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Procurement AI

Practical guidance on applying AI across procurement workflows, decisions, teams and controls.


Oct 6, 2026

by Daniel Barnes

Six banks have drafted rules for AI agents that can spend

The principles for trusted agentic commerce offer procurement teams an early control model for identity, authority, data and liability.

Six banks have drafted rules for AI agents that can spend

Oct 6, 2026

by Daniel Barnes

OpenAI just moved underneath the CLM market

Astra for Law gives legal teams and technology vendors a specialist foundation model, legal search and contract-analysis tooling. CLM vendors now need to prove what they add above the model layer.

OpenAI just moved underneath the CLM market

Oct 6, 2026

by Daniel Barnes

Direct procurement’s next data platform starts with a drawing

CADDi’s $114 million funding round is a bet that manufacturing decisions need technical context, not another view of invoice spend.

Direct procurement’s next data platform starts with a drawing

Oct 6, 2026

by Daniel Barnes

Your AI supplier has a misbehaviour register. Can you see it?

OpenAI’s new disclosure framework exposes a gap in enterprise contracts: model misbehaviour may be neither a data breach nor an outage.

Your AI supplier has a misbehaviour register. Can you see it?

Aug 8, 2026

by Daniel Barnes

Before the deadline.

The difference between a renewal reminder and renewal readiness.

Before the deadline.

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