Who this helps: hosts who want to widen their supplier pool or source in a new category.

What is the problem you're facing?

I need more suppliers to invite to my Sourcing event. How can AI help me find them?

For Hosts

1. Open your event in draft or edit mode and go to the Participants tab.

2. Click Find Suppliers, beside Add New Participant.

3. The AI assistant opens and asks whether you would like it to search. Reply to start, for example "yes" or "yes, UK only".

4. The assistant searches the web using your event name, brief and line items. It shows up to 10 suppliers as cards, each with a company name, description, contact email and the pages it was found on.

5. Click Add on any card to add that supplier to your event. Alternatively, ask the assistant to add a list; it will ask you to confirm first.

6. Ask for more results or refine the search in the chat if you need to.

Please note:

• Check each supplier before you invite them. Emails marked unverified could not be traced back to a page the search found.

• Each added supplier receives an invitation, and a host-only note records where the address came from. The participant source shows as "Via AI Supplier Search".

• Suppliers already on your event are left out of the results.

• For the best results, add a brief and line items first. If there are none, the assistant will warn you that it only has the event name to go on.

• AI in Sourcing must be enabled for your company. The search is not available in the Sandpit.
  

For Participants

Suppliers added this way receive a standard event invitation and take part in the usual way.