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AI workflows

A workforce of AI agents, on your side of the table. Agents that negotiate your renewals, ghost write your vendor email, watch pricing and licensing changes across your vendors, and keep your paper honest. Twenty four standing agents work from day one, and your team composes its own agentic workflows without code.

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The agent gallery: hire an agent, each role states what it watches, its first move, and the hours it gives back
Hire an agent: each role states what it reads, what it does, and where its work lands. Pick one and it starts working.
THE WORKFORCE

Four departments, one rule: every agent shows its work.

Every run is logged, every figure is grounded in your stored data, and nothing leaves the platform without a gate you chose.

ANALYSTS
They write.
Benchmark memos, negotiation briefs, board reports, the Monday vendor wire. On demand or on a schedule, into your documents library.
WATCHDOGS
They monitor.
Eleven watchdogs on the platform's clock: price lists, billing, licensing terms, benchmark standings, and vendor health.
AUTOPILOTS
They act.
They work under a mandate you set: watch, draft, or act. Every action is logged on the record it touched.
WORKFLOWS
You compose.
A trigger plus up to eight steps your team chains without code, with an approval gate before anything leaves the platform.
AGENTS THAT NEGOTIATE FOR YOU

Your renewals, worked daily. Your replies, already drafted.

VERA'S DESK, IN THE DEAL AGENT

Hand a renewal to Vera in the Deal Agent. She works your renewal calendar every day at the autonomy you choose: watch and remind, draft for your approval, or negotiate by email inside the limits of a mandate you approve. She stops at every gate for your decision and brings every offer back.

Watch Draft Act under a mandate Every offer comes back to you
NEGOTIATION GHOST WRITER

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. Every draft waits in Mail, your own mailbox; you press Send, never Vera.

Forward the thread. The ghost writer knows the whole history.
The draft never shows your hand. Your rank and sources stay yours.
You stay the sender. Every reply waits in Mail until you press Send.
AGENTS THAT KEEP YOU CURRENT

Eleven watchdogs on duty: pricing, licensing changes, billing, vendor health.

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.

Terms watch Daily
Diffs every tracked vendor's published price list on each refresh and prices each change at your seat counts.
Billing watch Daily
Checks what you are billed against what you are entitled to and what the market pays, with the corrective draft ready.
Benchmark alerts Daily
Tells you when the market moves under a deal you hold: a standing that worsens or a corridor that shifts.
Standing answers Daily
Re-checks questions you subscribed to in Ask and tells you when the answer changes.
Commitment chase Weekly, Monday
Chases the concessions vendors promised but have not delivered, so nothing agreed in the room is lost on paper.
Portfolio watchdog Weekly, Tuesday
Sweeps the whole portfolio for anomalies: spend spikes, missing paper, terms drifting from your standard.
Earnings radar Weekly, Wednesday
Reads your vendors' earnings calls for pricing signals: pressure on their numbers is leverage on yours.
Vendor viability Weekly, Wednesday
Watches for distress signals at the vendors you depend on: layoffs, leadership churn, acquisition rumors.
Ecosystem watch Weekly, Thursday
Tracks moves in each vendor's ecosystem, partners, rivals, and replacements, that change your alternatives.
Contract hygiene Weekly, Saturday
Sweeps your paper for gaps every weekend: missing notice dates, unset values, and agreements without files.
AGENTS THAT WRITE FOR YOU

Analysts and ghost writers, on demand and on a schedule.

ON DEMAND

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.

Benchmarking Contract Flexibility Legal Terms License Specialist Executive Brief Negotiation Talking Points
ON A SCHEDULE
Weekly vendor report. Sweeps the week's pricing and licensing news every Monday and files the wire, items on vendors you hold marked.
Meeting pack analyst. Preps a pre-call pack before every vendor meeting: position, open items, and the asks.
Board reporter. Compiles the monthly portfolio board report: spend, savings, renewals landed, and the quarter ahead.
Monthly briefing, spoken. Your portfolio as a five minute spoken brief: what renewed, what is landing, where the leverage is.
THE ROOMS THEY WORK IN

An agent needs somewhere to work, and something it is allowed to do.

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.

CASE ROOMS

One contract, one case

Press Create on any contract and its case holds the terms, the benchmark, the timeline, the strategy, the talking points, the research and the people, with every app opening on that contract.

A Case Room: one contract with every app open on it
THE CONTROL SCREEN

What the machine did overnight

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.

The Control screen
THE MANDATE

Target, disclosure, autonomy, an annual authority cap, and an expiry date. Signed once per agreement, kept on the record even after it is revoked.

THE GUARDIAN

Reads every draft before it leaves. Allow, rewrite, block, or escalate, with the rule it applied and the reason in plain English.

THE RECORD

Every action, who authorized it, what it committed, and where it went. The audit log is the same one your security team reviews.

AGENTIC WORKFLOWS

Compose your own. Build the automation once, it works every week after.

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.

SEVEN TRIGGERS
01Run manually. Fire it from the workflow page when you need it.
02When a proposal is uploaded. Every new document gets a first read.
03Every week. Radars and digests on a schedule.
04When a purchase request arrives. Intake triage runs itself.
05When a question arrives by email. The inbox becomes an agent.
06When a renewal window opens. The notice date starts the work.
07When an agreement file moves. A change of lifecycle state runs the next step.
THIRTEEN STEP TYPES
AI analysis memo AI negotiation ghost writer AI classification AI field extraction If / then gate Wait for approval Reply to the sender Email the result Post to Slack Draft an email Wait Wait for the reply Create a task
Every AI step is grounded in your live portfolio data: contracts, agreements, spend, and benchmark standings. Templates like Renewal prep memo use variables that fill in from whatever triggered the run.
THE BUILDER

Name it, pick a trigger, stack the steps.

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.

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The no-code workflow builder: name the workflow, pick a trigger, and stack AI analysis, if/then, email, Slack, and task steps
ASK BY EMAIL

Agents you can reach from any inbox.

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.

Email rails in settings: deal email-in, invoice email-in, purchase request email-in, and ask an agent by email
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Vera AI, the grounded analyst: a streaming answer over your contracts and the market, with cited figures
VERA, YOUR ANALYST

A named analyst that stays on the case.

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.

Grounded chat. Answers over your contracts, spend, and benchmark standings.
Saved asks and watches. Keep a question and let it re-run on schedule.
Spoken mode. The briefing read aloud when you are away from the screen.
WHAT NEXT DESKS

Every analysis ends with the emails already drafted.

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.

VERA DRAFTS THE EMAIL

The benchmark case in the Benchmark Library 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 rank or your sources. Sourcing 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. Every draft waits in Mail, your own mailbox; you press Send, never Vera.

Email the vendor Brief the CFO Recommendation memo Award & decline notes
FROM FINDING TO PLAN

The Send it on drafter turns any report into the email that forwards it, written from the report itself. In the Document Agent, 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.

One click bid scoring. Every waiting bid scored against your weighted requirements, a quote behind each score.
Premade briefs. What to fix first, renewal exposure, and liability exposure, written unattended.
The plan on a Gantt. A finding becomes a phased action plan with owners, downloadable as a calendar invite.
TRUST AND GUARDRAILS
Grounded output
Figures are checked against your stored records. Missing facts come back empty, never invented.
Approval gates
A named human decides before anything leaves the platform. The mandate you approve on Vera's desk caps what can be conceded.
Run records
Every run keeps a per step record you can open. Watchdog findings link to the evidence behind them.
AGENT NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL

An open protocol for agent-to-agent negotiation.

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.

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What every agent does, the documents it writes, and the time it gives back, from the renewal war room to the weekly market monitor.

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