Know who you're bidding with. Before you bid.
A new invite is exciting and you want to bid it. What you don't know yet is whether that GC pays their subs, or whether the vendor quoting you the cheapest machine in town is a real company at all. Pursuit runs an AI intelligence report on every vendor and customer you add.
- Five weighted categories, four named public-record sources
- Runs on any vendor or customer in your account
- Included in Pro+ Intelligence
Product example · illustrative data
The bid you're most excited about is the one worth checking hardest.
You've bid plenty of vendors and plenty of customers. What you almost never get is a straight answer on whether the outfit at the other end is any good, and almost nobody has time to go find one.
Is this even a real company?
Someone stands up a website and an email address, quotes you the lowest machine rate in town, and asks for a deposit. By the time the equipment doesn't show, they're gone.
Will this customer actually pay?
Liens stacked against them. A bankruptcy in the file. A history of stringing contractors along and paying ninety days late, every time, to everyone.
Can this sub actually perform?
OSHA citations. Open lawsuits. A review record that tells a different story than the person who called you did.
One report, start to finish.
Mark opens an intelligence report on a real equipment rental company and reads it category by category, all the way down to the sources it searched and the things it admits it could not see.
One number, and the five things behind it.
Every vendor and customer carries a score. It is a weighted average of five categories, and every category opens to show the reasoning that produced it. Nothing is a black box.
Business Legitimacy
25%Is this a real, operating business? Years in operation, verifiable locations, fleet and staff, and whether the web presence matches a company that actually does the work. This is the check that catches the stood-up website asking for a deposit.
Reputation
25%Google and Better Business Bureau reviews, news coverage, and complaint history. Read this one with judgment. Unhappy people comment more than happy ones, so a 3.9 is often a good record rather than a bad one.
Legal History
20%Federal court dockets matched on party name, plus SAM.gov federal registration, which is where you find out whether an outfit has been excluded or debarred from federal work.
Financial Health
15%Bankruptcy filings and signs of distress in public records and news, weighed against operating signals like recent expansion, new locations, and a growing employee base.
Payment Reliability
15%Liens, claims, and payment disputes that surface in public records. On the customer side this is the one that decides whether you bid at all: does this GC pay the people under them?
Product example · illustrative data. The score rides the list, so you see it before you open anything.
Same engine, pointed at the question you're actually asking.
You are not asking the same thing about a rental yard that you are about the GC who owes you money in ninety days. The vendor report and the customer report weigh different evidence.
Are they real, and can they perform?
- Is the business real, or a website someone stood up last month
- OSHA citations, enforcement actions, and fatality records
- Reviews and complaint history across Google and the BBB
- Whether they have been excluded or debarred from federal work
Will they pay, and can they fund the job?
- Liens and claims filed against them
- Whether they pay the subs under them, and on what timeline
- Bankruptcy filings and signs of financial distress
- Litigation history, including disputes with contractors
Every score opens to the sources that produced it.
You can take a number on faith, or you can scroll down and see what was actually searched. Every report lists its sources by name, what each one returned, and the sites it read along the way.
News, reviews, company websites, and public pages indexed by Google.
Federal contractor registration, and whether the outfit is excluded or debarred. No registration is normal for a non-federal contractor and is not a mark against them.
Party-name match against the CourtListener and PACER index. Federal courts only.
The official Department of Labor dataset: inspections, citations, and fatalities.
It also tells you what it couldn't see.
A report that only prints good news is worth nothing on bid day. Every Pursuit report ends with its own blind spots, named in plain language, so you know exactly how far to trust it and where you still have to go look yourself.
Mechanic's liens
Liens are filed with county recorders and are not reliably searchable online. “No liens found” is not proof of a clean lien record. A title or lien search service is what gives you certainty.
State and county courts
Most state and county court records are not indexed by web search. Only federal cases were checked against docket records, so a state-court dispute can sit outside the report entirely.
Private credit data
Dun & Bradstreet and Experian Business trade-payment data is not accessible to us. Payment-reliability signals come from public records and news, not from a credit file.
This is an insight, not a verdict. Use it to decide where to dig deeper, then do your own due diligence on anything that matters. A low score often means the AI found less, not that it found something bad.
Vendor & Customer Intelligence is included in Pro+ Intelligence, alongside the bid pipeline, document Q&A, and win/loss reporting.
Straight answers.
Which vendors and customers can I run this on?
Any of them. Every vendor and customer in your account can be scored, and you can re-run the analysis whenever you want a fresh look. Run it when you add a new company, or right before you send an RFQ.
What does it use to identify a company?
The name, address, and website you enter. The more you give it, the better it does. With only a name it will still search, but it can confuse a company in Hawaii with a same-named company in Washington, so fill in what you have.
Is this a credit report or a background check?
No. It is an AI research pass over public records and the open web, and the report says so on its face. It is not a consumer report and must not be used for credit, employment, tenancy, or insurance decisions.
Does a low score mean I shouldn't bid them?
No, and this matters. A low score usually means the AI found less, not that it found something bad. A good small contractor with no website will score lower than their record deserves. Open the report and read the reasoning before you draw a conclusion.
How current is a report?
Every report is stamped with the date it ran, and you can re-run the analysis at any time to pick up anything that has changed since.
What plan is it on?
Pro+ Intelligence. Your 30-day free trial is the full Intelligence tier, so you can run reports during the trial.
Run the report before you get in business with them.
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Vendor & Customer Intelligence produces AI-generated research drawn from public records and the open web. It is not a consumer report, it is not produced by a consumer reporting agency, and it must not be used to make decisions about credit, employment, tenancy, or insurance. Results may be incomplete or inaccurate, and some public records, government databases, and proprietary sources are not accessible to our AI, which can produce a lower score than a company deserves. Verify critical findings independently before making business decisions.