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USE CASES

The full life of a vendor relationship, in one workspace.

From the first purchase request to the renewal call, here are the ten things teams reach for first. Each one states the situation it solves and the hours it hands back.

≈ 40 hours back per month The expected case for a team spending about 60 hours a month on this work, hours only, before any negotiated savings. Estimate your own hours →
01 PROCUREMENT

Renewal negotiation

Benchmark the proposal, generate a brief and talking points, simulate scenarios, track concessions in the deal thread, and export the deck for the vendor call.

TIME BACK8 hours of brief and deck writing a month → about 2.5. The judgment stays yours.
CONCESSION LEDGER
Vendor drops uplift 9% → 5%−$35K/yr
Co-term added at renewallogged
Landing zone$377K to $392K
02 BEFORE SIGNING

Price benchmarking

Run an instant benchmark against thousands of real closed deals to know the fair number before the first counter. 520 vendors, adjusted for deal size, region, industry, and signing period.

TIME BACK10 hours of market research a month → about 2.5. The fair number in minutes.
YOUR PERCENTILE VS 5,000 DEALS
OVERPAYINGYOU · 63rdBEST IN MARKET
03 CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Contract management & document search

Every agreement in one repository, fields extracted by AI and confirmed by a human. Semantic search across thousands of documents, "what did we agree on price caps?" is a query, not an afternoon.

TIME BACK6 hours of clause hunting a month → about 1.5. Cited answers in under a second.
🔍which contracts allow termination for convenience?
12 matches across 1,842 documents0.4s · cited clauses
04 NEGOTIATION

AI ghost-writer negotiation

Forward the vendor's email to your private deal address. AI classifies the tactic, logs concessions and commitments, and drafts the counter-reply in your voice, with full thread memory.

TIME BACKAn evening per counter reply → a draft in seconds, tactic named. You review and send.
Tactic detected: artificial deadline
Drafted counter · in your voice

"Comparable deals at this volume close 14 to 18% below your proposal, happy to move quickly once we're inside that range."
05 AUTOMATION

Custom AI workflows

No-code automations your team builds once and reuses: AI analysis chained into emails, Slack posts, and tasks, run manually, on every upload, or weekly. Ten templates to start from.

TIME BACK7 hours of intake and status chasing a month → about 3. The workflow answers for you.
RISKY-TERMS SCREEN · ON UPLOAD
AI classify if high-risk AI redline memo Slack + task
06 FINOPS / ITAM

Right-sizing & cloud optimization

Upload a usage or cost export and get a playbook: M365 tier right-sizing per user, cloud savings by workstream, and commit sizing for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Claude, OpenAI, and Agentforce.

TIME BACKA consultant week of license analysis → a playbook from one CSV, in minutes.
SAVINGS BY WORKSTREAM
Database right-sizing$150K/yr
M365 tier downgrades, 180 accounts$95K/yr
Committed-tier right-sizing$90K/yr
07 FINANCE

Invoice reconciliation

Catch overbilling, off-contract items, and uplift-cap breaches on every invoice, automatically. Invoices arrive by upload or a private email address.

TIME BACK6 hours of line matching a month → about 2.5. The gaps come to you, flagged.
Billed$412,000
Contracted$377,000
Flagged for recovery$35,000
08 EXECUTIVES

Board & budget reporting

One click produces the portfolio board report: spend, renewals on the horizon, biggest opportunities, and risk concentration, a straight answer to "are we overpaying?"

TIME BACK6 hours of deck building a month → about 2. One click, board ready.
PDF
Portfolio board report, Q3 2026
White-paper standard · exports to Word, PowerPoint, PDF
09 AI AGENT

The Monday vendor wire

Every Monday an agent sweeps the week's vendor pricing and licensing news, list price moves, licensing rule changes, audit activity, end-of-life dates, and writes the brief. It lands on your dashboard and in your inbox before the coffee is ready.

TIME BACKHours of scattered vendor news reading a week → a five minute Monday brief.
THIS WEEK'S WIRE
VMware: licensing minimums change, your exposure flagged
Microsoft: M365 list price move lands before your renewal
Oracle: Java audit activity rising, position check suggested
10 IT LEADERSHIP

IT spend optimization plan

Rank your top 10 to 100 vendors by spend, see every renewal on one eighteen month calendar, and get an executive plan of about twenty prioritized moves across right-sizing, renegotiation, consolidation, and timing, each anchored to a renewal window.

TIME BACKA consulting engagement of portfolio analysis → a prioritized plan in an afternoon.
FROM THE PLAN · 3 OF 20 MOVES
Right-size 180 M365 E5 seats$95K/yr
Consolidate three BI tools to one$120K/yr
Renegotiate Salesforce uplift capwindow Mar 2027
AND THERE'S MORE

The rest of the lifecycle, covered.

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