About
Audit any vendor before it costs you.
Arodus is a vendor-intelligence co-op. Buyers pool verified data to spot the vendors worth keeping and catch the ones quietly going wrong, all of it from the people who pay the bills.
Why we exist
Know which vendors to trust, and which ones are a problem
Businesses depend on more vendors than ever. Every tool, supplier, and service is another company you're betting on, twice over: once when you choose it, and every day after that you keep paying it. Both bets can go wrong, and the cost lands on you.
Choosing well is brutal. Quality is hard to verify from the outside, the signals are scattered and slow, and the review sites and analyst grids that promise to help are funded by the vendors they cover. It's the newspaper that won't run the bad story about its biggest advertiser, so marketing budget beats merit.
And choosing well once isn't enough. A vendor that was solid last year can be laying people off, breached, sued, or quietly going insolvent right now, and most buyers find out from a headline, after it's already their problem. The risk doesn't end when you sign. That's when it starts.
Arodus does both, because they're the same problem. When buyers pool what they actually know, verified by the spend in their own books, you get warned the moment a vendor you depend on starts to slip. Reviews tell you who's good. Risk tells you who's turning bad. Each one makes the other earlier.
The founder
Why I'm building this
I'm Artem Mashkov. I spent six years helping scale SwagUp to $180M, first as COO and then as CFO, a run that landed it at No. 23 on the 2021 Inc. 5000. Along the way I managed thousands of vendor relationships.
That's where this started. I watched good vendors lose deals to better-marketed ones, and I watched companies pick vendors that looked great in a sales deck and fell apart in practice. The information I needed to tell them apart existed, but it was scattered, slow, and never came from the people who actually paid the bills. I learned most of it the hard way, one bad relationship at a time.
Arodus is the tool I wish I'd had: a way for the buyers who live with these vendors to share what they know, so the next person doesn't have to find out the hard way.
Come build the network with us.
We’re onboarding the first ten Founding Members before launch. If you’re tired of guessing which vendors will hold up, join us.