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Webinar | AI and Sourcing

AI and Sourcing:
what actually changes

The no magic talk session. The three places AI genuinely changes the sourcing job, each shown live on the platform, and the operating model that keeps every consequential decision with a person. With Matt and Janice on screen throughout. Recorded August 2026.

The first two minutes play for everyone. The full session is available on request with a work email.
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What this session covers

Every vendor deck this year says AI. This session skips the noise and names the three places AI genuinely changes the sourcing job: the reading (contracts, quotes, and audit letters read in full, every claim cited to its clause), the market (every deal placed against what comparable buyers pay, continuously), and the standing work (agents that watch, draft, and brief while the team sleeps).

All three are shown live on the platform, and the session is equally clear about the fourth layer that must never change: the deciding. Nothing signs, sends, or spends without a person, everything cites its source, and the audit trail covers the machines like any other actor.

It closes with the honest pilot: one contract, dropped on Vera tonight, ten minutes to see what this changes for your team.

Agenda
  • 0:00Welcome: the AI noise and the sourcing job
  • 2:16What AI actually changes, and what it never should
  • 4:31Live: the reading layer
  • 6:14Live: the market layer
  • 7:59Live: the working layer
  • 10:07The operating model: where people stay in charge
  • 12:28Start tonight: one document, ten minutes

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