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Cognistone
01 · operating model

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

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02the cognistone loop

From signal to verified outcome.

Cognistone runs a single operating loop across every procurement decision. Each step produces evidence the next step can trust.

[14:32:08.412] invoice_batch_received
847_lines · vendor_michelin
[14:32:08.617] po_synced
12_new · category_tires
[14:32:08.823] market_signal
freight_index_+8.2% · asia_pacific
INVOICEPOMARKETCONTRACTSUPPLIERRISK

// 6 sources, 1 canonical store, 0 transforms lost

SPENDSUPPLIERSCONTRACTSRISKOPPORTUNITY
OpportunityAI

Tire pricing arbitrage

Tire pricing arbitrage

Suppliers analyzed
14
Plants
6
Avg price gap
+11.2%
Confidence
0.82
View in product
estimated

14 suppliers, 78-day close

confidence 0.82

// citations: 4 modules, 2 contracts, 1 market signal

RFx event drafted

Tires, EMEA, 14 suppliers

Negotiation brief generated

BATNA, anchors, concession plan

SKSarah Kim// online · 4m agoDue 2026-08-14

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

// audit recorded at 2026-06-11T14:32:09.582Z, signed by sarah.kim@cognistone.dev, hash 9af2c…

// hash illustrative

03the intelligence grid

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.

17 modulesOne canonical data storeField-level lineageWCAG 2.1 AA enforced

Spend intelligence

Bosch72
Michelin38
Continental61

Supplier risk intelligence

Contract-to-invoice leakage

Contract-to-invoice leakage

Agreements
9
Invoices flagged
2,840
Avg overbilling
+3.4%
Recoverable
$3.1M
View in product

detected across 9 agreements

Contract intelligence

04flagship product

SpendSide. The procurement operating system.

Seventeen integrated modules. One operating loop. One source of truth. Now live at spendside.com.

DEMO
AI daily briefing

Spend is +8.2% YoY. $186M in savings identified. Logistics is the biggest concern this week.

// 847,000 invoice lines// 1,240 suppliers// FY2026 to date
View source
// 142 opportunities// 9 categories// confidence 0.70+
View source
// 38 closed events// finance-approved// Q1 to Q3 2026
View source
// 37 suppliers// risk score 70+// live monitor
View source

Total spend by month, savings overlay

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Sept spike: $11M one-time freight from Asia-Pacific port event.

Tire pricing arbitrage

conf 0.82
$4.2Mestimated

14 suppliers, 78-day close

SKSarah Kim

Bosch composite risk

72

12% price drift

Michelin contract expires in 78 days

the signature

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

> ...

> ...

> ...

> ...

Signal

Tire spend up 8.2% YoY

Reasoned

Spike isolated to Asia-Pacific, Q3, one supplier

Action

Recommend RFx event, 14 suppliers, BATNA modeled

Verified

Outcome: $4.2M savings, 78-day close, evidence pack ready

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Spend

The spend cube isolates the 8.2% tire increase to one supplier and one region.

View module
Supplier

Supplier 360 surfaces the concentration and the qualified alternatives.

View module
Contracts

Contract intelligence reads the price clauses, indexes, and renewal dates.

View module
Risk

Risk scoring weighs supply continuity against the savings on the table.

View module
Sourcing

Sourcing drafts the RFx event with a modeled BATNA and a supplier shortlist.

View module
Negotiation

Negotiation prep arms the team with the evidence and the walk-away targets.

View module
Opportunity

The opportunity is quantified, owned, and dated against a close plan.

View module
Savings

Savings are validated with finance before they are counted as realized.

View module
Report

The evidence pack ships to the CPO and into the immutable audit log.

View module

// tire pricing arbitrage, traced across nine surfaces, 0.18s reasoning

05architecture

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

07

RBAC, ABAC, RLS. Three-layer AI permission enforcement. Methodology badges on every analytic.

// run access analysis
Tier S
Tier A
Tier B

Evidence

06

Every KPI drills to evidence. Citations on every answer.

Workflow

05

Sourcing, contracts, approvals. End-to-end source-to-pay.

Source>Contract>Pay

Decision

04

Opportunity cards. AI proposes, humans approve.

Opportunity

$4.2M

Intelligence

03

LPP, arbitrage, leakage, should-cost.

LPP

Data

02

Bronze, Silver, Gold. Field-level lineage.

// run data analysis
Bronze24K
Silver18K
Gold12K

Integration

01

Connectors to SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, Ivalua, Workday, NetSuite, Excel, contract repositories, supplier portals, and market data.

10+ ERP, contract, and market-data connectors

06trust by construction

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.

audit trail · live

  • [16:43:21.882] kpi.viewed total_spend hash 9af2c
  • [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

// hashes illustrative

See it reason over your data.

Request a guided demo. We will prepare a working environment with your context loaded.

workspace request received
context loaded
permission scope resolved
demo environment prepared
verification step pending

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