Questions about
how it works.

pre-discovery: the stage before procurement and before any sales call, where a public-sector or enterprise buying team discovers and sizes up technology together. It is the stage that has never had a name. PartnerAZ is built for it, and only it.

PartnerAZ is the technology discovery platform for public sector buying teams across Canada. It sits upstream of procurement. Government organizations set standards. Vendors submit a solution profile against those standards. A neutral match score, from a fixed weighted formula, lets government organizations sort the best fits first. Free for municipalities, no vendor can pay to score higher, and no unsolicited outreach, ever.

Analyst reports rank software for a fee or from a channel you cannot audit. AI search answers are confident averages of marketing, and they are not weighed against anything your organization requires. PartnerAZ gives you a result on your own standards that you can read line by line and that no vendor can pay to move.

Vendors answer structured questions about their solution in a solution profile. That information is mapped against your organization's specific requirements, and the result is a match score from a deterministic criterion. The score is a guide, not a decision; your team chooses what to evaluate next.

It handles the research and evaluation phase that happens before your procurement office gets involved. RFQs and RFPs begin after the shortlist is already set. PartnerAZ is where your team builds the defensible record for research that feeds into that process.

For municipalities, yes: local government uses the platform at no cost, with no trial and no tiers. Vendors pay to be seen, and they can never pay to score higher. Your match scores come from fit alone, which is the whole point of it.

Yes. Your organizational standards, including security requirements, budget thresholds, integration requirements, and evaluation priorities, are never shared with vendors. Vendors cannot see what they are scored against. This is a design principle, not a feature.

No. Vendors cannot initiate contact with local governments on PartnerAZ. They reach you only when you choose to meet. When you are ready, you set up the discovery meeting on your terms; we do not broker or force premature meetings.

Yes. PartnerAZ is designed to hand off to your existing process, not replace it. Once your team has a shortlist, your standard RFI, RFQ, or RFP workflows take over exactly as they always have.

A vendor submits one solution profile against a local government's standards. The profile stays on file for up to three departments the vendor picks, so no team meeting is required to understand the product. Vendor submissions are free.

No. The match score is never for sale: it comes from fit against the local government's standards, and what a vendor pays is never part of it. Beacon buys visibility in the live marketplace, being found and invited, never a better score.

No. Solution profiles are evaluated against organization standards without vendors knowing who is reviewing them, what the standards are, or where they stand relative to others. The organization chooses whether and when to meet; we do not broker premature meetings.

Request a walkthrough, then email the founders when you are ready. No sales calls until you ask for one. Free for municipalities.

Email the founders to make yourself discoverable. Vendors submit a solution profile against an organization's standards. Free today; a paid visibility tier in the marketplace lands later as a separate, optional layer.

No. Your standards, evaluations, and discovery activity are private to your organization, hosted in Canada. They are never used to train models, shared with other organizations, or made visible to vendors.