# Indax

> Indax is the trade network for American industry. Manufacturers, contractors and suppliers use it to find new projects in the public record of 2 million US industrial facilities, get quotes, place orders and track every one to delivery. Both sides of every order see the same quote, PO, promise date and status the moment it changes in each company's own email, CRM and ERP.

## Pages

- [Network](https://indax.co/network): How OEMs and suppliers connect their email, CRM and ERP once and share quotes, POs, promise dates, certificates and order status as one record.
- [Public data](https://indax.co/public-data): Air permits, EPA and OSHA records, state notices, county agendas, building, drilling and mining permits, USGS data and news, unified into companies, facilities, equipment, permits, projects and people.
- [Indax for OEMs](https://indax.co/for-oems): Find projects first, then quote, order and track every supplier without email.
- [Indax for suppliers](https://indax.co/for-suppliers): Win RFQs from OEMs sourcing on Indax, quote in minutes from one commercial record, and share live order status with each OEM with no follow-ups or vendor portals.
- [Indax for contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors): Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, general, EPC and heavy civil contractors enter their website and get one industrial project filed this month in their territory, read from air permits, state notices, county agendas and incentive approvals.
- [Indax for system integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators): Controls, robotics, power systems, process, material handling and packaging integrators get one plant or project filed this month in their territory, before the spec is written.
- [Indax vs Dodge, ConstructConnect and IIR](https://indax.co/compare/dodge-alternative): How Indax, which reads government filings the day they are published, compares with Dodge Construction Network, ConstructConnect and Industrial Info Resources for industrial contractors.
- [Blog](https://indax.co/blog): Writing on systems of exchange, supplier collaboration and AI in procurement.

## For contractors and integrators

Each page offers one industrial project filed this month in the visitor's territory, emailed from intel@indax.net.

- [Indax for contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors): Enter your website and get one project filed this month in your territory that fits your trade: mechanical, electrical, plumbing, GC, EPC or heavy civil.
- [Indax for system integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators): Enter your website and get one plant or project filed this month in your territory that needs controls, robots, power systems or material handling.
- [Mechanical contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/mechanical): Get a project filed this month in your territory, with the mechanical scope and the people to call. Indax reads air, state and county filings before bid day.
- [Electrical contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/electrical): Get one data center, substation or plant project filed this month in your territory, with the electrical scope and contacts. Real public filings, before the bid.
- [Plumbing contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/plumbing): Get one water, sewer or industrial plumbing project filed this month in your territory, with the scope and the owner to call. Read from state and county filings.
- [General contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/general-contractors): Get one industrial or commercial project filed this month in your territory, before the builder is chosen. Owner, engineer and filing included.
- [EPC contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/epc): Get one capital project filed this month in your region: power, gas, chemicals, metals or mining, from the preconstruction permit, with the owner to call.
- [Heavy civil contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/heavy-civil): Get one earthwork, site prep or reclamation project filed this month in your territory, with the owner and the filing. Built for heavy civil and equipment.
- [Data center construction](https://indax.co/for-contractors/sectors/data-centers): Get one data center project filed this month in your territory: the campus, the owner, the permit and who to call, before the bid package goes out.
- [Mining projects](https://indax.co/for-contractors/sectors/mining): Get one mining, quarry or reclamation project filed this month in your region, with the operator and the permit behind it.
- [Oil and gas projects](https://indax.co/for-contractors/sectors/oil-gas): Get one compressor station, gas plant, pipeline or refinery project filed this month in your basin, with the operator and the permit.
- [Utility and power projects](https://indax.co/for-contractors/sectors/utilities): Get one transmission, substation, generation or water project filed this month in your territory, with the utility and the filing.
- [Heavy industrial projects](https://indax.co/for-contractors/sectors/heavy-industrial): Get one new plant or expansion filed this month in your territory: metals, chemicals, plastics or process, with the owner and the permit.
- [Controls and PLC integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/controls-plc): Get one project filed this month in your territory that needs PLCs, SCADA or instrumentation, with the owner and the filing, before the spec is written.
- [Robotics and automation integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/robotics-automation): Get one new plant or production line filed this month in your territory, before the robots are chosen. Owner, process and filing included.
- [Electrical power systems integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/electrical-power-systems): Get one substation, data center or plant project filed this month in your territory that needs switchgear, MCCs, drives or protection.
- [Process automation integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/process-automation): Get one water, wastewater, oil and gas or chemical plant project filed this month in your territory that needs DCS, SCADA or instruments.
- [Material handling integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/material-handling): Get one warehouse, distribution or cold storage project filed this month in your territory, before the conveyors and AS/RS are specified.
- [Packaging line integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/packaging-lines): Get one food, beverage or consumer plant filing this month in your territory that signals a new line, with the plant and the filing.
- [ABB integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/networks/abb): For ABB system integrators and value providers: get one drives, switchgear or automation project filed this month in your territory.
- [Rockwell Automation integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/networks/rockwell): For Rockwell Recognized System Integrators: get one controls project filed this month in your territory, with the owner and the filing.
- [Siemens Solution Partners](https://indax.co/for-integrators/networks/siemens): For Siemens Solution Partners: get one water, wastewater or process plant project filed this month in your territory.
- [FANUC integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/networks/fanuc): For FANUC authorized system integrators: get one new plant or line filed this month in your territory, before the robots are chosen.
- [CSIA member integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/networks/csia): For control system integrators: get one controls, SCADA or instrumentation project filed this month in your territory.
- [Data center electrical contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/electrical/data-centers): Get one data center filed this month in your territory, with the electrical scope and who to call, before the package goes out.
- [Data center mechanical contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/mechanical/data-centers): Get one data center filed this month in your territory, with the cooling and piping scope, before the mechanical package goes out.
- [Utility electrical contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/electrical/utilities): Get one transmission line, substation or generation project filed this month in your territory, with the utility and the filing.
- [Water and sewer contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/plumbing/utilities): Get one well, pump station or main project filed this month in your territory, with the utility and the filing.
- [Power generation EPC](https://indax.co/for-contractors/epc/utilities): Get one new power plant filed this month in your region, from its preconstruction air permit, with the utility to call.
- [Oil and gas EPC](https://indax.co/for-contractors/epc/oil-gas): Get one compressor station, gas plant or refinery project filed this month in your basin, from its air permit.
- [Mining earthwork contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/heavy-civil/mining): Get one reclamation, pit expansion or haul road job filed this month in your region, with the owner and the bid notice.
- [Industrial mechanical contractors](https://indax.co/for-contractors/mechanical/heavy-industrial): Get one new plant or furnace project filed this month in your territory, with the equipment on the permit and the owner to call.
- [Oil and gas controls integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/controls-plc/oil-gas): Get one compressor station or gas plant filed this month in your basin that needs panels, PLCs and SCADA.
- [Data center power systems integrators](https://indax.co/for-integrators/electrical-power-systems/data-centers): Get one data center filed this month in your territory that needs switchgear, paralleling and power monitoring.
- [Dodge alternative for industrial contractors](https://indax.co/compare/dodge-alternative): Compare Indax with Dodge Construction Network. Indax reads permits and notices the day they are filed, so contractors see industrial projects before they are reported.
- [ConstructConnect alternative for industrial contractors](https://indax.co/compare/constructconnect-alternative): Compare Indax with ConstructConnect. Indax finds industrial projects at the permit, before bid documents, and emails them to you by territory.
- [Industrial Info Resources alternative for contractors](https://indax.co/compare/industrial-info-resources-alternative): Compare Indax with Industrial Info Resources. Indax reads industrial permits and notices daily, links every fact to its filing, and emails you the deal.

- **What exactly do you email me?** One project filed with a government agency this month in your territory that fits your work: the site, the owner, the size, the filing date, the permit and a link to the source, plus the people to call. It comes from intel@indax.net, and you can reply to ask about it.
- **What if nothing was filed in my territory this month?** We tell you, and send the closest fit: from a neighboring state or from the last few weeks, with the real filing date. We never change a date.
- **How is Indax different from Dodge, ConstructConnect or Industrial Info Resources?** Those services are built by researchers and reporters, so a project appears once someone has written it up. Indax reads the government filing itself, the day it is published, so you see the project at the permit, before it reaches a plan room. Every project links to its source filing.
- **What happens on the 15-minute call?** We set up your territory: the states or counties you cover, your trade, the size of job you want and the sectors you work in. From then on, every new filing that fits comes to your inbox.
- **Where does the data come from?** From filings that agencies publish: air permits, state environmental notices, county agendas, incentive approvals, building permits, oil and gas and mining permits, EPA and OSHA records, USGS data and news. Indax reads 53 agencies across 32 states and matches every filing to one company and one site.

## Questions by page

### Network

- **How do suppliers join the Indax network?** An OEM enters a supplier's email and Indax sends the invite. The supplier connects its own email and ERP in one click and shares only the records that belong to that OEM's orders.
- **What is shared between an OEM and a supplier?** RFQs, quotes, POs, acknowledgments, promise dates, shipments, certificates and invoices, each as one record on both sides. Each company controls its own permissions.
- **How fast is setup?** Each system connects in one click, and a company's own orders, quotes and promise dates are live in minutes. There is no migration and no new system to run.

### Public data

- **Where does Indax's public data come from?** From filings agencies publish: air permits, EPA and OSHA records, state notices, county agendas, incentive approvals, building permits, oil and gas drilling permits, mining permits, USGS data and local news, matched to one company and one facility.
- **How is Indax different from ZoomInfo, IIR, ConstructConnect or Dodge?** Those providers are built by research and refresh on a research cycle. Indax ingests filings the day agencies publish them, so it is real time and never stale. It also records the equipment inside each plant and links every value to its source filing.
- **How do sales reps get the data?** By email: ask any question at intel@indax.net, set watchlists in plain words, and receive a daily deal tracker with each new project in full. Any AI agent can also query it through MCP.

### Indax for OEMs

- **What does an OEM get on the first day?** The public record of every supplier and customer facility, plus its own orders, quotes and promise dates once its email, CRM and ERP are connected, which takes minutes.
- **How do an OEM's suppliers onboard?** The OEM invites each supplier by email. The supplier onboards in one click, and every order between them is shared the moment it exists.

### Indax for suppliers

- **How do OEMs find suppliers on Indax?** OEM buyers source on Indax by part, process and location. A supplier's plant is already in the public record; once connected, its capabilities and delivery record show up when an OEM is sourcing.
- **What does each OEM see of a supplier's data?** Only the quotes, POs, promise dates, shipments and certificates that belong to that OEM's own orders. Pricing, capacity and internal notes stay private unless the supplier chooses to share them.
- **Is there a fee on each order?** No. Suppliers pay the same subscription as buyers, with no fee on the order and no charge per seat.

### Indax for robotics suppliers

- **What is Indax?** Indax is a commercial network for industrial companies. Robot OEMs and their suppliers connect the systems they already use, then find each other, quote, order and track delivery on one shared record.
- **Is Indax an AI optimization service?** No. Indax is a commercial network. The AI visibility score is a free check of how your company shows up on the open web. Indax does not sell AI search optimization, and joining the network does not change how other AI tools describe you.
- **How do robot OEMs find suppliers on Indax?** OEMs ask for vendors through the Indax MCP, by part, process and location, from the AI tools they already use. Suppliers who have connected and permissioned their data can answer with lead times, quotes and delivery dates.
- **What does a supplier need to connect?** Its CRM, email and ERP. Nothing is migrated, and there is no new system to run.
- **What can an OEM see?** Only what the supplier permissions: for example lead times, instant quotes and delivery dates. Everything else stays inside the supplier's own systems.
- **Is there a fee on each order?** No. Suppliers pay the same subscription as buyers, with no fee on the order and no charge per seat.
- **How is the score worked out?** An AI agent reads your website to work out what you sell. A second agent, told the product but not your name, writes 12 questions robot OEM buyers might ask, and a third answers each one. Up to 70 points come from how often you are named, 15 from your share of voice against competitors, and 15 from what we could find on your site. The score is a free check, separate from the network. It is an indicator from an AI research agent, not a measure of ChatGPT or other tools, and it checks the open web, not the Indax network.

## Blog

- [A $7 trillion industry still runs on email](https://indax.co/blog/industry-still-runs-on-email) (2026-09-19): One part, one RFQ: 18 handoffs, 8 teams and about 12 days before a quote becomes a PO. Both companies work with the same objects. Only the speed between them is different.
- [Your next customer already filed a permit](https://indax.co/blog/your-next-customer-filed-a-permit) (2026-09-12): Before a plant buys boilers, chillers or gas detection, it usually tells the government. Permits, expansions, citations and closures are public signals of what plants will buy. Here is how to read them first.
- [The growth tax: how coordination costs scale in manufacturing](https://indax.co/blog/the-growth-tax) (2026-09-05): Every time a manufacturer doubles headcount, the hours lost to chasing status double too, and the paths an update can get lost on grow four times as fast. The math, and how to stop paying it.
- [AI agents that chase suppliers by email are the wrong fix](https://indax.co/blog/ai-agents-that-chase-suppliers-by-email) (2026-08-29): A wave of AI agents now writes follow-up emails to suppliers for you. They automate the symptom. The promise date already exists in your supplier's ERP, and the fix is to share it, not to send more email about it.
- [Why AI gives manufacturers confident, wrong answers](https://indax.co/blog/confident-wrong-answers) (2026-08-22): Three quote revisions, three prices, and the AI picked the newest one. It was the wrong one. The problem is missing context, not a weak model, and the fix is a checklist any buyer can use.
- [Why OEMs need a system of exchange](https://indax.co/blog/why-oems-need-a-system-of-exchange) (2026-08-15): Your ERP holds your side of the order, your network carries the PO and the invoice, and your data provider sells you lists. The work of executing the order with your suppliers still runs on email. This post explains where each tool stops and where Indax takes over.
- [The information tax: why manufacturing orders go late](https://indax.co/blog/the-information-tax) (2026-08-08): Most late orders are not a supply problem. The supplier's warning arrives on day 1 and nobody reads it until day 21. Here is where the time goes and how to get it back without hiring.
- [The Indax manifesto](https://indax.co/blog/manifesto) (2026-08-01): Every machine, every plant and every product in the United States is a chain of orders between companies, and today it is all coordinated through email.

## Questions

- **What is Indax?** Indax is the trade network for American industry, used by manufacturers, contractors and suppliers to find projects, get quotes, place orders and track them to delivery. It combines the public record of 2 million US industrial facilities with each company's own email, CRM and ERP in one shared data model, so both sides of an order see the same quote, PO, promise date and status the moment it changes.
- **How does Indax work?** Each company connects its email, CRM and ERP in one click. Indax maps those records to one shared data model. When an OEM and a supplier connect, each grants permission to share the records that belong to their orders, and updates appear on both sides immediately. Teams and AI agents query the record through MCP, by email (ask@indax.net for orders, intel@indax.net for the public record), or through the API.
- **Where does the public data come from?** From filings that agencies publish: air permits, EPA and OSHA records, state notices, county agendas, incentive approvals, building permits, oil and gas drilling permits, mining permits, USGS data and local news. Indax matches them to one company and one facility and links every value to the filing it came from.
- **How is Indax different from SAP Ariba, Coupa or EDI?** B2B networks and EDI record the transaction: the PO, the invoice and the payment. Indax is where the order is executed and coordinated between companies, including RFQ clarifications, spec revisions, promise date changes and certificates. Suppliers pay the same subscription as buyers, with no fee on the order.
- **Which AI agents work with Indax?** Any agent that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), including Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Gemini. Agents read the shared record directly and cite the source of each answer.
- **Who is Indax for?** Sales and purchasing teams at OEMs and at their tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers in manufacturing and industrial supply chains.

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