The autonomous procurement intelligence and execution cloud.
One brain. One workspace. One action layer. One truth.
Cognistone reads the signals across spend, suppliers, contracts, and risk, and proposes the procurement action with the evidence to defend it.
Sits on top of the systems you already run
From signal to verified outcome.
Cognistone runs a single operating loop across every procurement decision. Each step produces evidence the next step can trust.
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Tire pricing arbitrage
Tire pricing arbitrage
- Suppliers analyzed
- 14
- Plants
- 6
- Avg price gap
- +11.2%
- Confidence
- 0.82
14 suppliers, 78-day close
// citations: 4 modules, 2 contracts, 1 market signal
RFx event drafted
Tires, EMEA, 14 suppliers
Negotiation brief generated
BATNA, anchors, concession plan
RFx drafted: tires, EMEA, 14 suppliers scoped, terms templated.
// approval queue: 1 pending, average response 14m
Outcome verified
finance-approved · evidence pack ready
Savings
$0.0M
realized, finance-approved
Time
0 days
close cycle, vs 142 day baseline
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The brain that connects every procurement signal.
Every invoice, contract, supplier, and market signal becomes a node. Evidence travels the lattice from raw signal to reasoned conclusion to recommended action to verified outcome.
Spend intelligence
Supplier risk intelligence
Contract-to-invoice leakage
Contract-to-invoice leakage
View in product
detected across 9 agreements
Contract intelligence
SpendSide. The procurement operating system.
Seventeen integrated modules. One operating loop. One source of truth. Now live at spendside.com.
Spend is +8.2% YoY. $186M in savings identified. Logistics is the biggest concern this week.
Total spend by month, savings overlay
Tire pricing arbitrage
conf 0.8214 suppliers, 78-day close
Bosch composite risk
7212% price drift
Michelin contract expires in 78 days
Every decision touches the system. Watch one move.
One brain reasons across every module. Run a decision and watch a signal become a verified outcome.
reasoning trace
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Tire spend up 8.2% YoY
Spike isolated to Asia-Pacific, Q3, one supplier
Recommend RFx event, 14 suppliers, BATNA modeled
Outcome: $4.2M savings, 78-day close, evidence pack ready
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The spend cube isolates the 8.2% tire increase to one supplier and one region.
View moduleSupplier 360 surfaces the concentration and the qualified alternatives.
View moduleContract intelligence reads the price clauses, indexes, and renewal dates.
View moduleRisk scoring weighs supply continuity against the savings on the table.
View moduleSourcing drafts the RFx event with a modeled BATNA and a supplier shortlist.
View moduleNegotiation prep arms the team with the evidence and the walk-away targets.
View moduleThe opportunity is quantified, owned, and dated against a close plan.
View moduleSavings are validated with finance before they are counted as realized.
View moduleThe evidence pack ships to the CPO and into the immutable audit log.
View module// tire pricing arbitrage, traced across nine surfaces, 0.18s reasoning
Seven layers. One promise: every number drills to evidence.
Each layer is composable, instrumented, and accountable. Scroll to light each layer of the stack, from governance to integration.
Governance
07RBAC, ABAC, RLS. Three-layer AI permission enforcement. Methodology badges on every analytic.
Evidence
06Every KPI drills to evidence. Citations on every answer.
Workflow
05Sourcing, contracts, approvals. End-to-end source-to-pay.
Decision
04Opportunity cards. AI proposes, humans approve.
Opportunity
$4.2M
Intelligence
03LPP, arbitrage, leakage, should-cost.
Data
02Bronze, Silver, Gold. Field-level lineage.
Integration
01Connectors to SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, Ivalua, Workday, NetSuite, Excel, contract repositories, supplier portals, and market data.
10+ ERP, contract, and market-data connectors
Trust is engineered in, not bolted on.
Trust is constructed, not claimed. Every guarantee maps to a control in the platform, enforced in CI and visible in the audit trail.
Evidence on every answer
Every AI answer ships with citations, confidence, assumptions, methodology, and source lineage.
Citations, confidence, assumptions, methodology, and lineage attach to every response. 0 ungrounded answers shipped.
Permission isolation
Three-layer enforcement: retrieval scope, prompt scope injection, and tool-result filter.
Three enforcement points: retrieval scope, prompt-scope injection, tool-result filter. Re-checked on every request.
WCAG 2.1 AA
A hard CI gate. Axe-core blocks merges. Accessibility is a build requirement, not a backlog item.
axe-core CI gate, 0 violations on main, 14 days running. A failing audit blocks the merge.
Audit trail
Field-level lineage. Every KPI traces back to the invoice line, the row, the file, the uploader, and the timestamp.
Field-level lineage: KPI to invoice line to row to file to uploader to timestamp. Immutable once written.
audit trail · live
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- [16:43:20.617] permission.check user_sarah_kim hash 4f2e1…
- [16:43:19.041] decision.proposed tire_arbitrage hash 2b8d3…
- [16:43:17.823] evidence.attached rfx_draft_v3 hash 7c91d…
- [16:43:16.412] approval.recorded sarah.kim hash a4f29…
- [16:43:14.998] lineage.traced invoice_8841 hash d13b7…
- [16:43:13.504] contract.parsed michelin_msa hash e7a02…
- [16:43:12.137] savings.realized q3_tires hash 5c8f1…
- [16:43:10.661] risk.scored supplier_312 hash b9d44…
- [16:43:09.248] report.generated cpo_brief hash 1f6ae…
- [16:43:07.882] kpi.viewed total_spend hash 9af2c…
- [16:43:06.413] permission.check user_sarah_kim hash 4f2e1…
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