Set up your AI, or decide whether to.
Six how-to guides for the first week, one report built from sourced studies, a calculator that uses the pricing page’s own numbers, and the blog archive. Nothing here needs a sales call, and nothing here asks for your email before it helps.
Your first week, one guide at a time.
Each guide is one task, in order: add the catalog, write a rule, send a quote, build a collection, publish the site, invite the buyers.
Add your catalog
Photos, a spreadsheet or your website. What the AI structures, what you check, and how the sample catalog works if you have nothing handy.
Write your first pricing rule
A cost recipe in plain language, a grade matrix from a price list, and what “price on request” means until the rule exists.
Send your first certified quote
Ask, check the lines, send. What the buyer sees in the email, and where the approval lands.
Build a collection from a mood board
A brief, a budget, a board. Curate real products or invent concepts, price them, share one link.
Publish your storefront
yours.poly9.ai in one publish: theme, search, product pages, the assistant, and your domain when you want it.
Invite your buyers
Magic-link sign-in, buyer collections, quote approvals, and what your AI remembers about each buyer.
For the decision.
Three things to read before you talk to anyone: what the studies say, what the hours are worth, and what the other tools do better.
The certified quote every guide leads to: three lines, each showing its rule. Real screen.
The first week ends with a quote like this one, sent from your own catalog. The guides get you there in order; the report and the calculator tell you whether it is worth the week.
Fair booth readiness checklist
Enter your fair dates, tick sixteen steps, read a weighted score with due dates. Runs in your browser.
The custom-product quoting gap
What the sourced studies say about how long a custom quote takes, how many are lost to speed, and how many teams still quote from spreadsheets.
Quote-time calculator
Reps, quotes a week, hours per quote today. See the hours back, the credits needed and the plan that fits, from the same numbers as the pricing page.
Poly9 AI next to what you use today
CPQ tools, general chatbots and product configurators, each with what it does better and who should keep it.
Everything else we publish.
Terms buyers use in a quote, what each season's fairs are actually showing, the reference boards, and the small calculators. Listed from the page registry, so a page cannot ship here and be unreachable.
B2B quoting
RFQ, defined for B2B buyers and makers: a request naming specs, quantities, finishes and options.
custom product quoting
Price on request (POR) means a custom-product quote cannot be produced from certified rules.
custom product quoting
A cost recipe is the set of certified pricing rules that compose a custom product quote.
custom product quoting
BOM, defined for custom products: the list of every part, material, finish and quantity needed to build a configured product.
definition and measurement
Quote cycle is the time from a buyer's price request on a custom product to a sendable quote.
definition and quoting
Configure-to-order builds products from predefined options to a customer spec.
definition and quoting
A certified quote is priced from approved rules you loaded.
glossary
COM (Customer's Own Material): the buyer supplies the fabric for a furniture order.
glossary
A grade matrix is the pricing table that maps fabric or finish grades to price bands for a furniture or textile product.
What is a digital booth? Trade fair glossary
Digital booth, defined for trade fair exhibitors: a catalog link buyers scan at the stand, with options and prices, that keeps working after the fair ends.
what one credit buys
A sales action is one thing the AI produces for a sale: an answer, render, price, quote, design, collection item, cover or email.
finish trends for makers
Crowded aisles.
gift, home and decor buyers
What gift, home decor and housewares buyers ask exporters for around Ambiente 2026.
Heimtextil 2026 trends for textile exporters
Heimtextil 2026 reading for textile exporters: performance fabrics with a sustainability story, layered texture, an earth-to-mineral palette, floor questions.
IHGF Delhi Fair 2026 trends for exporters · Poly9 AI
IHGF Delhi Fair, 13 to 17 October 2026: organiser facts, the published 2026 colour and material directions read for metal, wood and gifts, and a booth plan.
seasonal stories
Colorway inspiration for home textile mills: the four seasonal stories US buyers ask for, swatch before price, and how to present them as living collections.
US home retail trends 2026, sourced · Poly9 AI
The 2026 home directions Pantone, WGSN, Heimtextil, Ambiente and Sherwin-Williams published, cited inline, read for makers of metal, wood and textiles.
US retail 2026
What US retail and hospitality buyers ask metal decor exporters for: organic modern brass, matte black steel, coastal silhouettes, and the path to a live board.
what US buyers ask for
US buyers ask furniture makers about warm woods, textured neutrals and responsible finish stories.
5 sales moves that keep buyer interest in every meeting
Meeting playbook for showroom & dealer sellers: answer, configure, show a visual, price, quote, and present.
Assortment story builder for buyer presentations · Poly9 AI
Draft a buyer presentation outline in five minutes: buyer type, story, trade facts, 3 to 8 products with finishes, one next step.
COM and grade matrix calculator for fabrics
Educational COM and grade matrix helper.
COM, grade, and width — answered and quoted in one ask
Meeting playbook for fabric & wallcovering sellers: answer, configure, show a visual, price, quote, and present.
Custom size + pile + colorway — quoted in one conversation
Meeting playbook for rugs & home textiles sellers: answer, configure, show a visual, price, quote, and present.
Door · finish · hardware — priced in the showroom visit
Meeting playbook for kitchen & cabinetry sellers: answer, configure, show a visual, price, quote, and present.
Fair booth readiness checklist and score · Poly9 AI
Enter your fair dates, tick the sixteen steps that make a booth ready, get a weighted score with due dates.
kitchen and bath
An educational cabinet linear foot calculator with door, countertop and hardware options.
Line sheet builder for manufacturers and exporters
Build a line sheet outline for buyers and trade shows: collection story, SKUs, finishes, MOQ and lead time in one format, then make it a digital booth.
MOQ + lead time + price — answered before the meeting ends
Meeting playbook for textiles sellers: answer, configure, show a visual, price, quote, and present.
Photoshoot vs AI render cost calculator
Compare traditional product photography cost and timeline to catalog-driven AI renders.
Quote cycle time calculator for custom products · Poly9 AI
Enter quotes per week, people per quote and minutes per quote.
Turn finish questions into priced quotes
Meeting playbook for furniture & lighting sellers: answer, configure, show a visual, price, quote, and present.
Use AI in your sales process — Free industry guide
Download our free guide: Answer, Configure, Render, Price, Quote, Present — on your catalog.
WhatsApp catalog ROI calculator
Compare WhatsApp and PDF catalog follow-up hours to a living storefront with buyer collections.
7 steps
How exporters present a line to US and European buyers: one story, 8 to 15 hero products, the option grid, trade facts, one next step.
classic CPQ or Sales AI
CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software builds priced quotes for products with options.
FOB quoting from your own cost rules
Quote FOB from your currency, materials and Incoterms, return price on request when a rule is incomplete.
Line sheet templates for manufacturers
What buyers expect in a manufacturer line sheet: story, assortment, options, next step.
Manufacturer mood boards buyers open on a phone
How manufacturers and showrooms build mood boards that sell: one story, a finish grid, 8 to 15 products, labelled vignettes, a live path to a quote.
Quote on the showroom floor, before they leave
Quote while the designer and client are still on your showroom floor.
the follow-up in 5 steps
A buyer collection link is one URL with the pieces a buyer touched, their options and a certified price or price on request.
the textile quoting rule
Show the fabric.
Trade-show-ready catalog in 7 steps
A trade-show-ready catalog is a digital booth a buyer opens on a phone: options to tap, certified price or price on request, one link.
US home retail
What US home-retail buyers look for in a manufacturer's line: visual story, finish clarity, MOQ transparency, shareable collections and fast follow-up.
vendor prep
The operational, compliance and presentation checks retail buyers run before onboarding a maker of custom products, with a four-stage preparation checklist.
vignettes buyers open
How manufacturers and exporters build lifestyle room vignettes US buyers open: hero vignette, assortment, finish grid, one next step.
Latest from the archive.
Field notes on selling custom product. Older posts predate Poly9 AI and read as history.
The complete guide to selling home goods across borders in 2026
From digitizing your first product to closing a container order — the end-to-end system for manufacturers going direct to global buyers.
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How exporters quote in under 48 hours
The first credible quote frames the deal. Here’s the workflow that gets you there before the competition replies — without giving away margin.
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The end of the WhatsApp catalog
The thread of forwarded PDFs served the trade for a decade. Here’s why it quietly costs you orders — and what replaces it without losing the relationship.
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