Sourcing with Agents

Executive Summary: comanufacturers.com

Product: AI-powered supplier discovery and sourcing platform
Sector: B2B SaaS, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

CoManufacturers is transforming manufacturing supplier discovery and management in the $800B+ direct procurement market for CPG, replacing manual processes with AI-driven solutions.

 

Founder Profile

Former VC at Balderton Capital (the ex-Benchmark Europe team) and Head of Strategy/US GM at venture-backed food company, Simple Feast (helped raise $70M+).

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Market

The US CPG direct procurement market ($700-800B annually) plus contract manufacturing ($100B) is works through an extremely manual processes: buyers submit requests via forms and emails with limited visibility into supplier capabilities, pricing, or capacity.

Because of the legwork needed to find and work with new manufacturers, the universe of potential suppliers a company can walk to is limited.  

 

Opportunity

With agentic sourcing, there's an opportunity to coordinate hundreds or even thousands of concurrent supplier searches for your product's components, to both get a broader perspective of the potential supplier base and create small markets around each of your inputs by subitting RFQs to all qualifying manufactures. 

 

Current Product

  1. Manufacturer Database: Comprehensive index of US and Canadian contract manufacturers.
  2. Discovery Platform: Search interface for finding manufacturers by category, location, and size.
  3. Built for pSEO: Profile pages with unique data generate organic traffic from a specialized audience in CPG procurement.

Traction:

  • 1,400+ monthly active users
  • Usage by Kraft Heinz, Kellogg's, McCain, US Foods
  • Growth tied to indexed manufacturer count

 

Future Product

The platform for agentic sourcing, composed of:  

  1. Research Agents: AI systems mapping manufacturers and enriching database.
  2. RFQ Generation: Tools creating standardized RFQs from product specifications.
  3. Sourcing Agents: AI automating supplier outreach and quote gathering.
  4. Benchmarking Tools: Analytics for pricing evaluation and cost-saving identification.
  5. Expanded Categories: Plans to index raw materials and packaging suppliers


Next steps:

  1. Develop v2.0 of supplier indexing with enhanced AI agents
  2. Grow to 10K+ monthly users
  3. Launch enterprise offering with RFQ generation and supplier matching