Know
Know what you’re buying and on what terms.
Connect rate cards, contracts and spend to understand commitments, compare terms and spot differences worth reviewing.
AI procurement intelligence for IT services
Better IT buying decisions, across every team.
Bring rates, contracts, skills, supplier information and decision history together so your teams can assess expertise, challenge costs and prepare sourcing requests with company-specific context.
For hiring managers, IT leaders, finance and procurement teams buying IT contractors and consultancy services.
Company context → buying decisionsConceptual view
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Rates
Contracts
Skills
Supplier information
Decision history
A shared foundation
Relevant commercial context.
Prepare sourcing
Review costs
Follow through
IT buying decisions span teams. The evidence is scattered.
Supplier options, rates and past decisions sit across documents, systems and people. Teams spend time gathering context before they can judge expertise and value.
Decide
Make trade-offs with evidence.
Review role requirements, supplier coverage and rate-card ranges together before you source, extend or negotiate.
Reuse
Make experience reusable.
Keep recorded decisions and their rationale linked to the relevant records, so later reviews can use what your teams already know.
Three everyday buying decisions.
See how Vendflow brings company context into sourcing, cost review and follow-up.
Illustrative examples with fictional data.
Hiring manager
“Which suppliers could support this requirement?”
Your brief
“I need a DevOps engineer in Stockholm for six months.”
Relevant context
Role requirements, location, duration, company rate cards and supplier coverage.
The output
An editable RFQ draft, with rate-card pricing and supplier options where matching data is available.
RFQ draft
For review| Role | DevOps Engineer |
|---|---|
| Location | Stockholm |
| Duration | Six months |
| Seniority | To confirm |
AI helps structure the brief. Your company’s records supply the commercial context.
Finance or procurement, with rate access
“Which rates deserve a closer look?”
Relevant context
Check the role, seniority, location, assignment scope and applicable agreement. Available information still needs a like-for-like comparison.
This example compares your own supplier records. External market references, where available, are shown separately.
| Internal reference | Hourly rate |
|---|---|
| Supplier A’s current rate | 1,450 kr/h |
| Supplier B’s active rate card | 1,320 kr/h |
130 kr/h difference to investigate.
Procurement or the assigned case owner
“Who owns this issue, and why was it resolved?”
Relevant context
The supplier, contract and rate information behind the question.
The output
An investigation with an owner, priority and recorded rationale.
People investigate and resolve the case. The explanation stays linked to the relevant records.
Investigation
Resolved| Issue | Platform Engineer rate difference |
|---|---|
| Owner | Procurement lead |
| Priority | Medium |
| Status | Resolved |
| Resolution | Scope difference explained |
More teams can move buying decisions forward.
Give hiring managers, IT and finance the context to handle routine questions, while procurement provides commercial oversight.
Hiring managers
Prepare sourcing with context.
Explore supplier options and turn a hiring need into an RFQ draft within the access your company sets.
IT leaders
Review expertise and dependencies.
Consider supplier coverage, external spend and long-running engagements when planning your team’s needs.
Finance
Understand what drives spend.
Review spend concentration and estimated run-rate by role and supplier, and identify differences that need an explanation.
Procurement
Focus on commercial oversight.
Challenge rates, guide supplier decisions and track follow-up while other teams handle routine information requests.
Your company defines which records, rates and tools each role can access.
The decision brain, grounded in your company’s context.
Vendflow links commercial records with recorded decisions and their rationale. Your teams can revisit the information behind an issue, understand how it was resolved and use that context in a later review.
AI helps prepare RFQs and answer questions using that company context. Your teams make the decisions.
Connected records
Move between the supplier, contract, consultant, invoice and rate card behind a question.
Rate-card history
See draft, active and superseded versions with their effective dates.
Ask AI
Ask plain-language questions about the supplier information available within your access.
Tenure review prompts
Flag long-running engagements for your company to review.
Market references
Use external references where coverage is available, alongside clearly separate internal comparisons. Market-reference coverage is limited.
A working session around your next buying decision.
Bring a sourcing request, a rate question or an upcoming renewal. We’ll explore the relevant workflow and the context your teams need, then agree whether to continue with a focused pilot.
Can hiring managers use Vendflow without routing every request through procurement?
Yes, within the permissions your company sets. Hiring managers can explore supplier options and prepare sourcing requests, while procurement retains commercial oversight.
Does Vendflow make decisions or send RFQs automatically?
No. Vendflow supports analysis and prepares editable RFQ drafts. Your teams review the draft, confirm supplier availability and retain control over decisions and sending.
How is Vendflow different from a general AI assistant?
Vendflow works with linked company records and decision history. It brings structured commercial context to supplier questions, sourcing preparation and follow-up reviews.
How would we evaluate Vendflow?
A focused pilot can explore one real buying decision. Together, we agree the scope, relevant records, access and data-handling requirements. We also agree how to assess value, such as time spent gathering context, clarity of rate comparisons and the evidence behind supplier choices.
Request a demo
Bring your next supplier decision.
Whether you hire consultants, lead IT, manage budgets or run procurement, see how Vendflow supports a decision like yours.
Explore the relevant workflow and how access could work for your teams.
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