Kai – ai orchestrator

Agents that do more than just recommend

Kai sits across all of Keelvar, handling the tasks that should be delegated to AI. Sourcing events start faster, decisions are better informed, and less depends on who's available to do the work.

Built to do sourcing work,
not just talk about it

Most AI in procurement surfaces information and stops there. Kai drafts event details, orchestrates specialized agents, and actually executes.

Every sourcing task is completed faster

Ask Kai what you need and it routes you directly to the right sourcing event, rate, or agent. No training required — for your team or end users.

Decisions backed by real-time analysis

Kai evaluates multi-dimensional trade-offs against your strategic goals, and surfaces recommendations before you commit.

Machine-learning in action

Kai draws on patterns across thousands of sourcing events to recommend the right approach — round structures, bid timelines, negotiation tactics.

How Keelvar beats competition

Coupa CSO
No automation capability
Formula creation requires JavaScript
50+ nested submenus
Up to 1-year long implementation
Slow support ticket resolution
Full end-to-end automation
Plain-language formulas, AI-assisted
Intuitive UI, minimal training needed
Fast to deploy and scale
Hands-on support from day one
Jaggaer ASO
No autonomous sourcing
Optimization ‘thinking’ for up to 1h
1MB file upload limit
Extensive reliance on support
100 supplier cap per phase
Autonomous sourcing, built in
AI ‘thinking’ for max 15 mins
500MB reference file support
Full buyer admin access, self-serve
No supplier or complexity caps
Fairmarkit
Tail spend and simple RFQs only
No custom workflows or approvals
Single-round bidding only
60–270 day deployment; IT-heavy integration
No optimization or scenario analysis
Simple and complex events, one platform
Custom workflows and approvals
Automated multi-round bidding and feedback
Live in max 2 weeks, no middleware
Analysis across price and non-price factors
Globality
Services sourcing only
AI limited to supplier matching
Single-round bidding only
Not built for complex RFx
No optimization or award scenario modeling
All categories, one platform
Machine learning, mathematical programming, GenAI, etc.
Automated multi-round bidding and feedback
Simple and complex events supported
Scenario analysis across price and non-price factors

Five ways Kai makes every sourcing event sharper

sourcing agent

Best-practice sourcing, triggered by a single request

Describe what you need to source and Kai identifies the right agent for the job — then hands off to it to run the full event end to end. Intake, event creation, supplier selection, award. No manual steps, no configuration required.

RFI Agent

RFI questions generated from your prompt

Describe your category or paste your template, and Kai generates the full list of RFI questions — including settings for when suppliers can respond, whether scoring is enabled, and whether bids are gated on RFI completion.

Optimal Close agent

Bid windows set based on what the event needs

Kai uses machine learning to sets the bid duration and auto-close rules according to the details of each request — category, region, urgency, implied deadlines. Your event is live for the optimal duration: driving maximum compression and closing as early as possible.

request routing

One prompt to get anywhere in Keelvar

Ask Kai to find an event, pull up a rate, or launch an agent — and it takes you straight there. No menus to navigate, no training required. The right place in Keelvar, one prompt away.

scenario creation

Optimization scenarios built from plain language

Describe the scenario you want to model and Kai turns it into an optimisation rule — no formulas, no configuration, no specialist knowledge needed. Your team explores more options, in less time, with full confidence in what's being evaluated.

Numbers speak louder than words

1 day

time to value

5 min

to create & launch a request

0

lines of code

1

AI agent sitting across your sourcing stack

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What they say about us

“You don't even have to train the teams to use it. You now have [an agent] do all the work of building and creating the events for you.“

Sam de Frates
VP Commercial Europe, CIS & Turkey
$64M
savings in 1 year

“The autonomous sourcing for unstructured data that Kai offers is really compelling. Seeing how that works in a category-agnostic scenario is exactly what we need as we move forward.“

Remko Tersteeg
Tech Strategy & Innovation Senior Manager

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FAQs

Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.

Kai is Keelvar's AI Orchestrator. It sits at the centre of the Keelvar platform and coordinates a network of specialised AI agents to execute sourcing tasks end-to-end. Kai accepts natural language input — a buyer describes what they need to source — and routes that request to the right workflow, builds the event, engages suppliers, and manages the process through to award. It is the part of Keelvar that makes autonomous sourcing accessible to every member of a procurement team, not just technical specialists.

A user types or speaks a sourcing request in plain language — for example, 'I need to run a spot quote for 200 units of component X with our approved supplier list by end of week.' Kai interprets that request, determines the appropriate event type and structure, generates a bid sheet and cost formula, selects the relevant suppliers, and launches the event. No manual event-building is required. The user reviews and approves before anything goes to suppliers.

A chatbot responds to questions. Kai takes actions. When a user makes a sourcing request, Kai does not just advise on next steps — it executes them. It builds events, moves data, coordinates suppliers, and delivers results. Kai orchestrates a network of specialised agents, each trained on different sourcing tasks, so complex multi-step workflows can be completed autonomously. It is an AI that works, not one that talks.

No. Kai is ready to use from day one. It is built on more than a decade of Keelvar's sourcing expertise, so it already understands procurement workflows, event structures, and supplier engagement patterns. Teams do not need to train Kai or build custom models. They describe what they need in plain language and Kai handles the rest. This is what makes user adoption fast — there is no new system to learn in the traditional sense.

Kai continues to add new agent capabilities as Keelvar develops them, expanding the range of tasks it can execute. It also learns from the events run within your organisation — building familiarity with your supplier base, your category templates, and your preferred event structures — so recommendations and configurations improve with use. New capabilities are released on a rolling basis; customers do not need to re-implement to benefit from them.

Yes. Kai coordinates multiple AI agents in parallel, so it can manage sourcing events across different categories, geographies, and supplier bases at the same time. For large global procurement teams running hundreds or thousands of events per year, Kai makes that scale operationally possible without proportional headcount growth.