Feature explorer

Everything VendorReadyHQ does, grouped by the job it does for you

Each capability below explains what it does, why it matters and where to go next — no jargon, no feature list for its own sake.

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Turn the vendor list you already have into an operational system.

Free Vendor Health Check

What it does. Reads your vendor spreadsheet and returns an explainable readiness score with missing, expiring, unclear, duplicate and incomplete findings.

Why it matters. You see the size of the problem before committing to anything.

Run a free health check

Imports and exports

What it does. Map your columns once, validate the rows, then bring vendors and documents into a workspace. Export operational data back out whenever you need it.

Why it matters. No re-keying, and your data is never trapped.

See how it works

Guided onboarding

What it does. A setup checklist walks a new workspace through vendors, requirements, reminders and the first document request.

Why it matters. The first useful result arrives on day one, not week three.

Create a workspace

Run vendor operations

The day-to-day work of keeping vendor paperwork current.

Vendor management

What it does. A searchable, filterable vendor master list with trade, property, contacts, status, assigned manager and notes.

Why it matters. One agreed source for who works on what.

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Document management

What it does. Track certificates of insurance, workers' compensation, licences, W-9s and more, with Current, Expiring, Expired or Missing states.

Why it matters. Nobody has to open a folder to find out where a document stands.

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Vendor Portal and requests

What it does. Send a private upload link so a vendor can submit documents without creating an account. Your team reviews before anything counts.

Why it matters. Collection stops depending on email ping-pong.

Explore how it works

Renewals and compliance calendar

What it does. See what expires next across the portfolio and choose reminder cadence and alert types per workspace.

Why it matters. Renewals get handled before the expiry date, not after.

Compare plans

Work queues and tasks

What it does. Assign remediation work, track status and see everything on your plate in one queue.

Why it matters. Follow-up has an owner and a due date.

Explore how it works

Operational intelligence

The layer that decides what matters and explains itself.

Attention Command Center

What it does. Ranks missing documents, expiring items, incomplete records, pending reviews and overdue work by operational risk.

Why it matters. Your team starts the week on the item that matters most.

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Explainable readiness

What it does. Every readiness, risk and compliance figure lists the stored records that produced it.

Why it matters. Scores you can explain to an owner or a regional manager.

Why VendorReadyHQ

Property intelligence

What it does. Readiness, gaps and attention rolled up per property, not just per vendor.

Why it matters. Portfolio teams can compare buildings on the same measure.

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Vendor Risk Center

What it does. Prioritises vendors by document gaps, expiry pressure and unresolved work, with the reasoning shown.

Why it matters. Attention goes where exposure is highest.

Compare plans

Vendor performance

What it does. Tracks how responsive vendors are to requests and how current their documents stay.

Why it matters. Renewal conversations are backed by your own record.

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Intelligent document review

What it does. Reads uploaded documents and proposes the type, dates and key values, then routes them to a person to confirm.

Why it matters. Less manual data entry, with human review kept in the loop.

Read our trust principles

VendorReady AI

What it does. Answers plain-language questions using only the workspace data your account is authorized to see.

Why it matters. Answers in seconds without building a report first.

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Automate and report

Keep the system running and keep management informed.

Automations

What it does. Rules for reminders, request follow-ups, approval routing and scheduled digests.

Why it matters. Repetitive chasing stops consuming a person's week.

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Reports and analytics

What it does. Readiness, documents, compliance, risk and workflow reports with CSV export and printable views.

Why it matters. Evidence is ready when someone asks for it.

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Executive Briefs

What it does. Daily and weekly narrative summaries of what changed, what is at risk and what is outstanding.

Why it matters. Leadership gets the picture without a meeting.

Compare plans

Team and workspaces

What it does. Invite colleagues, set owner and member roles, and keep each workspace's data separate.

Why it matters. The right people see the right portfolio.

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Activity history

What it does. A timestamped record of vendor, document, request and automation activity.

Why it matters. You can reconstruct what happened and when.

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Integrations and API access

What it does. Webhooks and scoped API credentials for connecting VendorReadyHQ to your other systems.

Why it matters. Vendor readiness data can flow where your team already works.

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The product overview covers the same capabilities in order — bring data in, see what needs attention, understand why, act, automate and report.

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1. The problem If you manage vendors across a property portfolio, you probably have hundreds or thousands of vendor records. What you rarely have is a straight answer to the questions that actually matter. Which vendors are ready to work right now? What is missing? What expires next? Who is responsible, and which property is being held back? The information is not wrong on purpose. It is just spread across a spreadsheet, an inbox, a shared folder and someone's memory. VendorReadyHQ is a vendor readiness system: it brings that information together so your team can see what needs attention, understand why, and act on it. 2. Start with what you already have You start with what you already have. Drop your existing vendor spreadsheet into the free Vendor Health Check. VendorReadyHQ reads the file as it is, matches your columns, and returns a readiness score with the findings behind it — missing documents, upcoming expirations, incomplete records and likely duplicates. There is no rebuild, no data-entry project, no account and no card required to run it. If you would rather not use your own file yet, a sample dataset runs the same analysis. 3. Know what needs attention Inside a workspace, the Attention Command Center puts the day in order. Missing documents, expired documents, expirations coming up, incomplete records and overdue work are ranked together, each with the reason it surfaced. So nobody has to hunt through vendor records to find out where the problems are. The item at the top is the one worth handling first — not the one that happens to be newest. 4. Understand why A warning on its own is not useful. Every finding opens up to show the requirement you configured, the stored record it was checked against, the date that triggered it, and the next step that would clear it — with a link straight back to the source record. You can see the reasoning, disagree with it, and change the requirement. The logic is yours, not a black box. 5. Vendor and document operations This is a workflow, not a filing cabinet. Each vendor record holds the documents you require, their current state and their expiry dates. When something is missing, you request it, and the vendor gets a private upload link by email — no account, no portal signup. What arrives waits for a human review before it counts, and the expiry date you confirm on approval is what drives the next reminder. 6. Turn findings into work A finding only matters if somebody acts on it. Anything flagged can become a task with an owner and a due date, tracked in one shared queue. Managers can see what is assigned, what is late and what has been cleared, without chasing anyone for a status update. 7. Property and portfolio visibility Readiness rolls up. See it for one property, then across the whole portfolio, and drill straight into the specific vendors holding a building back. For a regional or portfolio manager, that turns a long vendor list into a picture leadership can actually read. 8. Risk, compliance and performance The Risk, Compliance and Performance views summarize the same records against the requirements your organization configured, so your team can prioritize follow-up. They are operational decision-support built from your own data. They help you decide what to chase first — they do not replace your legal, insurance, regulatory, licensing or professional determinations. 9. Smart automation The repetitive part should not depend on someone remembering. Renewal reminders, document request follow-ups and scheduled summaries go out on the cadence you set. Your team stays in control: anything that changes a record still passes through review, and every automated action is written to the activity trail so you can see exactly what ran and when. 10. VendorReady AI Ask VendorReady AI a plain question — which vendors are blocking the north portfolio this month — and it answers from your authorized workspace data, showing the reasoning and citing the records behind the answer so you can open them yourself. It does not browse the internet and it does not know anything your workspace does not contain. Think of it as an analyst working over your own operational data, not a substitute for professional judgment. 11. Management and executive visibility Operators need detail. Managers need priorities. Executives need the picture. The same records feed all three: reports and analytics for the team, and an Executive Brief that assembles what changed, what matters most and what should happen next — ready to read or export, without anyone rebuilding a deck on Friday afternoon. 12. The result From scattered vendor information to structured operational visibility. From manual searching to prioritized attention. From unexplained flags to understanding why. From manual follow-up to organized workflows and automation. From individual vendor records to property and portfolio visibility. From more vendor data to clearer next actions. Run your free Vendor Health Check with your own spreadsheet — or see how VendorReadyHQ works, step by step.

The fastest way to judge it is on your own data

Run the free Vendor Health Check, then decide whether ongoing vendor operations are worth a plan.