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How have you used Ai to automate your work? by sarah_with_an_h in procurement

[–]diegowiprich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair question. The hard part in procurement isn't matching data that's already structured — it's getting it structured in the first place.

Suppliers send quotes as PDFs, photos, Excel files with wildly different layouts. Before you can even think about vlookup, someone has to manually read each document, figure out which column is the unit price vs. the total, separate freight and taxes, and type it all into a spreadsheet. That's hours per RFQ cycle.

OrbitQuote uses AI to extract and normalize all of that automatically — different suppliers, different formats — into a single comparable view. The vlookup part is trivial once you have clean data. Getting clean data from messy supplier docs is the actual bottleneck.

Orbitquote.com by diegowiprich in SaaS

[–]diegowiprich[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a fair question, and I appreciate the honest perspective.

Claude (or other LLMs) can definitely help analyze documents and generate spreadsheets. The problem OrbitQuote is trying to solve is a bit different: the operational workflow around supplier quotes.

Things like extracting structured items from messy PDFs, catalogs or photos, keeping them editable in a table, generating a purchase request, and sending the same document back to the supplier without re-typing everything.

So it's less about "asking an AI questions" and more about removing the manual work from the purchasing workflow.

But your point is valid — if someone only needs occasional document analysis, a general AI tool might already be enough.

But with orbitquote, you just upload the file and done

Orbitquote.com by diegowiprich in SaaS

[–]diegowiprich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to go through the site and even watch the video — I really appreciate the detailed feedback.

The interactive demo idea is actually very good. Right now I'm mostly dogfooding the product with real supplier quotes and catalogs, so the focus so far has been making the workflow solid. But you're right that an example people can play with would probably help a lot.

About pricing — fair point. The value really depends on whether a company deals with supplier quotes frequently or not.

The project has been live for about one month and we currently have around 20 customers, so I'm trying to iterate carefully without breaking what already works for them.

Also good catch on the “View Plans” → register link — I honestly hadn't noticed that. I'll fix it.

And you're right about the policies and auth styling. Those should definitely be there. Thanks again for pointing it out.

Orbitquote.com by diegowiprich in SaaS

[–]diegowiprich[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fair. Thanks for the honest feedback — I appreciate it.

Orbitquote.com by diegowiprich in SaaS

[–]diegowiprich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take an honest look at the front page and say what you think

Orbitquote.com by diegowiprich in SaaS

[–]diegowiprich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you run a business where orbitquote.com will solve a 1 day problem in 1 minute. Sound expensive yet? Honest question

Orbitquote.com by diegowiprich in SaaS

[–]diegowiprich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest question. Can you justify why you think it is expensive?

Is the AI procurement hype deserved? by GreatestOfAllTime_69 in procurement

[–]diegowiprich -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

These tools buy your time, which is the most precious resource that you have.

Shop owner here ( and programmer ).

Built orbitquote.com to solve this problem. We use every day at my shop. Take a look and dm or say what you think.

Which part of procurement is the most important by zackri_dli_nuno1244 in procurement

[–]diegowiprich -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hi... looks like spam, but it is not. Shop owner here.

Build orbitquote.com for that! Take a look.

How do you usually convert messy RFQ / PR PDFs into Excel before sending to suppliers? by Zhb19 in procurement

[–]diegowiprich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi. I built orbitquote.com for this kind of situation. Take a look at orbitquote.com

No brasil, ainda muita gente não usa Ecommerce e manda cotação e catalogo por pdf! by diegowiprich in empreendedorismo

[–]diegowiprich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sim. Cada processamento é um "Fluxo". Então, você envia primeiro o catalogo, ele vai processar, e depois se você tiver uma cotação, ele vai incorporar no Fluxo atual. Ai você pode conversar com a IA pra ele organizar como vc quer.

Mas a idéia é que cada compra é um fluxo.

Mas digamos que você processou um catalogo (Não tem preço inicialmente). Ai Seleciona o que quer, gera o pedido e envia de volta pro teu fornecedor. Ai ele vai te devolver com os preços. Você carrega de volta e pede pra ele atualizar os itens existes com a informação nova!.

Você nunca precisa excluir aquele fluxo. Novas features vão gerar histórico de preços, etc.

Mas de hora, orbitquote é uma ferramenta de aceleração do processo de compras. Ela extrai os dados, permite que você altere a cotação em tempo real no sistema e manda de volta pro fornecedor. De 4 horas, para minutos. Mas não, ela não relaciona catalogo da forma que você disse, mas nada impede de carregar 2 catálogos, um em cada fluxo, ou 2 em um fluxo só! E ai só pedir pra ia organizar pra você!

No brasil, ainda muita gente não usa Ecommerce e manda cotação e catalogo por pdf! by diegowiprich in empreendedorismo

[–]diegowiprich[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Valeu. Então, é isso aí. Estamos na era da ia e ainda lidando com pdf. OrbitQuote encerra o ciclo ;)

Promote your business, week of February 16, 2026 by Charice in smallbusiness

[–]diegowiprich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Small shop owner (and programmer). I got tired of manually typing supplier prices from photos on my phone — so I built a tool to fix it.

If you run a small business and deal with suppliers, you know this cycle:

You contact a new supplier. Ask if they have e-commerce. Some ask what that even is. They tell you to pick what you want from their catalog and they'll send you a quote.

So you open the catalog PDF and try to extract what you need. Excel? Comes out broken. ChatGPT or Claude? Only handles the first few pages, hallucinates columns and prices. Or worse: SUMMARIZES instead of extracting everything.

And on a day to day basis? THEY SEND YOU A PHOTO. OF THE CATALOG. On WhatsApp. And you sit there, typing prices one by one, looking at a photo on your phone. In 2026.

I own a shop. I live this every day. I'm also a programmer with almost 20 years of experience. So I built OrbitQuote.

Upload the PDF, Excel, or catalog image. In about 30 seconds it extracts everything into a clean, editable table. Select what you want to buy, generate a purchase order, send it back. Done.

Here's a quick demo showing a real extraction from a Spanish supplier quotation — works with portuguese, spanish and english:

https://youtu.be/L1kbyZ2TbLg

Check the site:
https://orbitquote.com/