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The whole contract lifecycle · by VendorBenchmark

One sourcing manager. The output of fifty. Every contract, end to end.

Vera AI runs the work your team does by hand: reading the paper, marking the redlines, pricing the deal against 1,483 vendors, drafting the emails and the strategy, and keeping every renewal on time. Our own analysts take the deals worth a second opinion.

AI will not replace you. A buyer who uses it will.
1,483vendors in the benchmark library
2,602research documents in the portal library
1,412negotiator's guides, one per vendor
176renewal guides, by vendor and product line
≈40 hback per buyer, every month
Five minutes, the whole case

Your introduction to Vera AI.

What Vera AI is built from, and what you can do with it. Three analysts on the three parts, the benchmark data, two decades of negotiating craft across more than two hundred vendors, and the AI that puts both to work on your own paper. Then the ten things a buyer actually runs, from an instant benchmark to agents that negotiate the tail and Vera on the call beside you.

What Vera does for you

Ten things Vera AI does for you.

Upload the paper once. The benchmark, the redline, the renewal plan and the answer on the call all run off the same estate, so every one of them knows what your contracts actually say.

01

Be the expert on every call.

Upload the estate and Vera knows every line of it. She joins the Zoom, Teams or Webex call and answers on your side, to a colleague or to the vendor, while the call is still running.

02

Benchmark any contract, and get the strategy with it.

Drop a quote and the sheet answers in seconds: the discount you are offered, what comparable buyers get, where this one ranks. Then the negotiation strategy and the talking points to use.

03

Search five hundred contracts in seconds.

The uplift terms, the divestment language, the auto renews. What took an afternoon of reading takes one search, and every answer carries the paragraph it came from.

04

Build a renewal plan for the agreements that matter.

The steps to take and when, counted back from the notice date. The plans are written from our own work on that vendor rather than from a template, which is what makes them land.

05

Research the vendor before you sit down.

A Negotiator's Guide on 1,412 vendors and 2,602 papers behind them: their calendar, their tactics, what they concede and what they never do. No more trawling blogs.

06

Give yourself an AI chief of staff.

Name your own, and it remembers: every contract you upload, every decision you took, what you said last week. It works the platform for you and opens the morning with what needs you.

07

Run the whole contract lifecycle in one place.

From the upload to the renewal: the record, the clauses, the obligations and the dates, wired to the benchmark data so the number is never more than a press away.

08

Redline the contract, the MSA and the SOW.

Marked up in seconds against your own positions, with the argument for each change. Share it with legal and finance and settle it together rather than by email.

09

See where the money is across the estate.

The biggest opportunities in your spend, ranked by what they are worth, each with the move that captures it and the evidence behind the number.

10

Hand the deal to a human analyst.

When it is worth a second opinion, a VendorBenchmark analyst benchmarks the same paper by hand and comes back with the report.

About 40 hours back per buyer, every month. Run your own numbers →

The applications

Twelve applications, one estate underneath them.

Each one opens as its own window over the page you were on, and every one of them reads the same contracts, so an answer in one is an answer in all of them.

Benchmark Library

Benchmark Library

Type the five fields of a deal and the sheet answers in order: the discount you are offered, what comparable buyers get, where this one ranks.

Know what the deal is worth before you reply.
The contract decoder

The contract decoder

Drop any agreement, MSA or statement of work and it comes back read: the money, the risks, the clauses that will cost you, in plain English.

Eighty pages understood over a coffee.
The renewal desk

The renewal desk

The book of agreements on the clock, the runway to each notice date, the plan for the ones that matter, and the notice letter drafted and held.

No renewal arrives as a surprise again.
The Vera Deal-Room

The Vera Deal-Room

One upload becomes six documents, one goal and one room: the standing, the moves, the brief, and the team working from the same facts.

The whole negotiation in one place.
The Control Room

The Control Room

What moved overnight, what shuts next, what is waiting on you, and what the agents are allowed to do without asking.

Ten minutes a morning covers the estate.
The agent roster

The agent roster

Analysts write, watchdogs monitor, autopilots act under a mandate you signed. Hire one in a minute, and read what it did.

The work that runs while you are in meetings.
Document search

Document search

Ask the estate a question and get the answer with the paragraph it came from: uplift caps, divestment language, auto renewals.

An afternoon of reading becomes one search.
The Research Library

The Research Library

2,602 papers and a Negotiator's Guide on 1,412 vendors: their calendar, their tactics, what they concede and what they never do.

Walk in knowing how this vendor negotiates.
The comparison desk

The comparison desk

A renewal against the paper it replaces, side by side: every repriced line and every moved clause named, and the stronger side called.

See exactly what changed, and what it costs.
Contracts and documents

Contracts and documents

Every agreement with its clauses, dates, obligations and owners, versioned, searchable and signed off inside the portal.

One estate of record, not eleven folders.
The reports

The reports

The benchmark, the negotiation brief, the board pack: written as an analyst writes, exported to Word, PowerPoint, PDF or Excel.

Something you can forward to the CFO.
Vendor watch

Vendor watch

Price rises, licensing model changes and audit campaigns, filtered to the vendors you actually hold, filed every week with the move it asks of you.

The market news that touches your paper.

Every action an agent takes is logged, checked against the authority you gave it, and stopped for you when it goes past that line. See every feature →

What is included

Fifty of the things that come with Vera AI.

Every plan carries every tool. The tiers differ in how much analyst time and how many hand written benchmarks come with them, never in which features you are allowed to open.

Benchmarks and market data
Benchmark Librarythe sheet for every vendor, with your deal placed in it
Instant benchmarkfive fields, and the discount, the peer range and the rank
Negotiator's Guides1,412 vendors, their tactics and their calendar
Renewal Library176 renewal guides by vendor and product line
Research Library2,602 papers, searchable, with the originals
Human benchmarkan analyst benchmarks the same paper by hand
Contracts and the record
Contract Management Portalfiles, index, families and properties in one frame
Clause libraryyour positions, and where each one sits in the estate
Obligations registerwhat you owe and what they owe, with the evidence
Versions and audit trailwho changed what, exportable
E-signaturethe envelope composer and the signed archive
Legal holda paper frozen with a reason on the record
Comments and mentionsanchored to the line, not to the file
Reading the paper
Contract decoderthe money, the risk and the clauses, in plain English
SOW decoderrates, deliverables and the change control that bites
MSA decoderthe master agreement behind the order form
The redline roommarked up against your own positions, with the argument
Compare two agreementsevery repriced line and moved clause named
Document searchone question across the whole estate, cited
Renewals
The renewal deskthe book, the runway and the plan
Renewal calendarevery notice date, in your own calendar feed
The notice letterdrafted, dated and held for your signature
Renewal autopilotthe steps that run themselves, under your mandate
Managed renewalsour team runs the renewal with you
The year aheadwhat renews when, and what it is worth
Negotiation
The Deal-Roomone upload, six documents, one goal, one team
Playbooks and briefsthe strategy, written the way an analyst writes
Talking points and call scriptswhat to say, in order, per meeting
Quote teardownthe vendor's quote taken apart line by line
Walk-away builderthe number you will not go past, and why
Offer trackingevery offer on the table, logged and compared
Vera and the agents
Ask Verathe question box that opens rooms and writes documents
Vera on your callZoom, Teams or Webex, as the expert on that vendor
Your AI chief of staffnamed by you, remembering every contract and decision
Agent Driven Experiencethe specialist drives the screen while you watch
The agent rosterfifteen agents that run to their own schedule
Workflow builderyour own agent, from a trigger and a few steps
Vendor watchthe weekly wire, filtered to the paper you hold
Spend and portfolio
Portfolio scanevery contract read, every saving named
Spend categorieseight indirect categories, each with its own desk
Opportunitiesranked by what they are worth, with the move
Invoice reconciliationwhat you were billed against what you signed
Cloud optimizationthe commitments, the waste and the rate levers
Commit optimizersthe drawdown, and what to do before it lapses
Reports and delivery
Executive briefsthe document your CFO and board actually read
The reports shelfeverything Vera delivered, kept and searchable
Word, PowerPoint, PDF, Excelthe same document, in the format you need
Email deliverythe brief in the inbox, in the same house dress
Analyst briefingsthe films and series behind the numbers
The monthly briefingyour estate, summarised, every month

And about two hundred more, room by room. See the full catalog →

The honest version of the AI pitch
AI will not replace you.
A buyer who uses it will.

The procurement leaders winning right now are not working longer hours. They walk into every renewal with the market's numbers, a decoded contract, and a drafted counter, before the vendor finishes the small talk.

Plans

Start with one contract. Scale to the whole stack.

Every step changes who does the work: your team, then your team with an AI analyst, then ours alongside both. Module-only licensing is also available, see the FAQ.

Free, no card

Decode one contract. A plain English risk map of what it really says, plus the ROI calculator.

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7 day trial

Run it on your whole estate. Unlimited contract uploads, the full portfolio scan, AI analyses without a cap, two hours a month with Vera, and instant benchmarks on Salesforce and Adobe Experience Cloud.

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Growth
$30,000 /yr
for a single buying desk running its own renewals
Your team, better armed. You negotiate, we give you the market.
  • Every AI feature and every tool on the site
  • 2 hours a month of Vera AI join calls
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Enterprise
From $120,000 /yr
for organizations managing $10M+ in software spend
Your team, an AI analyst, and ours. A named human on the account.
  • Every AI feature and every tool on the site
  • 8 hours a month of Vera AI join calls
  • Up to 4 benchmarks and reports a month by human analysts
  • Add-ons: Dedicated Team, Advisory hours and Negotiation Services
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What separates the plans
GrowthProfessionalEnterprise
Every AI feature and every tool on the site
Vera AI join calls2 hours a month4 hours a month8 hours a month
Benchmarks and reports by human analystsUp to 2 a monthUp to 4 a month
Users and contracts1 user, 50 contracts2 users, 100 contractsUnlimited
A named analyst, SSO / SCIM and the API
Add-ons, scoped in the agreement
Negotiation ServicesContingency onlyFixed fee or contingency
Dedicated TeamAvailable
Advisory hoursAvailable
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The bottom line

Stop negotiating blind.

Decode one contract free and see what your vendor hoped you would never know. No signup, no sales call.