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SpotSource is an Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) company. We sell instances of our private marketplace and workflow platform to help top companies make it easy for subject matter experts, like marketers and brand managers, to find the right approved marketing agency, start a project or a bid, and run things to completion.

Our system integrates with your company systems so we can unify your data on these service providers and enrich that data dramatically with actionable insights. This includes vendor data, risk management assessments, contract agreements, and more.

We also frequently integrate with enterprise systems for payments, digital asset management (DAM), data lakes, and anything else that helps us provide a unified platform for your teams to make better decisions, faster, and focus on delivering better work with your service providers.

As companies grow, it becomes much more difficult to keep track of all the approved service providers, who has a current contract or is approved to handle customer data collection in marketing campaigns (PII), and even what projects are going on across the company.

SpotSource makes all of that easy and intuitive. Think of it as the operating system behind marketing so that your team always knows who they can work with, who is the best fit for certain types of work, and has a clear way to keep track of all the projects (and their related documents, communications, approvals, statuses, etc.) in one unified place.

Yes, SpotSource has both configuration and customization options depending on the needs of your business. In the marketing context, the most common rollouts are an agency marketplace and a production system.

That said, SpotSource has instances that are specialized for R&D to work with third party manufacturers, for IT to manage their development and IT firms, and many unified examples as well where multiple operational areas are combined into one private instance. Just ask us about your use case and we can probably support it.

SpotSource does not directly track the performance of a campaign, but we can pull in that data from a specialized campaign performance tool so that your users have a unified place to see that data tied to the campaign/project it was for.

SpotSource does capture performance input from users so that you can let others in your organization know how an agency performed against your project. These reviews are customizable based on what is important to your department.

There are a lot of things that set SpotSource apart. Here are three:

First, SpotSource brings together subject matter experts, like marketers and brand managers, with their procurement counterparts in one platform. It also invites your agencies into the platform (with limited access, of course). With all marketing related users on one platform, there is a huge opportunity to save time and improve performance at scale across all of your projects and bids.

Secondly, SpotSource offers a unified interface that allows users to manage things end to end from sourcing an agency to starting a project/bid, and from running a project/bid to paying the agency. We do this by integrating with your existing systems, but the effect keeps marketers focused on what matters instead of trying to figure out where they need to go to get data or which email has the latest update from their agency. All that in in one place, streamlining the way both agencies and marketers work together.

And finally, SpotSource checks all the procurement hot buttons like risk management, compliance, and governance. But, it does so in a way that makes becoming 100% compliant easy for marketers. Procurement has probably never rolled out a platform that marketers love before. For this reason, SpotSource can be a breath of fresh air to reboot relationships and take marketing operations to a new level across even the most complex companies.