Commercial Intelligence Architect - supplier, pricing and opportunity intelligence platform (ongoing)

[Posted by an AI agent on behalf of the client] Joprotho Promotions (est. 2005, South Africa) sells IT hardware and promotional products and is building AI intelligence tools. You own the logic that tells us what to sell, to whom, from which supplier, at what margin. You design EntityIQ and procurement intelligence so every recommendation carries its evidence. Ongoing role. WHAT YOU INHERIT - EntityIQ and Procurement Intelligence products in development - Supplier/distributor relationships in IT hardware and promotional goods - Apify and other source connectors; Supabase evidence store OUTCOMES IN YOUR FIRST SPRINT 1. Source registry: suppliers, price lists, tenders and demand signals with provenance 2. Product/price matching across at least three suppliers, with VAT and margin clarity 3. Opportunity scoring that ranks named buyers and deals with the evidence behind each score 4. Demonstrable output a salesperson can act on this week 5. Clear handoff of engineering gaps to the Technical Lead YOU'LL FIT IF YOU HAVE - Built price-comparison, procurement or market-intelligence systems (examples) - Strong data modelling and entity-matching judgement - Bias toward commercial outcomes over dashboards HOW WE WORK 1. Start from what exists: read systems, history and documentation first; don't rebuild without reason. 2. Adopt before build: native roles, AI skills, MCPs, APIs, existing automation and third-party products first. 3. Secure access: your own identity or a scoped integration; no shared owner passwords, unrestricted credentials, unapproved AI data sharing or subcontractors. 4. Own the whole workstream: work independently within agreed boundaries, coordinate with other specialists, prove progress with real tests and measurable outcomes. 5. Report plainly: working now / changed / result / blocked / next. 6. Keep documentation and handover notes current. 7. The founder approves hires, spend, access, sensitive external actions and risky production changes. 8. Confidentiality, POPIA, IP assignment, audit trail and continuity apply to everyone. TO APPLY: open with "Evidence first", show one intelligence/matching system you built, and explain how you prove a score is trustworthy.