What's new
Compare 2 to 6 vendors side by side using your own Brightflag data. Metrics include an AI summary, recommendation score, active matters, matters with budget, blended rate, fees billed, hours billed and resourcing mix. Filter by time period, matter category and country, and save a comparison to reopen later with up-to-date figures.
Who can use it
Customers with Advanced Vendor Management. Users with AVM access see Comparison in the Vendors menu. Users without AVM access don't see it and can't open the page, even with a direct link.
Create a comparison
Go to Vendors > Comparison.
Click Create comparison. A dialog lists your vendors, grouped into panel vendors and other vendors.
Select between 2 and 6 vendors. A running count shows how many you've picked.
Search by name, or filter by All vendors (default), Panel vendors or Other vendors. Your selections stay when you search or filter.
Deactivated vendors can be selected and show a "Deactivated" badge.
Compare stays greyed out until at least 2 vendors are selected, and a 7th can't be selected.
Click Compare [number] vendors.
The comparison opens with each vendor as a column and a chip at the top, with a badge showing whether it's on your panel. Nothing is saved yet.
Optional: filter by time period, matter category (for example Corporate or Litigation) or country, then apply. Every vendor's metrics update. Reset returns the filters to default.
Optional: remove a vendor by removing its chip, or click Add vendor. A comparison must always have between 2 and 6 vendors.
Optional: open or close each metric section to focus on one area.
The Panel vendors / Other vendors filter only applies if you have a panel set up in AVM.
What the metrics mean
Brightflag AI summary: A summary of your relationship with each vendor, based on everything they've done for you in Brightflag. It doesn't name individual matters.
Recommendation score: Based on vendor surveys, with the number of surveys shown. Blank if no surveys have been completed for that vendor.
Active matters, Matters with budget, Blended rate, Fees billed, Hours billed
Resourcing mix: Partner, non-partner and leverage.
A metric with no value for a vendor shows as empty, for example if the vendor has no work matching your filters.
Save, open and delete comparisons
Save: Click Save comparison, enter a name (required, up to 255 characters, can't match an existing name), and save. The comparison is saved with its name, vendors and current filters. Saving again while viewing a saved comparison overwrites it.
Open: Click it in the saved list at Vendors > Comparison, or use Load saved comparison on the comparison page. Figures are recalculated with the latest data each time, so they are not a snapshot from the day you saved. If a vendor has been deactivated since, it's shown with a deactivated mark. If it has been deleted, it's removed from the comparison with a notice.
Filter your saved list: By vendor, matter category or country. A comparison with no category or country filter shows "All".
Delete: In the saved list, choose delete and confirm. A deleted comparison can't be recovered.
Good to know
Saved comparisons are private to you and can't be shared.
You can't rename or edit a saved comparison from the list. Open it, change it and save again.
You can't select a whole panel at once, only individual vendors.
Comparisons use only your own Brightflag data. There's no benchmarking against other customers.