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Practical thinking on strategy, spend data, and AI for procurement and finance leaders. Start with the four series below: each one is a curated story, not a dump of articles.
Latest · JUN 19, 2026Building an AI agent isn't a six-month project: the four layers of an AI architecture, how to build an agent, a procurement example, and the ROI, costed.
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AI and digital procurement, after the noise. Practical guides on AI cost control, agent lifecycle, S2P automation and digital pilots that deploy.
Short, opinionated pieces on procurement as it's happening now — crises, regulations, negotiations, AI, and the field view.
The trench version of procurement, structured. Category management, cost breakdown, performance measurement and guides for first-time CMs.
Sustainable procurement without the noise: the EU regulatory stack, frameworks that work, category wins, and honest reads of the reports everyone cites.
The archive
50 articles
AI & Digital9 minBuilding an AI agent isn't a six-month project: the four layers of an AI architecture, how to build an agent, a procurement example, and the ROI, costed.
AI & Digital7 minMcKinsey's agentic make-or-buy, for CPOs and digital teams. AI infrastructure gets costly fast, procurement must be in the room, and Defer is a legitimate move. Not anti-AI.
AI & Digital6 minMicrosoft cuts Claude Code access, Uber burns its 2026 AI budget in four months. The real problem isn't the price tag, it's the absence of procurement governance.
AI & Digital11 minThe sequel to my first field notes. How I would redo the project today: building blocks, the AI process, the guardrails. The how-to that saves weeks of trial and error.
AI & Digital10 minField notes from a procurement professional who migrated theprocurementor.com from WordPress to React without writing a line of code. The honest version, not the LinkedIn one.
AI & Digital12 minPredictive Procurement flips the RFQ — buyer sends a suggested offer calculated by an engine. 10–20% extra savings on the right categories, and where to skip it.
AI & Digital7 minAnthropic had Claude agents negotiate 186 deals. The frontier model captures 10–25% more value than Haiku 4.5 — and users do not notice. What it means for your agentic RFP.
Field Notes8 minPolymarket now hits 90%+ accuracy a month before resolution. The procurement playbook for using prediction markets as a sourcing signal — three concrete plays.
AI & Digital11 minAI went from rounding error to real budget in 24 months. The procurement playbook for controlling AI costs — before finance starts asking the hard questions.
AI & Digital3 minAI agents need onboarding, performance reviews, offboarding — the HR playbook. Why procurement should treat agents like new hires to control cost and risk.
Field Notes6 minFor the first time in 20 years, savings aren't procurement's #1 priority — resilience is. Why crises reward the teams that invested, not the best talkers.
Procurement Mastery8 minThe 6 tools every category manager must master — and the exact order to use them. The complete framework: spend analysis through to category strategy canvas.
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