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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Tacto: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tacto/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tacto/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/tacto.md",
  "title": "Tacto: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Tacto is on the AI procurement software map. No dated launches recorded yet.",
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    "site": "https://www.tacto.ai/",
    "summary": "\"Frontier AI für den Einkauf.\" Tacto sells AI for industrial purchasing in Germany. Its Tacto Intelligence platform has four modules (supplier, spend and cost, sourcing, compliance) and named agents: an RFQ Agent that builds and handles price requests and reads quote PDFs, a Should Cost Agent, a Defender Agent and a Negotiation Agent. Customers are mid-size industrial buyers.",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Frontier AI für den Einkauf.\" Tacto sells AI for industrial purchasing in Germany. Its Tacto Intelligence platform has four modules (supplier, spend and cost, sourcing, compliance) and named agents: an RFQ Agent that builds and handles price requests and reads quote PDFs, a Should Cost Agent, a Defender Agent and a Negotiation Agent. Customers are mid-size industrial buyers.",
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      "title": "The AI procurement software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/procurement-software/#co-tacto",
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      "name": "Tacto",
      "site": "https://www.tacto.ai/",
      "category": "Sourcing and AI negotiation",
      "what": "\"Frontier AI für den Einkauf.\" Tacto sells AI for industrial purchasing in Germany. Its Tacto Intelligence platform has four modules (supplier, spend and cost, sourcing, compliance) and named agents: an RFQ Agent that builds and handles price requests and reads quote PDFs, a Should Cost Agent, a Defender Agent and a Negotiation Agent. Customers are mid-size industrial buyers.",
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      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (EUR 50M round in December 2023 led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures (tech.eu); the site claims 400+ customers and names industrial buyers such as Blum, Arburg and Kubota.)",
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          "name": "tacto.ai",
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        {
          "name": "tacto.ai",
          "url": "https://www.tacto.ai/blog"
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        {
          "name": "tacto.ai",
          "url": "https://www.tacto.ai/de/resources-posts/tacto-gewinnt-ey-ai-award-2026"
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          "url": "https://tech.eu/2023/12/12/tacto-raises-eur50-million-for-ai-based-supply-chain-solutions/"
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