Run a sharper lumber buying desk without adding headcount.
LumberFlow turns supplier emails, network recommendations, delivered pricing, and market context into one reviewed workflow so procurement teams can buy with better timing, stronger pricing discipline, and less inbox work.
Start with a limited RFQ workflow. Book a demo when you want to see it on your buying process.
From RFQ to Purchase Order in One Workflow
Every clip is from the live product — no mockups, no simulations.
50 Personalized RFQs in Under 5 Minutes
You're not just writing RFQs — you're picking which 50 of your 200 mill contacts to ask, hoping you remembered who delivered last quarter and whose freight makes sense from your yard.
LumberFlow ranks suppliers by location, freight $/MBF, response history, and SKU match. Pick from the recommended list, review AI-drafted emails personalized per contact, send all at once.
AI Ranks Every Quote — With Your Team's Pricing Context Built In
Your colleague got a quote from their mill contact yesterday, but you won't hear about it until someone mentions it on Teams — if they mention it at all.
Every quote received by anyone on your team feeds a shared pipeline. AI ranks all bids and surfaces your team's recent pricing benchmarks alongside market data — so you evaluate every deal with full context, not just your own inbox.
Market Sentiment Woven Into Every Decision
The Random Lengths report is already days old when you read it. You're guessing where prices will be when your load arrives — knowing a wrong call means thousands in devaluation before it clears the yard.
AI-generated market analysis and ML price forecasts are embedded in your workflow — so every buy accounts for where prices are heading, not where they were last week.
One Click from Accepted Quote to Purchase Order
You approved a deal on the phone, then spent 20 minutes creating the PO by hand — copying line items, looking up addresses, double-checking totals.
Accept the AI-recommended quote and the purchase order generates instantly — pre-filled with every line item, supplier detail, and pricing term.
What a More Efficient Buying Desk Is Worth
Based on internal workflow analysis across typical buying team scenarios. Time and cost figures reflect AI-assisted procurement vs. manual email workflows.
What Changes When You Stop Managing Procurement by Email
Without LumberFlow
- Week-old Random Lengths report + gut feel on whether to buy
- Each buyer's quotes siloed in their own inbox — no shared pricing visibility
- 30 minutes writing one RFQ, copying specs by hand for each supplier
- Copy-paste from PDFs into spreadsheets to compare prices
- No way to judge if a quote is good without calling around the market
- Missed follow-ups cost you the best price on the table
With LumberFlow
- Daily AI market analysis + weekly 7-day price forecasts by species
- Every quote from every buyer feeds team-wide pricing benchmarks automatically
- 50 personalized RFQs generated and sent in under 5 minutes
- AI extracts species, grade, dimensions, and $/MBF pricing in seconds
- Quotes ranked by delivered price, lead time, SKU match, and market context
- AI drafts bulk follow-ups timed to market conditions
Why I Built LumberFlow
Lumber pricing has a transparency problem — and it's costing buyers real money.
For a decade I watched lumber buyers make six-figure inventory commitments based on a weekly pricing report and whatever they heard from a supplier yesterday. The market-critical knowledge — which mills are quoting what, where prices are heading, which suppliers actually deliver — lived in individual buyers' heads and inboxes. When someone left the company, that intelligence walked out the door.
LumberFlow exists to fix this. We use AI to capture every quote your team receives, layer in daily market analysis and ML-powered price forecasts, and turn scattered email threads into shared pricing intelligence that belongs to the company — not to any single buyer's inbox.
I'd love to show you how it works personally.
No sales team, no pitch deck — just a live walkthrough of your workflow.
Our Industry Credibility
Firsthand experience with the pricing opacity problem — week-old reports, anecdotal market signals, siloed buyer knowledge
Built AI that understands lumber-specific data: species, grades, dimensions, $/MBF, mill dynamics
Designed LumberFlow to institutionalize pricing intelligence across the entire buying team
Deep relationships with suppliers and distributors across North America
Every quote your team receives makes the next decision smarter
LumberFlow aggregates pricing data from every buyer's inbox into one shared pipeline — so when you compare quotes, you're benchmarking against what your whole team heard from the market this week.
Your Data Stays Secure. Your Suppliers Stay Untouched.
No supplier portal. No inbox takeover. Your team keeps the relationship and gets a cleaner buying record.
Before
Supplier prices, freight notes, substitutions, and lead times sit across email threads and buyer memory.
After
Each sourcing request has a board: extracted quotes, delivered-price context, market direction, and the next buyer-approved action.
Control
The agent drafts and ranks. Your buyer reviews the quote record and approves every message, award, and PO.
- AI drafts the RFQ, follow-up, counter, award, and PO. A buyer approves before anything leaves the system.
- Quote extraction is reviewable: species, grade, dimensions, $/MBF, freight terms, lead time, and supplier notes stay attached to the original email.
- Suppliers keep emailing as usual. LumberFlow uses a managed RFQ inbox that CCs your corporate domain for records.
Built on Enterprise-Grade Technology
Questions Buyers Ask Before Switching
Straight answers from a team that's been in lumber procurement for over a decade.
See the AI procurement agent in your buying workflow.
Start with the Free plan, or book a founder walkthrough to see supplier emails and network recommendations turn into reviewed, freight-aware pricing decisions.
