Decoyfreight
A procurement-profile publishing workspace for long-tail business suppliers that maps approved catalog and ordering facts to a versioned draft-standard file, validates it, hosts it with provenance, and lists opt-in vendors without claiming buyer discovery or ranking quality.
The research confirms that procurement.txt exists as a newly published draft specification with a permissive license and fields for catalogs, ordering, pricing, negotiation, requests for quote, tracking and commerce protocols. It found no reviewed generator-plus-directory product. Adoption by procurement agents remains unproven, so discoverability and network effects are hypotheses rather than established demand.
Decoyfreight should separate vendor source fact, field mapping, generated profile, validation result, vendor approval, publication command, host acknowledgment, retrieval observation, directory opt-in, listing fact, buyer query, referral and commercial outcome. Conformance to one draft version is not certification, procurement eligibility, buyer endorsement or proof that an agent will use the file.
Catalog, price, capacity, certifications, geographic coverage and ordering claims need source owners, effective dates and expiry. The directory cannot sell hidden rank, fabricate popularity or use a listing to imply government qualification, quality, availability or contract readiness.
Marketing, commerce and operations leaders at smaller logistics and supply-chain vendors seeking a controlled machine-readable procurement profile.
Generation, validation and hosting are code-scalable if adoption emerges.
A new open standard may favor a neutral product layer over incumbent catalogs.
The new draft enables the concept but does not prove which barrier previously prevented it.
A confirmed draft standard and missing product layer create a concrete publishing wedge.
Buyer, budget, adoption, standard stability, source accuracy, directory integrity and actual agent consumption remain unvalidated.
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