Enterprise supplier intelligence platform

Your Suppliers.
Automated.
Optimised.

FieldworkOS by SoftSight eliminates manual email processing, complex CPI negotiation, and fieldwork blind spots — automating 80%+ of your supplier lifecycle end-to-end with LLM-powered intelligence.

FieldworkOS

Live

Quotes Parsed

247

↑ 18 today

Avg CPI Saved

$1.24

↑ 4.2%

Quality Score

94%

↑ 1.1%

PanelCo · US-HEALTH-00189%
SampleNow · UK-FIN-00264%
GlobalPanel · DE-TECH-00341%

Live Activity

  • Soft cap hit · Female 45+ · UK-FIN-002 · slowing
    3s ago
  • Invoice generated · SampleNow · $3,241.50
    3s ago
  • Test IDs verified · ResearchPro · 5/5 passed
    1m ago
  • Invoice generated · SampleNow · $3,241.50
    2m ago

80%+

Manual processing eliminated

90%

Routine tasks automated

4

Integrated modules, one platform

100%

Auditability & traceability

Deployed at
  • KAKantar
  • IPIpsos
  • NINielsenIQ
  • GFGfK
  • INInfogroup
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • GDPR Ready
  • 99.9% Uptime
The problem space

Market research ops are broken by design

Every supplier email, CPI negotiation, and quality check is a manual tax on your team’s time — and your client’s budget.

Pain point 01

Hundreds of supplier emails processed by hand

Project managers spend hours parsing quote emails, manually extracting CPI values, sample sizes, and redirect URLs — then re-entering data into spreadsheets riddled with transcription errors.

Typically 4–6 hrs/day per PM

Pain point 02

CPI negotiations run on gut feel, not strategy

Balancing supplier CPIs against client budgets across 10+ concurrent surveys requires real-time market intelligence your team doesn't have. Every misaligned counter-offer erodes margin or kills supplier relationships.

Avg. 12% budget overrun per project

Pain point 03

Live fieldwork quality: invisible until it's too late

By the time fraud patterns surface — duplicate respondents, bot traffic, VPN-masked entries — you've already paid for bad data. Reactive quality control means wasted sample, client complaints, and painful reconciliation.

15–30% data loss on unchecked panels

Pain point 04

Payment reconciliation is a spreadsheet nightmare

Closing out a project means cross-referencing three data sources: your internal records, the survey platform, and supplier reports. Discrepancies delay payment, damage trust, and often require manual escalation.

3–5 days per project close-out
After
The SoftSight resolution

01 LLM Parsing

Emails parsed in seconds, not hours

Google Gemini-powered extraction reads every supplier email and pulls CPIs, sample sizes, redirect URLs, and test IDs with 95%+ confidence. High-confidence quotes process automatically; edge cases flag for one-click review.

95%+

Average parsing confidence

02 AI Negotiation

Strategy-driven counter-offers, every time

Three AI negotiation modes — Conservative, Balanced, Aggressive — dynamically select based on supplier flexibility scores, market conditions, and timeline urgency. Every counter-offer is mathematically grounded, not intuited.

3×

Faster negotiation closure

03 Real-time Intelligence

Zero blind spots from RFQ to payment

SurveyGuard + FingerprintJS block fraud at the door. Live dashboards track quota fills, supplier velocity, and quality scores in real time. Automated reconciliation closes projects in minutes — fully audited, zero spreadsheets.

80%+

Reduction in manual overhead

Platform capabilities

Four modules.
One operation.

FieldworkOS is built as four integrated modules — three that run the operational work, and one that watches over all of it. Every stage, from the first client request to the final reconciled invoice, lives in one of them.

01

Bidding Module

RFQ distribution & CPI negotiation

Capture client requests, send one RFQ to your whole supplier network, parse every quote with an LLM, and let the engine negotiate CPI — down to the individual quota cell — within the bounds you set.

  • Multi-survey RFQ
  • LLM quote parsing
  • AI CPI negotiation
  • Quota-level pricing

80%

Reduction in manual quote processing time

02

Fieldwork Module

Link setup, testing & live sample collection

Prove every redirect and test ID before go-live, gate a soft launch on real early-field signal, then watch the named detections — term rate, IR, fraud, quota pace — and resolve issues to close.

  • Link & redirect testing
  • Soft launch
  • Named detections
  • Issue management

94%

Average quality score across monitored supplier panels

03

Invoice Module

Supplier invoicing & reconciliation

Three-source reconciliation (internal DB, survey platform, supplier reports) runs at project close. Variances surface instantly, respondent-level CPI is honoured, and per-supplier invoices and reports generate in minutes — not days.

  • 3-source reconciliation
  • Per-supplier invoices
  • Variance detection
  • Project reports

5×

Faster project close-out vs. manual reconciliation

04

Manager Module

Top-level KPIs across every module

The view from above the work: every supplier, on every survey, across every project rolled into top-level KPIs — pacing, quality, fraud, margin, reconciliation status — with drill-down into any single module, plus governance and RBAC.

  • Program rollups
  • KPI dashboards
  • Governance & RBAC
  • Directories

100%

Of supplier activity rolled into one manager view

Works with your stack

Three-source reconciliation only works if we read the platform your fieldwork actually lives on. FieldworkOS reconciles completes and dispositions against the survey tools you already run.

  • Decipher
  • Forsta
  • Qualtrics
  • Confirmit
  • SurveyMonkey
  • Sawtooth

01 / 04

Intake, RFQ Distribution & Quote Parsing

One RFQ. Every supplier. Every quote, parsed.

It starts before the project does: client requests are captured the moment they land, and RFQs go out — covering one or many surveys — to your full supplier network in a single action. As replies arrive, AI reads each email regardless of format and extracts CPI (down to the individual quota cell), IR, LOI, feasibility, redirect URLs, and exclusions into a structured, comparable view. Long supplier threads are summarised so status is graspable at a glance, and geo / zip-code targets and prescreener questions are validated upstream — so respondent quality is controlled before fielding, not after. No one needs to open the email.

  • Pre-project intake
  • Any email format
  • Quota-level CPI
  • AI thread summaries
  • Geo & prescreener validation

Incoming email · supplier

From: sarah@panelco.com

Subject: Re: RFQ-2026-0041

Hi John, here are our rates:

Survey US-H-01: $4.20/complete

Sample capacity: 500 completes

Delivery: 5–7 business days

Complete URL: panelco.com/complete?rid=##RID##

AI parsed automatically
surveyUS-H-01
cpi$4.20
capacity500 completes
field_days5–7
redirect_urlpanelco.com/complete?…

✓ Confidence: 96%

Linked to RFQ-0041

02 / 04

Intelligent Negotiation

Negotiation grounded in data, not gut feel.

Counter-offers generated from your project parameters and each supplier’s historical performance. Sent in the same email thread, in the language you’d use. When a price lands inside your bounds, onboarding triggers automatically.

  • Three negotiation modes
  • Supplier history scoring
  • Manual override always available

Negotiation thread · RFQ-0041

Supplier

Our best rate for US-H-01 is $5.20 per complete.

FieldworkOS

Thanks for quoting. Based on past projects we’d like to come in at $4.60 — can we make that work?

$5.20 $4.60

Supplier accepted at $4.60 · Onboarding triggered automatically
Benchmarking & market intelligence

Counter-offers backed by every project you’ve ever run.

The negotiation engine isn’t guessing. It draws on comparative pricing and performance intelligence built across your entire supplier network — so a counter-offer reflects what a fair rate actually is for this audience, this geo, this supplier, right now. Not last year’s gut feel.

  • $4.38

    Median CPI · US Healthcare, IR 30%

  • 27%

    This supplier vs. network average

  • 1,284

    Comparable quotes in the benchmark set

03 / 04

Real-time Monitoring

Monitoring that knows what “going wrong” looks like.

A dashboard shows you numbers. FieldworkOS watches the signals an experienced PM watches — and catches them earlier than a human refreshing a tab ever could. Full cells pause automatically; the harder problems surface as patterns emerge, each one named and attributed to the supplier — and the question — causing it.

  • Per-supplier thresholds
  • Named detections
  • Auto-pause on breach

Quota grid · US-H-01

410 / 550 · live

Male · 18–34

62/100

Male · 35–54

100/100

Male · 55+

31/75

Female · 18–34

88/100

Female · 35–54

54/100

Female · 55+

75/75

Open Approaching Full · paused

Detection feed · live

Watching 4 surveys
  • IR dropped 14% on US-H-01 · likely Q3 screener · supplier paused

    12s ago
  • Term-reason concentration · 38% failing ‘industry exclusion’

    1m ago
  • Duplicate fingerprint · PanelCo · 2 matches blocked

    3m ago
  • Geo mismatch · 6 respondents · device region vs. quota

    6m ago

What we actually detect

Termination & quality-fail thresholds

Per-supplier term-rate and quality-fail ceilings. A breach pauses that supplier — not the whole survey.

Incidence-rate (IR) drop alerts

A sudden IR fall is flagged before it quietly burns through your sample budget.

High-term-reason concentration

When one screening reason is killing too many respondents, we name the reason.

Prescreener drop analysis

Which prescreener question is over-terminating — not just that something is.

Device & geo mismatch

Respondents whose device or location contradicts the targeting, surfaced live.

Duplicate fingerprint detection

The same respondent slipping in twice — caught at the door, not in reconciliation.

Soft launch

Soft-launch first. Scale when the data says so.

Define a soft-launch target per survey, track progress against it, and gate the move to full traffic on real early-field signal — IR, term rate, quality — rather than a date on the calendar. The survey opens up only once the early numbers earn it.

Soft-launch · US-H-0148 / 50
  • IR vs. target31% · on target
  • Term rate12% · within band
  • Full launch Gated · 2 to clear

Links proven before they go live

Capture all four redirect types — success, terminate, quota-full, quality-term — extract and verify test IDs (single and batch) with pass/fail tracking, and gate go-live so a survey only opens once its links are proven to work.

Issues tracked, tagged, and closed

Every supplier issue is logged, auto-classified, and tracked to resolution — including re-test confirmation after a fix — so nothing depends on remembering which email thread it was buried in.

04 / 04

Automated Reconciliation

Final reconciliation in minutes, with a full audit trail.

Completes, rejects, and partial credits matched across every supplier — automatically, with LOI checked against what was quoted. Variances flagged, invoices generated, and project- and supplier-level reports produced at close, every action logged. The end of the project is not the end of the work, but it stops being a week of spreadsheets.

  • Variance detection
  • Per-supplier invoices
  • Project & supplier reports
  • Full audit log

Reconciliation · Q2 Brand Tracker

570 completes · $2,394.60

Supplier

Done

Rej.

Credit

  • PanelCo Global

    Reconciled

    218

    6

    $916.20

  • ResearchPanel EU

    Reconciled

    145

    3

    $609.00

  • SurveyPath Inc

    Variance flagged

    120

    9

    $504.00

  • FieldForce Asia

    Reconciled

    87

    1

    $365.40

Audit log · 248 events capturedInvoices ready · 4
The CPI Reconciliation Trap

A rate change on the last 10 respondents bills the entire study at the new rate.

Manual reconciliation does not distinguish between respondents sourced at different rates within the same study. When a supplier moves CPI mid-field — for a hard-to-reach quota or panel fatigue — the new rate quietly overwrites the old one across every row of the invoice. A 290% overcharge on a $500 sample budget. Nobody catches it.

  • Every respondent tagged at the rate they were sourced — immutably
  • Mid-study CPI changes logged with timestamp, supplier, and respondent sequence
  • Line-by-line payment schedule replaces the single-CPI blanket bill
  • CPI drift cost surfaced post-study — visible for the first time
100% structural elimination — not a partial reduction.

Manual reconciliation · what gets billed

Worked example · 100-respondent study
BatchAgreedBilledShouldWasOver
First 90 respondents$5.00$5.00$450$450$0
Last 10 respondents$5.00$20.00$50$200$150
Correct total$500
Supplier billed$2,000$1,500

Manual recon

$2,000

Paid on the invoice

With SoftSight

$650

Respondent-level tagged total

Recovered

$1,350

Per affected study

On a 1,000-respondent study with a $5→$20 jump on the last 100, the same pattern produces a $15,000 overcharge on a $5,000 sample budget. The trap scales linearly with study size — every time.

Manager Module

The view from above the work.

Three modules run the operational work. The fourth watches all of it. The Manager Module rolls every supplier, on every survey, across every project into top-level KPIs — pacing, quality, fraud, margin, and reconciliation status — with drill-down into any single module. PMs run the modules; managers run the operation.

Operations overview · all projects

Live rollup

Active studies

37

across 12 clients

On pace

84%

31 of 37 studies

Avg quality

93%

weighted by completes

Fraud blocked

1,204

this month

Blended margin

31.6%

vs. 28% target

Awaiting recon

5

2 variances flagged

  • Bidding Module

    9 RFQs open · 3 negotiations live

    Drill down
  • Fieldwork Module

    22 studies live · 2 paused for quality

    Drill down
  • Invoice Module

    5 reconciling · 1 variance to clear

    Drill down

Program & parent-project rollups

Every supplier on every survey rolls up into the parent project, the client program, and the whole book of work — so a number on the board is one drill-down from the row that produced it.

Approval gates & RBAC

Automated by default, approved by design: high-stakes negotiations and go-lives pass through explicit internal approval gates, and role-based access controls who can approve, negotiate, and launch.

Client & supplier directories

A managed directory of clients and suppliers — contacts, billing, communication preferences, and historical performance — so the system is your record, not a layer on top of one.

Benchmarking KPIs

Pricing and performance benchmarks built across your supplier network surface at the program level — so margin and rate discipline are measured, not assumed.

Single source of truth

One answer to “where is every supplier, right now?”

Today that answer is chased across an inbox, three spreadsheets, and a WhatsApp thread — and it’s stale the moment you find it. FieldworkOS holds every supplier, on every survey, in one explicit state. The system always knows the exact state and what is blocking it — from the first client request, before a project even exists, all the way to invoiced.

  • Client request
  • RFQ sent
  • Quote received
  • Under negotiation
  • Awaiting test IDs
  • Live
  • Paused for quality
  • Reconciling
  • Invoiced

Supplier state · all surveys

1 view · always current
  • PanelCo · US-H-01

    On pace · 410/550

    Live
  • SampleNow · UK-F-02

    Counter sent · $4.60

    Under negotiation
  • GlobalPanel · DE-T-03

    2 of 5 redirects verified

    Awaiting test IDs
  • ResearchPro · US-H-01

    Term-rate breach · review

    Paused for quality
  • FieldForce · APAC-04

    Go-live needs RM sign-off

    Awaiting approval
  • InsightPanel · UK-F-02

    Variance flagged · 1 row

    Reconciling
How it works

The happy path, end to end.

Every coordination action you used to do across email, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp — handled in one continuous, auditable flow. This is the clean run; underneath it sit the richer substages above — paused for quality, awaiting approval — that the system tracks just as precisely. Watch a job travel the whole lifecycle:

  1. RFQ sent

    One doc, every supplier — in a single action.

  2. Quotes parsed

    AI reads every reply and structures the data.

  3. CPI negotiated

    Counter-offers generated within your bounds.

  4. Supplier onboarded

    All four redirects captured, test IDs verified, go-live gated.

  5. Live monitoring

    Real-time quotas, pace, and quality in one view.

  6. Auto reconciled

    Completes verified. Invoices generated and tracked.

Our standard

Our job is to absorb complexity so our customers do not have to carry it. Every difficult engineering problem we solve is an email our customer doesn’t write.

Social proof

The ops leaders who moved first

Heads of research operations at enterprise MR firms on what changed after deploying FieldworkOS.

We went from 6-hour email triage sessions to a 20-minute review queue. The LLM parsing accuracy is genuinely remarkable — our PMs now spend their time on strategy, not data entry.

R

Rachel M.

VP Operations · Global MR Firm

The negotiation engine alone paid for the platform in the first quarter. We achieved 4% below budget CPI on every project — that’s material savings at our volume. The audit trail keeps our clients happy too.

D

Daniel K.

Head of Fieldwork · Insight Agency

The real-time quality dashboard caught a bot pattern on a major healthcare study before 200 completes went through. Old process? We’d have caught it in reconciliation — after paying for bad data.

S

Sonia P.

Research Director · Healthcare Insights Co.

Enterprise-grade from day one

SOC 2 Type II

Certified & audited

GDPR Compliant

Data sovereignty first

99.9% SLA

Guaranteed uptime

SSO / SAML + RBAC

Keycloak · OIDC · role-based access

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