| 1 | Market Intelligence & Category Data e.g. Beroe, Xeneta | Curated market and category research | Continuous reference across a broad category portfolio. EXOS maintains no supplier database of its own — market context enters as an input to a specific project, not as a standalone category report. |
| 2 | Scenario-Based Procurement Analytics EXOS | Models total cost of ownership, negotiation scenarios and supplier risk before a contract is awarded | Infrequent, high-value, high-complexity deals. Not for tail spend or repeatable purchasing. |
| 3 | Autonomous Sourcing e.g. Keelvar, Arkestro, Pactum | Automates repeatable sourcing events | High event volume, settled specifications, many suppliers — freight, packaging, standard components. These are not the categories EXOS is built for: EXOS starts where events are few and each decision resists automation. |
| 4 | Transactional & Intake AI e.g. Coupa, SAP Ariba, Zip | Requisitions, orders, contract execution | Everything that has to be executed and recorded. EXOS executes nothing — no orders, no payments. The decision is made upstream and executed here. |
| 5 | Spend Analytics & Audit e.g. Sievo, Suplari | Retrospective view of what was spent | Whole-history analysis across the spend base. EXOS does not reason in spend lines at all — it looks forward, one project at a time. |
| 6 | Supply Chain Risk Monitoring e.g. Resilinc, Everstream | Continuous supply chain monitoring | Specialist enterprise platforms: deeper multi-tier mapping, with the budget and implementation to match. EXOS runs scheduled monitoring of a defined supplier and category list as a function of the analytics platform, not as a standalone product — and reuses it: a risk signal becomes an input to the deal scenario rather than a separate feed to interpret. Broader in scope, less deep in each, at mid-market reach. EXOS is not built for those who need narrow depth in a single market. |