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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Keelvar: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/keelvar/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/keelvar/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/keelvar.md",
  "title": "Keelvar: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Keelvar is on the AI procurement software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated March 4, 2026.",
  "period": "May 7, 2025 to March 4, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "keelvar",
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    "site": "https://www.keelvar.com/",
    "summary": "\"More spend under control. Same headcount.\" Keelvar sells autonomous sourcing and sourcing optimization to procurement teams. Kai, its AI orchestrator, takes a plain-language request, builds the event, picks suppliers and launches it after a buyer approves. Named agents run full events, RFI questions and bid timing. A separate optimizer models complex award scenarios.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "Sourcing and AI negotiation"
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"More spend under control. Same headcount.\" Keelvar sells autonomous sourcing and sourcing optimization to procurement teams. Kai, its AI orchestrator, takes a plain-language request, builds the event, picks suppliers and launches it after a buyer approves. Named agents run full events, RFI questions and bid timing. A separate optimizer models complex award scenarios.",
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        "name": "keelvar.com",
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      "price": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)",
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      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Customers named in Keelvar's own releases and pages include Coca-Cola, Maersk, Mars and Siemens; named in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Sourcing Applications. No revenue disclosed.)",
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      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/keelvar/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-03-04",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Keelvar named in 2026 Gartner Market Guide for both optimization and autonomous sourcing",
      "summary": "Keelvar says it is the only representative vendor in both Advanced Sourcing Optimization and Autonomous Sourcing in the guide, and that its Optimal Close and Autonomous Rate Refresh agents are live.",
      "kind": "Research",
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        "url": "https://www.keelvar.com/newsroom/keelvar-named-in-the-2026-gartner-market-guide-for-sourcing-applications-for-advanced-sourcing-optimization-and-autonomous-sourcing"
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/keelvar/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-11-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Keelvar launches Kai, an AI orchestrator for autonomous sourcing",
      "summary": "Kai turns plain-language requests into sourcing actions and coordinates agents that build bid sheets, set event parameters, recommend strategy and launch events. Listed capabilities include natural-language intake and autonomous negotiations with human oversight.",
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      "from": {
        "name": "The AI procurement software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/procurement-software/#co-keelvar"
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        "name": "CPOstrategy",
        "url": "https://cpostrategy.media/blog/2025/11/12/keelvar-launches-kai-to-power-new-era-of-autonomous-sourcing/"
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/keelvar/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-05-07",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Keelvar previews AI Sourcing Agents at Konnect Dallas",
      "summary": "Keelvar's VP of Product unveiled AI Sourcing Agents on the roadmap, described as \"capable of proactively launching, executing, and improving sourcing events\".",
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        "name": "The AI procurement software map",
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