Capability Profile for suppliers
Be in the filters where buyers build their shortlist.
Engineers and buyers narrow down suppliers before they contact anyone. A complete Quodaris profile puts your company in that stage, with the details they filter for: certifications, processes, materials, delivery countries, languages.
Directories are where buyers start looking for someone new.
48 %
of buyers searching for a new supplier say they use supplier directories. That puts directories ahead of search engines, at 47 %. Among companies with 250 employees or more, it is 59 %.
ECC KÖLN with dotSource, “Von Katalogen zu Klicks”, March 2024, n = 284 buyers in manufacturing companies who search for new suppliers.
Quodaris is new, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can tell you is exactly what your profile does here from the day it goes live.
What a Capability Profile does from day one
Four things, all of them true the moment your profile goes live.
You appear in the capability filters
Detailed filters, from ISO 13485 to CNC turning to delivery to Portugal, only search complete profiles. A free profile is found by category and country. A Capability Profile is found by what it can do.
Your profile is machine-readable
Verified company data as structured fields, and answers written in full sentences. More on that below.
A second trustworthy result for your own name
When someone searches for your company plus “supplier” or “manufacturer”, they find a neutral, structured profile next to your own website.
A direct line, without the noise
Buyers reach you through a contact form that goes to the address you choose. No call centre, no reselling, no third party in between.
Written to be quoted, not just read.
Three out of four buyers rate AI-assisted supplier search and verification as relevant. Whether or not they use it today, those systems can only repeat what they are able to read and check. Your profile is built so that they can.
- Company data as fields, not prose. Your VAT ID checked against VIES, your DUNS and NACE codes, your capabilities, certifications and the countries you serve, each as its own structured field.
- Answers in full sentences. Your FAQ block puts real buyer questions as headings and answers them in complete sentences. That is the format a machine can lift without guessing what you meant.
- Your own indexable page. It can rank for your company name, which means a search for “your company + supplier” can return a neutral, structured profile alongside your website.
- No paid ranking links, deliberately. Google requires paid links to be marked as sponsored. Directories that sell ranking links put both domains at risk, so we do not sell them at any price.
ECC KÖLN with dotSource, “Von Katalogen zu Klicks”, March 2024: 74 % of respondents rate “search and verification of suppliers” as a relevant use of AI in procurement.
Buyers use this directory because we do not sell their data.
They can research you here without leaving a trace, and that is exactly why they come. No list of “interested companies” exists, in either direction, because we never create one.
That is not a feature we left out. It is what keeps the audience you are paying to reach.
Fifteen minutes, once.
We prepare your profile from public sources before you claim it. You check what we found, correct what is wrong, and add what only you know. After that, we ask you once a year whether anything has changed.
Capability Profile
Price and terms
2,000 € per year net, for the first 50 companies
2,400 € per year, net, after that. Your price never changes while your contract runs, even when our list price does.
Claiming is free. You only pay once you decide to upgrade.
- Billing
- Once a year, in advance.
- Term
- Twelve months, renewed automatically unless you give notice one month before the end of the term.
- Notice
- In text form. An email is enough. We remind you 60 days before every renewal.
- Payment
- SEPA bank transfer against invoice, Pay by Bank, card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
- After cancelling
- Your profile stays visible until the end of the term, then returns to the free listing. Nothing is deleted.
Free: your company, your words.
Claim your listing and you control it: your logo, your name, your description, your links. It is free, it stays free, and it does not expire.
Wrong category? Claim your listing and fix it yourself, free of charge.
What is on the profile
Empty fields are never shown, on any level. You fill in what applies to your company and nothing else.
| Free | Capability Profile |
|
|---|---|---|
| Identity and control | ||
| Logo, display name, slogan, short pitch | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own about text, instead of our editorial summary | ✓ | ✓ |
| Phone number, website and imprint link | ✓ | ✓ |
| LinkedIn, Google Business Profile, YouTube | ✓ | ✓ |
| Badge “Claimed and managed by the company” | ✓ | ✓ |
| Company facts: address, founding year, size, ownership | ✓ | ✓ |
| Where you are found | ||
| Categories Every listing has exactly one core competence, on every level. | 1 | up to 15 |
| Capability filters in the search Free listings are found by category and country. | – | ✓ |
| Additional supplier roles besides your main one | – | ✓ |
| What you can do | ||
| Manufacturing model, production volume, processes, materials | – | ✓ |
| Tolerances and surfaces, machinery, processed standards | – | ✓ |
| Technologies and protocols, ERP and MES experience | – | ✓ |
| Software facts: deployment model, time to market, standardisation | – | ✓ |
| How you work together | ||
| Production countries, delivery countries, spoken languages | – | ✓ |
| Incoterms, digital infrastructure, stock and delivery times | – | ✓ |
| Express delivery, own fleet, services and training | – | ✓ |
| Trust and compliance | ||
| Company and product certifications, product liability Marked as self-declared, as required. | – | ✓ |
| VAT ID, DUNS and NACE Published after we have checked the VAT ID against VIES. | – | ✓ |
| Contact and questions | ||
| Contact form to the address you choose With consent and spam protection. The enquiry goes straight to your sales team. | – | ✓ |
| FAQ block: minimum order, typical clients, purchased components | – | ✓ |
| Email address in plain text On no level, paid or free. Spam protection and data minimisation. | – | – |
| Structured data | ||
| Organization markup: name, address, logo, founding date, description | ✓ | ✓ |
| Extended markup: social profiles, capabilities, areas served, checked IDs Published after you release each item. | – | ✓ |
| Always included | ||
| Suggest an edit, report a profile | ✓ | ✓ |
| Indexable profile page | ✓ | ✓ |
Not claimed yet? A profile we compiled from public sources shows your legal name, address, website, core competence and an editorial summary written by our team, marked as such. You can claim it at any time, free of charge.
Questions we get asked
How many buyers actually use this?
Two answers, and both belong here. The industry answer is at the top of this page: 48 % of buyers looking for a new supplier use directories, ahead of search engines.
The Quodaris answer is shorter. We are new. We would rather say that than promise reach we cannot prove, and it is the reason the first 50 companies pay a lower price.
We are already listed in three directories and it does not help.
That is exactly the point. Those directories sell the enquiries that come in. We sell visibility in the phase before the first contact. Two different products, and only one of them puts a price on someone else’s curiosity.
2,400 € for a listing?
It is a fair question, so here is the honest comparison: a trade magazine ad runs once, your profile runs for twelve months and is searchable the whole time. And what you are paying for is not a set of form fields. It is being present at the moment a shortlist is written.
What happens if we cancel?
Your profile stays visible until the end of the term you paid for. After that it becomes the free listing again. Nothing is deleted, and if you come back, your data is still there.
Do we get a backlink?
Not one that passes ranking signals, and that is deliberate. Google requires paid links to be marked as sponsored, and directories that sell ranking links put both domains at risk. What you get instead is your own indexable profile page: it can rank for your company name, and it gives search engines and AI assistants structured, checked information about you.
Can we test it first?
Yes, free of charge: claim your profile, look at it, decide. There is no paid trial period, because we verify every listing owner before the profile goes live.
Who guarantees that the data is correct?
We verify ownership through your company domain. Capabilities and certifications are your own declaration and are marked as such on the profile. That is more honest than any trust seal.
A free profile shows who you are. The Capability Profile shows why buyers should shortlist you.
Find your company, check what we have already put together, and take control of it. Upgrading is a decision you can make afterwards.