Technology discovery,on your terms.
PartnerAZ allows your team to score vendors against your private standards and assess together, without investing time in premature meetings.
- For CIOs, CTOs, Directors & End-users
- Trusted by local government across BC, ON
- Free for municipalities
- No pay-to-rank
- Vendors never see your criteria
The question that ignited PartnerAZ
Why is technology discovery frustrating and complex?
We witnessed a power shift in sales: private contact information became a single subscription away, powered by AI outreach.
You're not the only one who's stopped responding to vendors.
10M
emails some vendors send, per year, in '26
60%
decline in cold outreach reply rates, 5 years
2-3%
of outreach gets any positive response
Even if you experience a "positive engagement," you're still navigating all of this just to get every stakeholder aligned.
Everything about how you work has changed since the internet's early days, except the discovery process. No wonder everyone is stressed.
The problem
How it works
Research and assess without cold calls or RFx's.
Mandate vendors to apply through your intake, hosted on your site.
You set your standards.
Whatever matters most to your team, weighted your way. Never published.
Any vendor can apply.
They answer the same questions blind, without seeing your standards or who else applied.
You see who actually fits.
Every score comes with the reason behind it, and stays private to your team.
Your team weighs in.
Share applications internally and compare notes across departments.
Book the meeting.
Book directly with whoever earned it. No back and forth.
Security and compliance
Built on AWS- Data stored in Canada
- Auth0Mandatory SSO
- Encrypted at rest and in transit
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant infrastructure
What you get
Everything you needed.
A directory of every application, on file.
Vendors apply to you. Keep them, compare them, and assess them whenever you are ready.
Scoring you can audit.
Think of it as an exam rubric. Same questions, your weights, one score per criterion. Run it for a department or a single project.
Collaborate as a team.
Pull in IT, finance, and the people who will use it. Everyone reads the same application and leaves notes in one place.
Forward any cold email.
Send it to a PartnerAZ inbox, we direct the vendor to your portal without you engaging or typing a word.
Browse vendors in the marketplace.
Need options? Browse the marketplace and request vendors to apply to your portal, so you can assess them against your standards.
A code for every member.
Met someone at a conference? Give them your code. Their application lands with you, on file until you want it.
The result
One place. The whole team.
No more chasing files.
One page replaces the pile, and your whole team works from it.
Everyone can look, not just IT.
Department heads and the people who will actually use the tool see what is out there, without waiting on procurement.
Why this matters in the public sectorAnswers come from the vendor.
No decoding marketing sites or AI summaries. They answer your questions directly.
A ranking you can trust.
Paying puts a vendor in the pool. Your weights alone decide the order.
Where we stand
We end where procurement begins.
PartnerAZ Pre-discovery
We are hereYour procurement process stays the same. Our job concludes at discovery. Our mission is for you to have the right context in the room when you need it.
Questions we get
The three asked first.
Vendors pay to be seen. They can never pay to rank. Your list is ordered by fit, which is the whole point of it. A vendor who pays gets a listing, not a position.
See it against your own criteria.
Bring a category your team is actually looking at. We will walk the scoring through on it.