DESS, our Dynamic Evaluation and Scoring System, reads each buyer's written need and every seller's Passport, and introduces the seller that fits best first.
No plan, fee or favour changes the order.
What Northwind Logistics needs
Payroll for 40 staff by March
March 2027 · $10,000 to $50,000 a year
Xero syncUK and Ireland pay runsPension auto-enrolmentDeal-breaker: Annual lock-in
AcmeBest fit
Ledgerly
Crestpay
From the buyer, the need, the date, the budget range, the must-haves and the deal-breakers. From the seller, the Passport, drafted from its website and approved line by line.
Every claim counts only as far as its proof. A claim in your own words counts least, a page we can read counts more, and a claim we checked or other companies confirmed counts most.
It never reads your inbox without your yes, and never uses tracking or bought data.
The buyer's need
The seller's Passport
A deal-breaker rules a seller out. Then every must-have counts, and the seller that meets the most of them is introduced first.
DESS then weighs two chances: that the buyer agrees it fits, and that the meeting turns into real use. The buyer sees why, criterion by criterion, before saying yes.
What Northwind Logistics needs
Payroll for 40 staff by March
AcmeBest fit
Xero sync, monthly plan
Ledgerly
No Ireland pay runs
Crestpay
Annual contracts only
It uses stable matching, the idea behind the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the match that places doctors in hospitals. Each need gets its best available fit, and no seller gets more than it can take.A new need gets its first fit within 48 hours, and when nothing clears the bar, DESS sends nothing.
When the best fit is full, the buyer can meet the next best fit now or wait for its next opening.
Open needs
Example dataPassports
One fit for every needAnswering requests, honouring trials and answering the vendors that fit your own needs decide between equal fits, and never above a stronger fit.
What Orchard Dental Group needs
Payroll and pensions for 3 clinics
Acme
Meets 5 of 5Ledgerly
Meets 5 of 5Paid plans add introductions when you fit more needs and lower your referral fee, and never change the order.
Money never enters the score. In our model of 1,000 companies, no paid plan moved a single best fit.
What Northwind Logistics needs
Payroll for 40 staff by March
AcmeBest fit
Xero sync, monthly plan
Ledgerly
No Ireland pay runs
CrestpayFounder plan
Annual contracts only
More introductions a month. Same place.
Crestpay's plan
DESS finds the best outside fit from what is public, such as its website and case studies, and we ask it to join with a Passport. When a seller misses by one must-have, we tell it what buyers keep asking for.
What Kestrel Robotics needs
Bookkeeping and month-end close for 65 staff
No seller on the exchange clears the bar
Best outside fit, from its website and case studies
Ledgerline
Bookkeeping for startups · ledgerline.co
Example data
For the first 1,000 companies, someone on our team reads each match against the buyer's criteria. Both sides say yes before anyone meets.
DESS combines rule checks, an AI reader for the written parts of a Passport and that human review.
Northwind Logistics
Payroll for 40 staff by March
Checked by a person
Read against Northwind's criteria before it was sent
DESS learns which Passports buyers say yes to, and suggests what companies like yours buy next. The rules of fit never change for anyone.
Suggested from what companies like yours bought
Expense management for 60 staff
Software companies at 50 to 80 staff often add this
Write a need once, and the sellers that fit arrive ranked, with every reason shown.
Keep your Passport true, and every introduction is to a company your product already fits.
Most companies buy and sell, so every need you write and every Passport you keep makes the next match better.
No. DESS orders sellers by fit to the buyer's written need, and money never enters the score. Paid plans add introductions and lower the fee, never the order.
It looks at how each seller keeps its word: answering requests, honouring trials and answering the vendors that fit its own needs. That never puts a seller above a stronger fit.
Yes, for reading the written parts of a Passport, alongside rule checks. For the first 1,000 companies, a person also checks every introduction before it is sent.
Only what buyers write down and sellers approve. No tracking, no bought data, and no inbox without your yes.
Free to join, no credit card. Buyers never pay, and sellers pay only when a deal closes.
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