Get shown when your buyers ask AI.
Your category is being researched inside an answer box that reads a handful of sources and names two or three vendors. Shown gets you into those sources, and into the Reddit threads they are built from.
We run your buying prompts before the call. You keep the readout either way.
best vendor management platform for mid-market manufacturers
Sources retrieved
The platforms most often recommended are Northvane, Palliser Labs and Corvid Stack. Northvane is usually shown first for plant-level purchase orders.
The answer layer we work on, and the sources it pulls from:
Pick a question your buyer would ask.
This is a working model of the moment your shortlist gets decided. Read the baseline answer, then run the same question again after the citation work has been done.
Buying questions
For mid-market manufacturers, the platforms most often recommended are Northvane, Palliser Labs and Corvid Stack. Northvane is usually shown first for plant-level purchase orders; Palliser Labs comes up where supplier onboarding is the bottleneck.
Buyers comparing these tend to weigh implementation time against how much of the approval chain the tool can hold.
Your company is not shown in this answer.
| vendorcompare.io | /procurement/mid-market-roundup | listicle |
| reddit.com | /r/manufacturing | forum |
| reviewgrid.com | /category/vendor-management | review profile |
| northvane.example | /platform | vendor site |
- Share of answer
- 0%
- Shown first
- 0%
- Your URLs cited
- 0
The answer is assembled from other people’s pages.
Worth seeing before you spend anything: what movement looks like when the work is done properly, and how the same question resolves differently on each assistant.
What movement looks like
A worked example of a 40-prompt set across six monthly re-runs. Drag the scrubber, or hover the chart.
Month 5 · compounding, attribution reaching the CRM
- Share of answer
- 61%
- Shown first
- 26%
- Sources citing you
- 14
- Assisted opps
- 6
Prompt coverage, question by assistant
Eight of the forty prompts, and how the same question resolves on each assistant. Hover a cell.
Six parts, run as one program.
Two of them finish. The rest keep running, because a model re-reads the web every time somebody asks. Pick a lane to see what lands.
You get Forty to eighty prompts, run across four assistants, with the answers attached.
Questions your buyers really type, built with your sales team rather than guessed. You get the answers, who gets shown, and which pages got cited. This is the scoreboard for everything after it.
What we control, and what we don’t.
Worth a call
- B2B, with a sales motion and a CRM you trust
- A category people research before they buy
- Someone internally who can approve claims about your product
- Two quarters of runway for the program
Don’t book
- You need signed deals inside 30 days
- You want a guaranteed placement in a specific answer. Model outputs change without notice and no agency controls them
- You want volume counted as the deliverable, twenty posts a month
- Legal will not let you say anything specific about your own product
Reddit takes six to ten weeks before it is worth anything, because a new account posting about a product is worth less than nothing. Meaningful share-of-answer movement is a 90 to 180 day story. We control the inputs, not the model.
See what AI says about you this week.
The first call is the baseline conversation. We run your buying prompts beforehand and walk you through the actual answers, including the ones naming your competitors.