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Applied-AI research, company news and evidence from live engagements — including our work with the MIT CSAIL Alliances Program.
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Why contract compliance quietly erodes margin
Leakage is rarely one big failure. It is many small gaps between what was negotiated and what gets billed — and why checking invoices against the contract, not the purchase order, changes the number.
Read more→ joins the MIT CSAIL Alliances Program
We’ve partnered with the MIT CSAIL Alliances Program (CAP) to advance applied AI research in procurement and spend intelligence — including a recent visit to MIT.
Read more→White paper: The hidden cost of unmanaged spend
Organizations lose an average of 8.6% of contracted spend to pricing non-compliance, unclaimed rebates and unauthorized fees. Our analysis of where the leaks hide — and how to close them.
Read more→ acquires Illumis Global to form the Recovery pillar
Backed by Trive Capital, we’ve acquired Illumis Global — bringing deep audit expertise and proven recovery technology to power the Recovery Chain.
Read the article↗Case study: $320M of addressable spend, benchmarked and recovered
How a $4.2bn regional healthcare distributor cut 7–16% by category, reduced its vendor base 34% and deployed governance across 12 distribution centers.
Read more→A new graduate cohort joins
Fresh talent joins our team to learn from senior category experts and bring new thinking to AI-powered procurement.
Read more→Partnering with MIT CSAIL
is a partner of the MIT CSAIL Alliances Program (CAP), exploring how applied AI reshapes procurement and spend intelligence — including a recent visit to MIT.
What partners say
They went through $320M of addressable indirect spend and found savings in every category we opened up — including 16% on IT and telecom. The procurement governance they left behind is now how we buy across all twelve distribution centers.
Post-acquisition we needed control of non-player spend quickly. They centralised procurement across telecoms, catering, cleaning and security, and the savings showed up in the first full quarter.
They found leakage across contracts we assumed were airtight. The recovery paid for the entire engagement several times over — with zero lift from my team.
The lookback audit covered eighteen months of AP and freight invoices and returned hard dollars we had already written off. Because it was contingency-based, the exercise cost us nothing until the credits landed.
They put pricing governance around a vendor base we inherited through acquisition. Contract compliance went from a spreadsheet exercise to something monitored continuously — we now catch pricing drift before we pay it.
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