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Shortlister is a marketplace and vendor directory that helps employers and brokers discover, compare, and connect with HR and employee benefits vendors.
Shortlister is a marketplace and vendor discovery platform that helps employers, brokers, and vendors find, evaluate, and connect with providers across the workforce technology and services space. The platform presents a broad, searchable directory of vendors across categories such as HR technology, benefits and wellness, outsourcing, and related services, enabling users to browse company profiles, read concise descriptions, compare offerings, and filter results to fit their needs. By providing profile pages, up-to-date content, and guidance resources, Shortlister supports informed vendor selection and vendor visibility. The site also offers insights and solutions sections to guide decision-making and vendor management. The overarching goal is to streamline the vendor selection process for employers while giving vendors a credible channel to reach potential customers. The language on the site emphasizes partnership, growth, and practical tools to help organizations optimize their vendor ecosystems.
To empower organizations to discover and connect with a broad ecosystem of vendors, enabling informed decisions and better outcomes for their teams.
What we offer
Shortlister
Streamlines vendor research and selection in HR and benefits through a comprehensive platform.
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Market size by segment
Growth potential (CAGR)
Vendor discovery and marketplace
Capabilities that provide a centralized, searchable directory of HR and workforce vendors with profiles, filters, and comparison features to identify and shortlist providers.
RFP and sourcing management
Capabilities to create and manage RFPs, request and compare quotes, track responses, and evaluate vendor proposals for procurement and vendor selection.
Vendor selection collaboration and decision support
Capabilities that enable private team collaboration during vendor evaluation, including shared ratings, notes, comparison workflows, and decision tracking.
HR vendor research and market intelligence
Capabilities that deliver validated vendor data, market insights, guidance content, and trends to inform strategy and vendor selection in the HR and benefits space.
More information about our offering
Shortlister
Shortlister is a marketplace and vendor discovery platform for HR benefits and related services. It provides a centralized vendor database with thousands of vendor profiles, an end-to-end RFP platform, and tools to research, compare, and connect with vendors across 290+ product categories. The platform emphasizes up-to-date content, robust search and filtering, and guidance resources to streamline vendor selection for employers, brokers, and vendors.
- Access Extensive Vendor ProfilesBrowse thousands of vendor profiles, including detailed descriptions, to make informed decisions.
- Quickly Find Relevant VendorsUtilize advanced filters to efficiently locate vendors that meet specific needs across various categories.
- Explore an Extensive Vendor CatalogAccess a diverse catalog that allows for comprehensive vendor exploration tailored to business needs.
- Streamline RFP ProcessesSimplify the request for proposals (RFP) process, enabling easy management of vendor interactions.
- Trustworthy Vendor InformationCount on validated data that ensures accuracy, helping in making reliable vendor choices.
- Leverage Informative ArticlesBenefit from articles and resources that guide vendors' selection and management strategies.
- Comprehensive Vendor InsightsEvaluate vendors using detailed profiles that summarize key attributes and client feedback.
- Enhance Team CollaborationFacilitate effective communication and collaboration within your team while evaluating vendors.
- Keep Abreast of Industry TrendsGain insights into emerging trends to better position your organization in the evolving HR landscape.
References
Methodology and sourcing behind the figures shown above.
Vendor discovery and marketplace
Estimated by situating the HR/vendor-discovery marketplace as a niche SaaS/marketplace application inside the much larger multi-vendor marketplace and enterprise software markets. Search results show multi-vendor marketplaces and global e‑commerce GMV in the trillions and SaaS/analytics/ISV vendor markets in the tens of billions; applying a conservative share (small percentage of HR tech/procurement marketplace spend and ISV marketplace demand) yields an estimated addressable market near $1B. Growth potential (≈12% CAGR) reflects faster-than-core analytics growth driven by marketplace network effects and enterprise procurement digitization (above the ~7–8% shown for analytics but below very high ISV niche forecasts).
RFP and sourcing management
Estimate anchored to RFP-specific market reports in the search results. GrowthMarketReports reports a global RFP management software market of USD 1.42 billion (2024) with an 11.8% CAGR; other RFP-focused sources show higher CAGRs (13.5% and 18.1%), so the selected CAGR reflects the RFP-specific forecast (11.8%) while acknowledging alternative estimates in the range ~11–18%.
- global RFP Management Software market size reached USD 1.42 billion in 2024; CAGR of 11.8% from 2025 to 2033
- set to rise from USD 0.41 Million in 2026 to hit USD 1.86 Million by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 18.1% between 2026 and 2035
- Request for Proposal (RFP) Software Market size is growing at a CAGR of 13.5% during the forecast period (2026 - 2033)
Vendor selection collaboration and decision support
Estimated by triangulating adjacent market sizes and growth rates in vendor management, supplier collaboration, and decision-support software. Coherent Market Insights reports the global Vendor Management Systems (VMS) market at USD 11.51B in 2026 (CAGR 10.5%); vendor selection collaboration and decision-support is a specialized module/subset of VMS and supplier-collaboration platforms. I estimated this specialty represents roughly 15–25% of the VMS market (core vendor selection, onboarding, analytics and collaborative workflows), producing an approximate market size of ~USD 2.3B. Growth potential uses a blended CAGR between VMS (10.5%), decision-support software (12.1%), and supplier-collaboration forecasts (~7.7%), yielding an estimated CAGR near 11% for this focused segment.
- The Global Vendor Management Systems Market is estimated to be valued at USD 11.51 Bn in 2026 (CAGR of 10.5% from 2026 to 2033).
- Decision Support System (DSS) Software Market was estimated at 16.63 USD Billion in 2024; CAGR (2025 - 2035) 12.12%.
- The Supplier Collaboration Solutions market is anticipated to grow at an annual rate of 7.7% from 2026 to 2033.
HR vendor research and market intelligence
Estimate based on the broader HR technology market (USD 43.66B in 2025, CAGR ~9.2%) and adjacent analytics/HR-analytics submarkets. HR vendor research and market-intelligence is a specialized services/subset (vendor reports, advisory, data subscriptions) representing a small share of HR tech—roughly 0.5–1% of the HR technology market—driven by rising demand for vendor guidance, analytics and GenAI capabilities. Growth potential is set modestly above core HR tech CAGR (10% vs. 9.2%) reflecting accelerating spend on advisory and intelligence services.
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