The fastest way to make sourcing more efficient is to stop treating discovery, pricing, and purchasing as three separate steps. Instead, use AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini alongside a searchable vendor catalog (filterable by price, color, size, and vendor) to narrow down options from your desk — then move that sourced item straight into a proposal and purchase order inside one platform, like Studio Designer. Showroom visits stay part of the process, but they become more purposeful, since you’re walking in already knowing what you’re there to see. This closes the non-billable gap time that used to sit between finding a product and selling it to a client.