Why industrial sourcing works the way it does, and how to do it better with AI.
A working notebook from someone who buys steel, structures and equipment for large industrial projects. Real problems, tested ideas, and the mistakes along the way.
The notebook, by maturity
Full registerSeedling
Early and likely to change
Nothing here yet.
Growing
Taking shape
Nothing here yet.
Evergreen
I would stand behind it today
Nothing here yet.
What you will find
Field cases
Procurement problems from EPC and steel projects, written as Problem, Constraints, Alternatives, Decision and Lessons. Companies are never named.
AI lab
Experiments with agents and automation on real buying tasks. Plans are published before results, and failures are listed first.
Market notes
Short, sourced notes on suppliers, trade rules and costs in Türkiye, China, Central Asia, Europe, the US and the Middle East.
Every piece says how it knows what it knows
- Lived experience
- I was there. Details are anonymized.
- Verified
- Checked against named sources, listed with the date checked.
- Assumption
- A working hypothesis, not yet tested.
- Illustrative example
- An invented scenario. Numbers are not real.