The autonomous procurement workforce for physical enterprises

Ballade deploys an AI workforce across your existing procurement stack to hunt down savings opportunities, mitigate supplier risks, and supercharge your team. Custom built for your workflows and enterprise ready on day one.

Agent feed 3 live
PO management
Called Georgia Western Actuator for ETA on PO-1042. Confirmed shipping Fri 5/15. ERP updated.
2 min agoauto-logged
Sourcing & RFQ
Identified 6 qualified vendors for RFQ-318. 4 quotes returned and normalized. Comparison ready.
14 min agoawaiting buyer
Contract compliance
Flagged INV-7710: supplier missed 4% volume rebate triggered at $250K YTD. Recovery $9,840.
1 hr agorecovery filed
// AUTONOMOUS WORKFORCE OVERVIEW
01 / Sourcing & RFQ

Run competitive sourcing events for all commodity spend.

Drop in a part or BOM. Our sourcing assistant identifies qualified vendors, sends RFQs, collects responses, normalizes incoming quotes, and hands your buyer a side-by-side comparison. End to end.

  • Vendor discovery and RFQ generation from a part, drawing, or BOM
  • Quote normalization across price, lead time, MOQ, terms
  • Re-source commodity COTS at true cost, not distributor markup
  • Buyer-ready comparison and award recommendation
02 / PO Management

Stop chasing POs.

Our PO assistant calls and emails suppliers, tracks acknowledgments, confirms ship dates, and detects delays - then writes every delivery status back into your systems. Your buyers stop chasing and start deciding.

  • Auto PO acknowledgments and ship-date check-ins, by email or phone
  • Exception detection: late, short-shipped, price or part mismatch
  • Proactive risk flags tied to your production schedule
  • Full audit trail synced to your ERP
03 / Contract Compliance

Enforce your contracts and end contract leakage.

Enterprises lose ~2% of margin each year because contracted obligations - rebates, volume discounts, FX clauses - sit fragmented across hundreds of documents and go unenforced for years. Our compliance assistant reads every contract and flags every invoice, PO, and quote that violates the terms you actually negotiated.

  • Contract ingestion and clause extraction across your supplier base
  • Real-time flagging of invoices and POs that miss negotiated terms
  • Recovery workflow for missed rebates and overcharges
  • Continuous monitoring - no clause forgotten for a decade
// INTEGRATIONS

First, we learn your data.
Then, we automate.

Ballade integrates with your business systems to build a rich ontology and context layer across disparate data sources - so our assistants reason with the same picture your best buyers do.

// ERP
Oracle SAP JD Edwards MS Dynamics 365 NetSuite + more
// SPREADSHEETS & DATABASES
Databricks Excel MySQL Snowflake PostgreSQL + more
// SOURCE-TO-PAY PLATFORMS
Coupa GEP Smart Ivalua Jaggaer SAP Ariba + more
// SUPPLIER PORTALS & COMMUNICATION
Coupa Gmail Opentext Outlook SAP Ariba + more
// MES
Manufacturo First Resonance Tulip Boltline
// PLM
Arena Teamcenter Duro
// ROI

See what Ballade is worth to your team.

Move the sliders. See the savings.

01 / Sourcing

Sourcing savings calculator

How much can autonomous re-sourcing of commodity spend save you?

Monthly PO spend$500K
Commodity % of spend41%
Distributor markup vs. true cost1.30×
% of commodity that can be re-sourced40%
Re-sourceable spend
$82K
monthly
Savings per unit
23%
at current markup
Monthly savings
$19K
on re-sourceable commodity spend
Annual savings potential
$227K
if fully executed by the sourcing assistant
02 / PO Management

PO management calculator

Time and dollars saved by automating PO follow-ups and supplier check-ins.

Purchase orders / month2,500
Avg manual time / PO (mins)50
Fully-loaded hourly cost ($)$100
Estimated time saved
2,084 hrs
per month
Estimated cost saved
$208,400
per month
Annual cost saved
$2.5M
redeploy buyer time to high-judgment work
03 / Contract Compliance

Contract compliance calculator

What's leaking through unmonitored supplier contract terms? Industry benchmarks suggest 1-3% of total spend goes unrecovered.

Annual procurement spend$3B
Estimated leakage rate2.0%
Annual leakage
$60M
missed rebates, unenforced rates, overcharges
Recoverable with Ballade
$42M
at ~70% recovery rate with the compliance agent
10-year unrecovered (today's trajectory)
$600M
single missed clauses can run for a decade
// ENTERPRISE READY

We're enterprise ready on day one.

Ballade is engineered to plug into the most demanding procurement environments without disrupting the systems your business already depends on.

No re-architecture

Connects to your existing ERP, procurement, and finance systems without changing how they work.

Instant scalability

Handles ten transactions or ten million without performance drops or added infrastructure.

Governed, explainable actions

Every automated decision includes a clear audit trail showing what the assistant did and why.

Production-grade reliability

Built for enterprise uptime with redundancy, monitoring, and failover from day one.

SOC 2 compliant

Your data is protected by independently audited security controls across every layer of the platform.

Human-in-the-loop guardrails

Configure autonomy thresholds per workflow. Your team approves every action - until you decide otherwise.

// IMPLEMENTATION

Live in days, not quarters.

No 9-month implementation. Our team handles configuration end to end - you go live with your first workflow in weeks.

Week 0

Understand your process

We sit down with your team to understand your SOPs and adapt our assistants to your company's needs. Every workflow is fully configurable.

Week 1

Stand up the assistants

We connect your ERP, sourcing tools, and supplier portals, and tune the assistants to your operating procedures. White-glove setup, no engineering required.

Weeks 2-5

Go live, end to end

Your first assistant goes live on a real workflow - sandbox or production, your call. Buyers stay in the loop and 100% in control.

Week 6+

Scale across workflows

Once we validate the first assistant, we expand to your full PO base, sourcing pipeline, and contract portfolio - workflow by workflow.

Ongoing

Continuous improvement

Our assistants learn from your team's edits and grow over time. We provide all support and service - time required from your team stays minimal.

// LET'S TALK

See what an autonomous procurement teammate can do for you.

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll walk through the PO, sourcing, and contract compliance assistants - on a real workflow from your team.