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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 sixteen things teams reach for first, and the five newest are the ones that keep working when you close the laptop. 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 modelled deal cohorts to know the fair number before the first counter. 1,140 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 THE MARKET
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
11 PROCUREMENT

Sourcing, from request to award

Press Sourcing and a Control Room opens over the whole pipeline: five stage racks, live money gauges, and a ranked queue of next moves. Vera drafts the RFP from weighted requirements, discovers suppliers with a forwardable field report, scores every bid with a quote behind each score, and writes the recommendation memo, the award note, and the declines. You keep every decision and lose every blank page.

TIME BACKWeeks of RFP administration → a scored, documented award in days.
FROM THE ROOM · NEXT MOVES
Score all bids vs the RFP1 click
Chase the two quiet suppliers, names prefilleddrafted
Recommendation memo to the budget ownerdrafted
12 AUTOMATION

One deal, one room

Drop the contract and the Vera Deal-Room assembles the whole negotiation package on its own: the market benchmark, the decoded terms with their ask list, the five page analyst brief, the strategy playbook, live vendor intel, and the credible alternative priced with crossover math. Set the goal, invite finance and legal, and the room tracks progress, holds the thread, and emails the team a status report on your cadence.

TIME BACKTwo weeks of prep by four people → six documents from one upload, about 27 minutes cover to cover.
IN THE ROOM
Six documents from one upload27 min read
Goal, deadline, and who is on ityou set once
Weekly status report to the teamscheduled
13 AUTOMATION

The renewal that negotiates itself

Point Vera at a vendor and she works the renewal by email: benchmarks the discount before she writes, opens as your desk, argues round after round, and stops the moment a formal offer lands. You approve the goal, you decide every offer, and you can take the wheel at any point. Reject an offer with a steer and she counters again inside the mandate.

TIME BACKSix weeks of email tennis → you read the offer and decide.
WHAT YOU STILL DO
Approve the goal and the opening askonce
Decide every formal offeryours
Everything between those twoshe runs it
14 AUTOMATION

A standing workforce, not a chat window

Sixteen agents work the account without being asked: analysts that write the briefs and the Monday wire, watchdogs that check prices, bills, terms, and vendor health on their own clock, autopilots that work renewals and answer vendors under a mandate you sign, and the workflows your team builds in five minutes. Every run is logged, and the roster tells you what ran, when, and what it gave back.

TIME BACKTen recurring checks nobody had time for → they run on a schedule and only interrupt you when something moved.
THE ROSTER
Watchdogs on prices, bills, and termsdaily
Analysts writing briefs and board reportsweekly
Autopilots acting under a signed mandatelogged
15 AUTOMATION

One screen for what the machine did overnight

The Control Room opens on the state of the desk rather than a wall of links: renewal pressure over the next 120 days with the notice brackets marked, a board of every open thread sorted by who it is waiting on, the run feed, and the authority each agent is operating under. Anything the guardian blocked or escalated is at the top with the reason it stopped.

TIME BACKA morning of chasing status → one screen, and the exceptions come to you.
IN THE LAST 24 HOURS
Actions prepared and cleared to sendcounted
Blocked or escalated to a personreason shown
What each mandate allowsalways visible
16 ENTERPRISE ONBOARDING

Bring the whole estate across

Arriving with 400 or 5,000 contract documents is a project, so Migration Studio treats it like one. Six questions produce a plan with dates, owners, and the quality bar the run is measured against. Your register maps column by column with the ambiguous formats questioned rather than guessed, amendments bind to their parent contract newest wins per field, duplicates are proposed only on a content match, and nothing is visible anywhere else on the platform until you sign it off.

TIME BACKA quarter of manual data entry → a scored, reconciled estate with a promotion you approve.
THE QUALITY BAR
Amendments bound to their contractper field
Ambiguous dates and numbersasked, not guessed
Nothing goes live until you sign offyour call
AND THERE'S MORE

The rest of the lifecycle, covered.

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