Measure
Where AI takes work off your team tomorrow, and where it has no business. ROI in 3 scenarios, defensible in front of your CFO.
Augmented IndirectProcurement expert · France Grand Est · LU · French-speaking CH
AI procurement consultant
AI procurement consultant: AI applied to your indirect spend, by an operator.
Everyone talks to you about AI. Nobody tells you where to start, what it costs, or who should run it. This page answers all three, then routes you to the right step: free diagnostic, workshop, audit or training.
12 years operator side · ex-Amazon€600M+ spend managedAudit guaranteed or refundedEU stack · signed DPAs
The job, concretely
What an AI procurement consultant does, and does not do.
I sell no software and I am tied to no vendor. Four blocks of work, in this order, because it is the order that holds.
Prioritise
Use cases ranked effort × impact, an AI charter, governance that holds at board level. Procurement in the loop from the first POC.
Build
Workflows built in your tools, on your real files. A pilot has an end date and a go-to-production criterion.
Transfer
From the executive to the team. Your buyers internalise the method, so the capability stays when the consultant leaves.
The augmented-buyer thesis
"Properly augmented, the indirect buyer becomes the CFO's strategic partner we have been waiting thirty years for. Badly augmented, he becomes a robot that validates purchase orders faster."
Alex Lio, the reading grid applied to every use case on this page
AI suggests, the human decides
Spend classification, supplier research copilots, clause review. Where most teams plateau.
AI executes, the human validates
Automated should-cost, bid analysis, end-to-end negotiation briefs. The shift that changes the cadence.
AI operates, the human arbitrates
Autonomous tail spend, continuous renewals. This level is earned, not installed.
Skip a level and the next one collapses. The climb rests on three foundations: clean data, a trained team, defensible governance. The 3 foundations in detail →
How we work together
Four steps. Each step is credited against the next.
€0
5 questions · no email
- Your maturity level
- 5-axis radar + 3 concrete leads
€950
ex. VAT · 90 min · credited on the Audit
- One of your processes rebuilt with AI, in session
- In your tool, on your data
- 1-page memo within 24h
€9,999
ex. VAT · 3-4 weeks · credited on the Programme
- 5-7 interviews: CPO, CFO, IT, buyers
- ROI in 3 scenarios + risk matrix
- 12-month roadmap signed by your sponsor
- Guaranteed or refunded
On quote
3-6 months · −€10,949 if full cascade
- Roadmap execution
- Team upskilling
- Internal capability, governance
Parallel track: training. The audit transforms the function; training transforms the people. From the executive one-on-one (an afternoon, €1,000) to AI agents built with your team. Compatible with the audit, or standalone.
See the AI trainings →Use cases
Where AI already pays in indirect procurement.
Contract review
90 min per contract down to ~15 min. Deviations classified, sensitive clauses flagged, rewordings proposed.
RFP synthesis
2 days for 5 forty-page responses down to ~2h. The reading is delegated; the scoring stays with the buyer.
Negotiation brief
Positions, BATNA, 3 deal scenarios and likely objections in ~20 min.
Spend mapping
Classification, supplier duplicates, anomalies, without waiting for the data team.
Procurement AI charter
What is delegated, traced, escalated. 3 pages, defensible in front of the board and your DPO.
Buying AI itself
AI is a procurement category: drifting costs, lock-in, data clauses. Your procurement at the table from the POC.
Frequent questions
What I get asked before signing.
How much does an AI procurement consultant cost?
My prices are public: free online diagnostic, 90-min workshop at €950 ex. VAT, full audit at €9,999 ex. VAT (3-4 weeks, guaranteed or refunded), execution programme on quote, trainings from €1,000. Each step is credited against the next within 90 days.
Where do I start with AI in indirect procurement?
With an honest inventory of data, team and governance, not with buying a tool. The free diagnostic places you in 2 minutes; the audit turns that picture into a costed 12-month roadmap.
How is this different from a large consulting firm?
A firm delivers a benchmark and 80 slides. I co-build with your procurement sponsor, I open your buyers' real files in session, and I sign the commitment: if the 3 contractual deliverables are not met, the audit is refunded.
Do we already need an AI tool in-house?
No. I recommend the stack that fits your context: your existing environment (Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini), frontier APIs on EU servers, or local open source for sensitive sectors.
Our data is sensitive. How is it protected?
Mutual NDA before any access, contractual no-training guarantees, inference on EU datacentres, signed DPAs, deletion at D+90. Full documentation handed to your CISO and DPO at the start of the engagement.
Where do you operate?
Based in Grand Est, I work across France, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland, in French and English. French subsidiaries of international groups are my natural ground.
And if AI is not the right topic for us?
It happens, roughly 1 case in 10 in workshop. You leave with the why, documented. My commitment is the honesty of the diagnostic, not selling AI at any cost.
Got a concrete case in mind? We frame it together.
30 minutes, no commitment. You leave with a written framing: target maturity level, a stack variant your CISO can live with, and the right entry step.