The two minute tour | VendorBenchmark

The tour begins

A benchmark, a negotiation, and the paper that wins the room.

You are about to watch a contract become a verdict, the verdict become a plan, and the plan run itself, with a staff of agents on duty the whole time.

Stop 1 · The verdict

A benchmark ends in a verdict, not a spreadsheet.

Meridian Analytics · 500 seats · renewal in 90 days

Below market

Your discount

14%

off list on the paper

Peers at this size

24 to 38%

midpoint near 31

On the table

$156,000

per year at the midpoint

Where this deal ranks

Below market, 17 points off

The bar is the peer range at this size. The marker is where this deal sits on it.

The verdict: below market for a deal this size. Closing to the peer midpoint is worth $156,000 a year, and the renewal window is the moment to take it.

Stop 2 · The workroom

Pick the line, and the sheet draws its curve.

Every vendor on the shelf carries a documented discount curve: the median off list and the range comparable buyers secure, by deal size. Pick the vendor, type the discount and what you pay a year, and the Benchmark Library answers the three questions in order.

Your discountwhat the paper offers, against the documented curve

The peer rangewhat comparable customers secure, with its midpoint

The rankdrag the dot on the curve to test an ask; the verdict follows it

app.vendorbenchmark.com/benchmarking

The Benchmark Library window: the shelf, the curve, and the deal argued in the inspector

Stop 3 · The face-off

Two papers on one stage. Every difference named.

Put a renewal against the paper it replaces and the AI redlines both: every repriced line, every clause that moved, which side each change favors, highlighted at the exact sentence in each document.

Repriced 6.25% above the 3% cap it grantedGBP 30,000 a year

The unconditional cap became conditionalCaught

12 months exitable became 36 non-cancelableCaught

app.vendorbenchmark.com/contracts/compare

Compare contracts: two agreements picked side by side for the AI read

Stop 4 · The playbook

The negotiation runs on rails.

A playbook turns the verdict into a guided working session: the sequence, the levers, and a record of every position taken. Microsoft EA, SAP RISE, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday and more.

Price hold across the full termWorth 3 to 5 points

True up moved to the anniversaryWorth 2 points

Benchmark clause in the order formWorth every renewal

app.vendorbenchmark.com/tooling

The playbook wall: vendor negotiation playbooks ready to run

Stop 5 · The analyst

Vera answers with citations, not vibes.

Ask in plain language, by chat or by voice. Vera reads your contracts and the market data behind every benchmark, and every figure in her answer is cited to its source.

Are we overpaying for our analytics platform?

Vera

Yes, by a wide margin. You pay $118 per user per month; the market median for your profile is $92. Across 500 seats that gap is $156,000 a year.

Analytics platform benchmark Sample

app.vendorbenchmark.com/vera

Vera, the AI analyst: drop the paper and choose the read

Stop 6 · The radar

No renewal sneaks up on you again.

The Deal Agent counts every agreement's clock down on one calendar: expiry, notice deadline, and the auto-renew flags that bind you silently. Alerts land while there is still time to act.

Contoso Analytics
Notice by Aug 15 · $54,000 a yearAuto-renews T−19d

Northwind Software
Notice by Oct 28 · $142,800 a yearT−93d

Tailspin Cloud
Notice by Mar 13 · $410,000 a yearT−229d

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The Deal Agent calendar counting down to each notice deadline

Stop 7 · The case

Or hand the whole negotiation to Vera.

Hand a renewal to Vera's desk in the Deal Agent and she runs it end to end: she sets out the strategy, negotiates by email inside your limits, and the vendor's replies land back in the thread. You approve twice, the mandate and the final offer. Every step is logged.

✓ The strategy, ready for your approval

✓ The opening email, written and sent

The formal offer stops for your decisionYours to decide

app.vendorbenchmark.com/deal-agent

A worked case: the strategy, the emails, the offer, the certificate

Stop 8 · The agents

A staff that works while you sleep.

The agents run on the platform's clock whether you visit or not. You choose the roster, and their findings land on your desk with the numbers attached.

Watchdogs
Prices, bills, terms, and vendor health. They flag what changed and what it costs you.● Live

Autopilots
Work renewals and reply to vendors under a mandate you set, every action logged.● Live

Analysts
Briefs, board reports, the Monday brief. Documents that land without being asked.● Live

app.vendorbenchmark.com/agents

The agent roster: watchdogs, autopilots, analysts, and your workflows

Stop 9 · The feed

Thirty days, read in four parts.

What the agents find lands here. Every day opens with whatever touched your own paper, then the market one line at a time, then the research we published, then what shipped in the product. A quiet day reads in seconds and a loud one still fits on one screen.

Your own vendors first, with the verdict on the bar beside them

Each market move on one line, with what it means for you beside it

The day's research as vendor names, pressed open for the read

app.vendorbenchmark.com/home

The feed: a day in four parts, what touched your paper, the market, the library, and what shipped

Stop 10 · The toolkit

Every screen earns its place.

The Entitlement Agent, the Contract Agent, the Document Agent, the Deal Agent, the Spend Agent, Mail, the Research Library and Sourcing. Jump to puts every tool one keystroke away, and each one opens as its own window, ready to work.

Drop any contract, get the changes worth asking for, marked and priced

Scan the stack for overlap, shelfware, and bad bands

See what comparable customers pay for the same product

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The home screen: the ask bar, and every app opening as its own window over it

Stop 11 · The paper

What leaves the building looks like it came from a firm.

Every deliverable renders as an executive brief: the same masthead, the same cool navy, on screen and in every export. Your CFO never sees a raw metrics dump.

Wordthe brief as a document, ready to forward

PowerPointthe same story as slides for the room

PDFthe locked record for the file

app.vendorbenchmark.com/example-report

A delivered benchmark report in the executive brief theme

Stop 12 · The ground rules

Built buyer side. Locked down by default.

The desk works for you and only you: no vendor money, no data resale, no exceptions. And the contracts you trust it with are guarded like the leverage they are.

🛡Your data stays yours
Every row is isolated to your organization at the database itself, never just in the app.

🛡Never trained on
The AI reads your contracts to answer you. Your data never trains a model.

🛡Every touch logged
Views and downloads of your contracts land in an audit trail you can read.

🛡Locked down
Encrypted in transit and at rest, multifactor sign-in, and downloads by short-lived signed links only.

The full security posture is written up for your security team. Read the security brief →

That is the desk

Now make it yours.

✓Benchmarks that end in a verdict with the money attached

✓Playbooks that run the negotiation as a guided session

✓Vera on call anywhere, every figure cited to its source

✓A radar with alerts before every notice deadline binds

✓A standing staff of agents watching prices, terms, and dates

✓Paper that looks like it came from a firm, in every export

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