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Agent-driven vendor management

AI agents that turn vendor spend into hard savings.

Your system of commercial execution for CFOs and operators.

Cantabrix connects vendors, contracts, purchase orders, invoices and spend so AI agents can identify opportunities, prepare negotiations, manage the approved exchange and evaluate the result. Your team stays in control of commercial decisions.

One connected platform for finance, procurement, vendor management and operations.

Agent workflows configured around your commercial priorities.

Negotiation engine

Anonymized negotiation report

From your vendor data

Your agent negotiates.

Prioritized asks. Financial upside. Evidence.

Logic + calculation + source evidence

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Potential savings and recoveries from an anonymized negotiation report. Ranges are not additive.

Customer results

Better negotiations. Measurable savings.

Distributor and Retailer

Anonymized case

$13M

Negotiated savings

A stronger negotiating position. A more streamlined spend base.

Approximately $105M in IT spend

Cantabrix surfaced complex contractual deadlines and prepared specific savings and flexibility recommendations. The customer renegotiated all IT contracts.

Healthcare Provider

Anonymized case

$8M

Negotiated savings

A coordinated vendor strategy. Across direct medical spend.

Approximately $100M in direct medical spend

Cantabrix identified vendor-consolidation opportunities across a roll-up of physician offices. In linens alone, it identified a 10% savings opportunity.

Source: Cantabrix engagement summaries. Negotiated savings across each engagement.

A system of commercial execution

Commercial execution means following through.

Identify the opportunity. Build the negotiating position. Let agents manage the approved exchange and evaluate what comes back. Preserve the signed terms and track the financial result. Your team keeps the commercial decisions.

  1. 01

    Prioritize

    See which vendor opportunities and deadlines deserve attention.

  2. 02

    Build the case

    Open the ask, savings range, calculation and supporting evidence.

  3. 03

    Negotiate

    Approve the position; let the agent manage the exchange and tracking.

  4. 04

    Evaluate the return

    See what the vendor accepted, missed or changed before deciding.

The returned contract is a decision point

Your agent reviews the returned contract. You decide what happens next.

The agent reviews the returned document against the signed baseline and your approved requests. See achieved objectives, missed asks and new trade-offs—not just a reassuring score.

Human approval required

Unit price
7% lower
Minimum volume
15% higher
Minimum annual cost
$6,950 higher

A better rate can still mean a larger commitment. The agent recommends a counterproposal; your team decides.

Customer-specific configuration. Human approval required.

Ask AI. Move into agent-driven work.

Ask where to act. Let agents help move the work forward.

Ask across the vendor relationship, understand the evidence, and move into an agent-assisted decision or negotiation. One commercial picture for finance, procurement and operations.

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Find savings

Where are our strongest negotiation opportunities?

Start with three opportunities in the anonymized CRM-vendor report: a possible credit for overlapping sandbox orders, a lower unit price, and support-plan consolidation.

Potential one-time savings
$39,656–$51,917
Potential sandbox repricing
$26,716–$53,433 / yr
Potential support consolidation
$28,709–$57,418 / yr

Evidence behind the answer

  • Negotiation summary · negotiation report, page 1
  • Logic, calculation and evidence · page 2

Turn the answer into action

Review the assumptions, choose the asks, and take the report into negotiation.

Open the negotiation report

Explore the same questions with your vendor information.

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The Decision Calendar

Give agent-driven work a deadline and an owner.

A rebate cutoff. A notice deadline. A future price increase. Connect the evidence to the contractual action-by date, an owner and the approved next step.

The deadline hidden inside the SOW.

Cantabrix surfaced a rebate-program requirement on a different timetable from the SOW end date. An end-date reminder alone would not have shown when the customer needed to act.

Decision Calendar

Your next moves

The right action. Before the deadline.

Decisions due in the 30 days from October 1, 2026
Action byVendor / decisionStatus
Meridian FacilitiesNotice deadlineReview required
Aster TechnologyRebate programAction required
Kestrel IT SupportRenewal decisionDraft ready

A separate deadline. A benefit to protect.The rebate program needs action before the SOW ends.

3 decisions in the 30 days from October 1, 2026

Keep your systems. Connect the value.

Keep your systems. Connect the vendor relationship.

Bring the contract, the order, the invoice and the negotiation into the same commercial picture. Your existing systems keep running. Cantabrix makes the information work together.

Your systems. One commercial picture.

  • Docusign
  • Oracle NetSuite
  • Salesforce
  • Microsoft Outlook

Cantabrix

Commercial intelligence. Accountable action.

  • Vendor record
  • Ask AI
  • Decision Calendar
  • Negotiation Engine
  • Outcome Scorecard
  1. Find the leverage
  2. Negotiate
  3. Verify the result
Integrations configured for each client

Built for CFOs and operators

One commercial picture. Every team moves the work forward.

Everyone works from the same vendor information, commercial history and next steps. Agents handle the analysis and follow-through. Your team approves commercial decisions.

  • Finance

    See the financial case and distinguish identified, negotiated and realized value.

  • Procurement

    Set and approve negotiating positions with the evidence already assembled.

  • Vendor management

    Own the relationship, deadlines and follow-up without losing the commercial context.

  • Operations

    Bring the requirements that determine whether a better price is a better agreement.

Commercial experience. Technical depth.

Built to understand the problem. And deliver the solution.

Co-founder & CEO

Brian Roughan

  • Former BCG Managing Director & Partner
  • MIT Sloan MBA

More than 25 years helping leadership teams improve financial, operational, and technology performance.

Co-founder & CTO

Martin Wartak

  • Enterprise software & technical leadership
  • Former CTO, Entromy

Deep experience building enterprise software and bringing complex data into practical, usable products.

A few practical answers

Before your next vendor decision.

Do we need separate systems for direct and indirect vendors?

No. Use one connected vendor record for both, with category, business-unit and location views when you need them. Separate requirements remain visible without maintaining separate sources of truth.

Is this only for software vendors?

No. Cantabrix supports vendor relationships across technology, services, materials, equipment and other categories.

Is Ask AI just a document chatbot?

Ask AI works across the available vendor record—agreements, pricing, spend and decision context. The answer is a starting point for an action, not the end of the workflow.

What happens when the vendor returns a contract?

Cantabrix compares revised terms with the signed baseline and approved requests, including unchanged requests and newly introduced terms. Your team approves the next response or agreement. The workflow is configured around your requirements. Explore the outcome scorecard.

Can the agent negotiate for us?

Yes. A person approves the negotiating position. The agent handles the email exchange, tracks replies and evaluates revised documents, then brings recommendations back for human approval. It does not independently accept new commercial commitments or sign agreements.

Does the Decision Calendar only track renewals?

No. It also brings other documented commercial deadlines into view, including notice windows and rebate requirements that follow their own timetable.

Does a disbursement forecast execute payments?

No. It shows expected payments and the basis behind them. Payment execution and authorization remain in the systems and processes agreed with your finance team.

Put better vendor economics to work

Find the leverage. Put your agents to work.

See how Ask AI, specialist agents and the Negotiation Engine turn your vendor information into a plan for measurable value.

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ANALYZE · NEGOTIATE · ACT IN TIME