Founding Vendor roadmap

Where Founding Vendor is going

We're starting manually with five vendors so we can learn what buyers actually use before we automate anything.

This is a direction of travel, not a feature promise.

Now

Prove the profile works

This part is real and available now — it is what a Founding Vendor gets today.

The first 5 accepted Founding Vendors
You send your existing product material
SourcrLab structures it into your product profile
One handover, one review round to check it
Factual corrections stay free, always
The commercial relationship is disclosed
SourcrLab's independent analysis stays separate

Improve the format from real use

As the first cohort uses this, we expect to:

Learn which product fields buyers actually use
Refine the shared comparison structure
Improve how evidence, sources and unknowns are shown
Find a practical rhythm for keeping information current
Reduce friction for vendors where the same pattern keeps coming back

We only systematise what proves useful.

Later

Systematise what works

Exploring — not committed

Potential directions, contingent on what the first cohort actually shows us:

Easier ways for vendors to update their information
Some automation of routine maintenance
Richer evidence for buyers to evaluate against
Better ways to keep product information current
Verified practitioner evidence — only if buyer demand and real contributions justify it
Other tools that repeatedly prove useful to buyers and vendors

Payment buys participation, never preference.

Evidence can change our analysis. Money can't.

Payment never buys

Ranking preference
Recommendation preference
Favourable conclusions
Stronger provenance
Higher evidence status
Paid editorial outcomes

Want to help shape the first version?

First 5 accepted vendors: €500 for the first 12 months. Current standard rate: €1,200 / year. After that, renewal is at the standard Founding Vendor rate applicable at the time.

Become a Founding Vendor