Shop Talk
15 min
The Desk
The screen you land on: your whole estate read, weighed by money and time, and ranked into what actually needs you today.
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18 min
Contracts: the ledger and the record
Every agreement one line, with the signed paper attached, built by reading documents rather than typing rows.
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17 min
Add a contract
The short upload wizard, and the reading that turns a PDF into vendor, term, value, and renewal date on its own.
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17 min
Benchmarking
The three answers on every deal: your discount off the paper, the peer range with its midpoint, and where you rank.
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17 min
A vendor benchmark page
One vendor end to end: the discount curve by deal size, where your deal sits, and the levers with what each is worth.
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16 min
Delivered reports
The report library, and narrative reports that read like a senior analyst wrote them, exported to match.
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17 min
Contract decode
Drop one contract and every clause is identified, explained in plain English, and graded from your side of the table.
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17 min
The vendor dossier
A six document briefing case on one vendor, assembled and forwardable, for walking in knowing more than the account team expects.
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17 min
Case Mode
Hand Vera the negotiation: she corresponds, argues the number round by round, and stops for you at every decision.
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17 min
Microsoft EA renewal playbook
Mission control for the EA renewal: the corridor, the Copilot cost lab, and the heatmap of what you already own.
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17 min
Oracle Fusion ERP pricing
Price a Fusion order against Oracle's own published list, module by module, with the levers Oracle actually grants.
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19 min
The command desk
The queue rail ranks every supplier by what it needs; the desk file loads beside it so you work deal after deal.
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17 min
Renewals
The runway, the calendar, and the playbook that starts on time, built on notice windows rather than renewal dates.
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19 min
Second opinion
The pre-signature check: drop the deal that is about to be signed and get an independent read before commitment.
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18 min
Ask Vera
The front desk of the whole platform: ask anything about your contracts, renewals, spend, or the market, cited back to the source.
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17 min
The archive
Every document read and filed, the registers building themselves, and the estate placed against the market.
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15 min
Compare contracts
Two agreements read in full, every shared term graded to your side, catching the quiet edits before signature.
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16 min
Agreements workbench
The terms inside the paper as working data: obligations both directions, caps, notice windows, renewal mechanics.
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18 min
Vendors
The roster: every vendor with its spend, paper, renewals, and posture, and the record you open before any meeting.
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18 min
Vendor twin
A living model of each vendor relationship: what you own, what you pay, how they behave, and what it should cost.
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17 min
Negotiation desk
Active negotiations, staged and tracked.
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16 min
Sourcing
Intake to award: the sourcing pipeline.
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17 min
Portfolio
The whole estate on one page: spend, risk, and coverage.
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16 min
Portfolio map
The estate drawn as a map.
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16 min
The briefing
What changed and what needs you, in one read.
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18 min
Savings
Savings found, banked, and proven.
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17 min
Spend
Software spend by vendor, category, and trend.
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19 min
Invoices
Line-item invoice intelligence against the contract.
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14 min
Strategy
The year plan: where the leverage is and when.
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16 min
Vendor calendar
Fiscal year ends and the moments vendors move.
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16 min
Document search
Ask across every stored document and land on the clause.
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17 min
Data health
How complete the estate record is, and what to fix next.
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17 min
Obligations
Commitments with owners and dates.
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15 min
Anomalies
The numbers that do not look right, surfaced.
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17 min
Opportunities
Ranked savings opportunities across the estate.
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18 min
Tasks
The runway of work, assigned and dated.
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17 min
Approvals
Sign-off chains for the decisions that need one.
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17 min
Team
Who is in the workspace and what they are working.
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17 min
Workflows
Standing automations that carry work forward.
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18 min
The Agent Center
Your standing staff: watchdogs, autopilots, and analysts.
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17 min
Reporting studio
Compose branded deliverables from your data.
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17 min
The research library
Market research, playbooks, and outlooks to read and forward.
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17 min
The Wire
Vendor news that matters to your renewals.
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17 min
Price watch
List-price movements watched for you.
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17 min
Price-list watch
Vendor price lists tracked edition over edition.
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16 min
Quote faceoff
Two quotes head to head.
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18 min
Audit decoder
An audit letter translated into positions and next moves.
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17 min
Rate benchmark
Services rates against the market.
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17 min
Cloud cost
Cloud commitments benchmarked and optimized.
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17 min
M365 optimization
Seats, SKUs, and the mix that costs less.
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