MGT cut research from 30 minutes to 1 simple click with Starbridge's Search Agent

Abhidith Shetty

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Senior Data Analyst

Headquarters
Tampa, FL
Industry
Higher ed
Company size
500 - 1000 employees

From manual downloads to instant, accurate results

MGT helps higher education institutions navigate complex technology decisions. For Abhidith, a senior data analyst on the team, that means staying on top of RFPs, purchase pricing contracts, and procurement activity across a large and constantly changing market.

Before Starbridge, that work was slow and labor-intensive. Abhidith would download procurement reports, feed them into a separate LLM, manually interpret the output, and then spend another 20 to 30 minutes double-checking everything before he could trust the results. Every analysis required stitching together multiple tools, and even then, accuracy was sparse. 

Now, Starbridge's Search Agent does the heavy lifting. Abhidith enters a description of what he's looking for and gets back matched results with relevance scores and clear reasoning, accurate enough that he no longer needs to verify them. What used to take half an hour now takes five to ten minutes.

"Before this, I would spend about 20 minutes, 30 minutes manually going through data. But now with Starbridge Search Agent, I just casually enter a specific description of what I want and it gives me really good results. The matching scores and the reasoning give a really good description of what the RFP is, what the purchase pricing contract is. These features have saved me a lot of time."

An all-in-one research environment

One of the biggest shifts for Abhidith has been consolidating his workflow inside a single tool. Rather than bouncing between a procurement database, an external AI tool, and a spreadsheet to piece together an analysis, he can ask questions, surface results, and generate summaries entirely within Starbridge.

That integration removes the friction of switching contexts and gives him confidence that the answers he's working with are grounded in real procurement data, not just pattern-matched from a general-purpose model.

"I really like the seamless integration of AI with the tool, so I don't have to use other tools. I can just ask AI within the tool and it gives me all the results. It's like an all-in-one package. I think other tools are lacking in those aspects."

Faster competitive analysis with AI-generated summaries

Beyond search, AbhiditH relies on Starbridge's AI summaries to quickly digest the contents of RFPs and purchase pricing contracts at scale. Instead of reading through lengthy documents line by line, he can generate a structured summary in seconds, then move straight to analysis.

This has meaningfully compressed the time it takes to turn raw procurement data into usable insight, whether he's tracking competitive positioning or preparing a research report for a client institution.

"Generating a summary of all the different RFPs or even the purchase pricing with AI has saved me a ton of time. This feature has been really great, it saves me a lot of hours to help do competitive analysis or generate a summary."

The result

With Starbridge, AbhiditH has replaced a fragmented, time-consuming research process with a fast, reliable workflow that aggregates data and analysis. The accuracy of the results means he can trust what he sees and move quickly, without a second pass.

"With Starbridge and this new feature, I don't have to double check because the results are so accurate. I would spend the max five or ten minutes just to get my analysis and results in."

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MGT cut research from 30 minutes to 1 simple click with Starbridge's Search Agent

Abhidith Shetty

✦

Senior Data Analyst

Headquarters
Tampa, FL
Industry
Higher ed
Company size
500 - 1000 employees

From manual downloads to instant, accurate results

MGT helps higher education institutions navigate complex technology decisions. For Abhidith, a senior data analyst on the team, that means staying on top of RFPs, purchase pricing contracts, and procurement activity across a large and constantly changing market.

Before Starbridge, that work was slow and labor-intensive. Abhidith would download procurement reports, feed them into a separate LLM, manually interpret the output, and then spend another 20 to 30 minutes double-checking everything before he could trust the results. Every analysis required stitching together multiple tools, and even then, accuracy was sparse. 

Now, Starbridge's Search Agent does the heavy lifting. Abhidith enters a description of what he's looking for and gets back matched results with relevance scores and clear reasoning, accurate enough that he no longer needs to verify them. What used to take half an hour now takes five to ten minutes.

"Before this, I would spend about 20 minutes, 30 minutes manually going through data. But now with Starbridge Search Agent, I just casually enter a specific description of what I want and it gives me really good results. The matching scores and the reasoning give a really good description of what the RFP is, what the purchase pricing contract is. These features have saved me a lot of time."

An all-in-one research environment

One of the biggest shifts for Abhidith has been consolidating his workflow inside a single tool. Rather than bouncing between a procurement database, an external AI tool, and a spreadsheet to piece together an analysis, he can ask questions, surface results, and generate summaries entirely within Starbridge.

That integration removes the friction of switching contexts and gives him confidence that the answers he's working with are grounded in real procurement data, not just pattern-matched from a general-purpose model.

"I really like the seamless integration of AI with the tool, so I don't have to use other tools. I can just ask AI within the tool and it gives me all the results. It's like an all-in-one package. I think other tools are lacking in those aspects."

Faster competitive analysis with AI-generated summaries

Beyond search, AbhiditH relies on Starbridge's AI summaries to quickly digest the contents of RFPs and purchase pricing contracts at scale. Instead of reading through lengthy documents line by line, he can generate a structured summary in seconds, then move straight to analysis.

This has meaningfully compressed the time it takes to turn raw procurement data into usable insight, whether he's tracking competitive positioning or preparing a research report for a client institution.

"Generating a summary of all the different RFPs or even the purchase pricing with AI has saved me a ton of time. This feature has been really great, it saves me a lot of hours to help do competitive analysis or generate a summary."

The result

With Starbridge, AbhiditH has replaced a fragmented, time-consuming research process with a fast, reliable workflow that aggregates data and analysis. The accuracy of the results means he can trust what he sees and move quickly, without a second pass.

"With Starbridge and this new feature, I don't have to double check because the results are so accurate. I would spend the max five or ten minutes just to get my analysis and results in."

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