Grove by CNX · For buyersBeta

Buy direct. Know it's coming. Keep your day.

Your suppliers, requests, and orders — in one place both sides can see.

See Grove in ActionSee How It Works

Included with qualifying CNX plans from $1,000/month. Arizona and the Southwest first. See pricing

The order lives everywhere

Six ways a supplier answers. No place to check.

Bread comes up short at 6:15am. The only record: a text, a voicemail, whoever answered.

Illustrative — how supplier communication fragments

9 common business tools grouped into three workflows — How they answer, What they send and How you track it — each running in isolation. Connected Spaces links them into one system with a single source of truth, ONE GROVE RECORD, so the manager stops being the integration layer.

How it reaches youOne record, both can read

Keep the suppliers you actually want

The supplier you want doesn't need new software. They need an invite.

The bakery, the tortilla maker, the produce guy.

One invite by email. No app to learn.

Walk Through My Supplier List

What they send

  • PDF price list
  • Photo of a sheet
  • Email with prices
  • Spreadsheet
Grove structures it

Something you can request against

Illustrative — example items and prices
ItemPackPriceUpdated
Whole milkgal$4.10This week
Brioche bunsdz$9.60This week
Cold brew concentrate5 gal$64.00Last week

Illustrative — example items and prices

Ask once. Compare consistently.

Write the request once. Compare real answers.

One request goes to the suppliers you choose.

Your request

Whole milk · 60 gal/week · Thursdays

  • Delivery by 7am
  • Pack: gallon
  • 4-week quote

  1. Supplier A

    via Email

    Email

  2. Supplier B

    via PDF

    PDF

  3. Supplier C

    via Text

    Text

Side by side

Illustrative — example suppliers and prices
SupplierPriceDelivery
Supplier A$4.10/galThu
Supplier B$3.95/galFri
Supplier C$4.25/galThu 6am

You compare. You award. The decision stays yours.

Illustrative — example suppliers and prices

Your AI Employee

It does the setup. You still make the decision.

A supplier answers at 9pm. It's ready by morning.

  1. Supplier sends
  2. Grove structures
  3. AI Employee prepares
  4. You review
  5. You approve
  6. Order placed

Inside Grove

A price sheet arrives. Your AI Employee reads it.

Nothing sends until you say so.

An illustrative business inbox. A customer message arrives: "Milk's $4.10/gal. Thursday delivery." Your AI Employee drafts a reply: "3 changes. Milk up 6%. Ready — 60 gal, $246." Nothing sends until you approve — then it confirms: Order placed · Supplier notified.

Grove · OrdersIllustrative — example supplier and prices, not a live account
Grove drafts, you decide.

You stay in control. Agents operate within defined authority boundaries. Important actions require approval.

One network

Requests out. Bids back. Directly.

Buyers and suppliers connect directly. No distributor in between.

An animated map of the Southwest: requests travel from a Phoenix buyer out to supplier cities, and bids travel back.

Requests outBids backIllustrative network — not a supplier directory

Where Grove sits

Direct buying, no spreadsheet tax.

Texting keeps the relationship but loses the record. A distributor owns it instead. Grove keeps both.

See how Grove could fit your purchasing process in a 15-minute walkthrough.

See Grove in Action

You keep the supplier relationship

Grove

Yes

Broadline distributor

Often not

Text & email

Yes

Suppliers keep the tools they already use

Grove

Yes

Broadline distributor

Usually their portal

Text & email

Yes

Quotes comparable, same basis

Grove

Yes

Broadline distributor

Within their catalog

Text & email

No

Order history both sides see

Grove

Yes

Broadline distributor

Yes

Text & email

No

Buy local, specialty producers

Grove

Yes

Broadline distributor

Limited

Text & email

Yes

Fit & pricing

Included in qualifying CNX plans.

No Grove-only price tag today.

  • Grove marketplace

    Included

    In qualifying CNX plans from $1,000/month. Your CNX contact confirms activation.

  • A Grove-only plan

    Not yet

    Grove comes with a CNX plan today. A standalone plan is planned.

  • Custom scope

    Scoped with you

    A specific build, or a private deployment, is a separate engagement.

Built for

  • Independent restaurants
  • Restaurant groups
  • Hotels, cafés
  • Caterers, commissaries
  • Institutional foodservice

Arizona and the Southwest first.

Schedule a 15-Minute Grove DemoSee Plans & Pricing

Industry context

Why buyers are looking for another way.

Food costs keep climbing, and the middle keeps consolidating.

Market conditions from the sources cited - not Grove performance data.

Are you a supplier?See Grove for Suppliers

Buyer questions

Questions buyers ask before buying on Grove

No — suppliers send what they already send: PDF, spreadsheet, email. Grove structures it, not them.

Grove's marketplace comes with qualifying CNX plans from $1,000/month, in Arizona and the Southwest. A custom build, or a private deployment, is a separate engagement.

No. It reads your network and answers what's available and what things cost. It doesn't send anything on its own — you approve every order.

Not yet — counter-offers aren't built. You compare the bids that come back and accept one.

Grove has no dispute process yet — that's not built. You get a record: the request, the accepted bid, the order's status, in one place. Updates arrive by email, not text.

Yes, but never on the same login. Buying and selling are two separate memberships. What you bid on your sell side never shows on your buy side.

Yes — Grove sits in the middle and takes a fee. It doesn't choose your suppliers, set your price, or own the relationship like a distributor does.

Next step

Bring your supplier list. We'll show you.

A 15-minute walkthrough using your suppliers — no slides.

Reply within one business day.

Schedule a 15-Minute Grove DemoSee Plans & Pricing

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