Maksim Kosourov

A slow quote isn't just an internal inefficiency. It's lost deals.

When a client asks for a quote, they're asking several suppliers at once, and they're deciding in that window. A quote that lands a day later arrives after the decision has started forming — sometimes after it's...

When people picture quoting, they picture the calculation. But the math was never the slow part here. The slow part was finding the right items in a catalog of 12,000 — scrolling, searching, second-guessing whether this is the current price or last quarter's.

So that's what I...

A company kept losing deals to its own quoting speed. Every request meant a manager opening the catalog, hunting for the right items among 12,000 positions, calculating the quote by hand, and formatting it. Often that took most of a day — and by the time the quote arrived, some...

A client was running cost-per-click campaigns where the bid needed constant attention. Traffic and competition at 9am aren't the same as at midnight, so a bid that made sense in the morning was wrong by the evening. Keeping it right meant checking and nudging it by hand...