{ "updated": "2026-11-07", "what": "One row per company on the map. `cat` is its one category, what its own headline sells; `ph` scores the map's stages 0 (not found on its site), 1 (partial) or 2 (core); `caps` lists the AI capabilities it sells today; `flags` marks who it is built for, from the vendor's own pages; `home` names the map a cross-listed row's name, site, category, scale and funding come from; `v` says where the row's facts come from: `primary` (the vendor's own release or changelog), `site` (the vendor's own site) or `reported` (trade press, where the vendor's site would not open); `src` lists every page the researcher opened for the row.", "categories": { "s2p": { "n": "Source-to-pay suites", "d": "One suite from sourcing and contracts to purchase orders, invoices and suppliers, now with procurement agents." }, "intake": { "n": "Intake and orchestration", "d": "One front door for purchase requests, routed through approvals and the systems behind it." }, "sourcing": { "n": "Sourcing and AI negotiation", "d": "Run RFPs, bids and auctions, find suppliers and negotiate, with AI that drafts, compares and bargains." }, "supplier": { "n": "Supplier data, risk and compliance", "d": "Know the suppliers: onboarding, data, risk monitoring and compliance from tier 1 down." }, "spend": { "n": "Spend analytics", "d": "Classify spend, find savings and track it, with AI that cleans and categorizes the data." }, "saas": { "n": "Software buying", "d": "Buy and renew software at the right price, from price benchmarks to negotiation run for you." } }, "phases": [ { "k": "intake", "n": "Intake", "d": "Take the request: purchase requests, policy and approvals." }, { "k": "source", "n": "Source", "d": "Pick the supplier and the price: RFx, auctions, negotiation and contracts." }, { "k": "buy", "n": "Buy", "d": "Order and pay: catalogs, purchase orders, receipts and invoices." }, { "k": "supplier", "n": "Suppliers", "d": "Manage suppliers: onboarding, data, risk, compliance and performance." }, { "k": "analyze", "n": "Spend", "d": "Analyze spend: classification, savings and reporting." } ], "caps": [ { "k": "intake", "n": "AI intake", "d": "Plain-language purchase requests that AI routes to the right path." }, { "k": "rfx", "n": "RFx and bid analysis", "d": "AI-drafted RFPs and AI comparison of bids." }, { "k": "negotiation", "n": "AI negotiation", "d": "AI that negotiates with suppliers, or prepares the negotiation." }, { "k": "discovery", "n": "Supplier discovery", "d": "AI search for new suppliers." }, { "k": "contracts", "n": "Contract review", "d": "AI that drafts, reads or checks contracts against policy." }, { "k": "guided_buying", "n": "Guided buying", "d": "AI that steers a buyer to the right catalog, item or supplier." }, { "k": "invoice", "n": "Invoice and PO matching", "d": "AI that reads invoices and matches them to orders and receipts." }, { "k": "supplier_risk", "n": "Supplier risk", "d": "AI monitoring of supplier financial, cyber, geopolitical or disruption risk." }, { "k": "supplier_data", "n": "Supplier data", "d": "AI onboarding, enrichment and cleanup of supplier records." }, { "k": "compliance", "n": "Supply chain compliance", "d": "Forced labor, sanctions, conflict minerals, ESG and due diligence rules." }, { "k": "spend", "n": "Spend classification", "d": "AI classification and analysis of spend." }, { "k": "price_data", "n": "Price benchmarks", "d": "Benchmarks of what others pay for the same item or software." }, { "k": "copilot", "n": "Assistant", "d": "A general AI assistant or chat over the product's data." }, { "k": "agent", "n": "Named agent", "d": "A named agent that completes multi-step work on its own." }, { "k": "mcp", "n": "MCP or agent API", "d": "An MCP server, agent API, or apps inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot." } ], "flags": [ { "k": "direct", "n": "Direct", "d": "Built for direct materials: production parts, components and raw materials." } ], "modes": { "assist": { "n": "Assistive", "d": "Drafts, forecasts, ranks or suggests when a person asks. The person does each step." }, "agent": { "n": "Agent", "d": "Completes multi-step work on its own once a person sets it going, such as running a sourcing event or negotiating a renewal." }, "always_on": { "n": "Always-on", "d": "Runs continuously without a prompt, such as watching suppliers for disruptions or scanning spend for savings." } }, "scale_tiers": { "1": "Enterprise incumbent: a public company or nine-figure revenue", "2": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base", "3": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed", "4": "No disclosed scale" }, "companies": [ { "n": "Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement", "u": "https://www.oracle.com/procurement/", "w": "Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement covers procure-to-pay, sourcing, contracts and supplier management inside Oracle Fusion Applications. Oracle says it has \"built-in AI and agentic applications that plan, reason, and execute\". Prebuilt agents built in Oracle AI Agent Studio turn supplier quotes into requisitions, compare products and run low-value bidding. Buyers are large Oracle ERP customers.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "Oracle Procurement helps organizations turn data into action with embedded AI and analytics", "url": "https://www.stocktitan.net/news/ORCL/oracle-named-a-leader-in-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-tm-for-source-r1vp9v2oo04s.html" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "guided_buying", "intake", "rfx", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Prebuilt agents: Quote to Purchase Requisition (reads supplier quotes from email and creates requisitions), Product Comparison Advisor, and an Autonomous Sourcing Agent for competitive bidding on low-dollar, high-volume purchases. Oracle also lists embedded agents for product and supplier recommendations, approvals and exception handling. Agents ship at no added cost; customers can build their own in AI Agent Studio.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Part of Oracle Corporation (public listing not printed on a page I opened); Oracle's release of 2026-02-02 names it a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites." }, "hq": "Austin, Texas, United States", "owner": "Oracle Corporation", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led. Oracle says its prebuilt agents are included at no additional cost." }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.oracle.com/procurement/", "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-named-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-source-to-pay-suites-2026-02-02/", "https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-ai-agents-help-supply-chain-leaders-boost-operational-efficiency-2025-10-15/", "https://siliconangle.com/?p=730445" ] }, { "n": "SAP Ariba", "u": "https://www.ariba.com/", "w": "SAP Ariba is SAP's source-to-pay suite, rebuilt on SAP BTP as next-gen SAP Ariba, which SAP calls an \"AI-native source-to-pay platform\". Large buyers use it for intake, sourcing, contracts, procurement and supplier management. Joule is built into the procurement workflows. Early AI capabilities include a Bid Analysis Agent and AI-assisted contract support.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-native source-to-pay platform built on SAP Business Technology Platform", "url": "https://news.sap.com/2026/03/next-gen-sap-ariba-foundation-for-intelligent-procurement/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "rfx" ], "ai": "Joule embedded in next-gen Ariba, a Bid Analysis Agent that \"can automatically evaluate complex bid scenarios, including total cost considerations\", and AI-assisted contract support. SAPinsider (2026-06-25) says a Joule Agent in Ariba Intake Management and AI-assisted contract creation were planned for general availability in June 2026; no shipment was confirmed.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Owned by SAP SE, which SiliconANGLE calls an \"enterprise software giant\" (2025-10-06). A public listing is not printed on a page I opened." }, "owner": "SAP SE", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.ariba.com/", "https://news.sap.com/2026/03/next-gen-sap-ariba-foundation-for-intelligent-procurement/", "https://siliconangle.com/?p=714528", "https://sapinsider.org/blogs/sap-delivers-joule-agents-across-ariba-and-fieldglass-in-june-2026/" ] }, { "n": "Coupa", "u": "https://www.coupa.com/", "w": "Coupa calls itself \"the leading platform for autonomous spend management\". It sells source-to-pay to procurement and finance teams, with a buyer and supplier network. Its Navi agents handle requisitions, sourcing events, invoices, supplier risk and analytics. Agent Studio and Compose let customers build and run their own agents, and Navi Connect opens the data to outside agents over MCP.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "Coupa, the leading platform for autonomous spend management", "url": "https://rossum.ai/company/newsroom/press-release-coupa-acquires-rossum/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "intake", "invoice", "mcp", "rfx", "spend", "supplier_data", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Navi agents across the platform, including Sourcing Event Creation and Risk Sentinel; Agent Studio and Compose to build custom agents; Navi Connect exposes spend data to outside agents (Microsoft Copilot named) over MCP. Coupa says its Tonkean and Rossum purchases add agentic intake and document processing.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Coupa says its network has more than 3,500 buyers and 10M suppliers (Tonkean release, 2026-05-21). Revenue not found on a page I could open, so tier 2 not 1." }, "hq": "Foster City, California, United States", "owner": "Thoma Bravo (portfolio company)", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Coupa's 2025 release says its platform covers \"both direct and indirect\" spend and adds supply chain agents. We found no Coupa page on direct-materials sourcing for manufacturers, so the flag is off." }, "v": "reported", "src": [ "https://rossum.ai/company/newsroom/press-release-coupa-acquires-rossum/", "https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/coupa-acquires-tonkean-to-accelerate-agentic-intake-and-orchestration-for-global-trade", "https://www.vktr.com/the-wire/powering-the-future-of-global-trade-coupa-introduces-next-generation-agentic-ai/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/coupa-launches-coupa-compose-and-catalyst-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-value-and-delivery-at-inspire-2026-302769893.html", "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/coupa-launches-largest-ai-release-for-procurement-teams", "https://ground.news/article/coupa-launches-coupa-compose-and-catalyst-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-value-and-delivery-at-inspire-2026" ] }, { "n": "Esker", "u": "https://www.esker.com/", "w": "Esker sells source-to-pay and order-to-cash automation to the office of the CFO, built on its Synergy AI platform. On the buying side it covers AI-assisted procurement intake, a procurement agent that starts requisitions and quote requests, sourcing, purchase orders and AP. Its Synergy Agentic Framework (2026-09-09) adds Business Agents, a chat entry point and MCP and A2A links to outside agents.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "Agentic AI Suite for the Office of the CFO", "url": "https://www.esker.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 1, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "guided_buying", "intake", "invoice", "mcp" ], "ai": "Synergy AI inside procurement (\"AI-assisted intake\" that steers buyers to approved suppliers and negotiated prices) and AP (AI data capture, touchless invoice processing). The Synergy Agentic Framework (2026-09-09) adds Business Agents for invoice exceptions and approvals, Conversational Finance, and MCP and A2A connectivity.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Esker's homepage says it is trusted by 3,000+ businesses (its FAQ says more than 2,500); it is also in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites per Esker's own page." }, "hq": "Lyon, France, and Middleton, Wisconsin, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.esker.com/", "https://www.esker.com/solutions/procurement/", "https://www.esker.com/analysts/gartner/magic-quadrant-source-to-pay-2026/", "https://www.esker.com/company/press-releases/", "https://www.esker.com/company/press-releases/esker-launches-new-quote-request-solution-simplify-everyday-sourcing/", "https://www.esker.com/company/press-releases/esker-introduces-synergy-agentic-framework-office-cfo/" ] }, { "n": "GEP Quantum Intelligence", "u": "https://www.gep.com/", "w": "GEP calls GEP Quantum Intelligence \"procurement's first true agentic orchestration platform\". GEP is folding GEP SMART and GEP NEXXE into it. Buyers are Fortune 500 and Global 2000 procurement and supply chain teams. A fleet of agents covers sourcing events and quotes, negotiation, contract drafting and category strategy. GEP also sells BOM-driven direct sourcing.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "GEP Quantum Intelligence is procurement's first true agentic orchestration platform.", "url": "https://www.gep.com/software/gep-quantum-intelligence" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "discovery", "negotiation", "price_data", "rfx" ], "ai": "A network of named agents: Quick Quote and Strategic RFP Creator for sourcing events, a Negotiation Agent, a Contract Creation Agent, a Cost Driver Agent on 75,000+ price indices, and category strategy agents. GEP Quantum Intelligence Studio lets customers build or change agents. The platform works with any LLM and any ERP.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "GEP describes its customers as Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises (GEP release, 2026-01-23) and says the platform is live at 100+ GEP customers (GEP FAQ)." }, "hq": "Clark, New Jersey, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "GEP's direct sourcing page: BOM import from ERP, MES and PLM, should-cost modeling, and a Strategic RFP Creator agent that builds sourcing events from BOM lines." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.gep.com/software/gep-quantum-intelligence", "https://www.gep.com/software/gep-quantum-intelligence/supply-chain/direct-sourcing", "https://www.gep.com/everything-you-need-to-know", "https://www.gep.com/blog/strategy/gep-qi-agentic-ai-orchestration", "https://www.gep.com/newsroom/gep-again-placed-in-the-leaders-quadrant-in-2026-gartner-magic-quadranttm-for-source-to-pay-suites", "https://www.gep.com/company/news", "https://www.gep.com/company/news/2025" ] }, { "n": "Ivalua", "u": "https://www.ivalua.com/", "w": "Ivalua is \"the enterprise AI platform for procurement\": a source-to-pay suite on one data model for direct and indirect spend. Its agent, IVA, works across sourcing, contracts, invoices and supplier risk. IVA Studio is the control tower that manages IVA's skills, permissions, tools and MCP links. Buyers are large procurement teams, many in discrete manufacturing.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "Ivalua, the enterprise AI platform for procurement", "url": "https://www.ivalua.com/press-releases/ivalua-launches-iva-studio-redefining-how-procurement-works-with-ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "invoice", "mcp", "negotiation", "rfx", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "IVA, which Ivalua calls \"the first complete Source-to-Pay agent\": it sets up sourcing events and invites suppliers, analyzes proposals, recommends negotiation positions, checks invoices against contract terms, and reacts to supplier risk events. IVA Studio adds a skills framework, platform-level permissions, audit logging and MCP support.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Ivalua's agentic AI page says it is trusted by 500+ leading companies; IDC names it a Leader in AI-enabled direct spend (Ivalua release, 2026-09-22)." }, "hq": "Redwood City, California, United States, and Paris, France", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Ivalua's release of 2026-09-22 says its Direct Materials Spend Management solution unifies sourcing, procurement execution, quality and supply collaboration, with native APQP, PPAP, FAI and 8D support; IDC names it a Leader in AI-enabled direct spend." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.ivalua.com/technology/agentic-ai/", "https://www.ivalua.com/press-releases/ivalua-launches-iva-studio-redefining-how-procurement-works-with-ai/", "https://www.ivalua.com/company/newsroom/", "https://www.ivalua.com/blog/ivalua-now-2026/", "https://www.ivalua.com/press-releases/ivalua-and-unite-strike-partnership-to-deliver-seamless-access-to-europes-trusted-supplier-network/", "https://www.ivalua.com/press-releases/deloitte-and-ivalua-form-alliance-to-modernize-global-source-to-pay-and-supply-chain-management/", "https://www.ivalua.com/press-releases/ivalua-named-a-leader-in-the-idc-marketscape-worldwide-ai-enabled-direct-spend/" ] }, { "n": "JAGGAER", "u": "https://www.jaggaer.com/", "w": "JAGGAER sells JAGGAER One, an AI-powered source-to-pay and supplier collaboration platform. Buyers include manufacturers, universities, hospitals and government. JAI is its assistant and agent layer: role-based AI Workers answer policy questions, draft RFx events, score suppliers, read contracts, autofill supplier records and run Deep Research over spend.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-Powered Procurement Software", "url": "https://www.jaggaer.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "guided_buying", "intake", "rfx", "spend", "supplier_data", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "JAI assistant (28 languages, in JAGGAER One and Teams) and role-based AI Workers made of task agents. JAGGAER's site lists a request front desk, a spend and contract analyst, a sourcing worker that \"Drafts RFx events, scores suppliers and recommends an award\" (a human approves), a contract Q&A agent and an AI autofill agent for supplier data. Customers can build custom agents.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "JAGGAER's homepage cites 1,400+ complex global enterprises as customers, a 13M+ supplier community and $2.9T in annual spend; IDC (JAGGAER release, 2026-10-08) notes a single 45,000-user deployment the vendor cites." }, "hq": "Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "JAGGAER bought Ivoflow, a direct materials spend and price intelligence platform for manufacturers (2026-09-14). IDC (via JAGGAER's release, 2026-10-08) names it a Leader in AI-enabled direct spend and cites BOM costing and supplier quality collaboration." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.jaggaer.com/", "https://www.jaggaer.com/solutions/jai", "https://www.jaggaer.com/press-releases", "https://www.jaggaer.com/press-release/jaggaer-launches-jai-ai-assistant", "https://www.jaggaer.com/press-release/jaggaer-completes-acquisition-of-ivoflow", "https://www.jaggaer.com/press-release/jaggaer-named-a-leader-in-the-idc-marketscape-2026", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/meet-jai-jaggaer-introduces-first-intelligent-ai-copilot-for-procurement-transformation", "https://ecommercenews.com.au/story/jaggaer-launches-ai-assistant-for-procurement-teams", "https://itbrief.news/story/jaggaer-unveils-jai-ai-platform-to-transform-procurement-tasks" ] }, { "n": "Precoro", "u": "https://www.precoro.com/", "w": "Precoro is purchasing software for mid-sized companies with spread-out operations: requisitions, approvals, purchase orders, receiving, vendor management and analytics. Its homepage describes an Intake agent that turns supplier quotes into approval-ready requests, a Contract Agent, AI invoice processing and an AI Assistant. AI features read supplier quotes into requisitions, extract invoice data and answer spend questions in chat.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "Procurement Software for Purchasing Centralization & Automation", "url": "https://www.precoro.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 0, "buy": 2, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "intake", "invoice" ], "ai": "AI for Quotation (turns PDF and image quotes into purchase requisitions), AI Assistant (chat over spend, supplier and delivery data), AI OCR for documents built on Google's Custom Extractor, and AI agents named on the homepage without a list.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Precoro's homepage says 1000+ customers; no funding found." }, "price": { "note": "not read; check precoro.com/pricing" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.precoro.com/", "https://www.eznewswire.com/newsroom/precoro-ai-procurement-quote-to-requisition", "https://www.eznewswire.com/newsroom/precoro-expands-ai-capabilities-vendor-management", "https://www.ajot.com/news/precoro-launches-ai-assistant-to-eliminate-reporting-bottlenecks-and-speed-up-spend-decisions", "https://briefglance.com/articles/precoro-targets-the-final-frontier-of-procurement-integrated-payments" ] }, { "n": "Zycus", "u": "https://www.zycus.com/", "w": "Zycus sells source-to-pay with the Merlin Agentic Platform: \"Autonomous Procurement from Intake to Outcomes\". Merlin Intake takes requests in Microsoft Teams. The Autonomous Negotiation Agent (ANA) negotiates tail spend with suppliers in parallel. Merlin Autonomous Sourcing, shown as a first look in June 2026, builds supplier shortlists and runs sourcing comparisons. Buyers are enterprise procurement teams.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "Autonomous Procurement from Intake to Outcomes", "url": "https://www.zycus.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "discovery", "intake", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Merlin Intake (policy check and routing), Merlin ANA (multi-round tail-spend negotiation on price, delivery and warranty, within guardrails), Merlin Autonomous Sourcing (supplier shortlists and sourcing comparisons, in preview), Merlin Contract Value Leakage and an analytics agent that answers questions in plain language.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Zycus's homepage says 500+ enterprises run on the Merlin Agentic Platform; it announced a 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader placement (Zycus release, 2026-01-23)." }, "hq": "Princeton, New Jersey, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.zycus.com/", "https://www.zycus.com/solution/merlin-agentic-ai-platform", "https://www.zycus.com/solution/merlin-ana", "https://www.zycus.com/press-releases/zycus-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-source-to-pay-suites", "https://www.zycus.com/press-releases/zycus-horizon-us-2025-i2o-era-of-procurement", "https://www.zycus.com/blog/agentic-ai/agentic-ai-procurement-us-dpw-new-york-2026" ] }, { "n": "Procurify", "u": "https://www.procurify.com/", "w": "Procurify sells spend control to mid-market finance teams: purchase requests, approvals, POs, invoices, payments and cards. In July 2026 it called itself \"a fully agentic procurement platform\". Guided Intake walks staff through a policy-checked request, Order Autopilot codes order lines from the company's own history, and a rebuilt AP engine matches invoices.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "completing its transformation into a fully agentic procurement platform", "url": "https://www.procurify.com/press_release/procurify-launches-agentic-procurement-platform-that-acts-on-your-own-spend-data" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 0, "buy": 2, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "guided_buying", "intake", "invoice", "spend" ], "ai": "Guided Intake and Order Autopilot agents, an agent-powered AP engine, and AI-powered Spend Insights with the Spend Analyst assistant (beta at launch). Procurify says it is moving from \"AI that suggests\" to \"AI that acts\".", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional growth capital from CIBC Innovation Banking (Procurify release, 2024-10-30; amount not stated). Procurify says hundreds of finance and operations teams run $100B+ through it (procurify.com press page)." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth capital, US$20M, CIBC Innovation Banking, 2024-10-30", "investors": "CIBC Innovation Banking", "src": "https://www.procurify.com/press_release/procurify-launches-all-new-ap-automation-solution/" }, "hq": "Vancouver, Canada", "price": { "note": "not read; check procurify.com/pricing" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.procurify.com/press_release/procurify-launches-agentic-procurement-platform-that-acts-on-your-own-spend-data", "https://www.procurify.com/press-releases/", "https://www.procurify.com/press_release/procurify-launches-ai-powered-spend-insights/", "https://www.procurify.com/press_release/procurify-launches-all-new-ap-automation-solution/", "https://letsdatascience.com/news/procurify-adds-agentic-intake-order-coding-and-invoice-proce-9c4ba28e" ] }, { "n": "Vroozi", "u": "https://www.vroozi.com/", "w": "Vroozi sells an AI-powered procure-to-pay platform: a supplier and catalog marketplace, purchasing, approvals, invoice automation and payments, run on top of the buyer's own ERP. SmartPR reads sales quotes and builds ERP-ready purchase requisitions. Buyers include manufacturing, aerospace, construction and field-service firms.", "cat": "s2p", "cat_src": { "quote": "Vroozi unifies purchasing, invoice automation, payments, and spend intelligence in one intuitive, AI-powered procure-to-pay platform.", "url": "https://www.vroozi.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 0, "buy": 2, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "guided_buying", "intake", "invoice" ], "ai": "SmartPR (quote to requisition), an AI-powered marketplace search, AI OCR with 2-way and 3-way matching, and \"Vroozi Intelligence\" machine learning for AP. No named autonomous agent is published.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "Vroozi says it is trusted by global enterprises managing billions in spend (homepage); no customer count or funding read." }, "hq": "Los Angeles, California, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.vroozi.com/", "https://www.vroozi.com/blog/vroozi-launches-smartpr-to-automate-sales-quote-processing/", "https://www.vroozi.com/blog/vroozi-named-leader-nucleus-research-source-to-pay-technology-value-matrix-2026/" ] }, { "n": "Levelpath", "u": "https://www.levelpath.com", "w": "\"The Autonomous Procurement Platform.\" Levelpath sells Ranger, a source-to-pay platform that runs intake, sourcing, supplier management, contracts, risk and procure-to-pay with AI agents that direct the work instead of processing it. Buyers build their own agents in Ranger Studio. Levelpath was founded by the team behind Scout RFP, and its customers are large enterprises.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Autonomous Procurement Platform", "url": "https://www.levelpath.com" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "intake", "invoice", "rfx", "supplier_data", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Ranger, with Ranger Studio for building agents in plain language, five autonomous workflows (sourcing, contract review, supplier onboarding, third-party risk, invoice matching and approval), an AI Front Door for requesters, natural-language dashboards and Contract Discovery across up to 10,000 contracts.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$55M Series B led by Battery Ventures (Jun 2025); about $99.5M raised across seed, Series A and Series B" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 99.5, "last": "Series B, $55M, 2025-06-30", "investors": "Battery Ventures (lead), Benchmark, Redpoint", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/next-gen-procurement-platform-levelpath-nabs-55m" }, "price": { "note": "not published; demo request only. Ranger is included at no extra cost for existing customers." }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.levelpath.com", "https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/next-gen-procurement-platform-levelpath-nabs-55m", "https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/enterprise-ai/levelpath-launches-ranger-for-autonomous-procurement", "https://cyprusshippingnews.com/2026/10/07/levelpath-launches-ranger-the-first-ai-platform-built-for-autonomous-procurement/" ] }, { "n": "Lio", "u": "https://lio.ai/", "w": "\"World's first multi-agent system for direct and indirect Procurement.\" Lio (formerly askLio) sells AI agents that work on top of a buyer's ERP, email and contracts. They read purchase requests, review price proposals, benchmark and compare suppliers, prepare and run negotiations, set up vendors and complete purchases. Enterprise procurement teams are the buyers.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "World's first multi-agent system for direct and indirect Procurement.", "url": "https://lio.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "discovery", "guided_buying", "intake", "negotiation", "rfx", "supplier_data" ], "ai": "Lio OS, a multi-agent system that matches, chases and handles exceptions, models should-cost and prepares negotiations. Its CEO says the agents execute the workflow end to end.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$30M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Mar 2026); $33M raised in total" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 33, "last": "Series A, $30M, 2026-03-05", "investors": "Andreessen Horowitz (lead), SV Angels, Harry Stebbings, Y Combinator", "src": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/lio-ai-series-a-a16z-30m-raise-automate-enterprise-procurement/" }, "founded": 2023, "hq": "New York, New York, USA", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Lio's homepage headline says the system covers direct and indirect procurement." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://lio.ai/", "https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/lio-ai-series-a-a16z-30m-raise-automate-enterprise-procurement/", "https://tools.prnewswire.com/en-us/live/20823/release/20260305EN02303", "https://www.lio.ai/", "https://www.lio.ai/newsroom" ] }, { "n": "Omnea", "u": "https://www.omnea.co", "w": "\"The Agentic Operating System for Procurement.\" Omnea gives procurement and finance teams one front door for requests, then runs approvals, sourcing, pricing checks, contracting, renewals and supplier monitoring behind it. The AI is Omnea AI, a Context Engine that learns from past approvals, Price Intelligence, Autonomous Sourcing, Guided Buying and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and others.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "The Agentic Operating System for Procurement.", "url": "https://www.omnea.co" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 1, "buy": 1, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "guided_buying", "intake", "mcp", "price_data" ], "ai": "Omnea AI with a Context Engine, Autonomous Sourcing, Price Intelligence (benchmarks from Tropic, sold as an add-on), Guided Buying, Continuous Monitoring and an MCP server that reads supplier data from AI tools. Writing back to supplier records from AI tools is still in development.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$50M Series B (Sep 2025), over $75M raised in total" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 75, "last": "Series B, $50M, 2025-09-18", "investors": "Insight Partners, Khosla Ventures", "src": "https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-omnea-raises-50m-make-procurement-every-cfos-competitive-advantage" }, "founded": 2022, "hq": "London, UK", "price": { "note": "not published; Price Intelligence is a paid add-on" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.omnea.co", "https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-omnea-raises-50m-make-procurement-every-cfos-competitive-advantage", "https://www.omnea.co/press-release/omnea-launches-industry-first-mcp", "https://www.omnea.co/resources/press-releases", "https://www.omnea.co/press-release", "https://www.omnea.co/press-release/omnea-and-tropic-partner" ] }, { "n": "ORO Labs", "u": "https://orolabs.ai", "w": "\"Procurement that works for everyone.\" ORO sells agentic orchestration for global enterprises: intake management, approvals, sourcing, supplier management and risk orchestration in workflows where people, agents and systems work together. Buyers build agents in ORO Studio, bring their own LLM, and set policy controls and audit trails. ORO says its platform is deployed across 100+ countries.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "Procurement that works for everyone", "url": "https://orolabs.ai" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 1, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "compliance", "copilot", "intake", "negotiation", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "ORO AI, ORO Studio and an Agent Builder (\"Say what you need. Get a working agent.\"), ready-made agents for risk reviews, fraud detection, global tax, sustainability, anti-bribery and legal reviews, an intake agent that suggests negotiation opportunities, and a bring-your-own-LLM option.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$100M Series C (2026-03-12); ORO reports 300% revenue growth in the past year and deployment across 100+ countries." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series C, $100M, 2026-03-12", "investors": "Brighton Park Capital, Goldman Sachs Alternatives growth equity (leads), Norwest Venture Partners, B Capital, XYZ Capital, Felicis", "src": "https://orolabs.ai/newsroom/oro-series-c-announcement" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://orolabs.ai", "https://orolabs.ai/newsroom/oro-series-c-announcement", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/oro-labs-launches-new-agentic-ai-capabilities-to-power-truly-autonomous-and-secure-procurement-workflows" ] }, { "n": "Ramp Procurement", "u": "https://ramp.com/procurement", "w": "\"Buy at the speed of AI.\" Ramp Procurement is Ramp's purchase-request and approval product, sold with a Procurement add-on. Employees describe a purchase in plain language and AI agents research vendors, draft and score RFx documents, review contracts and compliance, track renewals and pre-fill requests. Approvers still make the decisions.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "Buy at the speed of AI", "url": "https://ramp.com/procurement" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 1, "buy": 1, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "guided_buying", "intake", "price_data", "rfx", "supplier_data" ], "ai": "Procurement Agents built into approval workflows (vendor research, contract review, compliance checks), AI Intake that builds the request from plain language, RFx drafting and scoring, renewal agents with price benchmarks, and plain-English reports. Agentic Intake Programs are in alpha and do not approve or reject on their own.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation (Jun 2026). Procurement is one product of a larger spend management company." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series F, $750M, 2026-06-04", "investors": "ICONIQ, GIC, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (leads)", "src": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/04/financial-technology-provider-ramp-raises-750m-funding-44b-valuation/" }, "price": { "note": "AI Intake is free for all Ramp customers; workflow orchestration, AI agents, PO management, renewals and reporting need the paid Ramp Plus add-on. No dollar figures published." }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://ramp.com/procurement", "https://ramp.com/blog/procurement-ai-agents", "https://support.ramp.com/agentic-intake-programs", "https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/04/financial-technology-provider-ramp-raises-750m-funding-44b-valuation/", "https://www.pymnts.com/?p=3237219" ] }, { "n": "Zip", "u": "https://zip.com/", "w": "\"AI for procurement.\" Zip is an intake-to-procure and procure-to-pay platform for enterprise procurement, finance and legal teams. Employees ask for a purchase, Zip routes it through approvals, and AI agents do the checking: vendor research, contract review, price negotiation and invoice coding. It sells Superagents, an AI Procurement Concierge, AI Contract Orchestration and a procurement-native MCP.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI for procurement.", "url": "https://zip.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 1, "buy": 2, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "guided_buying", "intake", "invoice", "mcp", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Zip Superagents (Procurement, Contract, AP, Config and Intake), more than 50 task agents with a no-code AI Agent Builder, a Price Negotiation Agent, a Preferred Vendor Agent, AI Contract Orchestration, an AI Procurement Concierge and Zip MCP.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$190M Series D at a $2.2B valuation (Oct 2024); its homepage names dozens of enterprise customers" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series D, $190M, 2024-10-21", "investors": "BOND (lead), DST Global, Adams Street, Alkeon, Y Combinator, CRV", "src": "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/zip-secures-190-million-in-landmark-series-d-funding-marking-the-largest-investment-in-procurement-technology-in-over-two-decades" }, "hq": "San Francisco, California, USA", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (ROI calculator and demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://zip.com/", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/zip-secures-190-million-in-landmark-series-d-funding-marking-the-largest-investment-in-procurement-technology-in-over-two-decades" ] }, { "n": "Focal Point", "u": "https://www.getfocalpoint.com", "w": "\"The AI-Powered Procurement Operating System built for enterprises.\" Focal Point sits on top of existing systems and gives procurement teams one place for requests (Intake to Anything), sourcing events, supplier relationships, third-party risk and contracts. The AI automates routine requests, supplier risk assessments and contract data extraction, and a co-pilot mode acts on what is on the user's screen.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-Powered Procurement Operating System built for enterprises.", "url": "https://www.getfocalpoint.com" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 1, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "contracts", "copilot", "intake", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "AI-powered Intake to Anything, AI Task Automation, embedded AI for supplier risk assessments, contract data extraction and category strategy frameworks, and an agentic AI co-pilot mode. Category Management is marked coming soon.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count published" }, "hq": "Atlanta, Georgia, USA", "price": { "note": "not published; ROI calculator and demo only" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.getfocalpoint.com", "https://www.ecmconnection.com/doc/focal-point-accelerates-growth-as-enterprises-centralize-automate-procurement-management-0001" ] }, { "n": "Opstream", "u": "https://www.opstream.ai", "w": "\"The #1 Procurement Orchestration Platform.\" Opstream takes purchase requests and runs them through workflows, pulling data from ERPs, contract tools, HR systems and compliance tools into one AI layer. It targets procurement and finance teams that want self-service buying with compliance.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "The #1 Procurement Orchestration Platform", "url": "https://www.opstream.ai" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 0, "buy": 1, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "contracts", "intake", "invoice" ], "ai": "A data layer that unifies data across the tech stack to power autonomous workflows, AI Document Comparison (automated contract review), invoice reconciliation and analytics. No named agents on its pages.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count published; homepage shows customer logos and analyst logos" }, "hq": "New York, New York, USA", "price": { "note": "pricing page linked, no prices shown; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.opstream.ai", "https://cpostrategy.media/blog/2026/07/22/opstream-navigating-game-changing-ai-in-procurement/", "https://www.opstream.ai/blog/gartner-hype-cycle-2026/", "https://www.opstream.ai/newsroom/", "https://www.opstream.ai/blog/" ] }, { "n": "Tonkean", "u": "https://www.tonkean.com", "w": "\"AI-Powered Enterprise Intake & Process Orchestration.\" Tonkean is a no-code orchestration platform that wraps around systems like Coupa, SAP and contract tools. Procurement, legal and other back-office teams use it to take requests, route them and run the work with named AI agents. Coupa bought Tonkean in May 2026 and says it adds multi-agent orchestration.", "cat": "intake", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-Powered Enterprise Intake & Process Orchestration", "url": "https://www.tonkean.com" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 1, "buy": 1, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "intake", "invoice", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "AI Front Door, Enterprise Copilot, Enterprise Agents and Proactive AI Agents (pre-built Renewals, Third-Party Risk and Spend Anomaly agents plus a no-code builder), AI Sourcing, NDA, Invoice Processing and Contract Renewal agents, and the AI-native Contracts Hub.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count published. Acquired by Coupa (May 2026), which reports a network of more than 3,500 buyers." }, "founded": 2015, "hq": "Palo Alto, California, USA (R&D in Tel Aviv, Israel)", "owner": "Coupa", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.tonkean.com", "https://www.tonkean.com/blog/tonkean-announces-proactive-ai-agents--first-proactive-agents-for-enterprise-g-a-teams", "https://www.tonkean.com/blog/tonkean-releases-contracts-hub-ai-native-contract-orchestration-to-modernize-obligation-lifecycle", "https://www.pymnts.com/partnerships/2026/coupa-acquires-tonkean-to-expand-ai-spend-management/" ] }, { "n": "Workday Strategic Sourcing", "u": "https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/spend-management/strategic-sourcing.html", "w": "\"Strategic Sourcing Software.\" Workday Strategic Sourcing runs RFPs and sourcing events inside the Workday spend suite. AI helps teams evaluate bids and compare supplier responses, and Workday's contract agents help draft and review contracts. Workday says customers usually launch a first sourcing event within 30 days. Sold to large enterprises that already run Workday.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Strategic Sourcing Software", "url": "https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/spend-management/strategic-sourcing.html" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "rfx" ], "ai": "AI in RFx Analysis for bid evaluation and response comparison. Contract Negotiation Agent and Contract Intelligence Agent sit in Workday Contract Lifecycle Management, powered by Evisort AI. Workday's 2026R2 release review also lists a Strategic Sourcing Agent and bid questionnaire analysis.", "scale": { "tier": 1, "basis": "Product of Workday, Inc., a public enterprise software company." }, "owner": "Workday", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Product page does not mention direct materials." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/spend-management/strategic-sourcing.html", "https://community-content.workday.com/en-us/public/feature-release/workday-success-plans--feature-release-reviews/2026r2-feature-release-review-webinars/2026r2-workday-strategic-sourcing-procurement-and-inventory.html", "https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-05-19-Workday-Unveils-Next-Generation-of-Illuminate-Agents-to-Transform-HR-and-Finance-Operations", "https://hrtechfeed.com/?p=427187" ] }, { "n": "Archlet", "u": "https://archlet.io/", "w": "\"One platform for every sourcing need.\" Archlet sells sourcing software for strategic, tactical and tail spend, with Spark, an AI agent that sets up RFPs, recommends auction formats, builds scenarios from plain-language rules and summarizes bids. A new Autonomous Sourcing product lets Spark run tactical and tail events within guardrails. It lists direct materials as a category.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Meet Spark, the AI Agent for smarter sourcing", "url": "https://archlet.io/" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "intake", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Spark has a Setup Agent (questionnaires, bid sheets, cost formulas), Auction Agent, Scenario Agent and Summary Agent. Autonomous Sourcing has Spark handle intake, supplier invitations and follow-ups, bid analysis and award recommendations.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Customers named on its own site include OMV, Walmart, PepsiCo, TotalEnergies and Covestro; says it welcomed more than ten new customers in one quarter of 2025. No funding published." }, "founded": 2019, "hq": "Zurich, Switzerland", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Site lists Direct Materials as a category and Manufacturing as an industry. Not built only for direct." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://archlet.io/", "https://archlet.io/blog/introducing-autonomous-sourcing-ai-native-automation-for-tactical-and-tail-spend", "https://archlet.io/blog/the-next-chapter-of-archlet", "https://archlet.io/blog/introducing-spark-archlets-ai" ] }, { "n": "Fairmarkit", "u": "https://www.fairmarkit.com/", "w": "\"Source Without Limits.\" Fairmarkit sells autonomous sourcing for tail and strategic spend. Its Total Agentic Sourcing platform runs a set of agents for intake, supplier discovery, RFx execution, evaluation and compliance, plugged into ERP and procure-to-pay systems. Procurement teams set the rules; the agents build and run the events. It is in private beta as of the April 2026 release.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Source Without Limits", "url": "https://www.fairmarkit.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "discovery", "intake", "mcp", "rfx" ], "ai": "KIT is Fairmarkit's network of agents: Intake, RFx, Supplier, Evaluation and Auto Compliance, with built-in memory and MCP support. The site lists an Intake Agent, Supplier Discovery Agent, RFx Execution Agent, Evaluation Agent and Performance and Compliance Agent. A separate AI Bid Analysis Agent summarizes closed events.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Customers named on its own site and release include Boeing, bp, Snowflake and Emirates Flight Catering. No revenue or funding published." }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Site names manufacturing as an industry but makes no direct-materials claim; the focus is tail and strategic spend." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.fairmarkit.com/", "https://www.fairmarkit.com/press", "https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/enterprise-ai/fairmarkit-launches-total-agentic-sourcing-for-ai-powered-enterprise-spend", "https://docs.fairmarkit.com/buyers/requests-intake-buyers/ai-bid-analysis-agent", "https://fairmarkit.com/blog/fairmarkit-partners-with-zip-to-power-source-to-pay-with-autonomous-sourcing", "https://www.fairmarkit.com/blog/fairmarkit-wherever-you-work-introducing-mcp" ] }, { "n": "Keelvar", "u": "https://www.keelvar.com/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "More spend under control. Same headcount.", "url": "https://www.keelvar.com/autonomous-sourcing" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "intake", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Kai is an AI orchestrator that coordinates a Sourcing agent (intake to award), an RFI agent and an Optimal Close agent. Keelvar's March 2026 release also names an Autonomous Rate Refresh agent as live.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "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." }, "hq": "Cork, Ireland", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Its March 2026 release lists direct materials among supported spend categories and its autonomous sourcing page cites a manufacturing result; it is category-agnostic, not built only for direct." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.keelvar.com/", "https://www.keelvar.com/kai", "https://www.keelvar.com/autonomous-sourcing", "https://www.keelvar.com/newsroom", "https://www.keelvar.com/newsroom/keelvar-named-in-the-2026-gartner-market-guide-for-sourcing-applications-for-advanced-sourcing-optimization-and-autonomous-sourcing", "https://www.keelvar.com/blog/keelvar-konnect-dallas-2025-ai-agents-market-volatility-and-more", "https://cpostrategy.media/blog/2025/11/12/keelvar-launches-kai-to-power-new-era-of-autonomous-sourcing/", "https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/enterprise-ai/keelvar-launches-kai-an-ai-orchestrator-for-autonomous-sourcing" ] }, { "n": "Scoutbee", "u": "https://www.scoutbee.com/", "w": "\"The future of AI-powered procurement.\" Scoutbee sells supplier discovery and qualification: buyers search a supplier dataset, check compliance and run sourcing, and suppliers get a free profile for discovery by large buyers. Coupa bought it in late 2025 to put supplier search inside its platform and feed AI sourcing agents. The vendor's site names no specific AI features.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "The future of AI-powered procurement", "url": "https://www.scoutbee.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 1, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "discovery", "supplier_data" ], "ai": "AI-powered supplier search and matching over a supplier dataset and network. Coupa says it will use the network data to power AI agents that automate sourcing. The site names no agent or model.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Acquired by Coupa (announced 2025-10-07); customers named on its own site include Walmart, Unilever, Siemens and Mondelez." }, "hq": "San Francisco, United States", "owner": "Coupa", "price": { "note": "not published; suppliers get a free profile, buyer pricing not listed" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Site does not mention direct materials or manufacturing." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.scoutbee.com/", "https://media.scoutbee.com/scoutbee-advances-ai-vision-with-core-product-shift-and-strategic-move-to-san-francisco", "https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/enterprise-ai/coupa-acquires-scoutbee-for-ai-supplier-intelligence", "https://www.osborneclarke.com/news/osborne-clarke-advises-shareholders-scoutbee-sale-coupa" ] }, { "n": "Arkestro", "u": "https://arkestro.com/", "w": "\"The only predictive procurement platform for accelerated net growth.\" Arkestro sells a platform that runs quote requests and sourcing events with AI, using behavioral science and game theory to price and negotiate. Its new Arkestro Intelligence models recommend prices and suppliers and forecast purchases; Arkestro Opportunities suggests line-item actions to cut cost and risk. Buyers include procurement teams in manufacturing, energy, automotive and consumer goods.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "The only predictive procurement platform for accelerated net growth", "url": "https://arkestro.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "discovery", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Arkestro Intelligence is a set of models for price recommendations, supplier suggestions, purchase forecasting and commodity-linked price prediction. Arkestro Opportunities, in limited beta, is a category co-pilot that can also execute its recommendations.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$36M strategic investment reported May 2025 led by Altira Group and Aramco Ventures; customers named on its site include Koch, JLL, Chevron and Dover." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Strategic investment, $36M, 2025-05-15 (as reported)", "investors": "Altira Group and Aramco Ventures (lead), NEA, KDT, Activant", "src": "https://pulse2.com/arkestro-36-million-raised-for-predictive-procurement-platform/amp/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Site lists spend categories as direct, indirect, tail, services and spot buys and manufacturing as an industry. Not built only for direct." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://arkestro.com/", "https://www.ajot.com/news/arkestro-announces-arkestro-labs-powerful-new-procurement-ai-offerings-at-optimal-25", "https://pulse2.com/arkestro-36-million-raised-for-predictive-procurement-platform/amp/", "https://www.webull.com/news/15660368637133824" ] }, { "n": "Aron", "u": "https://aron.ai/", "w": "\"Aron does the work of procurement, so your team can run it.\" Aron, formerly NegotiateAI, sells an AI chief of staff for procurement teams. Its agent runs RFQs over email, chases supplier quotes, redlines contracts against a playbook, watches supply risk and checks invoices against contracts. It needs no integration. Launched September 2026 with $8M.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Aron does the work of procurement, so your team can run it.", "url": "https://aron.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "invoice", "rfx", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "An AI agent (a digital employee) that collects bids by email, sends follow-ups, organizes the data and decides from a knowledge graph linking invoices and contracts. Works through email, Slack, Teams and phone, per the launch coverage.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$8M total: a $2M pre-seed led by Menlo Ventures and a $6M seed led by Storm Ventures (SiliconANGLE 2026-09-14 for the $6M seed and $8M total; Efficiently Connected for the pre-seed); one customer testimonial on its site." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 8, "last": "Seed, $6M, 2026-09-14 (after a $2M pre-seed)", "investors": "Storm Ventures (seed lead), Menlo Ventures (pre-seed lead)", "src": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/14/procurement-automation-startup-aron-launches-with-8m-in-funding/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Site says it covers parts, materials and services but does not claim direct materials." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://aron.ai/", "https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/14/procurement-automation-startup-aron-launches-with-8m-in-funding/", "https://www.efficientlyconnected.com/aron-ai-chief-of-staff-procurement/" ] }, { "n": "Didero", "u": "https://www.didero.ai/", "w": "\"Supply chains on autopilot.\" Didero sells AI agents to manufacturers and distributors that run direct spend work on top of their ERP and email: sourcing and quoting, purchase orders, supplier communications, order tracking and exceptions. A human approves recommendations at first; the system learns preferences and automates more. It goes live in about 18 days from ERP connection, per its site.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Supply chains on autopilot", "url": "https://www.didero.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 2, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "invoice", "rfx" ], "ai": "Seven agent groups including Sourcing and Quoting, PO Management, Planning and Replenishment, Logistics and Delivery, Accounts Payable and Optimization, and Supplier Performance Management. Agents read supplier email, update ERP records and escalate exceptions.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$30M Series A in February 2026 co-led by Chemistry and Headline with Microsoft's M12 (investor blog), after a $7M seed (DC Velocity); one named customer quote (FABCO) on its site." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 37, "last": "Series A, $30M, 2026-02-12", "investors": "Chemistry and Headline (co-lead), M12; seed from First Round Capital, Construct Capital and others", "src": "https://blog.headline.com/p/our-investment-in-dideros-30m-series" }, "founded": 2023, "hq": "New York, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo and ROI calculator)" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Site describes agents that execute direct spend workflows for manufacturers and distributors. Total funding of about $37M is SiliconANGLE citing Tracxn." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.didero.ai/", "https://blog.headline.com/p/our-investment-in-dideros-30m-series", "https://siliconangle.com/?p=730889", "https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2026/02/20/didero-30-million-funding-ai-procurement/", "https://www.dcvelocity.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/procurement-ai-firm-didero-acquires-covalent-ai" ] }, { "n": "Globality", "u": "https://www.globality.com/", "w": "\"Truly autonomous sourcing.\" Globality's Glo 2.0 runs a sourcing event from intake to award for direct, indirect and tail spend. Its agents write RFx documents, find and invite suppliers, negotiate on price, quality and delivery together, and recommend an award. Teams pick Collaborative Mode or Autonomous Mode and keep an audit trail of each decision.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Truly autonomous sourcing.", "url": "http://www.globality.com/platform" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "discovery", "intake", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Glo 2.0 agents reason over spend history and market data, decide the route and negotiation strategy, and message suppliers. Glo Intake is a conversational front door that applies policy and runs a should-cost analysis.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Institutional funding disclosed (Series E of $138.3M from Sienna Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund, per the headline on its news page); customers named in the Glo 2.0 release include Dropbox and HP." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series E, $138.3M (date not published)", "investors": "Sienna Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund", "src": "http://www.globality.com/company/news" }, "hq": "Palo Alto, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "The September 2026 release positions Glo 2.0 for direct, indirect and tail spend; the platform page itself does not mention direct materials." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "http://www.globality.com/platform", "http://www.globality.com/company/news", "https://martechseries.com/sales-marketing/marketing-automation/globality-launches-glo-2-0-the-first-fully-autonomous-sourcing-platform/" ] }, { "n": "LightSource", "u": "https://lightsource.ai/", "w": "\"From concept to award, in one AI-powered operating system.\" LightSource sells AI sourcing for direct materials to manufacturers. Its AI Workforce, launched July 2026, has five capabilities: natural-language questions over spend and suppliers, item ingestion from drawings and PDFs, RFQ setup, supplier activation and award optimization against cost, location and lead-time limits.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "From concept to award, in one AI-powered operating system.", "url": "https://lightsource.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "discovery", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "AI Workforce: Ask LightSource (plain-English queries), item ingestion, RFX setup, supplier activation (automated reminders and responses) and award optimization (compares negotiation and award scenarios).", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$33M seed and Series A at a $130M valuation (April 2025) led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures; customers named on its site include Arxada, BRP and Canada Goose." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 33, "last": "Seed and Series A, $33M, 2025-04-15", "investors": "Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures (lead), J2 Ventures", "src": "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/lightsource-emerges-from-stealth-with-33m-to-modernize-sourcing-and-procurement-with-ai" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Site headline is Direct materials and the page title is AI-Native Procurement for Direct Materials." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://lightsource.ai/", "https://lightsource.ai/blog/lightsource-funding-news", "https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/lightsource-emerges-from-stealth-with-33m-to-modernize-sourcing-and-procurement-with-ai", "https://cfotech.news/story/lightsource-launches-ai-workforce-for-direct-procurement" ] }, { "n": "Mercanis", "u": "https://www.mercanis.com/", "w": "\"The entire source-to-pay process, executed by AI agents and led by procurement teams.\" Mercanis sells a Berlin-built procurement suite where an agent called Mercu structures sourcing requirements, invites suppliers, compares offers and routes intake requests. It covers RFI, RFP and RFQ events including direct sourcing, plus contracts, analytics and a 4-way match. Every AI action is logged and people approve.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "The entire source-to-pay process, executed by AI agents and led by procurement teams.", "url": "https://www.mercanis.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 1, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "discovery", "intake", "invoice", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Mercu is the procurement agent across intake, sourcing, suppliers, contracts, analytics and procure-to-pay. Buyers write plain-language Skills that Mercu follows. The June 2025 release also names a Mercu AI Co-Pilot for supplier discovery, risk detection, intake and offer comparison.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series A of over $20M (2025-06-18) led by Partech and AVP; customers named on its site include BASF and Brose." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Series A, over $20M, 2025-06-18", "investors": "Partech and AVP (lead), Signals.VC, Capmont Technology, Speedinvest", "src": "https://partechpartners.com/news/mercanis-secures-over-20m-in-series-a-round" }, "hq": "Berlin, Germany", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request only)" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Site FAQ says it supports complex direct sourcing with RFI, RFP and RFQ events, scenario analysis, negotiation and award, and lists a Direct Sourcing solution page. It is a general suite, not direct-only." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.mercanis.com/", "https://www.mercanis.com/newsroom", "https://partechpartners.com/news/mercanis-secures-over-20m-in-series-a-round" ] }, { "n": "Pactum", "u": "https://pactum.com/", "w": "\"Indirect Procurement, Run Autonomously.\" Pactum sells AI agents that negotiate with suppliers and run tactical and advanced sourcing, mostly inside Coupa and SAP Ariba. Its agents cover intake, alignment of purchase requests, single-source negotiation, sourcing events and post-sourcing renegotiation. Procurement teams set the limits and the agents close deals within them.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Indirect Procurement, Run Autonomously", "url": "https://pactum.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "intake", "negotiation", "rfx" ], "ai": "Six named agents: Intake, Alignment, Single-Source Negotiation, Tactical Sourcing, Advanced Sourcing and Post-Sourcing Negotiation. The Requisition Alignment Agent checks purchase requests before negotiation agents act.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "Series C of $54M led by Insight Partners; the release says total funding is over $100M and agents serve more than 50 large enterprises." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 100, "last": "Series C, $54M, 2025-06-09", "investors": "Insight Partners (lead)", "src": "https://pactum.com/blog/news-pactum-secures-54-million-in-series-c-funding-to-scale-agentic-ai-in-procurement" }, "price": { "note": "not published on the page opened; the site links to a Pricing page and an ROI calculator" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Its June 12, 2025 release launched Price Lists for Direct Materials, an agent it says five manufacturing clients adopted. Its headline says indirect procurement, so it is not built only for direct." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://pactum.com/", "https://pactum.com/news", "https://pactum.com/blog/news-pactum-secures-54-million-in-series-c-funding-to-scale-agentic-ai-in-procurement", "https://pactum.com/blog/news-pactum-ai-certified-as-coupa-total-spend-management-platform-ready", "https://pactum.com/blog/japan-ai-autonomous-negotiations", "https://techintelpro.com/news/ai/agentic-ai/pactum-launches-requisition-alignment-agent", "https://pactum.com/blog/news-pactum-expands-agentic-ai-capabilities-with-launch-of-price-lists-for-direct-materials" ] }, { "n": "Tacto", "u": "https://www.tacto.ai/", "w": "\"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.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Frontier AI für den Einkauf", "url": "https://www.tacto.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "compliance", "negotiation", "rfx", "spend" ], "ai": "Tacto Intelligence combines a company's purchasing data with market data. Agents named on the site: Defender Agent, Should Cost Agent, RFQ Agent and Negotiation Agent. Tacto's own page for its EY AI Award says agents continuously analyze total spend and prioritize actions.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "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." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "EUR 50M round, 2023-12-12", "investors": "Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures (lead), Visionaries Club, Cherry Ventures, UVC Partners", "src": "https://tech.eu/2023/12/12/tacto-raises-eur50-million-for-ai-based-supply-chain-solutions/" }, "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (arrange a conversation)" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Site targets mechanical engineering, automotive and other manufacturers and speaks of material costs and drawing parts; it does not use the phrase direct materials." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.tacto.ai/", "https://www.tacto.ai/blog", "https://www.tacto.ai/de/resources-posts/tacto-gewinnt-ey-ai-award-2026", "https://www.tacto.ai/de/resources-posts/gerhard-cromme-wird-investor-bei-tacto", "https://tech.eu/2023/12/12/tacto-raises-eur50-million-for-ai-based-supply-chain-solutions/" ] }, { "n": "Market Dojo", "u": "https://marketdojo.com/", "w": "Market Dojo sells eSourcing software for RFx events, bidding and auctions to procurement teams. In September 2024 it released Autonomous Sourcing features: Supplier Auto-Selection invites pre-approved suppliers and Event Auto-Selection creates events from set rules. Esker owns 51% of the UK company. No later AI launch found.", "cat": "sourcing", "cat_src": { "quote": "Market Dojo Launches Accessible Autonomous Sourcing to Revolutionise Procurement", "url": "https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/market-dojo-launches-accessible-autonomous-sourcing-to-revolutionise-procurement-302238499.html" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 0, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "discovery", "rfx" ], "ai": "Autonomous Sourcing: Supplier Auto-Selection and Event Auto-Selection, rule-based automation of supplier invitation and event setup, from its 2024 release, which calls the tools \"AI-driven\".", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No scale disclosed in the releases opened; 51% owned by Esker, a cloud platform company based in Lyon, France." }, "hq": "Stroud, United Kingdom", "owner": "Esker (51%)", "price": { "note": "not published in the sources opened" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Its pages do not mention direct materials." }, "v": "reported", "src": [ "https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/market-dojo-launches-accessible-autonomous-sourcing-to-revolutionise-procurement-302238499.html", "https://prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/esker-market-dojo-recognised-in-the-2025-gartner-market-guide-for-sourcing-applications-302387337.html" ] }, { "n": "Aravo", "u": "https://aravo.com/", "w": "\"Risk Has No Borders. AI Has No Boundaries.\" Aravo sells third-party, supplier and vendor risk management for risk and compliance teams, with procurement risk and supplier data collection for procure-to-pay processes. Aravo AI adds workflow agents that prefill assessments, suggest remediation and guide risk decisions, plus chat agents and a no-code AI Studio. Aravo says it manages risk for 9M+ third-party users.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Vendor, Supplier, and Third-Party Risk Management", "url": "https://aravo.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "supplier_data", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Aravo AI: Survey, Remediation and Decision Agents inside workflows; Navigation, Risk Expert and Data Query agents in AI Canvas; AI Studio to build or edit agents and pick the LLMs behind them.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Site claims risk managed for 9M+ third-party users, suppliers and vendors; named analysts but no customers by name" }, "hq": "San Francisco, California, USA (release dateline)", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://aravo.com/", "https://aravo.com/press-releases/aravo-launches-aravo-ai-to-automate-third-party-risk-workflows/" ] }, { "n": "Certa", "u": "https://www.certa.ai/", "w": "\"The AI-native Third Party OS for enterprises.\" Certa orchestrates supplier and third-party onboarding, due diligence and monitoring in one workflow tool. AI agents validate supplier documents and check for fraud, pre-fill questionnaires from trusted sources, and Vibe Configuration changes workflows from plain-language instructions. Procurement, compliance, security and finance teams use it; it also serves regulated industries.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI-native Third Party OS for enterprises", "url": "https://www.certa.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "supplier_data", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Validation Agent (checks supplier documents and screens for fraud), Pre-Fill Agent (pre-fills questionnaires), Vibe Configuration (natural-language workflow setup), and the CertaAssist companion with Design, Insights, Recall and Intake AI (launched 2023).", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage names Honeywell, Mars, Wex, Block, Uber, Sandoz and Aviva; the 2026-04-08 Gartner release names Honeywell and calls Certa the youngest vendor in the first Magic Quadrant for TPRM tools" }, "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "No direct materials claim on the homepage." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.certa.ai/", "https://www.certa.ai/press", "https://www.certa.ai/press/certaxapien", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/certa-named-a-leader-in-the-first-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-third-party-risk-management-tools-302737371.html", "https://www.certa.ai/resources/say-hello-to-certaassist-the-future-of-ai-enhanced-third-party-management" ] }, { "n": "Everstream Analytics", "u": "https://www.everstream.ai/", "w": "\"Get ahead of supply chain disruption with risk intelligence.\" Everstream maps and monitors sub-tier suppliers and sends alerts tailored to a customer's network, using AI, natural language processing and predictive models with human analysts and meteorologists. Products include tariff intelligence and crop prediction for commodity buyers. Insights embed in SAP and other planning, procurement and logistics systems. Buyers are procurement and supply chain risk teams.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Get ahead of supply chain disruption with risk intelligence", "url": "https://www.everstream.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "compliance", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "AI-driven alerts and \"AI & NLP\" risk scoring, AI-driven tariff analytics on sub-tier maps, and a crop yield prediction model. The site names no agent or assistant.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage shows customer logos (not labeled); releases name First Solar and Molson Coors CEE" }, "hq": "San Marcos, California, USA (release dateline)", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Proprietary sub-tier mapping that finds products with tariffed sub-tier suppliers (2025-06-26 release); crop and commodity forecasts for ingredient buyers. No BOM claim." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.everstream.ai/", "https://www.everstream.ai/media/", "https://www.everstream.ai/media/everstream-analytics-launches-first-in-class-predictive-crop-risk-forecasting-solution", "https://www.everstream.ai/media/everstream-analytics-delivers-enhanced-tariff-intelligence-and-tech-supply-chain-diversification-away-from-china", "https://www.everstream.ai/media/everstream-analytics-partners-with-freightwaves-and-sonar-to-bring-advanced-risk-intellgence-to-sonar-platform-users", "https://www.everstream.ai/media/everstream-analytics-named-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-supplier-risk-management-solutions/" ] }, { "n": "Exiger", "u": "https://www.exiger.com/", "w": "\"The AI Partner for Supply Chain & Procurement Automation.\" Exiger sells 1Exiger.AI, an AI-native platform that maps multi-tier suppliers, parts and components, screens suppliers, and runs continuous monitoring with an agentic AI workforce. Customers set approved data sources and decision limits, and named reviewers approve consequential actions. Buyers are supply chain, procurement, compliance and defense acquisition teams; it is FedRAMP authorized.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "The AI Partner for Supply Chain & Procurement Automation", "url": "https://www.exiger.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 1, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "compliance", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "1Exiger.AI, \"the AI-native operating system for supply chain execution\", with agentic AI for research, evidence collection, alternatives and documentation; forcedlabor.ai, a free AI tool that screens a company name for forced labor links.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Exiger's own releases report 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 60+ government and Defense Industrial Base organizations; $1.2B growth investment in 2023 from Carlyle, Insight Partners and JMI Equity." }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 1200, "last": "Growth investment, $1.2B, 2023", "investors": "Carlyle, Insight Partners, JMI Equity", "src": "https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/news-releases/exiger-joins-uaes-nextgen-fdi-initiative-to-enhance-risk-and-supply-chain-management-solutions-302444014.html" }, "founded": 2013, "hq": "Washington, DC, USA (release dateline)", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Case studies on its homepage report 54,613 parts mapped for an aerospace OEM and part numbers characterized for an aerospace systems maker." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.exiger.com/", "https://www.exiger.com/perspectives/meet-1exigerai/", "https://finviz.com/news/390618/carlyle-insight-partners-and-jmi-equity-unveil-exigers-complete-ai-built-transformation", "https://salestechstar.com/?p=257874", "https://cpostrategy.media/blog/2025/11/24/exiger-teams-up-with-both-us-army-and-palantir-to-enhance-operational-readiness/", "https://www.exiger.com/perspectives/exiger-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-supplier-risk-management-leader/", "https://www.exiger.com/perspectives/exiger-ai-native-supply-chain-intelligence-scsp-ai-expo-2026/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/news-releases/exiger-joins-uaes-nextgen-fdi-initiative-to-enhance-risk-and-supply-chain-management-solutions-302444014.html" ] }, { "n": "Graphite Connect", "u": "https://www.graphiteconnect.com/", "w": "\"Free yourself from the chaos of bad supplier data.\" Graphite runs a supplier network where suppliers enter and maintain their information once and share it with many buyers as a golden record. Its security checks verify bank details before payment. In 2026 it launched an MCP server so AI agents such as Claude or ChatGPT can query supplier records and, with permission, update them. Buyers are procurement and finance teams.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Free Yourself From the Chaos of Bad Supplier Data", "url": "https://www.graphiteconnect.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 1, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "mcp", "supplier_data" ], "ai": "\"AI-Driven Procurement\" for supplier onboarding, validation and management, plus an MCP server that gives AI agents read and write access to validated supplier records.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage testimonial cites a network of over 800,000 suppliers; MCP server included at no extra cost for Enterprise customers (vendor blog, 2026-09-04)" }, "hq": "Lehi, Utah, USA (release dateline)", "price": { "note": "MCP server included at no extra cost for Enterprise customers (vendor blog); other pricing not published" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.graphiteconnect.com/", "https://www.graphiteconnect.com/press-article/250k-anti-fraud-payment-guarantee", "https://www.graphiteconnect.com/blog/mcp-server-supplier-management", "https://www.thehackettgroup.com/insights/from-watch-to-know-2025-2026-how-graphite-connect-made-the-transition/" ] }, { "n": "HICX", "u": "https://www.hicx.com/", "w": "\"Smarter Supplier Management, Lower Costs, Greater Efficiency.\" HICX gives large enterprises one supplier data platform for registration, onboarding, compliance and performance, and markets it as AI-powered supplier management. In April 2026 it added Supplier Registration. Customers named on its site include Unilever, Mondelez, Heineken, Lenovo and Mars. Buyers are procurement and supplier data teams.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Smarter Supplier Management, Lower Costs, Greater Efficiency", "url": "https://www.hicx.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "compliance", "supplier_data", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "AI-Powered Supplier Management with agents: a validation and compliance agent (document checks, tax validation, sanctions monitoring), a risk agent (ESG, financial stability, fraud and news monitoring), a relationship manager agent, supplier data governance agents and supplier chatbots.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage shows customer logos (Unilever, Mondelez, Heineken, Lenovo, Mars, Orkla); GBP 15M growth funding and refinancing package in June 2026" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": null, "last": "Growth funding and refinancing package, GBP 15M, 2026-06-30", "investors": "HSBC Innovation Banking, Wavecrest Growth Partners", "src": "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/hicx-lands-gbp-15-million-backing-from-hsbc-wavecrest" }, "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Release lists process manufacturing and consumer goods among targets; no direct-materials claim." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.hicx.com/", "https://www.hicx.com/news/", "https://www.hicx.com/news/hicx-launches-supplier-registration-solution-to-fix-governance-gap/", "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/hicx-lands-gbp-15-million-backing-from-hsbc-wavecrest" ] }, { "n": "Interos", "u": "https://www.interos.ai/", "w": "\"Uncover and rank supply chain risks, so you can address them before they become CEO-level problems.\" Interos maps multi-tier supplier networks on a knowledge graph of business relationships and scores them with iScore, an AI-powered risk score across financial, cyber, ESG, restrictions, geopolitical and catastrophic risk. Its iQ platform ties ERP data and bills of materials to those scores and prices exposure in dollars. Buyers are procurement, risk and finance teams.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Uncover and rank supply chain risks, so you can address them before they become CEO-level problems", "url": "https://www.interos.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 1, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "compliance", "discovery", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "iScore, an AI-powered supplier risk score; iQ, which matches ERP identifiers to the Interos knowledge graph and gives AI-driven suggestions, including alternative suppliers; iflow, which puts contextual AI risk insights into ERP workflows, starting with ServiceNow.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage names DoD, NASA, L3Harris, Freddie Mac and Accenture as clients; a 2025 release lists a GSA BPA listing through Carahsoft" }, "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "iQ's iTracing module gives product-level, multi-tier supplier visibility mapped to bills of materials (iQ release, 2026-04-28)." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.interos.ai/", "https://www.interos.ai/blog/press/interos-ai-launches-iq-to-elevate-supply-chain-risks-to-the-c-level", "https://interos.ai/press/", "https://www.interos.ai/blog/press/interos-ai-launches-itariffs-to-help-companies-identify-and-act-on-tariff-risks-in-real-time", "https://techintelpro.com/Marketing/Supply-Chain-Management/interosai-launches-iflow-for-contextual-supply-chain-ai" ] }, { "n": "Prewave", "u": "https://www.prewave.com/", "w": "\"The supplier risk management platform that ranks risk against your internal data.\" Prewave monitors suppliers for disruption, financial, ESG and compliance risk, traces exposure behind direct suppliers \"without supplier surveys\", and prices each disruption through its Quantified Resilience line (Respond and Optimise). Its AI Connectors let any AI assistant or agent query Prewave data. Buyers are procurement and risk teams in automotive, electronics, machinery and aerospace.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "the supplier risk management platform that ranks risk against your internal data", "url": "https://www.prewave.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "compliance", "mcp", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "AI Connectors let users \"query Prewave data from any AI assistant or agent\". Monitoring agents read news, social posts, filings and government and NGO data in over 400 languages, classify each event against the customer's supplier list, and a human specialist confirms each alert before it reaches the customer.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage says \"Trusted by 150+ enterprises\"; logos include Hilti, Endress+Hauser, Kaercher, Ferrari, Volvo and Bosch. Series B funding is reported but its date is not published." }, "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Targets automotive, electronics and machinery makers; traces exposure \"through the materials they buy\" and beyond Tier-1 (homepage). No BOM claim." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.prewave.com/", "https://www.prewave.com/resources/news-and-press/introducing-quantified-resilience-every-supplier-disruption-ranked-and-priced", "https://www.prewave.com/resources/news-and-press/prewave-named-leader-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-supplier-risk-management-solutions", "https://www.prewave.com/resources/news-and-press/prewave-raises-euro63m-series-b-to-revolutionise-supply-chain-risk-management-with-ai-driven-superintelligence-platform" ] }, { "n": "ProcessUnity", "u": "https://www.processunity.com/", "w": "\"Introducing HyperTPRM: AI-Powered Third-Party Risk Management.\" ProcessUnity runs vendor onboarding, assessments, monitoring and offboarding for risk, security and procurement teams. ProcessUnity AI includes Evidence Evaluator, which reads vendor SOC 2 and ISO documents and fills questionnaires with cited rationale, and ten AI agents in three packages (intake, due diligence, monitoring and remediation).", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Introducing HyperTPRM: AI-Powered Third-Party Risk Management", "url": "https://www.processunity.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "supplier_data", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "TPRM AI Agents (IRQ Responder, Duplicate Third Party Inspector, SOC 2 Analyzer, Trust Center Finder, Entity Verifier, Contract Scanner, Executive Risk Reporter, Issue Remediator, Insurance Guardian), Evidence Evaluator and Assessment Autofill.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Global Risk Exchange of 370,000+ vendor risk profiles; analyst recognition (Forrester Wave, QKS SPARK Matrix); no customers named" }, "hq": "Concord, Massachusetts, USA", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.processunity.com/", "https://processunity.com/resources/press-releases/processunity-launches-ai-agents-for-tprm/", "https://techedgeai.com/processunity-launches-evidence-evaluator-genai-powered-third-party-risk-review/" ] }, { "n": "Resilinc", "u": "https://resilinc.ai/", "w": "\"Risk and compliance made easy. Just ask Resilinc.\" Resilinc sells multi-tier supplier mapping \"down to the part-site level\" plus AI agents for disruptions, tariffs, forced labor and EUDR. Agents detect events, rank exposed suppliers and parts, run supplier outreach and assemble evidence. Its MCP support and Microsoft Copilot plugin let customer AI tools query the Resilinc supply chain graph. Buyers are supply chain risk, sourcing and compliance teams in manufacturing.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Risk and compliance made easy. Just ask Resilinc.", "url": "https://resilinc.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "compliance", "copilot", "mcp", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Named agents: Tariffs Agent, Forced Labor Compliance Agent, Disruption Agent and EUDR Agent, in an Agentic AI Suite (SC Watch, SC Monitor, SC Command); Agent Factory on Databricks; native MCP and A2A support; a Microsoft Copilot plugin.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Site cites Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies and shows customer logos (not labeled as customers); releases name Woodward and AIAG-linked automotive work" }, "hq": "Milpitas, California, USA (release dateline)", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "Multi-Tier Mapping claims \"visibility down to the part-site level\" and coverage from tier-1 to tier-n including raw materials (homepage). No BOM claim." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://resilinc.ai/", "https://resilinc.ai/press-releases/", "https://resilinc.ai/press-release/resilinc-brings-supply-chain-risk-and-compliance-intelligence-into-microsoft-copilot/", "https://resilinc.ai/press-release/resilinc-extends-its-supply-chain-risk-and-compliance-intelligence-platform-with-compliance-for-eudr/", "https://salestechstar.com/predictive-ai-artificial-intelligence/resilinc-launches-agentic-ai-platform-for-supply-chain-risk-and-compliance/", "https://salestechstar.com/?p=249274", "https://stocks.observer-reporter.com/observerreporter/article/gnwcq-2026-3-5-resilinc-becomes-validated-databricks-built-on-partner-with-agent-factory-for-supply-chain-risk-and-compliance", "https://briefglance.com/companies/resilinc-corporation/pulses/25196" ] }, { "n": "Sphera Supply Chain Risk Management", "u": "https://sphera.com/supply-chain-risk-management/", "w": "Sphera's supply chain risk software monitors suppliers continuously. Supplier 360 Intelligence uses fine-tuned generative AI to summarize supplier risk from up to 400 indicators. Conversational AI answers plain-language questions, AI agents in the Risk Response and Resolution Center assess severity and supplier impact, and a native MCP server connects the data to enterprise AI tools. Buyers are procurement and supply chain risk teams.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Supplier 360 Intelligence: Know which suppliers need your attention and why", "url": "https://sphera.com/supply-chain-risk-management/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "copilot", "mcp", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Supplier 360 Intelligence (AI Risk Summaries, AI Assessment Insights), Conversational AI, Sphera AI agents and a native MCP server.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Page quotes Ypsomed's VP Global Supply Chain and links case studies for JLL, Signify and Dana" }, "hq": "Chicago, Illinois, USA (release dateline)", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Page lists Sub-Tier Visibility and N-Tier Intelligence only as navigation links; no direct materials or BOM claim." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://sphera.com/supply-chain-risk-management/", "https://sphera.com/company/news/", "https://sphera.com/company/news/sphera-launches-supplier-360-intelligence", "https://sphera.com/company/news/research-by-sphera-exposes-operational-risk-gap/" ] }, { "n": "Assent", "u": "https://www.assent.com/", "w": "\"Build Products the World Can Trust.\" Assent collects compliance and sustainability data from suppliers for manufacturers: conflict minerals, EU Deforestation, Battery and CBAM rules, and full materials disclosures. Request Manager is \"AI-powered\": it parses, matches and reuses verified data when suppliers answer customer requests, and the EUDR solution is \"AI-enhanced\". Buyers are compliance, sustainability and sourcing teams.", "cat": "supplier", "cat_src": { "quote": "Build Products the World Can Trust", "url": "https://www.assent.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 2, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "compliance", "supplier_data" ], "ai": "Request Manager, an \"AI-powered\" tool for suppliers that parses, matches and reuses verified data; an \"AI-enhanced\" EUDR solution; company boilerplate cites AI for risk analysis and automated document review.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No customer count or funding published; Ottawa-based, CEO Michael Southworth (2026-05-27 release)" }, "hq": "Ottawa, Canada (release text)", "price": { "note": "not published on the pages opened; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": true, "note": "EUDR page maps parts to commodities \"using HS codes and bill of materials data\"; homepage claims full materials disclosures and conflict mineral supply chain visibility." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.assent.com/", "https://www.assent.com/solutions/esg-supply-chain/eudr/", "https://www.esgdive.com/press-release/20250813-assents-new-eu-deforestation-regulation-solution-helps-manufacturers-ens/", "https://shapefin.com/?p=8863", "https://www.assent.com/?p=390492" ] }, { "n": "Rosslyn", "u": "https://rosslyn.ai/", "w": "\"Rosslyn Spend Intelligence. Beyond Analytics.\" Rosslyn connects spend data from source systems, cleans and enriches it, and classifies it with AICE, its AI classification engine, which sorts spend into any taxonomy without pretraining. Add-on AI modules track procurement initiatives and benchmark prices. Procurement and finance teams at large enterprises buy it. Rosslyn is quoted on the London AIM market.", "cat": "spend", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI classification at your fingertips.", "url": "https://www.rosslyn.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "price_data", "spend", "supplier_data" ], "ai": "AICE, the AI classification engine, sorts spend into any taxonomy without pretraining. The January 2026 interim results say three customers use it and six or seven more are in trials. IniTrack uses generative AI to give predictive alerts on procurement initiatives. An Enrichment and Benchmarking module compares spend against industry data.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "AIM-listed (RDT); revenue GBP 1.5m and ARR GBP 2.3m in the six months to 31 October 2025 (interim results, 2026-01-28)" }, "hq": "London, United Kingdom", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request)" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.rosslyn.ai/", "https://rosslyn.ai/product", "https://rosslyn.ai/investors", "https://www.investegate.co.uk/company/RDT", "https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/rosslyn-data-technologies--rdt/interim-results/9390302", "https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/rosslyn-data-technologies--rdt/result-of-placing-and-posting-of-circular/9492536", "https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/rosslyn-data-technologies--rdt/contract-renewals-worth-1-5m/9533715", "https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/rosslyn-data-technologies--rdt/final-results-annual-report-agm-notice/9844578" ] }, { "n": "Sievo", "u": "https://sievo.com/", "w": "Procurement analytics for large enterprises: \"Sievo provides actionable procurement analytics based on data you can trust.\" Procurement, finance, IT and sustainability teams use it for spend analysis, savings tracking, forecasting and ESG. Sievo AI classifies spend, normalizes suppliers and harmonizes materials, adds a self-service GenAI assistant, and turns insights into one-click actions.", "cat": "spend", "cat_src": { "quote": "Sievo provides actionable procurement analytics based on data you can trust.", "url": "https://sievo.com/company/about-sievo" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "price_data", "spend" ], "ai": "Sievo AI covers AI-powered classification (98% coverage and 94% accuracy guarantees), supplier and material harmonization, AI-powered insights delivered round the clock, a self-service GenAI assistant for data analytics, and automated actions. Community Data adds cross-customer benchmarks with AI-powered payment term insights.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "$44M growth investment in 2022; processes spend equal to more than 2% of global GDP a year; sells to large enterprises with $1B+ revenue" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 44, "last": "Growth investment, $44M, 2022-09-19", "investors": "Susquehanna Growth Equity (first institutional investment since 2003)", "src": "https://sievo.com/news/press-release-growth-investment" }, "founded": 2003, "hq": "Helsinki, Finland", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request)" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "Sells to direct and indirect procurement; direct materials forecasting is one module." }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://sievo.com/", "https://sievo.com/products/procurement-ai", "https://sievo.com/company/about-sievo", "https://sievo.com/news", "https://sievo.com/news/press-release-growth-investment", "https://sievo.com/news/sievo-launches-community-data-redefining-supplier-negotiation-with-peer-benchmarks-and-unmatched-insights", "https://sievo.com/news/sievo-releases-first-ever-state-of-spend-using-real-enterprise-spend-data", "https://sievo.com/news/sievo-acquires-provalido" ] }, { "n": "SpendHQ", "u": "https://www.spendhq.com/", "w": "\"The AI platform built for procurement.\" SpendHQ gives procurement leaders one place for spend intelligence, project tracking and performance management. AI processes and categorizes spend data. Savings Radar surfaces and sizes savings opportunities on its own, and purpose-built procurement agents, from the Sligo AI acquisition, prepare work such as negotiation playbooks.", "cat": "spend", "cat_src": { "quote": "the AI platform built for procurement", "url": "https://www.spendhq.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 1, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "negotiation", "spend" ], "ai": "AI agents that generate structured procurement deliverables, built on the Sligo AI infrastructure SpendHQ bought in April 2026. Named agents include Spender (spend intelligence) and Tracker (performance management). Savings Radar scores savings opportunities across spend, contract, sourcing, project and realized-savings data and links each one to an AI agent. Sligo lists agents for category strategy, sourcing and negotiation, contract risk, spend analysis and supplier performance.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Vendor says its platform is trusted by more than 500 organizations in 10 countries and has analyzed more than $10 trillion of spend" }, "hq": "Atlanta, GA, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request)" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.spendhq.com/", "https://web.spendhq.com/spendhq-sligoai", "https://www.spendhq.com/press/spendhq-and-sligoai-ai-procurement-software/", "https://www.spendhq.com/press/spendhq-sligo-ai-acquisition-agentic-ai/", "https://www.spendhq.com/press/spendhq-savings-radar-procurement-savings/" ] }, { "n": "Suplari", "u": "https://suplari.com/", "w": "\"AI Agents for Spend Analysis and Procurement Analytics.\" Suplari unifies spend, supplier and contract data from ERP and procure-to-pay systems, classifies it, and runs procurement agents on top: Suplari Worker for monitoring and workflows, Suplari Assistant for plain-language questions, and a no-code AI Studio. Procurement teams use it to find and track savings. Docusign announced it is buying Suplari on 2026-11-03.", "cat": "spend", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI Agents for Spend Analysis and Procurement Analytics", "url": "https://suplari.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 1, "buy": 0, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "spend", "supplier_risk" ], "ai": "Suplari Worker agents monitor data, flag opportunities and risks, and run workflows with or without human approval. Named agents include a Spend Anomaly Detection Worker, a Savings Opportunity Scout and a Supplier Risk Monitor. Suplari Assistant answers procurement questions grounded in spend, supplier and contract data. The Data Assistant agent handles data ingestion. Canvas builds dashboards from a prompt.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Docusign (NASDAQ: DOCU) agreed on 3 November 2026 to acquire Suplari; terms were not disclosed and the deal has not closed" }, "founded": 2017, "hq": "Seattle, WA, United States", "price": { "note": "not published; sales-led (demo request)" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://suplari.com/", "https://suplari.com/agents", "https://suplari.com/company", "https://suplari.com/blog/suplari-launches-ai-ready-procurement-intelligence-platform-introducing-a-new-category-beyond-spend-analytics", "https://suplari.com/blog/introducing-suplari-data-assistant-automated-procurement-data-management-with-ai", "https://suplari.com/blog/introducing-suplari-canvas-ai-built-procurement-dashboards-from-a-plain-language-prompt", "https://suplari.com/blog/suplari-canvas-the-ai-dashboard-builder-for-procurement", "https://www.docusign.com/company/news-center/docusign-acquires-suplari-to-accelerate-aipowered-contract-management-for-procurement" ] }, { "n": "PAVUS AI", "u": "https://www.pavus.ai/", "w": "PAVUS AI sells \"Agentic Procurement Intelligence\" to procurement teams. SiliconANGLE reports a platform that connects ERP and email data with outside market data, monitors supplier prices and finds savings across direct and indirect spend. It is an early-stage company: its site is a single title page and most detail comes from press coverage.", "cat": "spend", "cat_src": { "quote": "Agentic Procurement Intelligence", "url": "https://www.pavus.ai/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 0, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "spend" ], "ai": "The vendor's page title is \"PAVUS AI - Agentic Procurement Intelligence\". SiliconANGLE describes a \"digital brain for procurement\" that connects internal and external data, monitors supplier prices and uses AI-driven filtering to find suppliers.", "scale": { "tier": 3, "basis": "$5.2M seed and preseed funding reported by SiliconANGLE in October 2025" }, "funding": { "total_usd_m": 5.2, "last": "Seed and preseed, $5.2M, 2025-10-09", "investors": "Sentinel Global (led; the only investor named)", "src": "https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/09/pavus-ai-raises-5-2m-funding-build-digital-brain-procurement-teams/" }, "price": { "note": "not published" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "SiliconANGLE says the platform finds savings across direct and indirect spend; the vendor page does not say." }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.pavus.ai/", "https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/09/pavus-ai-raises-5-2m-funding-build-digital-brain-procurement-teams/" ] }, { "n": "Simfoni", "u": "https://simfoni.com/", "w": "\"Composable Spend Management Technology.\" Simfoni sells spend analytics, eSourcing and a managed tail spend service to procurement teams. The Strategic Spend Hub, a native app on Snowflake, classifies spend with AI, lets buyers ask questions in plain language and pushes savings opportunities into eRFx sourcing events. Virgil is its AI agent.", "cat": "spend", "cat_src": { "quote": "Composable Spend Management Technology", "url": "https://simfoni.com/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 1, "buy": 1, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "spend" ], "ai": "Strategic Spend Hub has AI-driven classification, a conversational \"Talk With Your Data\" feature (Virgil, the AI chat agent) and always-on opportunity discovery that flags savings, risk signals and market shifts.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count published" }, "hq": "Chicago, IL, United States", "price": { "note": "Vendor describes a Pay-As-You-Save model with no upfront cost; no price list" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://simfoni.com/", "https://simfoni.com/news/", "https://simfoni.com/company/", "https://simfoni.com/news-and-events/simfonis-strategic-spend-hub-is-live-on-snowflake/", "https://simfoni.com/news-and-events/virgil-contract-renewal-watch/", "https://simfoni.com/news-and-events/virgil-ai-2026-stevie-award/", "https://simfoni.com/news-and-events/simfoni-launches-vitesse-a-smarter-way-to-manage-enterprise-tail-spend/" ] }, { "n": "Spendkey", "u": "https://www.spendkey.io/", "w": "\"AI-Powered Spend Analytics & Procurement Platform.\" Spendkey sells a commercial control platform: spend visibility with ranked savings opportunities, contract clause extraction, supplier audits that match transactions to contracted terms, and a Commercial Control Layer that checks commitments before approval. Its Cassian AI agents categorize spend and recommend actions.", "cat": "spend", "cat_src": { "quote": "AI-Powered Spend Analytics & Procurement Platform", "url": "https://www.spendkey.io/" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 1, "buy": 1, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 2 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "spend" ], "ai": "Cassian is Spendkey's network of AI agents. The vendor's July 2025 blog says the agents categorise spend into granular levels with standard, custom or hybrid taxonomies and point to sourcing actions with the highest ROI.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count disclosed; vendor claims analysis of \"hundreds of billions\" in transactions" }, "founded": 2020, "hq": "United Kingdom", "price": { "note": "pricing page says pricing is being updated; sales-led" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.spendkey.io/", "https://spendkey.co.uk", "https://www.spendkey.io/about-us", "https://www.spendkey.io/features/spend-visibility-opportunity-assessment", "https://www.spendkey.io/features/commercial-control-layer", "https://www.spendkey.io/blog", "https://www.spendkey.io/blog/ai-agents-transforming-spend-analysis-in-procurement", "https://www.spendkey.io/release-notes", "https://www.spendkey.io/pricing" ] }, { "n": "Cledara", "u": "https://www.cledara.com", "w": "\"Software and AI management for finance teams.\" Cledara tracks and pays for a company's software and AI subscriptions and watches AI spend against budgets. Its Cledara Agent signs in to the tools a company connects and does admin work: it collects and matches invoices, onboards new joiners, reclaims unused seats and removes leavers, with the user approving each change. It is closer to software management than software buying.", "cat": "saas", "cat_src": { "quote": "Software and AI management for finance teams", "url": "https://www.cledara.com" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 0, "buy": 1, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent" ], "ai": "Cledara Agent (an add-on to any plan, covers 8,000+ tools) and AI spend tracking that links to AI vendors, monitors usage against budgets and alerts finance before overspending.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage says more than 1,000 companies use the platform and reports a 23% average saving on software spend; no funding on the page" }, "hq": "London, UK", "price": { "note": "not published; pricing page linked, no prices shown" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.cledara.com", "https://www.cledara.com/blog", "https://www.cledara.com/blog/introducing-cledara-agent" ] }, { "n": "Tropic", "u": "https://www.tropicapp.io", "w": "\"Procurement Software: stop overpaying for AI and SaaS.\" Tropic helps finance and procurement teams buy and renew software and AI tools, with price benchmarks from its own spend data and agents that prepare renewals and negotiations. It named a Renewal Agent and a Proposal Agent. Tropic also puts its data inside ChatGPT and Claude, and Omnea resells its benchmarks.", "cat": "saas", "cat_src": { "quote": "Procurement Software: stop overpaying for AI and SaaS", "url": "https://www.tropicapp.io" }, "ph": { "intake": 2, "source": 2, "buy": 1, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "copilot", "intake", "invoice", "mcp", "negotiation", "price_data" ], "ai": "Smart Request Assistant, Compliance Copilot, Contract Intelligence Engine, Negotiation Navigator and AI Invoice Match (five agents launched June 2025), the Purchase Prep Assistant for renewals, a Renewal Agent and Proposal Agent, the Intelligence Hub, a ChatGPT App, and a Claude connector with a beta MCP server.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "2025 results release reports $85M in customer savings, more than $18B spend under management and 100,000+ price benchmarks delivered" }, "price": { "note": "not published; pricing page linked, no prices shown" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.tropicapp.io", "https://www.tropicapp.io/newsroom/2025-momentum", "https://www.tropicapp.io/newsroom/tropic-delivers-85m-in-customer-savings-in-2025", "https://digitalitnews.com/?p=16433", "https://ground.news/article/tropic-launches-new-intelligence-hub-and-brings-its-procurement-data-inside-chatgpt", "https://www.omnea.co/press-release/omnea-and-tropic-partner" ] }, { "n": "Vendr", "u": "https://www.vendr.com", "w": "\"The Authority on Software Pricing Transparency.\" Vendr helps finance and procurement teams buy and renew software using a dataset of what others paid. It says it is trusted by more than 5,000 teams. Its AI is Ruth, a Pricing Agent for deal-based price intelligence and a Negotiation Agent that reviews contracts and runs supplier negotiations with human oversight. Vertice acquired Vendr in June 2026.", "cat": "saas", "cat_src": { "quote": "Vendr - The Authority on Software Pricing Transparency", "url": "https://www.vendr.com" }, "ph": { "intake": 0, "source": 2, "buy": 1, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "negotiation", "price_data" ], "ai": "Ruth as the entry point, a Pricing Agent that gives real-time pricing intelligence and negotiation insight from past deals, and a Negotiation Agent that reviews contracts for overcharges and renewal traps and runs autonomous negotiations with human oversight. It also offers an API for pricing and negotiation data.", "scale": { "tier": 2, "basis": "Homepage claims 5,000+ finance and procurement teams and more than $1.4B in customer savings; now part of Vertice" }, "owner": "Vertice", "price": { "note": "not published; free trial and demo calls to action" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.vendr.com", "https://www.vendr.com/blog", "https://www.vendr.com/blog/vendr-is-joining-vertice", "https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/cision20260601ae71961/" ] }, { "n": "Sastrify", "u": "https://www.sastrify.com", "w": "\"Your AI co-pilot for software management.\" Sastrify helps companies see which software they buy, how much it is used and what it costs, then buys and renews it with pricing benchmarks. Features include Smart Recommendations, Intake-to-Procure, Software Purchasing and Renewal Management. Deel bought Sastrify in May 2026 and is folding it into Deel IT. The AI on its page is thin.", "cat": "saas", "cat_src": { "quote": "Your AI co-pilot for software management.", "url": "https://www.sastrify.com" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 1, "buy": 1, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 1 }, "caps": [ "copilot", "price_data" ], "ai": "An AI co-pilot framing and Smart Recommendations (\"AI-driven suggestions to optimize your setup\"). No named agents on its page.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count published; acquired by Deel (May 2026), terms not disclosed" }, "hq": "Germany (the site lists a Berlin address; Orrick calls it a Cologne company)", "owner": "Deel", "price": { "note": "not published; pricing page linked, no prices shown" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "site", "src": [ "https://www.sastrify.com", "https://cfotech.co.uk/story/deel-acquires-sastrify-to-boost-software-spend-control", "https://www.orrick.com/en/News/2026/05/Deel-Acquires-Sastrify", "https://www.deel.com/blog/deel-acquires-sastrify/" ] }, { "n": "Spendflo", "u": "https://www.spendflo.com", "w": "\"Procurement and Finance, Powered by One AI Workforce.\" Spendflo started as a software buying service and now sells Flo AI for mid-market procurement teams: Flo Procure for intake through purchase order, Flo Contracts for agreements and obligations, and Flo AP for invoice matching and payment. Its homepage still marks Intake and AP Automation \"Coming Soon\". A new role it calls the procurement engineer sets policy and supervises the agents.", "cat": "saas", "cat_src": { "quote": "Procurement and Finance, Powered by One AI Workforce.", "url": "https://www.spendflo.com" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 1, "buy": 1, "supplier": 0, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "intake", "invoice" ], "ai": "Flo AI: Flo Procure, Flo Contracts (shown on the homepage as a Contracts Agent) and Flo AP. The May 2026 launch post says early customers run procurement end to end with the agents; the homepage marks Intake and AP Automation as coming soon.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count published" }, "price": { "note": "not published; demo and free savings analysis only" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.spendflo.com", "https://www.spendflo.com/blog/introducing-flo-ai" ] }, { "n": "Vertice", "u": "https://www.vertice.one", "w": "\"Built for intelligent procurement.\" Vertice is an AI procurement platform that negotiates software purchases for buyers and promises savings. Its agent suite is trained on more than 70 procurement tasks, and Ana is its AI negotiation agent for software. It bought Vendr in June 2026 to pool pricing data and train its agents on it. Vendr customers gain access to its intake-to-procure platform.", "cat": "saas", "cat_src": { "quote": "Built for intelligent procurement", "url": "https://www.vertice.one" }, "ph": { "intake": 1, "source": 2, "buy": 1, "supplier": 1, "analyze": 0 }, "caps": [ "agent", "contracts", "intake", "negotiation", "price_data" ], "ai": "Ana, an AI negotiation agent that can run transactional purchases and renewals end to end, and Vertice AI, an agent suite embedded across the procurement process. Per its blog, Ana has run more than 4,000 software negotiations; nothing is committed without human approval and signature.", "scale": { "tier": 4, "basis": "No funding or customer count published; reports 4,000+ live negotiations; now owns Vendr's dataset ($75B+ in spend)" }, "price": { "note": "not published; the site promises savings guaranteed and expert-led negotiation" }, "flags": { "direct": false, "note": "" }, "v": "primary", "src": [ "https://www.vertice.one", "https://www.vertice.one/blog/introducing-ana-the-ai-negotiation-agent-for-software-purchases", "https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/cision20260601ae71961/", "https://www.vendr.com/blog/vendr-is-joining-vertice" ] } ] }