Tech trend: Platform AI inquiry matching v1 ships — first-month conversion +37%
AI inquiry routing v1 — matching on category × country × supplier export track record — is live. In 1,200 real inquiries, accuracy hit 84%; average buyer reply window shrank to 3.2h.
Traditional B2B platforms broadcast inquiries to every matching supplier in a category. Suppliers drown in low-quality leads; buyers drown in redundant quotes.
Matching dimensions
- Category precision — inquiry text NER + category embedding similarity
- Country fit — supplier exportToCodes aligned with buyer country
- Activity signal — supplier 30-day response time + conversion rate
v1 results
1,200 real inquiries: 84% human-labeled accuracy. Average buyer first-reply time dropped from 11.4h to 3.2h. Supplier conversion rate rose from 12% to 17%.
v2 roadmap
v2 (2026 Q3): integrate buyer company profile (size / purchase history) to tighten matching. v3 (Sprint 5): GPT-based translation quality scoring to filter machine-translated spam inquiries.