Prequalification that
does the hard yards for you.
Describe the job in plain English.
Suppliers with the right badges score straight away.
Other suppliers get a few questions — not a 40-page packet nobody sends back.
- Say what you need. Aria tells you when your bar is too high, and leaves you nobody.
- 100+ capability badges live, 60+ compliance and risk badges live.
- Everyone else gets asked about their gaps only.
- Each answer shows whether it's verified, reused, provisional, or failed.
How Aria guides you
Ask for 99% on-time delivery and Aria will tell you that leaves you with nobody, then talk you down to 95%.
What are you trying to source or qualify suppliers for?
I need CNC machine shops for a new automotive program we're starting.
For automotive CNC work, most buyers set the bar at Qualified tier or higher, with quality systems and on-time delivery weighted highest. I'll start there. Does this program have any hard requirements — like ITAR — that would disqualify a supplier outright regardless of score?
Not sure — it's mostly commercial parts, no government contracts.
I'll leave ITAR off then. Easy to add later if it turns out to matter, and I'd rather not disqualify good suppliers on a requirement that doesn't apply. Anything else specific, like on-time delivery expectations?
Let's require 99% on-time delivery, that's important for this line.
At 99%, that would exclude almost every supplier on the platform right now. The typical Qualified-tier supplier in this vertical sits around 92–95%. Keep 99% as a hard requirement, or would 95% get you the same intent without closing the pool?
Good catch — let's go with 95%.
Here's what I've set up.
Yes, let's go.
Five candidates. Two strong matches ready now, two suppliers contacted to fill gaps, one disqualified.
Why suppliers answer
Suppliers are looking for opportunities to secure work. The sourcing agent gives them an easy to use platform to showcase themselves.
Answers get reused for the next buyer who asks. Every project you run makes the next one faster.
Northgate Automotive wants to know your on-time delivery rate — no obligation, takes a minute.
1. A push notification. No login, no portal.
Northgate Automotive is evaluating suppliers for a CNC machining program and wants to confirm your current on-time delivery rate. It isn't in your badge yet.
Sharing it could help — buyers weigh this heavily for this kind of work. Want to add it? Takes about a minute. If you'd rather not, that's fine — they'll still see your current badge score.
2. One tap opens straight into the question.
Requests
Everything buyers have asked, and how you responded.
Asking for your current on-time delivery rate.
PendingOne-off question — Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
PendingAnswered: quality systems, utilisation.
Answered · expires in 47 days3. Everything asked, and how you answered.