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Advisor-Led Automation Projects Before Supplier Conversations
Three clear stages: work with an Innovation Peer advisor to prep your project, request advisor review when you want judgment, then prepare supplier engagement only after you approve what is shared.
How We Work Commercially
Free for manufacturers. Use the workspace and request an Innovation Peer project review at no charge. Innovation Peer earns supplier-side success fees. We only introduce suppliers or share your project with your approval. Equipment and implementation costs are separate. Suppliers cannot pay to improve their ranking or bypass project-fit requirements.
See also How It Works for the prep-tools vs advisor-reviewed journey.
Three stages of project work
Start with an Innovation Peer advisor's structured process: describe the challenge, get a quick automated first read, refine scope together, then prepare supplier conversations only after you approve what is shared.
Stage 1Free for manufacturers
Start an Automation Project
Work with Innovation Peer to describe your challenge. Automated tools classify pathway fit and open a project workspace. Request advisor review when you want judgment.
What prep tools handle
- +Open-ended process description intake
- +Initial pathway classification
- +Missing information identification
- +Automation Project Studio workspace
- +Preliminary planning outputs
What the advisor reviews
- ·An Innovation Peer advisor is available when you want judgment. Prep tools let you start privately
What is included
- +Open-ended process description
- +Initial pathway classification
- +Missing information identification
- +Project workspace
- +Preliminary planning outputs
What is not included
See the exclusions section below. Innovation Peer does not provide final engineering design, certifications, guaranteed ROI, or final supplier quotes at any stage.
Stage 2Free project review
Request Innovation Peer Advisor Review
An Innovation Peer advisor reviews your project inputs, assumptions, and preliminary economics, identifies scoping gaps, and recommends the next project gate.
What prep tools handle
- +Structured project inputs and snapshot prepared in the workspace
- +Preliminary economics and readiness labels from rules-based calculations
What the advisor reviews
- ·Review of project inputs
- ·Assumptions review
- ·Preliminary economics review
- ·Identification of scoping gaps
- ·Recommendation on the next project gate
What is included
- +Review of project inputs
- +Assumptions
- +Preliminary economics
- +Identification of scoping gaps
- +Recommendation on the next project gate
What is not included
See the exclusions section below. Innovation Peer does not provide final engineering design, certifications, guaranteed ROI, or final supplier quotes at any stage.
Stage 3After your approval · supplier success fees
Prepare Supplier Engagement
Only after you approve project scope: confirm required delivery roles, review supplier fit, clarify open questions, prepare comparable budgetary pricing, and support supplier evaluation. There is no pay-to-rank shortcut.
What prep tools handle
- +Draft supplier-ready scope materials from the structured project record
- +Required delivery-role framing from pathway logic
What the advisor reviews
- ·Customer-approved project scope
- ·Supplier-fit review
- ·Clarification questions
- ·Comparable budgetary pricing preparation
- ·Supplier evaluation support
What is included
- +Customer-approved project scope
- +Required delivery roles
- +Supplier-fit review
- +Clarification questions
- +Comparable budgetary pricing preparation
- +Supplier evaluation support
What is not included
See the exclusions section below. Innovation Peer does not provide final engineering design, certifications, guaranteed ROI, or final supplier quotes at any stage.
Innovation Peer does not provide
- −final engineering design
- −final feasibility certification
- −safety certification
- −guaranteed ROI
- −final supplier quotes
- −legal or regulatory approval
These boundaries apply across all stages. What is not included is also summarized below as trust protections for your project.
How Innovation Peer protects your project
- ·Project data is private by default.
- ·Supplier sharing only happens with customer approval.
- ·Outputs are preliminary planning support.
- ·Innovation Peer does not provide final engineering design, safety certification, legal advice, or final supplier quotes.
