At FORWARD 2025, our annual gathering for procurement leaders, one thing was clear:
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a promise for the future, it is already transforming how organizations manage their professional services procurement.
As early as 2024, AI became a central pillar of our product roadmap. Three priorities have shaped our approach:
Matching: Find the right expert, faster.
Reliability: Secure and ensure compliance of external suppliers.
Efficiency: Automate document processing.
One year later, these priorities have turned into tangible features our clients use daily. AI has always been part of our DNA, and now, it powers every step of the Source-to-Pay cycle.
Claire Zagnoli, our Chief Product Officer, invites you to follow the user journey, from need identification to mission execution, enhanced by AI.
Step 1: Clearly define your needs with the AI RFP Writer
Every project starts with a need. But crafting a clear, effective RFP isn’t always easy, lack of structure, missing information, vague wording, or overly technical jargon often get in the way.
The risk is that a poorly written RFP leads to incomplete or irrelevant proposals and a less effective competitive process, which can compromise both supplier selection and the final quality of the service.
With AI RFP Writer, you simply describe your needs in a few lines, our smart assistant does the rest:
It generates a complete, well-structured, error-free RFP.
It automatically includes key skills and requirements.
It delivers everything in a standardized, professional format.
As a result : clearer briefs, a more competitive bidding process, and higher-quality proposals, ensuring you select the best supplier for your project.
Step 2: Source the best talent with AI Score
Once your RFP is drafted and published, proposals start pouring in. But reviewing them all can be time-consuming, tedious, and sometimes biased, often the most time-consuming step of the process.
With AI Score, you save precious time. Our scoring engine reads, understands, and evaluates every submitted proposal:
It provides an objective score with a clear breakdown of strengths and missing points for each profile.
It compares up to 25 proposals in under a minute.
It works in the language of your choice.
Your teams no longer waste time manually reviewing countless submissions. Instead, you focus directly on the most relevant profiles, with a clear, unbiased analysis, speeding up your time-to-source and improving decision-making.
Step 3: Verify supplier compliance with CompIAPI
You’ve quickly identified the right profile with AI Score, now it’s time to onboard them. But manual compliance checks can slow things down for both your suppliers and internal teams.
CompIAPI automates the entire verification process:
The supplier simply enters their registration number (SIRET).
The platform automatically queries official databases.
Up-to-date compliance documents are retrieved in seconds.
Your teams and suppliers save time by avoiding back-and-forth requests. This improves supplier satisfaction and keeps your internal stakeholders happy.
Most importantly, your supplier panel stays 100% compliant, and projects can start without unnecessary delays.
Step 4: Boost operational efficiency with Parse.me
Your supplier is onboarded quickly with CompIAPI. Next, the mission gets approved and the purchase order is issued. But if that PO arrives by email or in an unstructured format, it can create friction, and when multiple POs pile up, checking each one manually is both time-consuming and error-prone.
Parse.me, our smart parser, automatically reads and processes your purchase orders:
It identifies the related mission.
It checks all key information.
All you have to do is review and confirm.
Your teams no longer need to open and check each PO line by line. They make fewer mistakes and speed up onboarding, without sacrificing accuracy or compliance.
Coming soon: Pricing Coach, your trusted guide to fair and accurate budgeting
The prerequisite for all these steps? Defining the right budget for your professional services engagement. But how much should you really pay?
The answer is rarely straightforward. Set it too low, and you risk losing top talent. Too high, and you hurt your profitability.
That’s why we’re developing Pricing Coach, your new smart benchmark, powered by over 12 years of market data (average daily rates, profiles, project contexts, and more).
With Pricing Coach, you can:
Compare your budget against real market standards.
Adjust your rates if needed.
Publish RFPs with a competitive, fair positioning.
You gain clarity and confidence in setting the right price, which means less time spent negotiating and better overall profitability.
AI: A core pillar of our product
For us, AI should never be limited to a few stand-alone features. It must be fully embedded, thoughtfully designed, and purpose-built to support you at every stage of your professional services procurement.
From defining your needs to launching the mission, our AI-powered tools already help our clients daily, bringing more clarity, speed, and control to their operations.
This is what Augmented Procurement means: a new way of working that combines advanced technology, procurement expertise, and operational excellence, empowering procurement leaders to focus on truly strategic decision-making.
