Case Study
Cutting the manual research time out of custom restoration seed mixes
Sam, Meadowcraft's founder, creates custom native seed mixes for ecological restoration clients. For each project, he needs to know what species are available from which vendors at what prices, so he can build a mix that is species-complete and cost-effective for the client.
He was doing this manually: visiting multiple supplier websites, comparing prices, normalizing different packaging formats by hand. It was a bottleneck that limited how many custom mix clients he could take on.
A tool that aggregates current pricing from five native plant vendors for the 300 species Sam uses most. Prices are normalized by unit so different packaging formats are directly comparable in one view. An export function produces order-ready mix breakdowns he can send directly to suppliers.
The tool runs on a regular fetch cycle so the data stays current without manual maintenance.
Sam can price and spec custom seed mixes in a fraction of the time it previously took. The freed capacity means he can take on more custom mix clients without adding overhead.
Custom mix pricing time cut dramatically
Capacity to take on more clients
Always-current pricing across five vendors