USE CASES
30 jobs it does on day one.
Real questions from real buying teams, and how the platform answers them. If your week contains any of these, you’ll feel at home.
ASK YOUR CONTRACTS
500 contracts. Any question. Seconds to an answer.
Every agreement you upload becomes searchable and askable. Vera AI reads across your whole repository and answers with the exact clause cited, so you can verify it yourself.
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Vera AI“Which contracts give the vendor audit rights?”
You have 500 contracts and an Oracle audit letter just landed. Ask exactly that question and get the list of agreements with audit clauses in seconds, each one citing the exact language, so you know your exposure before you reply.
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Renewals calendar“Which agreements auto-renew in the next 90 days?”
Every renewal date and notice deadline is tracked, and you get warned with enough lead time to build leverage instead of discovering the auto-renewal after it fired.
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Vendor management“What do we actually spend with Microsoft, everywhere?”
Every agreement, order form, and invoice for one vendor rolls up into a single spend picture, so the answer to “what is our total Microsoft commitment” is one click, not a two-week spreadsheet hunt.
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Vera AI“Which contracts can we exit early?”
Ask which agreements have termination-for-convenience rights before a reorg, divestiture, or vendor swap, and get the list with notice periods and penalties called out.
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Vera AI“Which renewals are protected from price increases?”
Find every price cap, CPI limiter, and renewal-uplift clause across the portfolio, so you know where the vendor's “standard 8% increase” is actually a contract violation.
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Order-form entitlements“What did we actually buy on that order form?”
Entitlements are extracted from order forms automatically, so you can hold usage up against what you're paying for without re-reading the paperwork.
BENCHMARK A DEAL
Know what fair looks like before you negotiate.
The core of the platform: your terms against thousands of real deals, either by our analysts or instantly by yourself.
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Expert benchmark“Is this Salesforce quote actually a good deal?”
Upload the proposal and our analysts benchmark every line against comparable deals. In about 48 hours you get a defensible report: your percentile per metric, market low, median, and high, and what to push back on.
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Self-serve benchmarking“I need a number today, not in 48 hours.”
Self-serve benchmarks give you an instant peer-cohort comparison for the big vendors, sized to companies like yours, with scenario modelling so you can test “what if we commit more” live in the meeting.
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Portfolio benchmark“Which of our 40 renewals should we fight first?”
Your whole stack scored against the market in one view, ranked by how far off fair you are, so your team spends its energy where the prize is biggest.
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Benchmark explorer“What are other companies paying, before we even get a quote?”
List anchors, street prices, and how discounts move with volume, drawn from our price book and the anonymized community price pool, so you set your target before the vendor sets the frame.
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Price book“Is this reseller quote padded?”
Hold any reseller quote against list-price anchors and real reseller quotes in the price book and see the margin they've added.
NEGOTIATE
Run the negotiation like a project, not a scramble.
From first proposal to signed order form: redlines, briefs, tactics, and approvals in one place.
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AI proposal review“What's buried in this 80-page proposal?”
The AI proposal review redlines the vendor's PDF for you: risky clauses, missing protections, and off-market terms highlighted directly in the document, each anchored to the exact quote.
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Side-by-side compare“Vendor A vs vendor B, what's actually different?”
Put two proposals side by side and the AI difference scan lists every material gap in pricing, terms, and protections, so the bake-off is decided on facts.
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Playbook agents“I have the negotiation call in an hour.”
Playbook agents generate an executive brief, talking points, and negotiation prep from your own deal data in minutes, rendered as polished documents you can forward.
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Deal execution suite“Keep the deal team honest across a 3-month negotiation.”
Track your mandate, tactics, a concession ledger, vendor commitments, and a counter-offer queue, and finish with a post-mortem so the next deal starts smarter.
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Vendor calendar“When is this vendor desperate to close?”
Fiscal year-ends and quarter-ends for every major vendor, so you time your ask for when their sales team needs the deal more than you do.
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Vendor intel“Who is this vendor, really?”
Vendor intel briefings and dossiers give you the two-page read on strategy, pricing behavior, and negotiation levers before the QBR.
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Approvals“Nothing gets signed without the right eyes on it.”
Approvals route purchases and renewals through the right people before signature, with the full context attached, and every decision logged.
CUT RUN-RATE COST
Upload an export. Get a savings plan.
Self-serve optimizers for the biggest line items in your stack. Each one takes the file your platform already produces and returns identified savings, scenarios, and a playbook.
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Cloud cost optimizer“Our cloud bill grew 40% and nobody knows why.”
Upload a cost export from AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI and get an AI FinOps assessment: savings by workstream, an executive brief, and a phased action plan you can track to done.
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Workload comparator“Are we running workloads on the wrong cloud?”
Each of your workloads priced on all four hyperscalers, which platform wins and why, and the optimal placement across the portfolio.
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M365 optimizer“How many M365 licenses are we wasting?”
Upload your usage export and find inactive accounts, right-size E5/E3/E1, size Copilot, and get a per-user reassignment plan.
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Claude optimizer“Are we overpaying for AI?”
Every workload on the right Claude model tier, caching and batch discounts priced in, and a committed-spend deal sized against the volume bands.
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VCF calculator“What will Broadcom actually charge us for VMware?”
Upload your RVTools export and see the cores Broadcom will bill under the 16-core minimum, three pricing scenarios against real discount bands, and the negotiation playbook.
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Agentforce optimizer“How big should our Agentforce commitment be?”
Upload your Digital Wallet consumption export, add planned agent use cases, and get a minimum, medium, and growth Flex Credit commitment sized to real usage.
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Shelfware radar“Find the shelfware we forgot about.”
SAM and ITAM connectors pull your license positions automatically, and the shelfware radar flags seats you're paying for that nobody has touched.
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Consolidation adviser“We have three tools doing the same job.”
Overlapping tools found across your portfolio, with what consolidating onto one would save and when the renewal windows line up.
STAY IN CONTROL
The platform watches your spend so you don’t have to.
Always-on monitoring, forecasting, and reporting: the difference between managing your vendors and being managed by them.
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Invoice intelligence“Is this invoice what we agreed to pay?”
Forward invoices by email or upload them, and line-item intelligence reconciles billed against contracted automatically, flagging overbilling, unagreed price bumps, and quantities you never ordered.
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Watchdogs“Tell me when something looks wrong.”
The anomaly watchdog scans weekly for price jumps, duplicate spend, and contract hygiene issues, and the leakage watchdog catches money quietly draining between contract and invoice.
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Spend forecast“What will we spend over the next two years?”
A 24-month spend forecast built from your contracts, renewal dates, and market drift, plus should-cost estimates for upcoming renewals, gives finance a budget grounded in your actual agreements.
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Strategy & opportunities“The board wants a software strategy, not a spreadsheet.”
An annual, board-ready read on your stack and categories, plus a ranked savings pipeline with size of prize and timing.
Which one is your Monday morning?
Bring the contract, the quote, or the cost export. The platform takes it from there.
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