How the service runs
Trillions sits between the buyer and the supplier, on purpose.
Buyers submit demand to us. We review supplier options, compare quotations and coordinate the work, and we earn a fee for managing it. This is not an open marketplace and it is not trying to become one.
Two flows
Three steps each, and one decision per screen.
Both sides of the desk are short on purpose. A form that takes fifteen minutes is a form that gets abandoned, and an abandoned form is evidence we never see.
Buyer
- Request
- The product, the quantity, the destination and the date you need it. Five to seven fields, no more.
- Evidence
- Whatever you already have — the licence, the quotation, the chat thread, the photographs. Mixed languages are expected.
- Follow-up
- Status moves through submitted, Trillions review, sourcing, released offers. You are told what changed and what to do next.
Supplier
- Activity
- What the company makes or trades, the categories, the capacity, the markets it already exports to.
- Identity
- The registered name, the location and a contact. A website helps and is not required.
- Proof
- Licence, catalogue, certificates and product photographs. Reviewed privately. Registration is not approval and does not produce a public listing.
The operating layer
Six jobs the desk actually does.
- Buyer request intake
- A structured request with the evidence attached to it, so a review starts from documents rather than from a description of documents.
- Supplier evidence intake
- Registration with proof files, reviewed privately against the same standard for every applicant.
- Matching and invitations
- Suppliers are invited to quote against a specific request. Trillions controls when an invitation is released, and no open marketplace noise reaches the buyer.
- Protected quotation handling
- Suppliers submit comparable offers through Trillions instead of contacting buyers directly. Direct contact stays closed until it is opened deliberately.
- Review queue
- Every status change is a human decision with a reason attached and an audit record behind it. No supplier state changes on its own.
- Evidence directory
- What a supplier has proved, on what date, held against the same twelve checks that appear on every buyer report.
How we hold ourselves to it
The four things we measure.
These are the targets the desk is run against. They are commitments about the service, not claims about outcomes for any particular order.
Registration
A supplier can complete registration in a few minutes, or the form is too long.
Proof usability
Most submitted documents should be readable and relevant. When they are not we say which and why.
Review turnaround
Reviews are worked in order and you are told where yours is. Complex or non-English filings take longer and you are told that too.
Status clarity
Every request has exactly one status, in the same six words everywhere it appears.
Limits
Trillions controls the review layer, not the final commercial risk.
We decide what evidence is good enough to pass a check. We do not decide whether you should place the order, and we do not carry the consequence if you do.
Only the buyer pays Trillions. No supplier pays us to be reviewed or mentioned, we take no commission from a supplier we review, and a supplier we review is not placed in our catalogue.
Outside the service
- Payment processing, escrow or holding buyer funds.
- Freight execution and customs brokerage.
- Automatic supplier approval — every status change is a human decision.
- Any public directory of supplier contact details.
Start on the buyer side.
Send the supplier and the documents you already have. Everything else in the flow follows from what arrives.