FOR COMPANIES THAT BUY WORK
Your vendors.
Your standard.
Stop adapting to every vendor's process. Dev shops, agencies and contractors deliver to one verified standard — yours — escrowed, referee-checked and comparable, on the spend you already make.
VENDOR SCORECARD — Q3
ONE STANDARDevidence-based · comparable · sealed — only a buyer-led deployment can produce this
THE PROBLEM
You pay a tax on what you can't verify
Every vendor, their own theater
Six vendors, six portals, six report formats — and you conform to all of them.
Invoices on faith
You wire against self-reported progress. Remote work makes the box blacker.
No comparability
A glossy update and a terse email describe the same week. You can't rank what you can't measure.
Failure costs 100%
A failed engagement doesn't cost the fee. It costs the budget, the quarter and the roadmap slot.
THE FLIP
Stop conforming to vendors.
Make them conform to you.
Define the standard once — what evidence counts, how milestones release, what a criterion must look like. Every vendor proposes into it, delivers into it, and gets paid through it.
One standard, every vendor
Your evidence rules and release conditions apply to all of them — onshore, offshore, agency or solo. One process for Austin and Ahmedabad; the record works while you sleep.
Proposals arrive conforming
Vendors' AI-drafted statements of work are checked against your rules before you read them.
Money obeys the standard
Escrow releases only when delivery is verified against your criteria — never against a status deck.
YOUR STANDARD
Acme Corp · Vendor Delivery Rules
- Recorded demo per milestone, judged vs criteria
- Platform & CI signals verified at the source
- Weekly evidence pulses — not status decks
- Criteria must be provable
- Escrow release on approval · disputes referee'd
This is how procurement already works for security and privacy. Northn makes it work for delivery.
HOW IT WORKS
One loop, every vendor, every engagement
Set the standard
Define evidence rules and release conditions once, per work type if you like. A rule change is a new edition, never a silent edit.
Vendors propose in
AI drafts their statement of work into your format: milestones, provable criteria, priced change-order terms.
Evidence streams
Pulses, platform signals and recorded demos arrive as work happens. The referee verifies; anything it can't settle is held, not passed.
Approve, release
Escrow releases on your approval — one milestone of exposure, never the project. Change orders are priced and funded before work starts. Disputes go to a neutral referee, and the ruling moves the money.
Your vendors keep their own tools — repos, ad platforms, CAD, ticketing. Northn reads the events, verifies against your criteria, and seals the record. No rip-and-replace on either side.
ONE PANE OF GLASS
Every vendor, one console
Live delivery pulses
Green means verified evidence, not vendor optimism.
Verified milestones
Each release judged against your criteria, with citations.
Vendor scorecards
On-time rate, first-pass approval, dispute history — comparable because the standard is identical.
Vet vendors on the recordVENDOR DELIVERY · THIS WEEK
4 ENGAGEMENTS · $312K ESCROWED- verified8/8 verified96
Apex Digital
Checkout rebuild · M3
- verified5/5 verified91
Beacon & Craft
Brand system · M2
- held6/7 · 1 held88
Nordwind Labs
Data pipeline · M4
- verifiedin review83
Cadence Studio
Mobile app · M1
Need the evidence to stay in your cloud? Northn deploys split-plane.
Data in your tenancy, the referee on your own model keys, funds with regulated institutions. Our control plane sees digests, never content.
WILL VENDORS ACCEPT IT?
Your vendors win too — that's why this works
Costs them nothing
The standard sits on your side of the ledger — no seats, no subscription, no cut of their revenue.
Paid same day, every milestone
Verified work releases the day you approve. Vendors stop pricing your 45-day terms into their rates.
A record that wins them work
Every verified engagement builds their portable track record — the one that gets them their next client.
And the quiet filter: a vendor who refuses verified delivery is telling you something worth knowing.
Your budget already
buys the work.
Let it buy the proof.
Start with one engagement and one vendor — ideally the one you trust least. Sixty days later you'll have numbers, not opinions.
FOUNDING BUYER COHORT
5–10 buyers this quarter shape the standard's defaults.
- Your delivery standard co-authored with our team — yours to keep
- Vendor onboarding handled by us, not your inbox
- Benchmark report + co-authored case study