Ten procurement AI implementations on two pages, in the order that earns the next one.
Each entry carries the row it comes from in the stack's 100-activity map, the difficulty, a deploy estimate, the impact and the risk posture it runs under. All ten run agent-led with review: the agent produces the complete first version, a named human approves before anything leaves the team.
Three of the ten in full, and all ten named.
Eight of the ten I rate 5/5 and two 4/5, which is a narrow spread, so the rating is not what separates them. The order is. The three below are the two week-one builds and the one an award actually rests on: the pair that has to re-add to a stated baseline before anything else earns attention, and the tabulation the tender lead re-adds by hand before anyone awards anything.
Leakage and Tail Spend AnalystAgent-led + review
Spend that bypassed a live contract, quantified and named by category and cost centre, re-added to the spend total.
Map A3 · Medium · about 3 hours · impact 5/5 · analysis only, the buyer verifies
Bid NormalizerAgent-led + review
Bids restated on one basis for freight, duty, currency, volume, exclusions and payment terms, or marked NOT COMPARABLE.
Map B17 · Medium · about half a day · impact 5/5 · the tender lead re-adds two columns by hand
Savings Claim ValidatorAgent-led + review
Every claimed saving tested against its stated baseline, double counts and moved baselines named.
Map H68 · Medium · about 3 hours · impact 5/5 · the claim is refused, not narrated; finance still signs
The other seven, by name
Negotiation Prep Pack Builder · Supplier Risk Dossier Builder · Contract Obligation Extractor · Supplier Scorecard Assembler · Price Increase Challenger · Benchmark and Should-Cost Challenger · Three-Way Match Exception Analyst
On the card each of those carries the same five fields as the three above: the map reference, the difficulty, the deploy estimate, the impact and the risk posture. That is what the download is for, and it is the whole reason this page does not just reprint the card.
What the deploy estimates assume
These figures come from the same build pattern on comparable agents. Estimated build time for one experienced buyer or procurement analyst following an implementation guide, excluding organizational approvals and excluding your own prep: extract shapes, the contract coverage list, baseline methodology, tolerance thresholds. The prep is usually the longer half, and the card says so. Time your first build and replace the estimate with your own number, which is the one your next nine builds should be planned against.
The first ten stop where a call awards, releases or certifies.
The award decision. Purchase order release above the delegation-of-authority threshold. Goods receipt certification. The sanctions hit determination. Supplier onboarding approval. Supplier bank detail changes. Inspection release.
Those are not late-roadmap items. They are the gates that cost something, and the gates are the product. Nothing here prepares a safety authorization either: AI assembles the evidence, a competent person qualifies and signs.
gates are named on the card as decisions a person makes, not as roadmap. Each of the ten entries carries the risk posture it runs under, so you can see which gate it stops at before you build it.
Ordered so the week-one wins buy the credibility for the week-four ones.
The sequence is the point. A procurement team that opens with the build that sounds best in a steering deck spends its goodwill before it has shown a single number reconcile.
Week 1, the anchorTwo builds
Leakage tells you where the money is going around your own contracts, and the Savings Claim Validator makes sure the number you report about fixing it survives finance. Both of them either re-add to a stated baseline or say UNRECONCILED.
Week 2, the event workTwo builds
A tabulation that refuses to rank bids that are not comparable, and a challenge to the next price increase letter that lands before the increase is conceded.
Weeks 3 and 4, the standing capabilitySix builds
The prep pack, the dossier, the obligation register, the scorecard, the sourced benchmark and the match exceptions. These are the ones a procurement team never has time to build and is measured on anyway. The card names which build goes in which week.
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The card is the sequence. The Stack is the build.
The card is the two-page table and the list of gates, nothing more. The Stack is where all ten arrive as paste-ready builds with their read scope written down, and where the fixtures and the answer keys live so you can grade your own runs by hand.