Every run is logged, every figure is grounded in your stored data, and nothing leaves the platform without a gate you chose.
The agent that manages your renewals. Vera works your renewal calendar every day at the autonomy you choose: watch and remind, draft for your approval, or negotiate under a mandate with fees only on invoice verified savings. Every action lands on the renewal's own timeline.
Forward a vendor email and get back a reply worth sending, in a seasoned negotiator's voice, thread memory included. Grounded in your position: your benchmark standing, your terms, your leverage. You edit and send from your own inbox; nothing goes out by itself.
They run on the platform's clock, read only the data named on their card, and land their findings on the page they concern. You do not build them; you tune what each one tells you.
Six playbook specialists write the documents a deal needs, each in the executive brief standard, every figure grounded in your stored data. Beyond them, define up to six custom analysts: your prompt, your depth, your choice of which documents each may read.
Autonomy without a boundary is a liability, so the agents work inside rooms with a stated goal and under a mandate you sign. Every draft is checked against that mandate before it can leave, and anything past the line stops and waits for a person.
Six documents assemble from one upload. You state the goal and the deadline, invite the people who have to agree, and the room keeps the plan, the read state, the comments, and the scheduled status report in one place.
Renewal pressure with the notice brackets marked, every open thread sorted by who it waits on, the run feed, and the authority each agent holds. What the guardian stopped is at the top, with its reason.
Target, disclosure, autonomy, an annual authority cap, and an expiry date. Signed once per agreement, kept on the record even after it is revoked.
Reads every draft before it leaves. Allow, rewrite, block, or escalate, with the rule it applied and the reason in plain English.
Every action, who authorised it, what it committed, and where it went. The audit log is the same one your security team reviews.
Describe the goal in one sentence and the AI drafts the chain: trigger, steps, and the approval gate where anything would leave the platform. Test it against your own data before it earns a trigger.
Describe what the analyst step should cover in plain language, paste your own output template if you want the memo in your house style, and add steps with one click. Pause, edit, or run any workflow at any time.
Employees email a question to a private agent address; a white-paper answer comes back. Proposal price checks, discount sanity checks, risky-terms scans, should-we-buy advice, and more.
Vera runs a grounded streaming chat over your contracts and the market, every figure cited back to stored data. Save an ask and turn it into a watch that re-runs on a schedule, so the answer lands before you think to ask again. Spoken mode reads the briefing aloud.
Automation is not just the scheduled job. Wherever a result lands, a What next desk follows with the moves that fit it, built from that page's own numbers, so the step after the verdict takes minutes instead of another meeting.
The Benchmark Case drafts six emails on the case's own numbers: the vendor, your CFO, procurement, your reseller, and your team, and the vendor facing drafts never reveal your percentile or your sources. The sourcing desk writes the kickoff, the supplier invitations, the Q&A broadcast that answers every bidder equally, the chase with the quiet suppliers' names already in it, the recommendation memo, and the award and decline notes. You edit and send from your own inbox; nothing goes out by itself.
The Send it on drafter turns any report into the email that forwards it, written from the report itself. In Document search, the workroom under every answer drafts the vendor email without showing your hand, briefs your CFO, invites colleagues to a working session with the agenda drafted from the cited clauses, and turns the finding into a 6 to 12 week project plan on a Gantt board, saved with the finding.
ANP v0.1 is a published spec at app.vendorbenchmark.com/agent-protocol with an open API at /api/agent/v1, so your agent and a counterparty's agent can negotiate directly. Every exchange is written to a hash-chain ledger, an append-only record either side can verify.
Read the protocol spec →Sixteen standing agents watch your portfolio from day one. Add your own.
The AI agent roster
What every agent does, the documents it writes, and the time it gives back, from the renewal war room to the weekly market monitor.