Popular quickstarts
Jump straight into the tasks you’ll run most, grouped by what you’re trying to do.- Get set up
- Post material data
- Quote & fulfill
Create an account
Set up your company account and walk through the onboarding wizard.
Connect your email
Link an Outlook or Gmail inbox so Seminode can monitor quotes.
Add partners
Connect with customers and suppliers and grant node permissions.
Create your nodes
Create nodes for your supply or demand data and give partners access.
Quoting infrastructure all in one place
Orchestrate material data, RFQs, quotes, approvals, and orders — all from one connected network.Nodes
Permissioned databases for storing supply or demand data, shared selectively with partners.
Network
Give partners access to your nodes to exchange supply and demand data in real time.
Listings & lists
Standardized supply and demand line items, uploaded or connected from your systems.
Inbox & quoting
A centralized thread for every quote, from request through response.
Approvals
Review steps that quotes pass through before they’re finalized or sent.
Orders
Final agreements where both parties confirm the transaction details.
Build on Seminode within minutes
Wire Seminode into your own systems with the API, connectors, and AI tooling.API Reference
Authenticate with a bearer token and integrate quoting into your own apps.
Connectors
Bring Seminode into Outlook, Gmail, or your agent workflows over MCP.
AI & automations
Automate inbox triage, quote drafting, and repetitive quoting steps.
Key concepts at a glance
- Public Key — a company’s unique identifier on the network.
- Node — permissioned database for supply or demand data.
- Network — the connections formed by granting partners access to your nodes.
- Partners — your customers or suppliers on the network.
- Programs — internal teams or business units within your company.
- Lists — files or connected tables of standardized data.
- Listing — a single supply or demand line item.
- Reference Data — internal tables matched against listings to enrich them.
- Public & Private Fields — data shared with partners vs. kept internal.
- RFQ — selected listings sent to partners to request pricing.
- Basket — a staging area for listings or quotes before you send them.
- Inbox — centralized location for quoting with partners.
- Thread — the quoting conversation on a listing.
- Thread ID — a unique ID generated by Seminode that distinguishes a quote thread between you and a partner, used across the app to tie quotes back to listings automatically via email and other tools.
- Quote — an offer sent for a listing or group of listings.
- Approval — an internal review step before a quote is finalized.
- Order — the final, confirmed agreement between both parties.