{
 "updated": "2026-11-07",
 "what": "For each company, the date in our window (2025-05-01 to 2026-11-07) when we first saw it launch each AI capability, and for each capability, how many companies in each category sell it today. A date is the first launch we found in the window, not the first time the company ever offered it.",
 "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."
  }
 ],
 "first_seen": {
  "Aravo": {
   "agent": "2026-04-21",
   "copilot": "2026-04-21",
   "supplier_data": "2026-04-21",
   "supplier_risk": "2026-04-21"
  },
  "Archlet": {
   "agent": "2026-07-30",
   "intake": "2026-07-30",
   "rfx": "2026-07-30"
  },
  "Arkestro": {
   "copilot": "2025-10-29",
   "discovery": "2025-10-29",
   "rfx": "2025-10-29"
  },
  "Assent": {
   "compliance": "2025-08-14",
   "supplier_data": "2025-12-16"
  },
  "Cledara": {
   "agent": "2026-11-05"
  },
  "Coupa": {
   "agent": "2025-05-13",
   "copilot": "2025-05-13",
   "invoice": "2026-08-24",
   "mcp": "2026-08-24",
   "rfx": "2026-05-12",
   "spend": "2025-05-13",
   "supplier_data": "2026-08-24",
   "supplier_risk": "2026-05-12"
  },
  "Esker": {
   "agent": "2026-09-09",
   "copilot": "2026-09-09",
   "intake": "2026-09-09",
   "invoice": "2026-09-09",
   "mcp": "2026-09-09"
  },
  "Everstream Analytics": {
   "compliance": "2025-06-26",
   "supplier_risk": "2025-06-10"
  },
  "Exiger": {
   "agent": "2026-09-10",
   "compliance": "2026-01-20",
   "supplier_risk": "2026-09-10"
  },
  "Fairmarkit": {
   "agent": "2026-04-29",
   "discovery": "2026-04-29",
   "intake": "2026-04-29",
   "mcp": "2026-04-29",
   "rfx": "2026-04-29"
  },
  "GEP Quantum Intelligence": {
   "agent": "2025-12-05",
   "contracts": "2025-12-05",
   "negotiation": "2025-12-05",
   "price_data": "2025-12-05"
  },
  "Globality": {
   "agent": "2026-09-08",
   "discovery": "2026-09-08",
   "intake": "2026-09-08",
   "negotiation": "2026-09-08",
   "rfx": "2026-09-08"
  },
  "Graphite Connect": {
   "mcp": "2026-09-04",
   "supplier_data": "2026-09-04"
  },
  "Interos": {
   "compliance": "2025-06-16",
   "discovery": "2026-04-28",
   "supplier_data": "2026-04-28",
   "supplier_risk": "2025-06-16"
  },
  "Ivalua": {
   "agent": "2026-06-11",
   "contracts": "2026-06-11",
   "invoice": "2026-06-11",
   "mcp": "2026-06-11",
   "rfx": "2026-06-11",
   "supplier_risk": "2026-06-11"
  },
  "JAGGAER": {
   "copilot": "2025-06-24",
   "guided_buying": "2026-05-05",
   "rfx": "2025-06-24",
   "spend": "2026-05-05",
   "supplier_risk": "2026-05-05"
  },
  "Keelvar": {
   "agent": "2025-05-07",
   "copilot": "2025-11-12",
   "intake": "2025-11-12",
   "negotiation": "2025-11-12",
   "rfx": "2025-05-07"
  },
  "Levelpath": {
   "agent": "2026-10-01",
   "contracts": "2026-10-01",
   "copilot": "2026-10-01",
   "intake": "2026-10-01",
   "invoice": "2026-10-01",
   "rfx": "2026-10-01",
   "supplier_data": "2026-10-01",
   "supplier_risk": "2026-10-01"
  },
  "LightSource": {
   "agent": "2026-07-31",
   "copilot": "2026-07-31",
   "discovery": "2026-07-31",
   "negotiation": "2026-07-31",
   "rfx": "2026-07-31"
  },
  "ORO Labs": {
   "agent": "2025-06-05",
   "compliance": "2025-06-05",
   "intake": "2025-06-05",
   "negotiation": "2025-06-05",
   "supplier_risk": "2025-06-05"
  },
  "Omnea": {
   "agent": "2026-09-28",
   "copilot": "2026-04-30",
   "guided_buying": "2026-09-28",
   "intake": "2026-09-28",
   "mcp": "2026-04-30",
   "price_data": "2026-09-28"
  },
  "Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement": {
   "agent": "2025-10-15",
   "guided_buying": "2025-10-15",
   "intake": "2025-10-15",
   "rfx": "2026-02-10"
  },
  "Pactum": {
   "agent": "2026-03-18",
   "intake": "2026-03-18",
   "negotiation": "2026-03-18"
  },
  "Precoro": {
   "copilot": "2025-10-02",
   "intake": "2026-04-21",
   "invoice": "2026-02-24",
   "spend": "2025-10-02"
  },
  "ProcessUnity": {
   "agent": "2026-09-01",
   "contracts": "2026-09-01",
   "supplier_data": "2025-05-09",
   "supplier_risk": "2025-05-09"
  },
  "Procurify": {
   "agent": "2026-07-20",
   "copilot": "2025-05-14",
   "guided_buying": "2026-07-20",
   "intake": "2026-07-20",
   "invoice": "2026-07-20",
   "spend": "2025-05-14"
  },
  "Ramp Procurement": {
   "agent": "2026-04-29",
   "contracts": "2026-04-29",
   "copilot": "2026-04-29",
   "intake": "2026-04-29",
   "price_data": "2026-04-29",
   "rfx": "2026-04-29",
   "supplier_data": "2026-04-29"
  },
  "Resilinc": {
   "agent": "2025-05-02",
   "compliance": "2025-05-02",
   "copilot": "2026-10-09",
   "mcp": "2026-03-18",
   "supplier_risk": "2025-05-02"
  },
  "Rosslyn": {
   "spend": "2026-01-28"
  },
  "SAP Ariba": {
   "agent": "2026-03-12",
   "contracts": "2025-10-06",
   "intake": "2026-06-25",
   "rfx": "2025-10-06"
  },
  "Sievo": {
   "price_data": "2025-05-15",
   "spend": "2025-05-15"
  },
  "Simfoni": {
   "copilot": "2025-08-16",
   "spend": "2025-08-16"
  },
  "SpendHQ": {
   "agent": "2026-09-30",
   "negotiation": "2026-09-30",
   "spend": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "Spendflo": {
   "agent": "2026-05-13",
   "contracts": "2026-05-13",
   "intake": "2026-05-13",
   "invoice": "2026-05-13"
  },
  "Sphera Supply Chain Risk Management": {
   "agent": "2026-10-28",
   "copilot": "2026-10-28",
   "mcp": "2026-10-28",
   "supplier_risk": "2025-10-09"
  },
  "Suplari": {
   "agent": "2026-02-24",
   "copilot": "2026-09-22",
   "spend": "2026-02-24"
  },
  "Tonkean": {
   "agent": "2025-09-23",
   "contracts": "2026-01-13",
   "supplier_risk": "2025-09-23"
  },
  "Tropic": {
   "agent": "2025-06-10",
   "contracts": "2025-06-10",
   "intake": "2025-06-10",
   "invoice": "2025-06-10",
   "mcp": "2026-05-22",
   "negotiation": "2025-06-10",
   "price_data": "2025-10-08"
  },
  "Vertice": {
   "agent": "2026-09-08",
   "negotiation": "2026-09-08"
  },
  "Vroozi": {
   "intake": "2026-02-04"
  },
  "Workday Strategic Sourcing": {
   "agent": "2025-05-19",
   "contracts": "2025-05-19"
  },
  "Zip": {
   "agent": "2025-06-10",
   "contracts": "2026-04-16",
   "discovery": "2025-06-10",
   "guided_buying": "2025-10-22",
   "invoice": "2026-05-06",
   "mcp": "2026-06-03",
   "negotiation": "2025-10-22",
   "rfx": "2025-06-10"
  },
  "Zycus": {
   "agent": "2026-06-16",
   "discovery": "2026-06-16",
   "rfx": "2026-06-16"
  }
 },
 "sold_by_category": {
  "intake": {
   "intake": 9,
   "s2p": 8,
   "saas": 3,
   "sourcing": 6
  },
  "rfx": {
   "intake": 4,
   "s2p": 7,
   "sourcing": 13
  },
  "negotiation": {
   "intake": 3,
   "s2p": 3,
   "saas": 3,
   "sourcing": 8,
   "spend": 1
  },
  "discovery": {
   "intake": 1,
   "s2p": 2,
   "sourcing": 7,
   "supplier": 1
  },
  "contracts": {
   "intake": 7,
   "s2p": 6,
   "saas": 4,
   "sourcing": 3,
   "spend": 4,
   "supplier": 1
  },
  "guided_buying": {
   "intake": 4,
   "s2p": 5
  },
  "invoice": {
   "intake": 4,
   "s2p": 6,
   "saas": 2,
   "sourcing": 3
  },
  "supplier_risk": {
   "intake": 4,
   "s2p": 4,
   "sourcing": 1,
   "spend": 1,
   "supplier": 10
  },
  "supplier_data": {
   "intake": 3,
   "s2p": 2,
   "sourcing": 1,
   "spend": 1,
   "supplier": 6
  },
  "compliance": {
   "intake": 1,
   "sourcing": 1,
   "supplier": 7
  },
  "spend": {
   "s2p": 3,
   "sourcing": 1,
   "spend": 7
  },
  "price_data": {
   "intake": 2,
   "s2p": 1,
   "saas": 4,
   "spend": 2
  },
  "copilot": {
   "intake": 7,
   "s2p": 6,
   "saas": 2,
   "sourcing": 5,
   "spend": 3,
   "supplier": 3
  },
  "agent": {
   "intake": 7,
   "s2p": 10,
   "saas": 5,
   "sourcing": 11,
   "spend": 5,
   "supplier": 6
  },
  "mcp": {
   "intake": 2,
   "s2p": 3,
   "saas": 1,
   "sourcing": 1,
   "supplier": 4
  }
 },
 "monthly_launches": {
  "2025-05": {
   "agent": 2,
   "assist": 5
  },
  "2025-06": {
   "agent": 2,
   "assist": 5
  },
  "2025-07": {},
  "2025-08": {
   "always_on": 1,
   "assist": 1
  },
  "2025-09": {
   "always_on": 1
  },
  "2025-10": {
   "agent": 2,
   "assist": 5
  },
  "2025-11": {
   "agent": 1
  },
  "2025-12": {
   "agent": 1,
   "assist": 1
  },
  "2026-01": {
   "agent": 1,
   "assist": 2
  },
  "2026-02": {
   "agent": 2,
   "assist": 2
  },
  "2026-03": {
   "agent": 1,
   "assist": 3
  },
  "2026-04": {
   "agent": 3,
   "assist": 5
  },
  "2026-05": {
   "agent": 3,
   "assist": 2
  },
  "2026-06": {
   "agent": 4
  },
  "2026-07": {
   "agent": 2,
   "assist": 1
  },
  "2026-08": {
   "agent": 1
  },
  "2026-09": {
   "agent": 7,
   "always_on": 1,
   "assist": 3
  },
  "2026-10": {
   "agent": 1,
   "assist": 4
  },
  "2026-11": {
   "assist": 1
  }
 }
}