Ana by Vertice

Vertice has launched Ana, a software-negotiation agent that is meant to take over the back-and-forth with vendors. You give it the requirements, and it builds a strategy, writes the emails, tracks each round, and adjusts the plan when a vendor replies. The pitch is not that it helps with negotiation. It is that it does the negotiation work itself.

The company says Ana was trained on more than $75 billion of vendor spend, 32,000-plus vendors, and over 2 million price points. That is the sort of training set procurement teams dream about and competitors hate. It also gives the product a very specific edge: this isn’t a generic chatbot wearing a sourcing badge, but something aimed squarely at buying software.

Vertice says procurement buyers using Ana get 18% savings on average. That number does the heavy lifting in the launch message, and for good reason. Procurement software is full of promises about visibility and control; savings is the metric that actually gets attention.

The product is live now on Product Hunt and is described as a launch from Vertice. Payment is required, which is about as unromantic as enterprise software gets. But then again, the unromantic stuff is usually where the money is.