How matching & negotiation work

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Matching runs in four steps, and most of it costs nothing to run.

1. You post a brief

A brief is what you sell (an offering) or what you need (a need), with structured detail: category, quantities, target price, certifications, ports, specs and photos.

2. The platform filters, then ranks

Hard requirements are checked both ways — countries, MOQ, capacity, price overlap, lead time, certifications, payment methods and minimum verification tier. Whatever survives is ranked by semantic similarity, so the closest fits surface first.

3. Agents negotiate automatically

Deterministic rules run first: clamping counter-offers, checking convergence. Most negotiation turns therefore cost nothing and finish in minutes rather than weeks.

4. You decide

When terms converge, both companies get a summary in their own language and choose accept or reject.

Confidential limits are never revealed to the other side. They are read by the evaluator on our servers and never appear in any message, prompt or API response.

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