How a deal forms on MPBx — one signed flow from sourcing board to settlement.
Build a spec shape, match suppliers on capability with your price sealed, agree in a meeting room, and settle through milestone-protected payments — funds release only as verified milestones complete; use your own bank or LC today, with integrated escrow via licensed partners on the roadmap. Below: the full deal loop, the money flow, the trust layer — and what happens when something goes wrong.
Build a requirement once, match suppliers on capability with your price sealed.
Compose your spec as a reusable shape, dial the per-order variables — quantity, lead-time, destination, a private target price. Suppliers are ranked on capability fit; you see closeness % only, and your price stays private to you. A meeting room opens only when both sides agree, and counterparty identity stays hidden until consent.
Buyer and supplier meet in the room. The whole lifecycle on one surface.
Quote, counter, contract, sign, escrow — buyer and supplier run the entire deal in one place. The room is the product: every term, every signature, every milestone release lives on the same surface.
The spec is the contract. Every axis is verified before the deal can converge.
Every spec axis is checked against the spec-locked RFQ, so drift becomes mathematically detectable instead of a matter of trust. When the numbers line up, the signature binds the contract — the spec the buyer asked for is the spec the supplier is held to.
Every contract clears the same checkpoint before escrow.
Counsel reads the signed PDF against the spec-locked RFQ and the KYC record, flags every divergence with a citation, and answers questions about the contract in plain language. Nothing reaches escrow until it has cleared this review.
The detail behind the six steps.
The same deal, seen from each side, plus the trust layer, the comparison with wiring direct, the controlled vocabulary, and the failure modes engineered out.
From RFQ to completed shipment in 32 days.
Worked example: a Thai factory procurement manager buying 2,000 sheets of CCL Tg170 from a Shenzhen supplier — ฿4.2M total, 30 / 40 / 30 milestones.
Get paid before you ship — and again at quality and delivery.
Mirror of the buyer flow. Every milestone is a confirmed cash event in the supplier's account. No production starts until escrow is funded; no shipment until quality milestone fires.
Every party carries a 0–100 score. Five inputs, transparent weights.
Auto-recomputed on every relevant event. Public breakdown so suppliers know what to improve and buyers know why a score is what it is.
Same supplier, same price, less risk.
Most Thai-CN cross-border PCB material trades happen as direct bank wires today: 30% deposit on faith, hope the supplier ships, 70% on shipment. MPBxChange routes the same money through a different rail.
| WIRING DIRECT | MPBxChange | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the deposit goes | ✕Supplier's overseas account, on faith | ✓Milestone-protected — released only as verified milestones complete |
| Spec enforcement | ✕Chat screenshots and a hopeful PO over chat | ✓Frozen spec_snapshot, auto-checked vs. third-party cert |
| If something goes wrong | ✕chat with sales rep, then a overseas lawyer | ✓Open dispute in app, refund within 5 days |
| FX exposure | ✕Pay in a foreign currency, eat the bank's spread | ✓Settle in your own currency, FX locked at signing |
| Counterparty trust | ✕Marketplace reviews and gut feel | ✓Trust score: KYC + transaction history + audits |
| Audit trail | ✕Bank wire memo + email thread | ✓Every action timestamped with IP + actor + diff |
Why "Tg", "T.G.", and "Glass Transition Temperature" all mean one thing.
The match-before-extract pipeline only works if every supplier and every datasheet collapses to the same field names. We seeded a controlled vocabulary of 104 canonical fields with 127 alias synonyms and a unit normaliser, derived from a third-party Thailand procurement spec dataset.
For years the weakness was human. We engineer it out.
Every failure mode in supplier trade, paired with the primitive that removes it.
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