Sample vendor-selection report
EXAMPLE ONLY. This is not a client engagement. There is no buyer, no invoice, and no private intake behind it. The use case name below is a label for the format. Every vendor sentence is copied from that company’s public rubric on this site. Nothing here is a new fact about a customer.
Format header
- Offer illustrated: vendor-selection report, standard ($600)
- Named use case (illustrative label): enterprise AI platform for internal operations
- Buyer: not a real company. Size, budget, industry, and compliance are blank on purpose.
- Turnaround illustrated: 3–5 business days. This page was not produced that way.
Ranked shortlist
Three public grades that sit near this use case. Order follows the published verdict, then the specificity of cited revenue. This is not a statement that rank 1 fits every company.
1. ServiceNow — Buy, high confidence
Public summary: “Incumbent with audited 24.5% subscription growth and $1B+ AI ACV.” The customers-and-revenue note says Q2 2026 subscription revenue was $3.877B (+24.5%). The team note says ServiceNow AI passed $1B ACV. Both point at the Q2 2026 results release linked on the ServiceNow page.
Rubric highlights from that page: unit economics scored 5 (“Mature, profitable SaaS”), moat scored 5 (“System of record for IT/workflows; high switching costs”).
Deal-breaker: none recorded on the cited revenue lines. If a buyer needs a vendor other than an IT workflow system of record, this rank does not apply. That limit is about the illustrative use case, not a new ServiceNow fact.
2. Palantir — Buy, high confidence
Public summary: “Public company with audited acceleration: US commercial revenue +149% YoY in Q2 2026. Valuation is the main concern, not the business.” The customers-and-revenue note says Q2 2026 US commercial revenue was $764M (+149%), with total revenue growth of 93%. Source on the Palantir page: the Q2 2026 press release filed with the SEC.
The hype-signals note, which has no separate source link, says the market valuation multiple is very high relative to revenue and that the business metrics themselves are audited. This sample does not add a multiple, a share price, or a valuation dollar figure.
Deal-breaker: treat the grade as a statement about the software business. The same summary says valuation is the main concern. This page is not investment advice.
3. UiPath — Hold, high confidence
Public summary: “Stable, profitable, but slow-growing (12% ARR); agentic pivot unproven at scale.” The customers-and-revenue note says ARR was $1.938B (+12%) and revenue was $410M (+13%). The team note says net new ARR was $37M. Those figures are on the UiPath page, sourced to the Q2 FY2027 results.
Deal-breaker for a buyer who needs the agent product to be the proven core: the summary says the agentic pivot is unproven at scale. Hold means a short contract, not a system-of-record bet.
Left off the shortlist
C3 AI is Hype, high confidence. Public summary: “Revenue fell sharply (FY26 $250.3M vs $389.1M), CEO change and layoffs. Long-running enterprise AI narrative without traction.” The customers-and-revenue note repeats the FY26 revenue drop from $389.1M to $250.3M. Source on the C3 AI page. It is an example of “what to ignore” when the use case is a durable operations platform.
30 / 60 / 90 pilot plan
Steps for the format. They do not describe a real rollout, a savings number, or a customer who ran them.
- Days 1–30. Pilot ServiceNow on one internal workflow the buyer already does by hand. Keep the public Buy grade in view. Success is that the workflow runs without a second vendor. No ROI is estimated here.
- Days 31–60. If that pilot misses a must-have the buyer wrote on the intake, trial Palantir on the same workflow. Do not make both the system of record. Re-read the valuation sentence on the Palantir rubric before signing a long commit.
- Days 61–90. Keep the pilot that met the written must-haves. UiPath stays available only as a Hold: a short contract if the two Buys cannot cover an automation job. C3 AI stays off the plan.
What this sample refuses to include
- A client name, headcount, budget, or quote.
- A vendor metric that is not already on that company’s rubric.
- A recommendation to buy securities.