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AIRSTRIDE CAPTURE · VS AN AI COPILOT

A copilot answers. Capture acts.

You can give a copilot a vendor's programme document and a deal export and it will tell you which deals look like they qualified. That is a useful check. It is not the same job.

In a copilot
  • Programme PDF and a deal exportYou upload
  • "Rows 4, 9 and 17 look like they qualify"It answers
  • Someone logs into the portal and registers themStill to do
In Capture
  • 3 deals registered under the best programmeNo prompt
  • Claims filedInside the window
  • Statement matched to dealsEvidence ready
The difference

A useful check is not the same job

Illustrative vendors and counts, anonymised.

01 · Acts

The whole loop, without a prompt

A copilot answers when a person asks. Capture reads the CRM continuously, registers the qualifying deals, follows each one through, files the claim and matches the payment.

With a copilot, every step is a person's time.Nobody has to remember to run Capture.
The detail

A copilot produces an answer when a person asks a question. Someone exports the deals, finds the current programme rules, uploads both, reads the result and then logs into the portal to register the deals it found. Every step is a person's time and every step can slip.

Capture does the whole loop without a prompt. It reads the CRM continuously, tests every deal against the current rules, registers the qualifying ones, follows each registration through, files the claim and matches the payment. Nobody has to remember to run it.

With a copilot

A person exports the deals
A person finds the current rules
A person reads the answer
A person registers in the portal

With Capture ✓

Reads the CRM continuously
Tests against today's rules
Registers and follows through
Files the claim, matches the payment

Vendor B partner email

Promotion extended, new SKU added

Rule updated
  • Rule set updatedSame day
  • Open deals re-tested23 deals
  • 5 deals now qualifyOwners told
02 · Rules

Rules are maintained, not pasted

A copilot knows the programme you gave it on the day you gave it. Capture monitors portals, PDFs and vendor emails and re-tests open deals when a rule moves.

The rule set is the product, not the prompt.
The detail

A copilot knows the programme you gave it on the day you gave it. Vendor programmes change through the year and the changes arrive by email, PDF and portal update. Capture monitors those sources for every vendor you work with and re-tests open deals when a rule moves. The rule set is the product, not the prompt.

03 · Portals

One portal is easy. Hundreds are the problem.

Connecting to every portal you register in, each with its own login, form and multi-factor authentication, and keeping them working, is the work.

By API where one exists, otherwise a controlled login on your domain.
The detail

Connecting a copilot to one vendor portal is doable. Connecting it to every portal you register in, each with its own login, form and multi-factor authentication, and keeping those connections working, is the work. Capture already does this through APIs where they exist and through a controlled login on your domain where they do not.

Portal connections

Each with its own login, form and MFA

All working
  • Vendor AAPI
  • Vendor BLogin on your domain · MFA
  • Vendor CLogin on your domain · MFA
  • Vendor DVia distributor
A snapshot, last quarter
  • 12 deals qualified, never registeredToo late to register
Capture, on every deal as it is created
  • One licence short, seller toldQuote still open
  • Registration about to lapse, owner warned10 days left
04 · Continuous

A snapshot cannot recover what it finds

A copilot analysis tells you what happened last quarter. Capture runs on every deal as it is created, while the quote can still change.

Most vendors do not allow a deal to be registered after the fact.
The detail

A copilot analysis is a snapshot. It tells you what happened last quarter. Capture runs on every deal as it is created, so a deal that is one licence short is caught while the quote can still change and a registration about to lapse is caught before it does. Most vendors do not allow a deal to be registered after the fact, so a snapshot cannot recover what it finds.

05 · Evidence

Evidence you can send to a vendor

When a payment does not match, you need the deal, the rule and the rate in force when it closed, in a form a vendor's channel team will accept.

Capture produces that pack for every gap.
The detail

When a payment does not match, you need the deal, the rule that applied and the rate in force when it closed, in a form a vendor's channel team will accept. Capture produces that pack for every gap. A copilot produces a paragraph.

Evidence pack · Customer D

Generated for every gap

Gap -£620
  • The dealClosed 2 Dec
  • The rule that appliedPromo Q4
  • The rate in force when it closed4%
A copilot produces a paragraphCapture, a pack
Questions

Compared with the alternatives

Every other question is answered on the questions page.

See every question

A copilot can tell you which deals in an export look like they qualified under the programme you gave it. Capture registers them, keeps the rules current across every vendor, follows each one through, files the claim and reconciles the payment, without a person prompting it. Use a copilot to check our numbers; let Capture do the registering.

Use both

Check our numbers with your copilot

Run our analysis through a copilot and check our numbers. We are happy with that. Then let Capture do the registering.