Run procurement on evidence, not instinct.
SpendSide reads every signal across spend, suppliers, contracts, and risk, then proposes the procurement action with the evidence to defend it — all the way to finance-approved savings.
A Cognistone product · grounded AI · every metric traces to evidence
Spend Intelligence
Ask AI about Spend
September spike: $11M one-time freight from an Asia-Pacific port event. Underlying run-rate is flat.
Total spend
$2.41B
4.2%
Realized savings
$78.4M
12.1%
Contract coverage
86.3%
2.4%
Maverick spend
9.1%
1.7%
Spend by category
treemap · FY24Tire pricing arbitrage: $4.2M opportunity across 14 suppliers.
- Region price spread of 18% on identical compounds.
- Consolidate to 3 suppliers at the regional best price.
Evidence
Sits on top of the systems you already run
One loop, from raw signal to realized savings.
Every module serves the same loop. Each step produces evidence the next step can trust, so nothing is a black box and nothing gets lost between teams.
- 01
Sense
Ingest spend, suppliers, contracts, and market signals into one canonical model.
- 02
Reason
Run procurement-native analytics: LPP, similar-part, arbitrage, leakage.
- 03
Recommend
Surface an opportunity with evidence, confidence, and methodology attached.
- 04
Act
Open a sourcing event, prep the negotiation, route the approval.
- 05
Verify
Track to finance-approved, realized savings. Then keep watching.
Procurement-native, not generic BI with a chatbot bolted on.
See every dollar, not just every invoice.
A live spend cube across categories, suppliers, and geographies. Classified, normalized, and traceable to the source line.
- Category & supplier workbenches
- FX and UOM normalized
- Drilldown to invoice evidence
Total spend
$2.41B
4.2%
Realized savings
$78.4M
12.1%
Contract coverage
86.3%
2.4%
Maverick spend
9.1%
1.7%
Spend by category
treemap · FY24Find the savings humans miss — and prove them.
Linear performance pricing, similar-part analysis, and arbitrage surface overpriced parts automatically, each with a defensible model behind it.
- LPP regression & outlier detection
- Similar-part (SPA) clustering
- Waterfall to realized savings
Linear performance pricing
price vs driverSavings waterfall
identified → approvedKnow your suppliers before the market does.
Supplier 360 profiles unify performance, ESG, and a six-dimension risk radar — with geopolitical, tariff, and bankruptcy exposure mapped globally.
- Supplier 360 with risk radar
- News & event monitoring
- Global exposure mapping
Risk radar
Continental Tire AGGlobal exposure
4 active eventsAsk your contracts a question. Get a cited answer.
Upload the repository and SpendSide answers in plain language with clause-level citations — then flags renewals and contract-to-invoice leakage before they cost you.
- Contract Q&A with citations
- Renewal radar
- Clause risk & leakage detection
3 contracts auto-renew within 90 days, $61M combined spend.
- C-2291 (Tires) renews in 42 days, CPI + 3.5% escalator.
- C-1180 (Logistics) renews in 71 days, fixed +4.0%.
Evidence
A procurement brain on every screen.
Ask anything. The copilot answers from the same engines that power the analytics — with evidence, confidence, methodology, and a one-click action. No ungrounded guesses.
- Grounded in your data, never hallucinated
- Evidence + confidence on every answer
- Turns answers into actions
$6.7M of addressable leakage in Tires, across three drivers.
- $4.2M price arbitrage across 14 suppliers.
- $1.6M off-contract maverick spend.
- $0.9M payment-term gap vs. policy.
Evidence
One workspace for the entire source-to-savings loop.
System of intelligence
See, model, and explain every dollar.Executive Control Tower
CPO command surface — savings, risk, performance, and an AI daily brief.
Spend Intelligence
Spend cube, category and supplier workbenches, geography, compliance.
Savings & Price Analytics
LPP, similar-part analysis, arbitrage, benchmarking, leakage, cost models.
Issue Tree Explorer
Recursive drilldown across spend, supplier, category, contract, and risk.
Procurement Playground
A slice-and-dice analytical sandbox. Build a view, save it, export it.
Category Cockpit
Per-category workspace with a daily market intelligence feed.
Suppliers & Risk
Supplier directory, 360 profiles, risk intelligence, news, and war room.
Supplier Risk Intelligence
Bankruptcy, geopolitical, tariff, sanctions, ESG, and cyber exposure.
System of action
Turn insight into sourced, realized savings.Contract Intelligence
Repository, contract Q&A, renewal radar, clause risk, and leakage.
Sourcing & Negotiation
Sourcing pipeline, RFx, bids, and an award optimizer.
Negotiation War Room & Coach
A real prep workspace plus an AI roleplay negotiation simulator.
Opportunity Management
Opportunity cards, lifecycle, finance validation, and realization.
Intake & Orchestration
An AI front door, guided buying, and approval workflows.
AI Procurement Copilot
A grounded procurement brain, ambient across every screen.
System of record & governance
Trustworthy data, lineage, and audit.Data Command Center
Ingest, map, validate, normalize, and publish procurement data.
Reports & Evidence Packs
Excel workbooks, executive packs, and audit-grade evidence bundles.
Admin & Governance
Access governance, taxonomy, KPI formulas, audit, and AI governance.
Decisions a CFO will sign and an auditor will accept.
SpendSide is built so every number can be defended. The same grounding that makes the AI trustworthy makes the whole platform auditable.
Evidence on every answer
Confidence, assumptions, methodology, and citations ship with each AI response. Nothing is a black box.
Field-level lineage
Every metric traces to the transformation, column, row, file, and timestamp behind it.
Governed access
RBAC, ABAC, and row-level security compose together. AI access is scoped and CI-tested.
Audit by construction
Reads, writes, and AI actions are recorded. Export an audit-grade evidence pack any time.
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integrated modules
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perceived page transitions
Field-level
lineage on every metric
12+
savings analytics engines
Built for every seat in procurement
See SpendSide on your spend.
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