Finding and qualifying suppliers is slow, fragmented work. The candidates are scattered across trade fairs, certification databases, trade records, company registers, and the open web, in many languages and formats. Vetting them means visiting websites one by one, checking certifications, reading news archives, and chasing contact details, and the answers that actually decide a deal, such as real prices and lead times, are not published anywhere at all.
Speya puts that whole workflow in one place. You describe what you need to Speya, your AI assistant for sourcing, and it finds suppliers across 250+ data sources, researches them in parallel, emails them for the answers that are not public, and watches them for changes over time. Everything lands in one supplier list, with a source behind every result, so the list becomes the single place where you compare, decide, and act.
In this article
Meet Speya
The sourcing workflow
Two ways to source suppliers
What makes Syepa different
How to read what Speya finds
FAQ
Meet Speya
Speya is the chat you work in throughout the platform. It is where you prompt, where you steer your case, and where you read the reasoning behind your results. You type what you need in plain language, the way you would brief a colleague, and Speya does the work: it finds suppliers, researches them, drafts your emails, and keeps your list current.
Three things define how it works:
It researches before it acts. Speya studies your product or service first to understand the domain, then plans the work. That is why context beats phrasing: the more you share about your goal and constraints, the better it performs.
It reasons, it doesn’t keyword-match. Speya reads how suppliers describe themselves across 250+ data sources, in whatever language and detail each one publishes, and reasons about what it finds. That lets it evaluate suppliers with thin websites, foreign-language sites, and unusual phrasing that a normal search would miss.
Everything is source-backed. Every result links to the source it came from, so you can open the evidence behind any answer. When Speya cannot confirm something, it says so instead of guessing.
Your work lives in a supplier list. Each row is a supplier, each column is something you know about it, and the list fills out as you move from finding suppliers to vetting them to engaging with them.
The sourcing workflow
Sourcing in Speya runs as a workflow of four steps. You can follow them end to end for a new sourcing case, or jump straight to the step you need. Each step has its own guide.
Find new suppliers with Discovery. Describe what you are sourcing, the kind of partner you want, and the region, and you get verified suppliers from across 250+ data sources, with each requirement checked against a source. Use it to explore a market, find alternatives to a current supplier, or qualify new partners. See How to find new suppliers with Discovery.
Research suppliers with enrichment columns. Qualifying a list of 50 suppliers by hand takes days. With Enrich, you describe what you want to know and it is researched across every supplier in the list at once, one column per data point, with a source cited for every cell. See How to research suppliers with Enrich.
Ask suppliers directly with Engage. Some answers only live inside the supplier: real prices at your volumes, current lead times, spare capacity. Speya drafts an RFI, sends it individually to your shortlist, and reads the replies back into your columns as they arrive, so the answers land as structured data next to everything else. See How to send RFIs with Engage.
Track changes with Monitor. Suppliers change: certifications lapse, adverse press appears, risk shifts. Monitoring re-researches the columns you choose on a schedule and flags the changes that are genuinely new, so your picture stays current without re-running searches by hand. See How to import and track suppliers with Monitor.
You can also bring in the suppliers you already work with. Upload an Excel or CSV file, or add suppliers by name in chat, and they land in a list that behaves exactly like a search result: you can enrich them, monitor them, and compare them against new discoveries. See How to import and track suppliers with Monitor.
Speya is built for teams. Supplier lists are shared with your workspace, so a colleague can pick up where you left off, and the enrichments you design can be saved as templates and reused across projects. See How to manage your workspace.
Two ways to source suppliers
There are two modes for running a search, and Speya is the assistant in both. The difference is who directs the work.
Step-by-step puts you in control of each move. You review the search plan before it runs, read the results, refine the list, and decide what to research next. Use it when you are still framing the case, or when you want to see and steer every step.
Auto runs the case hands-off. You give Speya a full brief, answer a few scoping questions, and step away. Speya runs several searches in parallel, researches the suppliers, removes duplicates, and sorts the results into tiers, so you come back to a ranked shortlist ready to act on. Use it when your case is well briefed and you want a finished list without steering. See How to run a sourcing case with Speya Auto.
Both modes work on the same lists, so you can start a case in Auto and refine it step-by-step, or the other way around.
What makes Speya different
Traceable, not just plausible. Search engines and chat assistants give you answers to verify yourself. Speya gives you suppliers backed by sources, built for a procurement decision: every match, every research result, and every reply links to where it came from.
No advertising, no paid placement. Results are never ranked by who paid to appear. Because Speya reads what suppliers publish rather than rewarding the best-marketed websites, it surfaces small and lesser-known suppliers that a normal web search would bury.
One list instead of many tabs. Research results, requirement checks, email threads, and monitoring updates all land on the same supplier rows. You compare suppliers in one view instead of reconciling spreadsheets, inboxes, and browser tabs.
Honest about the gaps. When no public source settles a question, Speya tells you, and that gap becomes your RFI question rather than a guess in your data.
How to read what Speya finds
A few principles apply everywhere in the platform, and knowing them up front makes every result easier to read.
Every result has a source. Click a result to read Speya’s reasoning and open the exact source it used.
“No match” and “No data found” are not rejections. They mean Speya could not confirm the point from the sources it found, often because the supplier simply does not publish the detail. You can ask Speya to reason about what is likely from everything else it knows about that supplier, or to research the question from another angle and find other information that confirms or evaluates it. Either way, strong candidates with thin websites stay visible.
A match confirms a public trace exists. It tells you the supplier does this kind of work. Live stock, exact dimensions, finish, and price change too often to read from public sources, so treat those as questions to ask the supplier directly.
Coverage builds over several passes. Supplier information is spread across sources and described inconsistently, so each search explores part of the market. Different framings of the same product reach different suppliers, which is why a few passes give you a fuller picture than repeating one search.
FAQ
How is this different from ChatGPT or Google?
They give you answers to verify yourself; Speya gives you traceable suppliers. One instruction researches every supplier in your list at once, every result links to its source, and when Speya cannot confirm something it says so. You get a comparable table built for a sourcing decision, not a page of results or a paragraph to fact-check.
Do I need to write perfect prompts?
No. Speya researches your case before it acts, and it asks when it needs to narrow things down. Write to it the way you would brief a colleague: what you are sourcing, what kind of partner you want, and why you are looking. Context matters far more than phrasing, and you can steer the results in plain language at any point.
Can I use it in my own language?
Yes. You can write to Speya in over 200 languages with peak performance for English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Speya reads foreign-language supplier sites for you, so your results are not limited to the language you searched in.
Is my work private?
Supplier lists are shared with everyone in your workspace, so your team can build on each other’s research, while your chat with Speya stays private to you. The platform is ISO 27001 certified. For how sharing, roles, and access work, see How to manage your workspace.
Can I bring in the suppliers we already work with?
Yes. Upload an Excel or CSV file, or add suppliers by name in chat, and research and monitor them like any discovered supplier. See How to import and track suppliers with Monitor.