The trial is a real sourcing event on the live platform. It is not a recording and not a guided click-through. The invitations, the bids and the negotiation are the same ones a workspace uses. Because of that, nothing on this page animates a supplier reply. Prices move when a person, or Autopilot, actually sends them. The worked example further down the page uses illustrative figures so you can see the shape of a day. The limits in this section are the ones the trial enforces.
You set the category, your maximum budget, and your email. The maximum budget is your walk-away. Suppliers never see it, and they never see your target or your own estimate. We then email you a confirmation link. Until you click that link, not one supplier has been contacted. If you close the tab, the link in your inbox is how you come back and authorise the invites. A separate resume link is how you return later and see where the event got to. Opening the form does not, by itself, send anything to a supplier.
Each email address can open five trial events. Each event can invite six suppliers. The caps are there so a buyer can run a real comparison, and so the form cannot be used to mail a long list of people who never asked for a quote. If you do not set a closing time, bidding closes seven days after the event goes live. You can bring that forward to thirty minutes. Shorter than that, a supplier cannot find the message, open the event and quote. You can push the close out as far as thirty days. Thirty days is also the life of the trial record. When the record ends, the event ends with it.
Suppliers join from the link you send, a QR code, or the six-character event code. They do not create an account and they do not install software. You admit each supplier from your own room before they can submit a price. They see the event, your name, and what you are buying. Whether they see their rank, or the gap to the current leader, is a setting on that event. It stays off unless you turn it on. If a code is rejected, it belongs to a different event or the event has closed. A new code is not something support can invent for a supplier you did not invite.
You set a target and a floor. Autopilot can negotiate every admitted supplier in parallel, including overnight, and it can trade payment terms, warranty and lead time when the price stalls. Every price it asks for is computed by a rules engine from your target, your floor and the quotes already in the event. A language model does not choose the number. An optional wording layer can draft the sentence around that number. It is off unless it has been enabled, and with it off the engine sends from templates. Autopilot stops at the floor you set. It will not cross that floor, and support will not move it for you afterwards. If you award the event, that decision is yours. The price that falls out of the trial is yours whether or not you later take a paid workspace.
Trial prices are not pooled with anyone else's, not sold back as a market index, and not used to train a model. You can export the event or delete it. The trial is capped on purpose. A hosted workspace after it follows a different set of limits: seats for people on the buying side, and event caps that depend on the plan. Suppliers are still not seats. The first month on a hosted workspace is free. Hosted tiers are billed annually after that, at the prices on the pricing page. There is no pilot fee and no implementation project in the way of the first event. If five trial events are not enough to judge the product, write to hi@supernegotiate.com. Opening a second email address to get around the cap is not the path.
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