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No, he hasn’t quit procurement.

He hasn’t started selling crypto.

He hasn’t announced an AI startup.

He started a YouTube channel.

That might not sound like a big deal.

But if you have ever tried creating videos consistently, you will know that it is.

You have to develop the idea.

Write the script.

Record it.

Edit it.

Publish it.

Then resist the urge to delete everything when the first few views arrive.

Tom has already built one of the largest and most engaged audiences in procurement through Procure Bites.

Now he is bringing his ideas to YouTube.

And I think that deserves our support.

His first videos cover the sort of questions procurement professionals regularly debate but do not always discuss openly.

Including a fairly direct examination of what CIPS gets wrong.

Whether you agree with every point or not, this is exactly the kind of conversation the profession needs more of.

Watch Tom’s CIPS video.

And, more importantly:

Subscribe to Tom’s Procurement Protagonist channel.

There is plenty of space for more thoughtful, independent procurement content.

The stronger the creator ecosystem becomes, the stronger the profession becomes with it.

AI in procurement is becoming harder to follow.

Every week brings a new term.

Copilots.

Agents.

Agentic procurement.

Digital workers.

AI workforces.

Autonomous procurement.

The terminology often gets bundled together, even though these concepts describe different capabilities and operating models.

So I have created a free definitive guide to autonomous procurement.

Read: What Is Autonomous Procurement? The Definitive Guide.

AI in procurement is moving beyond chatbots, document summaries and automated recommendations.

The important shift is from technology that helps procurement professionals perform work to systems that can perform defined procurement work themselves.

This guide brings the wider market together, including analytical AI, generative AI, copilots, agents, autonomous procurement, use cases, risks, governance and providers.

Read the complete guide.

[GUIDE] · WORLD OF PROCUREMENT · 10 MINUTES

The two terms are often used interchangeably.

They should not be.

Agentic procurement describes how AI performs the work.

Autonomous procurement describes how the resulting activity or operating model runs.

An AI agent can perform useful procurement work while a human still approves every important action. That process may be agentic, but it is not highly autonomous.

Read: Agentic vs Autonomous Procurement.

[EXPLAINER] · WORLD OF PROCUREMENT · 3 MINUTES

Many technology companies now use words such as agents, digital workers, AI employees and autonomous procurement.

But the capabilities behind those labels vary significantly.

This landscape maps the emerging providers positioning their technology as operating capacity that can own and execute defined procurement work within human-set controls.

It also explains the difference between autonomous procurement workforces, agentic orchestration, sourcing platforms and AI-enabled source-to-pay suites.

Explore the autonomous procurement vendor landscape.

[LANDSCAPE] · WORLD OF PROCUREMENT · 8 MINUTES

See you next week,

Daniel