is paid by the other side of the table: marketplaces charge suppliers to receive your request, buying groups collect supplier admin fees on pre-negotiated contracts. Free means you are the product. We invoice you instead. We’d rather sell you one honest check than be owed favors by the people we’re checking.

No. We collect quotes as what we are: an independent buying consultancy representing an unnamed client. Suppliers quote consultancies every day.

No invented companies, no false names, nothing signed under pretense. Fake-identity mystery shopping produces intel you can’t act on and a burned bridge. A disclosed consultant with an unnamed client is a normal Tuesday for a sales desk.

A live quote collected under our name (or a batch), a line-by-line comparison against yours, and the discount signals each supplier made.

Every quote is a named supplier, a dated document, stated quantities and terms: real paper your team can verify and negotiate from. No anonymized “market ranges.” Where calls happen, we record with notice or take structured notes. Attach your current quote and we mark exactly where the baseline differs from yours, and which differences are structural (volume, terms, spec) versus discretionary. A stranger price is a negotiation benchmark, not a bindable contract; the report states what each supplier assumed so you know what transfers.

$100 for one blind quote. $290 for a batch of five, one purchase or several. Both posted. Priced so your first test needs nobody's approval.

Timing truth: suppliers control their own response times. Simple categories quote in days; complex ones take one to two weeks. If your deal closes sooner, tell us; we’d rather say no than sell you a report that lands late. If a supplier won’t produce a number, a different consultant on our desk re-runs the request, or we refund you.

Suppliers price the buyer as much as the goods. When they know your discount ritual, the ask is priced in before the first number reaches you.

Every purchasing department with a three-quote rule trains its regular suppliers on the playbook. The fix is the number your supplier gives a stranger: the un-gamed baseline.

The quieter reason buyers use us: shopping under your own name has a price. An incumbent who learns you bid him out and stayed anyway flags your account; service slips, and next year’s increase letter gets bolder. A blind baseline reads the market at zero relationship cost. You reveal yourself only if the number justifies the fight.

Sometimes they would. We decide at intake: if your spec would fingerprint you, we blind-quote alternates and hand you a real outside option.

A baseline against your own supplier runs only where the spec is anonymous enough (a common lane, a stock dimension, a standard grade). Where it isn’t, blind-quoting alternates answers the question your three-quote rule was written to ask: what does this market charge someone with no history? The report always states which job it ran. Either way, deploy the number as benchmark-speak in your negotiation; the artifact stays in your drawer, and your regular never learns where the number came from.