Intake
Ask Konyx
Say it, type it, photograph the nameplate or drop in a spreadsheet. Konyx turns it into a structured request — items, quantities, part numbers, urgency — and asks one or two specific questions with the usual answers ready to tap.
Industrial procurement · MRO and indirect
Say what you need.
Konyx sources it.
From a request on the floor to a purchase order in the vendor's inbox: Konyx reads the request, finds the vendors, sends the RFQ, compares the quotes and issues the order — and a person reviews every step.
- Days → minutes
- from request to RFQ out
- One grid
- every quote, lowest highlighted
- Zero auto-sends
- a person confirms each one
Ask Konyx
Six 2-inch stainless ball valves, flanged, class 150, for Unit 4 by Friday — and a Lovejoy L-190 coupling.
Two items, Unit 4, needed by Friday. Both are in your catalog.
To get this right: which seal material for the valves?
PTFERPTFEMetal seated
Type it, say it, photograph it…
Request draft
Ready2" SS ball valve, flanged, cl.1506 EA
In your catalog: Bray 100-234 · Smoke Valves · $184.50 · last paid $179.00
Lovejoy L-190 jaw coupling1 EA
In your catalog: Lovejoy L-190 · Gulf Bearings · $1,190.00
Vendors — best match first
1Smoke Valves IncCarries 2 of 2 · lowest price on line 1 · email on file
2Gulf Bearings LLCCarries 1 of 2 · exact part number · email on file
3Bayou Belts CoNothing matching in their catalog
Create request & RFQ to 2 vendors
Next: check each vendor's email, see the exact message, press Send.
RFQ sent
2 vendors · emailed by Konyx
Quotes back
$179.00 · $184.50 · lowest highlighted
PO issued
PO-000018 · emailed with PDF
Audit trail
Every step, who, when
What Konyx does
The whole RFQ cycle, in one place, with your own data.
Not another portal for your technicians to learn. A front door that understands the request, and a back office that finishes it.
Match
Your catalog and your history, first
Every line is matched against what you already buy: who sells it, at what price, what you paid last time. Nothing a model invents — a lookup against your own data.
Source
The right vendors, ranked with reasons
Your own vendors first — ranked by coverage, exact part numbers and price — then the Konyx network, then Konyxions: vendors Konyx finds on the open web for the niche parts nobody carries yet, each with a link to the product so you can check it.
RFQ
One RFQ to all of them
See the exact email before it goes. Send it from Konyx, or open it in your own mail app and send it yourself — Konyx keeps track either way. Never automatic: a person presses Send.
Compare
Quotes, side by side
Vendors answer through a no-login link. Quotes land as comparable lines, lowest price per line highlighted, against your last paid price. Revisions are kept, never overwritten.
Order
Purchase order in one click
Pick the winning lines and issue the PO at the quoted prices — with your ship-to, terms and numbering. Email it from Konyx with the PDF, or send it yourself; the record says which.
Photos and spreadsheetsVoice, on any browserEmail from Konyx or your own mailboxVendor discovery on the open web
How it works
Four steps. A person at each one.
The AI interprets and prepares; people decide. That is what makes it usable in a plant, and defensible in a security review.
See it on your own parts01
Ask
A technician says what is needed, from the floor. Konyx reads it, checks the catalog and history, and drafts the request.
02
Route
It goes to whoever may act on it: the buyer sources it, or a supervisor is asked first. Notes go back and forth; the request can be corrected before anything is sent.
03
Send the RFQ
Vendors are ranked with reasons. The buyer reviews every line and the email itself, then sends — from Konyx or from their own mailbox.
04
Compare and order
Quotes come back into one grid. The buyer picks the winner and issues the purchase order; every step is on the timeline.
Who it's for
Built for asset-heavy plants: refining, chemicals, LNG, aerospace, mills.
Maintenance and operations
Request the part without leaving the job. Photo, voice or a sentence — and see where it is, who it is with, and when it is coming.
- Works on a phone on the plant floor
- Notes with the buyer, right on the request
- Change it yourself before it goes out
Procurement
Spend the day on judgement, not on chasing. Requests arrive structured, vendors are ranked, the RFQ is one click, the quotes compare themselves.
- Every vendor ranked with reasons
- Send from Konyx or your own email
- PO from the quote, with your rules
Plant and finance leadership
See what was asked, what it cost last time, what it cost now, and how long each step took. Savings are measured, not claimed.
- Last paid beside every quote
- A savings audit before you commit
- Limits per company, set by Konyx
IT and security
One backend, row-level isolation between companies, permissions enforced on every call, an append-only log. Nothing is auto-sent; a person confirms every RFQ and order.
- Roles you define, 26 permissions
- Human review on every send
- Every action recorded, who and when
Control is part of the product
Fast for the field. Legible for everyone accountable.
Konyx leads with the RFQ engine, so the trust controls ship with it — not after it.
A person presses Send
AI reads and drafts; it never sends. Every RFQ and every purchase order waits for a named person with the permission to release it.
Permissions on every call
Drafting an RFQ and sending it are separate permissions. An employee who cannot send escalates — by design, not by convention.
An audit trail that cannot drift
Every state change is written in the same transaction as the change itself, and the log is append-only at the database level.
Konyxions are reviewed
Vendors Konyx finds on the web are never emailed until a person picks them and checks the address. Quality, deliverability and legal gate in one.
Each company is isolated at the database level. Konyx staff manage a company through the same permission wall its own people use — never through a database console.
A measured way in
Start with one facility. Earn the next one.
A 90-day pilot on one plant or business unit. We start with a savings audit of your own purchasing history — what you paid, what you could have paid, how long each step took — so the baseline is yours, not ours.
- 1
Baseline
Send us a purchasing export. Konyx computes the price gaps, cycle times and buyer hours, and writes the findings up. Before any contract.
- 2
Adoption
Your vendors and catalogs come in from one spreadsheet. Your people start with Ask Konyx on real requests.
- 3
Decide with evidence
Adoption, accuracy, cycle time and savings — measured in the product, reviewed together at day 90.
Pilot design defaults
- Duration
- 90 days
- Scope
- 1 facility or business unit
- Baseline
- your purchasing history, audited first
- Decision
- validated savings and cycle time
- Your systems
- ERP stays the system of record
These are process defaults, not customer results. The measurement plan is agreed with your team.
See Konyx in context
Book a demo on your own parts.
Tell us where MRO or indirect requests slow down today. We'll walk the request-to-PO flow with your part numbers and your vendors, in about thirty minutes.
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