Procurist.io VS https://alanaknows.com/

Procurist.io's answer

Procurist is the first procurement agent built for interior designers. It is the first and only platform that combines a software which actually does the non-creative time-consuming procurement tasks for interior designers and has a trade-only marketplace integrated into its core workflow to match interior designers’ floor plans, design drawings and briefs with products from the widest range of vetted European furniture and lighting brands. 
Working on behalf of interior designers goes beyond the fact that the entire software was designed by an interior designer and tested using her real life projects; all suppliers on Procurist are strictly vetted to ensure they meet our quality standards, all items are sold to designers at competitive trade prices and we only work either European brands who actually manufacture in Europe. Unlike other marketplaces, we do not enable or allow any form of advertising on our platform, ensuring honest and non-biased product matching. We also do not restrict the style of items on our platform as we do believe in filtering by ethos and quality only and building the infrastructure to support true creative freedom.

Procurist.io's answer

Procurist replaces a full stack of currently fragmented solutions; software, marketplaces and in some instances procurement agents.

Software competitors: Fohlio, Programa, Houzz Pro, Studio Designers, Design Files Marketplace Competitors: Oblist, Archiproducts, Invisible Collection, Artemest, Chaplins Furniture, Monde Singular 
Procurement Agents: SP3 London, Chris Turner Procurement, Occa Design, K2 Space

Procurist.io's answer

Procurist replaces an entire stack of fragmented, partial solutions. Unlike other procurement software targeted at interior designers which is purely used to organize the work, Procurist actually does a lot of the non-creative tasks for designers. Other marketplaces offer inspiration and access to many brands, but designers still have to filter and scroll through and search for each item individually, Procurist proposes full item selections to match the designers’ individual vision and project requirements. Other marketplaces curate based on their own style, we curate based on quality and ethos whilst building the infrastructure to enable and support creative freedom for designers and makers of any style. Other trade marketplaces such as Archiproducts are essentially advertising platform where brands pay for their products to be displayed and promoted in the search results, Procurist works on behalf of designers and does not offer brands the opportunity to pay to get onto the platform and advertise on Procurist, all brands are vetted against our standards and ethos and products are proposed based on how well they match the designers’ requirements.

Procurist.io's answer

Procurist supports interior design studios of different sizes, from small teams and boutique studios to bigger teams who are still spending more time and resources than they’d like to sourcing and procuring FF&E.
In most of the studios we work with, the interior designers are still very involved in the sourcing and selecting of FF&E and there’s usually a dedicated procurement manager or a studio assistant helping with procurement, but either way it often feels overwhelming and like designers are spending too much time on draining procurement tasks and have not yet found a perfect way to delegate this, and do want to retain creative control and working with traditional procurement agencies does not make sense for the budgets they work with. 
Procurist solves all of this by integrating into the designers’ core workflow so that they do not have to spend time delegating work, retain full creative control and increase their margins. 
Procurist is for designers who don’t want to choose between efficiency and execution standards and care deeply about the quality and execution of their designs and of the individual pieces they procure. 



Procurist.io's answer

Built by an interior designer who spent one too many late nights in the studio finishing a revised FF&E presentation after spending all day chasing after suppliers.

Procurist started as an internal tool inside our founder, Giulia's own interior design studio before she decided to pursue Procurist full-time and onboard brands she's been working with for many years
and building out the platform to offer other designers an intuitive tool which dynamically fits inside your realistic, non-linear creative workflow. Procurist sources FF&E to match your designs in seconds, provides a platform for you to discover new products, save the ones you discover for later to keep them top of mind for your next project and automatically creates presentations ready to share
with your clients, purchase ready schedules and invoices and turns endless chasing for quotes, orders and paperwork into a single click.

Since then, Procurist has been tested and iterated against the non-linear, diverse workflows of multiple different designers to meet them where they're at, whether that's on your computer, in a meeting annotating floor plans, on site or running around trade fairs.

Beyond her own experience, Giulia realized how fragmented our industry's supply chain is as a whole and how some of the best European makers are struggling to compete with big multinational brands who
have huge margins from mass-manufacturing cheaply in East Asia and even bigger advertising budgets to beat smaller manufacturers. Procurist is a mission to preserve European craftsmanship and build the infrastructure to support creativity and craftsmanship worldwide.