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A sample request is a design-in signal. Don't bury it in a pricing form.

CAPABILITY 4

A Sample Request Is a Design-In Signal. Don't Bury It in a Pricing Form.

The engineer who wants a part on a bench this week is telling you something a pricing enquiry never does. Merge those two requests into one form and you lose the signal, and you make the engineer wait for an answer they did not ask for.

Automated fulfilment, and every sample tracked as its own lead with the part and the attributes attached.

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WHY IT IS SEPARATE

Two Different Questions, Arriving at Two Different Moments

A pricing request comes from someone deciding whether they can afford to proceed. A sample request comes from someone who has already decided to try. They sit at different points in the design cycle, they need different response times, and they predict different things about the eventual deal.

Sites that collapse them into a single form do so because the form was built by a marketing team optimising for total submissions. The cost lands on the sales team six months later, when nobody can tell which enquiries were evaluations and which were price checks, and the pipeline forecast mixes two very different kinds of request.

HOW IT WORKS

From Request to Bench, Without a Human in the Middle

The engine handles the routine path end to end and escalates only what needs a person. That is the opposite of the usual arrangement, where a person handles everything and escalates nothing.

Request from the Part

The sample button lives on the product page, in the search result and in the BOM, because those are the places the decision happens.

Qualification Without Friction

Company, application and volume expectation. Enough to route it, not so much that an engineer abandons the form.

Automated Fulfilment

Eligible requests go straight to fulfilment. Restricted parts, export-controlled items and unusual volumes route for review.

Tracked as a Lead

The part, its attributes and the pages that led there attach to the record. Six months on, a design win can be traced back to the sample.

Dev Kits as Products

Evaluation boards and kits carry their own attributes, documentation and support material rather than sitting in a PDF nobody updates.

Follow-Up That Knows the Part

The sequence after a sample references the part and the application, not a generic thank-you. That is the difference between a nurture and a nuisance.

Related Capabilities

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Present, Partial or Missing, each rating followed by the specific observation behind it. Five business days, and there is no call first.

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