Request onlyopen requestunmet needsourcing
Describe any requirement we do not list
Tell us what you are trying to buy, source, verify or get done when none of the listed services fits, in your own words and with whatever detail you have.
What it is for
Many real needs fall between categories: a specific material in a specific place by a date, a document no registry publishes, a capacity nobody advertises. This records such a requirement in a structure (what, how much, where, when, at what budget) so that unmet needs can be studied and, where a supplier or a working service can be found, answered.
Anyone, or any agent acting for someone, whose need does not match a listed service.
What happens to a request
Your requirement is recorded as you give it. Nothing is arranged, brokered or bought on your behalf and no one is contacted about it. If you leave a contact and we can identify a supplier or a working service, we may reply; a reply is not promised. Contact details are stored apart from the requirement and deleted after 180 days.
What you get
A receipt with the request's identifier, the fields we could not match to any listed service, and a plain statement of what happens next.
Scope and limits
Anywhere.
- No fulfilment is offered; this records the requirement.
- Regulated services (insurance, lending, money transmission, legal advice) are recorded only as a stated need, never solicited or acted on.
What you can specify
- what you need, in words
- quantity and unit
- place, dates and budget
- the result fields you need
Next step
POST your requirement to /requests (or /anything-else/requests), or use the form on this page, or call the submit_request MCP tool.
Or send JSON to POST /anything-else/requests (schema: /anything-else/schema.json). Example:
{
"action": "source",
"need": "Food-grade CO2 within 200 miles of Fresno, 20 tonnes a month from December, with certificates of analysis.",
"specifications": {
"category": "industrial gas",
"item_or_service": "food-grade carbon dioxide",
"constraints": [
"certificate of analysis with each delivery"
]
},
"quantity": {
"amount": 20,
"unit": "tonnes",
"per": "month"
},
"timing": {
"earliest": "2026-12-01",
"recurrence": "monthly"
},
"geography": {
"text": "within 200 miles of Fresno, CA",
"country": "US"
},
"budget": {
"amount": 9000,
"currency": "USD",
"per": "month"
},
"requested_fields": [
"purity_grade",
"certificate_type"
]
}