Right-click.
Save. Done.

Save from the whole web, not a walled catalogue.

Most sourcing tools lock you into their own catalogue of a few hundred thousand SKUs. Real specification does not work like that. The perfect sconce is on a small lighting studio’s site, the fabric is from a mill that has never heard of an API, and the one piece the client will actually approve is from a maker with 900 followers. VADE saves any of it, in a click, and files it under the right brand automatically.

Every save is then categorised, palette-extracted and made searchable, so the thing you clipped at midnight is findable next month by colour, by category, or by the half-remembered word on the tip of your tongue.

Why this is how designers actually work.

Nobody sources in one sitting. It happens in fragments, between site visits and client calls, across a laptop at the studio and a phone on a train. The thing that survives that is a link. The thing that never survives it is a screenshot with no link attached, which is why so many designers end up reverse-image searching their own moodboards.

Designers describe the sourcing itself as “25 tabs open just trying to track down specs, pricing and availability for a single sectional”. One put the working split at “35% designing and 65% logistics”. And when asked what would help, the answer is rarely another dashboard: being able to “save any web reference and its URL” was described by one designer as “a true game changer”.

That is a low bar and almost nothing clears it. Pinboards keep the image and lose the supplier. Browser bookmarks keep the URL and lose the picture, the price and any hope of finding it again. Our comparison with Pinterest goes through that gap in detail. VADE keeps all four parts of a save in one record because the four parts are only useful together.

A Tuesday evening, worked through.

A kitchen and snug in a 1930s semi. You have half an hour and eleven tabs: a Belgian linen mill, a metalwork studio in Sheffield, two high-street retailers whose stock actually moves, and a lighting maker you found through somebody else’s project photo.

You right-click each product page as you go. Each save takes about a second and comes back with the URL, the title, the price the page was showing that evening and the hero image, already filed under the brand. The mill is new to you, so a vendor card is created on that first save with its logo, socials and contact details on it. Nine saves later you close the tabs, which for once costs you nothing.

Three weeks on, the client approves the pendant from the photo you sent and asks when it can be ordered. This is the exact moment the classic failure happens: the piece is approved and nobody can remember which supplier it came from. You open the collection, click the save, and the original product page opens.

Placing the order is your job, not VADE’s. Finding the page again is the part that used to take twenty minutes and now takes four seconds.

What this is not.

The extension captures what a page publishes. That is the whole boundary, and it is worth being blunt about. Trade-only pricing that sits behind a login is not on the public page, so it will not be captured. Made-to-order lead times, current stock levels, fabric-by-the-metre minimums and whether the finish you want is still in production are all things you get by asking, not by clipping. If a page shows retail only, retail only is what lands in your library.

It is also not a scraper of closed catalogues. VADE does not sit behind supplier logins harvesting private price lists, and it will not turn a competitor’s walled database into your own. It saves the page you are looking at, the way you are looking at it.

And VADE is not a procurement suite. No purchase orders, no invoicing, no payments, no scheduling. The ordering conversation still happens between you and your supplier, which is where it belongs.

What else it unlocks.

One right-click is the front door to everything else. The palette pulled from the image is what makes searching your library by colour or hex possible at all. The domain is what builds the vendor card for that brand, so your supplier directory assembles itself from work you were doing anyway. And once a collection has enough in it, an AI moodboard composes from those saves, which can then go out as a client-ready board on a private link. Nothing downstream works without the save, which is why the save is one click.

Questions, answered.

What does the Chrome extension save?

Right-click any product page, image or link and VADE clips it to your library, pulling the title, description, hero image, price and colour palette automatically. Save a vendor homepage and it becomes a vendor card with trade status, contacts and socials.

Why is the extension better than pasting a URL?

The extension reads the page in your own browser, so it gets past the Cloudflare protection that blocks a server-side fetch on many trade and boutique retailers. That means richer, more complete saves, with brand, price and palette, where a pasted link can come back thin.

Can I save to a specific collection?

Yes. The right-click menu lets you save straight to your library, or pick a collection from the popup, with your recent collections surfaced first and a type-to-find search for the rest.

Does it work on any website?

It works on any product or vendor page on the open web. That is the point: you are not limited to a fixed catalogue of a few hundred thousand SKUs. If you can open it in Chrome, you can save it.

Is there a way to save without the extension?

Yes. Paste a URL in the app, forward an email to your private capture address, or use the iOS Shortcut from the share sheet. The extension just gives the richest result for everyday saving at a desk.

Does it work with small independent suppliers?

That is the case it was built for. A one-person ceramics studio with a hand-built shop page, a mill with a PDF price list, a maker selling through a single Instagram-linked page: none of them have an API and none of them appear in any closed catalogue. If the page loads in Chrome, VADE keeps the URL, the title, the image and whatever price is printed on it.

What if the extension gets the details wrong?

Every save lands in a review queue where you can fix the title, the price, the category, the vendor and the extracted palette by hand. Capture from a badly built page is imperfect by nature, so the correction step is part of the design rather than an admission of failure. Corrections stick.

Does this replace my current tools or sit alongside them?

It sits alongside them. VADE is deliberately not a procurement or project-management suite: no purchase orders, no invoicing, no payments, no scheduling. Keep your schedule and your accounts wherever they already live. VADE owns the part in front of that, the finding and the keeping. Free forever to save and search, Solo £12 a month, Studio £29 a month for up to five seats.