A Buyer's Editor to Fix B2B Procurement PDF Hell with API and MCP
22+ years as a Software engineer/programmer. For a reason that only life can explain, in the last 8 years i went from Adobe Flash Specialist to owning a small solar installation business and a small electric and plumbing materials. o.O We had a problem every time that we had to resupply or shop for new goods. In Brazil, things are manual in B2B and restricted to PDF Quotations/Proforma negotiations. Nobody has ecommerce, only the middlemen that resell what they buy from the factory with their margins on top. For better margins, direct from the factory is the way to go. Long story…
A Buyer's Editor to Fix B2B Procurement PDF Hell with API and MCP launched on August 17, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,809 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Agentic procurement platform: Orbi finds suppliers, requests quotes by email and WhatsApp, reads every proposal and compares item by item. You approve.
The agentic procurement platform: Orbi finds suppliers, asks for prices from your email and WhatsApp, follows up with whoever went quiet and compares every quote. Nothing goes out without your approval. Buying the lowest price for each item instead of closing everything with one supplier. Math at 4%; in a real purchase, the difference was 4.5%. A PDF in the email, a spreadsheet on WhatsApp, a photo of the price table, a whole catalog to dig through. Before comparing any price, someone has to find every file, type every line and figure out that two different names are the same product. Typing and comparing quotes costs hours, and closing on the total leaves the lowest price for each item on…from orbitquote.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
22+ years as a Software engineer/programmer. For a reason that only life can explain, in the last 8 years i went from Adobe Flash Specialist to owning a small solar installation business and a small electric and plumbing materials. o.O We had a problem every time that we had to resupply or shop for new goods. In…
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