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
Total spend
$2.41B
4.2%
Categories
9
0
Suppliers
1,284
3.1%
Maverick spend
9.1%
1.7%
September spike: $11M one-time freight from an Asia-Pacific port event. Underlying run-rate is flat.
Spend by category
treemap · FY24Tire pricing arbitrage: $4.2M across 14 suppliers.
- Region price spread of 18% on identical compounds.
- Consolidate to 3 suppliers at regional best price.
Evidence
Live preview. Click the left rail to move through the workspace.
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.
One workspace. Switch the lens, not the tool.
Every surface reads from the same canonical store. Move between spend, savings, suppliers, contracts, and the copilot, and the same dollar keeps the same meaning.
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 and 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 · FY24One brain. Seventeen modules. One source of truth.
SpendSide is not a bundle of point tools. Every module writes to and reads from one canonical procurement model, so insight in one place becomes action in another without losing its evidence.
- System of intelligence8 modules
- See, model, and explain every dollar.
- System of action6 modules
- Turn insight into sourced, realized savings.
- System of record & governance3 modules
- Trustworthy data, lineage, and audit.
Every module reads from one source of truth. Hover a node to see what it does, or explore all 17.
Decisions a CFO will sign and an auditor will accept.
Every number can be defended. Select a guarantee to see what it looks like inside the product.
Tire pricing arbitrage: $4.2M across 14 suppliers.
17
integrated modules
<100ms
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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Private preview · onboarding our first design partners · figures shown are an illustrative dataset