Vantage
Never miss a deal. Move them 3x faster.
The operating system for commodity brokers. Every submission, match, document and margin in one place, from intake through settlement.
Your book runs on memory, not software.
Who pays on time, who moves on price, which buyer takes off-spec in a pinch. That is the broker's real asset, and it is tribal knowledge: unwritten, unsearchable, and it leaves when they do. Vantage turns the inputs a deal already arrives on into a record the business owns. Submissions logged, requests processed, matches found, without anyone retyping a line.
What Vantage takes in
- Gmail
- margin_calc_v7_FINAL.xlsx
- draft BL.pdf
- supplier portal
- voicemail
Connected to Gmail and WhatsApp, so the thread that starts a deal is the thread that files it.
- places a deal arrives from
- 6places a deal arrives from
- record it becomes
- 1record it becomes
- of it retyped by hand
- 0of it retyped by hand
The questions a spreadsheet can't answer.
A sheet holds what a trade can be typed into. Everything that decides one lives somewhere else: in a thread, in somebody's memory, in a margin rebuilt by hand. Vantage puts those answers on the deal, where the question gets asked.
Columns a sheet does not have
- last 6 months with this buyer
- who is waiting on whom
- freight, and what clears after it
- which reply moved the price
- What is this buyer’s history with me?
- In a sheetScroll three tabs back, if anyone wrote it down.In VantageEvery quote, counter and close with Trans-Pacific sits on the company record, with the prices they actually paid.
- What do I need to do today?
- In a sheetReconstruct it from your inbox each morning.In VantageNine deals, each showing the one action blocking it and whose turn it is. Yours are at the top.
- Does this still clear after freight?
- In a sheetRebuild the margin by hand, per option, every time.In VantageSpread minus freight, resolved per option before it goes out, so the number you send is the number you keep.
Five workflows that run themselves.
Material in, options out, the trade priced, the board triaged, the deal held together. Drag through them or let them play: each clip is one scene of the film above rendered on its own, so a workflow and the film can never say different things. The still you land on is the frame where the beat pays off.
It lands from WhatsApp. It files itself.
Grade, tonnage, loads and price arrive already structured, queued into Awaiting Review, Awaiting Feedback and Review Complete. Clear one and it tells you who is waiting for it, and at what price.
Documents checked before they cost you.
A draft BL arrives as a PDF in a supplier's reply. The truth it has to match (consignee, discharge port, quantity, the whole shipping instruction) is on the deal. Someone reads two documents line by line at six in the evening, and a wrong discharge port found after the box has sailed is a re-consignment fee and a very difficult phone call.
- fields read off the draft
- 14fields read off the draft
- matched the instructions exactly
- 12matched the instructions exactly
- discrepancy, caught before it sailed
- 1discrepancy, caught before it sailed
- The model reads
- Fourteen fields pulled out of a scanned PDF that has no fixed layout. This is exactly what a model is for.
- The rules decide
- Whether two ports match is not a judgement call, so nothing judges it. The comparison is deterministic and returns the same answer every run: a document cannot pass on Tuesday and fail on Thursday.
- The broker signs
- Nothing is sent on the system's say-so. It surfaces what disagrees and who still has to confirm; the decision stays where it was.
It comes in as an attachment.
The draft bill of lading turns up in a supplier’s reply with the question attached: can you check the consignee and the discharge port before it ships. Drag it in and Vantage reads it.
Know exactly where every deal stands.
Every deal moves through the same four, and the system knows which one it is in. Nothing advances on a hunch: a stage closes when the thing it is responsible for has actually happened.
Confirm
stage 01
The proforma goes out, the buyer confirms against it, and the purchase order is generated from the same figures rather than retyped. Supporting documents attach to the deal, not to an inbox.
Payments
stage 02
Buyer deposit collected and verified, supplier payout released against it, final balance tracked to the day. What is owed and what has cleared stop being two different questions.
Logistics
stage 03
Freight booked, bill of lading instructions collected, container tracked gate to gate. Seal numbers and loading photos land on the deal while the box is still moving.
Settlement
stage 04
Balance collected, costs reconciled against revenue, and the final margin resolved from what actually happened rather than from what was quoted at the start.
Supply meets demand, scored
Material, quantity, price, geography and relationship history are weighted into one fit score, so the shortlist is ranked before anyone picks up the phone.
The margin, before you commit
Loading weight, sell price and freight resolve into net profit on every offer. An option that loses money turns negative on screen rather than at settlement.
Documents that generate themselves
Proformas, purchase orders and bills of lading are produced from the deal and sent from inside it. The figures cannot drift, because they were never entered twice.
One record, every side of the deal.
Suppliers submit without an account, because a login is the fastest way to not receive a submission. Everything they send lands structured on the same deal the broker is working.
Broker
Every active deal, and what it needs today.
- The full lifecycle in one place
- An action timeline per stage
- Margin resolved on every offer
- A morning brief, ranked by urgency
Supplier
Submit material. No login required.
- A branded public submission form
- Photos, specs and pricing in one go
- Submission status, without chasing
- A track record that earns preferred status
Buyer
Post what you need. Get matched.
- Material needs with quality specs
- Priority levels and tolerances
- Matched offers from your broker
- Full deal history and documentation
Stop losing deals to disorganisation.
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