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Building an AI agent that chases supplier quotes: what we learned about RFQ emails

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Our AI agent, Dov, sends a lot of RFQs. Somewhere around the thousandth email we realized that "request for quotation" is a generous name for what actually happens: you send a clear question and receive back a PDF named final_v3_REAL.pdf , a one-line reply saying "price attached", or silence. Here…

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  1. 2026-10-20 23:25 · DEV Community — AI
    Building an AI agent that chases supplier quotes: what we learned about RFQ emails

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