System Integrators

Whoever gets the proposal out first, with the right options, wins the job

We build the catalog across every line card you carry, give you the product information system most integrators lack, and turn a requirement into a proposal.

Who buysOperations, the person who manages the bids and carries the project P&L
Who uses itBidders, sales teams and technicians. Internal, not customer-facing.
Lands withThe proposal and bill of materials agent
Expands toCross-reference, technical support, order operations
How the work arrives

Two paths in, one thing that decides the outcome

Whether it came from a formal process or a site walkthrough, the job goes to whoever comes back first with the right options and a proposal that explains itself.

The formal path
  • An RFP on the larger jobs: a structured response, on a deadline, against competitors doing the same thing.
  • Volume matters as much as quality: the more RFPs you can respond to properly, the more you win.
The informal path
  • A site walkthrough on smaller commercial and residential work: a requirement captured in someone’s notes and turned into a quote.
  • It’s a faster cycle, with a thinner margin.
Where the time goes
  • Most integrators have no PIM at all. Nothing normalizes product data across the manufacturers on your line card.
  • Every proposal gets rebuilt from scratch, working across vendor sites and datasheets to figure out what you can sell that matches.
  • Managing the line cards themselves is a job nobody owns: products change, and the knowledge lives with whoever last quoted them.
  • The constraint on winning more work is quoting speed and quoting volume, not sales effort.

What costs you these jobs is being late to respond, with a proposal that reads like it was assembled in a hurry.

What Rapidflare does

The catalog you’re missing, and the proposal you don’t have time to write

01

A product catalog across every line card

We build the catalog across all the manufacturers you carry and give you a working product information layer: normalized, queryable, and maintained. For most integrators this is the first time the line card has existed as a real product database rather than a folder of PDFs and a set of supplier logins.

02

Requirement to proposal

When a requirement comes in from a customer, an RFP document or notes from a site walkthrough, we match it against what you can sell, assemble the options, and put together the proposal and the bill of materials.

The result is more RFPs answered faster. Response velocity and volume both move and convert.

Requirement → match to line card → options → BOM → detailed proposal
03

Quote to fulfillment, end to end

An order arrives by email with a PDF and some loose requirements. The agent reads it, checks whether the part is in your CRM and your inventory, and when it is not, cross-references a substitute from the knowledge graph. It re-checks the CRM and CPQ, then sends the quote.

When a purchase order comes back, it places the orders with your distributors automatically and returns to the requester with shipping dates, tracking and confirmation.

Email + PDF → inventory check → cross-reference → CPQ → quote → PO → distributor orders → tracking
04

Technical support for your own team

Technicians asking product questions across hundreds of products from dozens of manufacturers get answered from the same catalog.

Outcomes

What moves

VelocityHow quickly a requirement becomes a sendable proposal.
VolumeHow many RFPs and quotes the same team can respond to.
Win rateRises when you show up first with the right options and a clear explanation.
Deployed with Sage IntegrationPortal.ioAlibi
Questions we get

Common questions from integrators

We do not have a product database. Is that a blocker?

It is the opposite: it is most of the value. We build the catalog across your line cards from manufacturer documentation and whatever you already hold, and normalize it into a product information layer. You end up with the PIM as a by-product of getting the proposal agent working.

Do our customers interact with this?

No. For integrators this is an internal tool. Your bidders, sales team and technicians use it, and your customers see the output, a faster, better proposal, without ever touching the agent.

What happens when a part we quoted is not available?

The agent cross-references a substitute from the knowledge graph, re-validates it against your CRM and CPQ, and carries it into the quote. Where it cannot find an equivalent it flags the line rather than silently swapping something in.

Can it place orders with our distributors?

Yes, once a purchase order is received. It places the orders and comes back to the requester with ship dates and tracking. As with every write action we take, anything unresolved routes to a person instead of being guessed.

How long before we can quote with it?

It depends on how many line cards are in scope and what documentation exists. We normally start with the manufacturers behind the majority of your bids, which gets a usable catalog in place, then extend from there.

Get started

Bring us your line card

We’ll build the catalog across your manufacturers and show you a proposal generated from a real requirement.

SOC 2 Type II  ·  Every answer traceable to its source