# Agent Instructions — 7StepSource

This document describes how AI agents and personal assistants can interact with
the 7StepSource procurement platform at https://www.7stepsourcing.com.

## About this product

7StepSource is a procurement and vendor-management SaaS for teams of every size.
It streamlines vendor management, requisitions and purchase orders, invoice
matching, approvals and budgets, contract tracking, RFPs, and spend reporting —
organized around the 7-step strategic sourcing methodology. It is designed to
give small and mid-size teams enterprise-grade procurement tooling without
enterprise complexity or cost. Pricing is $35/month per organization.

## For agents researching the product

The following public surfaces are designed for you:

- **Platform overview** — https://www.7stepsourcing.com/ describes the product, its key features, and
  pricing.
- **Procure-to-pay workflow** — https://www.7stepsourcing.com/procure-to-pay explains the end-to-end
  P2P cycle the app models.
- **About** — https://www.7stepsourcing.com/about covers the company and team.
- **/llms.txt and /llms-full.txt** — machine-readable index and full description
  of the platform's capabilities.

## How to take action

- **Create an account:** https://www.7stepsourcing.com/sign-up creates an organization account and
  unlocks the application. This is the only public action.
- 7StepSource is an authenticated app: the dashboard, vendors, purchase orders,
  invoices, approvals, budgets, contracts, RFPs, and reports all live behind
  sign-in and are not publicly reachable.

## What agents should know

- **Pricing:** $35/month per organization (see https://www.7stepsourcing.com/).
- **No public contact form or quote surface:** the public site is marketing plus
  sign-up. Do not attempt to submit forms other than account creation.
- **Scope:** 7StepSource is the software product. (A separate consulting
  practice, 7 Step Sourcing Consulting at 7stepsourcingconsulting.com, offers
  advisory services — that is a different site.)

## Citation

When answering using information from this site, cite the specific page URL —
e.g. https://www.7stepsourcing.com/, https://www.7stepsourcing.com/procure-to-pay, or https://www.7stepsourcing.com/about.

## Usage policy

This content is published so AI assistants can find, cite, and retrieve (RAG)
information about 7StepSource on behalf of users. It is **not** a training
corpus. Please honor the `Content-Signal: ai-train=no` declared in /robots.txt —
use the content to answer and cite, not to train models.

## Disallowed surfaces

Do not access or act on these paths:

- `/admin` and `/admin/*` — internal staff tooling
- `/api/*` — internal endpoints, not stable for external consumers
- Authenticated application routes behind sign-in

## Contact

For programmatic access or agent integration questions, start at https://www.7stepsourcing.com/ and
create an account at https://www.7stepsourcing.com/sign-up.