Bloodhound

Specialty vehicle manufacturers need to source parts like grilles, couplings, and other components, which requires interpreting specs, finding suppliers, comparing lead times and costs, setting up wholesale accounts, and managing orders through delivery. This process involves many manual steps such as verifying fitment and stock, confirming resale certificates, applying for wholesale accounts, and tracking orders internally. Doing this in-house pulls manufacturers away from their core work of building vehicles. The text frames this as taking time and attention that could otherwise go toward production ('get back to building').

Bloodhound provides an external team of human buyers who use purpose-built AI tools to source parts, handling everything from spec interpretation to delivery. Customers send a part description, photo, or part number via text, email, or Slack, and a buyer finds suppliers, verifies fitment and stock, compares cost and lead time, and manages supplier relationships. The service also handles logistics like confirming resale certificates, setting up wholesale accounts with suppliers, placing approved orders, and logging everything in an internal tracking system for shipment follow-up. A walkthrough example shows a 9-step process for sourcing a Morimoto grille for a Ford F-550, from interpreting the request to final order entry, with customer approval checkpoints along the way.