Agent-driven vendor management
Your agents for commercial execution.
Specialist agents work from the same vendor context to find opportunities, prepare a commercial case and move approved work forward. Ask AI gives you a way in. The Decision Calendar keeps timing and ownership visible.
Specialist agents. Shared commercial context.
Specialist agents. One commercial platform.
One source of truth across direct and indirect vendors gives every agent the agreements, spend and commercial history behind the next move. Each has a job. Each produces something your team can act on.
Find value
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Savings Discovery Agent
Find avoidable cost before it becomes another payment.
The output
A prioritized opportunity with a savings range, evidence, confidence and a next step.
How it works
- The job
- Reviews connected agreements, pricing and spend for overlapping purchases, unused commercial rights and savings opportunities.
- What it works from
- Contracts, POs, invoices and vendor-level spend.
- Why it matters
- Spend the team’s time on opportunities with an economic case.
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Pricing & Terms Agent
Turn commercial detail into negotiating leverage.
The output
Price differences and term changes worth challenging, with the basis visible.
How it works
- The job
- Compares line-level prices, quantity commitments, payment terms and changes over time against the applicable signed vendor record.
- What it works from
- Order forms, pricing schedules, amendments and new proposals.
- Why it matters
- Enter the conversation with a specific ask—not a generic request for a discount.
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Vendor Consolidation Agent
Use the buying power hidden across teams and locations.
The output
Relationships to review together, with overlap, commitments and renewal context.
How it works
- The job
- Flags potentially duplicate vendors and overlapping services across available vendor records and spend.
- What it works from
- Vendor identities, service scope, entity or location context, and spend.
- Why it matters
- Coordinate the next purchase or renewal around the full relationship.
Protect value
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Renewal & Rebate Agent
Find the deadline behind the deadline.
The output
An evidence-backed decision, an action-by deadline and the consequence of doing nothing.
How it works
- The job
- Identifies renewal, notice and rebate-program requirements, including dates that differ from the SOW end date.
- What it works from
- Applicable agreements, amendments, program terms and supporting records.
- Why it matters
- Protect negotiated benefits and preserve options before the cutoff.
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Compliance & Commercial Risk Agent
Make obligations and evidence gaps actionable.
The output
A requirement, supporting source, evidence status, exposure and recommended follow-up.
How it works
- The job
- Connects signed requirements to available evidence, flags commercial exceptions and recommends an owned response.
- What it works from
- Applicable contract terms, invoices, required vendor documents and observed evidence.
- Why it matters
- Pursue documented issues without mistaking missing evidence for proof of noncompliance.
Act on value
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Negotiation Agent
Turn the negotiation plan into a human-approved vendor exchange.
The output
An evidence-backed plan, tracked correspondence, comparison of revised terms and recommendations for the next human decision.
How it works
- The job
- Suggests commercial changes, manages the approved email exchange, tracks responses and reviews revised documents. Returns new recommendations to the human for approval.
- What it works from
- Applicable signed terms, approved requests, vendor replies and returned proposals.
- Why it matters
- Pursue lower costs without handing commercial decision-making authority to the agent.
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Action & Follow-through Agent
Keep the next move from becoming another loose end.
The output
Owned actions, follow-up status and the record needed to review the outcome.
How it works
- The job
- Connects decisions to owners, the next step and approved follow-up; keeps the work visible as the vendor responds.
- What it works from
- Decision Calendar, assigned owners, approvals, responses and supporting evidence.
- Why it matters
- Carry the finding forward—and distinguish activity from verified benefit.
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Vendor Lifecycle Agent
Keep the relationship moving from onboarding to exit.
The output
The next action, accountable owner and relevant source at each stage.
How it works
- The job
- Brings vendor ownership, agreements, open obligations, renewal decisions and exit follow-up into one relationship.
- What it works from
- Vendor record, lifecycle stage, assignments, agreements and open decisions.
- Why it matters
- Avoid disconnected handoffs without creating separate direct and indirect vendor workflows.
Plan cash
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Vendor Disbursement Agent
See what you expect to pay, when and why.
The output
Vendor disbursement forecast with basis, period, scenario and source lineage.
How it works
- The job
- Builds a dated view of vendor payments from outstanding invoices, uninvoiced commitments and applicable payment terms.
- What it works from
- ERP/AP balances, invoice due dates, remaining POs, payment schedules and dated assumptions.
- Why it matters
- Improve cash planning; a payment shifted later is not a hard saving.
Agents recommend or act within the authority you give them. Your team remains responsible for approvals and commercial commitments.
How the agents work together
One opportunity. A connected sequence of work.
A pricing issue becomes a savings case. A deadline makes it urgent. The report sets the asks. The Negotiation Agent carries the discussion forward under your mandate.
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Find the opportunity
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Human approves the position
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Agent manages the exchange
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Agent evaluates revised terms
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Human approves the agreement
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Track the outcome
Delegate the work. Keep the decisions.
Agents execute the process. Humans drive decisions.
The agent suggests changes, handles the approved email exchange, tracks replies and reviews revised documents. New recommendations and commercial decisions come back to a person for approval.
Your team negotiates
A strong report. Your conversation.
Use the prioritized report to run the negotiation yourself. Inspect the evidence, choose the asks, and keep the vendor history in view.
- 01Review the opportunity and assumptions
- 02Choose the commercial position
- 03Conduct the vendor discussion
- 04Record the agreement and verify benefit
AI assists your team
AI prepares. You decide what goes out.
Have the agent prepare a response and assess the counterproposal. Review each outgoing message before taking it to the vendor.
- 01Set the objective
- 02Review the AI-prepared response
- 03Approve the next message
- 04Compare the vendor’s counterproposal
Agent manages the exchange
Human approval is part of the workflow
The agent does the follow-through. Your team decides.
Approve the negotiating position. Let the agent manage emails and tracking, review revised documents and recommend the next move. A person approves changes to the position and the final agreement.
- 01Human approves the proposed asks
- 02Agent manages the approved email exchange
- 03Agent evaluates the returned contract
- 04Human approves the next position or agreement
You set the limits
- Human approves
- The proposed position, changed commercial recommendations and final agreement.
- Agent manages
- Approved email exchanges, reply tracking and updated-document review.
- Returned contract
- Compare requests with the result. Escalate missed asks and new conditions.
A person approves revised positions and the final agreement. The agent does not independently accept new commercial commitments or sign.
Industry context / the same shared platform
The next layer is specific to your vendor decisions.
Explore three specialist workflows for each industry, using shared commercial information and human-approved actions. Configured for each customer.
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.
ANALYZE · NEGOTIATE · ACT IN TIME