Decision Intelligence for B2B

Your last vendor decision
took too long and
you know it.

Shortlist pulls from 28 data sources, scores vendors against your actual criteria, and gets your team aligned — without the spreadsheets, the politics, or the six-week timeline.

Free tier available · No credit card required

Confidence Score Strong
86%
Evidence: 22 of 28 sources
Consensus: 4 of 5 agree
Top Matches 3 of 12
H HubSpot CRM
94%
S Salesforce
87%
P Pipedrive
72%
Anonymous Alignment
KL JR MT +2
80%
28 Data Sources
9 Analysis Phases
290+ Pre-Vetted Vendors
4 Confidence Components
The Problem

B2B buying is broken.
You already know this.

Six weeks to pick software

Your team spends more time researching vendors than actually using the product. By the time you decide, requirements have changed.

Five stakeholders, five opinions

The loudest voice wins. Finance cares about cost. IT cares about security. Ops cares about integrations. Nobody is looking at the same data.

Post-purchase regret

Research shows teams that skip structured evaluation regret their purchase within 12 months. That's budget lost and migration pain earned.

How It Works

A Decision Sprint. Five steps. One clear answer.

Define what you need, set your criteria, discover vendors, evaluate them against real data, and decide as a team.

01

Define Your Need

Our GAP Analysis walks you through 9 phases of structured problem diagnosis. By the end, you know exactly what you're solving — not what a sales rep told you to solve.

02

Set Your Criteria

Weight what matters: features, security, pricing, integrations, compliance. Every stakeholder scores anonymously — no groupthink, no politics.

03

Discover Vendors

Our Hunter Agent researches across 28 data sources — from G2 reviews to security databases like NVD and CISA KEV. The Moderator Agent validates every finding with three-tier confidence gates.

04

Evaluate with Transparency

Every vendor gets a score built from four components: evidence sufficiency, statistical confidence, stopping confidence, and team consensus. You see the math behind every number.

05

Decide as a Team

Anonymous polling surfaces real opinions. Silent Veto lets anyone flag concerns privately. Your team reaches alignment without the meetings-about-meetings.

What's Different

Built on the idea that honest data beats impressive data

Most tools give you a score. We show you why that score exists and how confident you should be in it.

Transparent Scoring

Every vendor score shows its four components and the data behind each one. If the evidence is thin, we tell you. No black boxes.

Anonymous Alignment

Stakeholders score independently using the Delphi method. Silent Veto lets anyone raise concerns without the politics. Real opinions, not the loudest voice.

28 Real Data Sources

NVD for vulnerabilities. CISA KEV for known exploits. OpenSSF for open-source health. G2 for reviews. BuiltWith for tech stacks. Not a single data vendor — 28 of them.

Confidence Levels

Scores show confidence intervals so you know when the data is strong and when it's thin. We'd rather be honest than impressive.

Structured Problem Diagnosis

GAP Analysis — 9 phases across 4 clusters: Discovery, Validation, Synthesis, Finalization. You define the real problem before you start looking at vendors.

Outcome Learning

After you decide, Shortlist tracks how the decision played out. Every evaluation makes future ones smarter. Your organization builds real procurement intelligence over time.

The Shift

What changes when you stop guessing

Without Shortlist

Evaluation timeline 6-8 weeks typical
Decision basis Gut feel + scattered research
Team alignment Loudest voice wins
Vendor coverage 10-15 options, maybe
Audit trail Email threads and lost docs

With Shortlist

Evaluation timeline Days, not weeks
Decision basis 28 sources, transparent scores
Team alignment Anonymous scoring, real consensus
Vendor coverage 290+ pre-vetted, continuously updated
Audit trail Full decision history, exportable
Why It Matters

The research is clear: structured decisions win

95%

of B2B buyers choose from their Day One Shortlist

6sense Buyer Experience Report, 2025
10 mo

average B2B buying cycle — evaluating ~5 vendors

6sense Buyer Experience Report, 2025
80%

of the time, the first vendor contacted wins the deal

Corporate Visions B2B Buying Behavior, 2026

If the evaluation process is already decided by gut instinct, what's the point of the process? Shortlist exists because your team deserves better than confirmation bias disguised as due diligence.

Your next vendor decision deserves better than a spreadsheet.

See your first scored shortlist in minutes. Every score shows its math.