New: what governed autonomous procurement actually means
Platform overview

One connected platform for governed autonomous procurement.

In short

Proconomy provides the procurement workflows natively — sourcing, contracts, purchasing, suppliers and quality — on one data and governance foundation. Agents execute authorised work within your policies, permissions and approvals, consequential decisions return to named people, and approved outcomes are written back to your systems of record.

Agent activity · overnight Illustrative
Chased 4 outstanding supplier responsesSourcing event SRC-2291 · scheduled follow-upExecuted
Reminded 2 overdue approversEscalated one after 48h per policyExecuted
Normalised 5 quotations for comparisonPrice, lead time, capacity, quality standingExecuted
Stopped: award above delegated thresholdRouted to category manager with full contextEscalated
Blocked: supplier outside approval scopeRule POL-SUP-07 · exception requires authorisationBlocked
Every action is attributed to an agent and to the permission that allowed it.
Operating model

People set the rules. Agents move the work forward. Exceptions return to people.

Autonomy describes the execution. Governance describes the authority that bounds it. Both are configured before anything runs, which is what separates this from a workflow tool with agent branding.

One data foundation

Requests, events, contracts, suppliers, quality records and audit history share a model. A sourcing decision can see the supplier’s quality standing because both live in the same place, not because an integration copied it overnight.

One policy model

The rules that route a request, restrict an invitation, block a purchase and escalate an overdue approval are expressed once and applied everywhere.

One agent boundary

Every agent carries a defined job, a permitted-action set, a value limit and an escalation path. Widening what agents may do is a configuration decision reviewed against real action history.

One audit record

The observation, the rule, the action, the approval and any override are retained together across the lifecycle.

See the seven stages of the operating model in detail

Governance layer

Every action operates within authority you define.

Role-based access, agent permissioning, executable thresholds, non-bypassable human checkpoints, explainability, override and a complete audit trail. These are product features rather than policy statements, which is why they can be demonstrated.

Governance controls you define Illustrative
Role
Who may act in this entity, plant and category
Permission
Which specific actions an agent may perform
Threshold
The value or risk level at which a person must decide
Policy
The buying route required for a category or entity
Approval
Sequential, parallel and conditional decision points
Checkpoint
Where execution pauses and waits for judgement
Exception
What happens when a rule cannot be satisfied
Override
Who may authorise a departure, and on what record
Audit
The retained history of every action and decision
Permitted — agent may execute Review — routed to a person Blocked — outside policy
ERP coexistence Illustrative
System of record
ERP
Suppliers · materials · entities · open orders
Execution layer
Proconomy
Intake · sourcing · contracts · suppliers · quality
Approved context read from ERPMaster and transaction data, on requestRead
Approved outcome written backRequisition, purchase order or supplier recordWrite
Draft or unapproved activityNever reaches the system of recordBlocked
Write-back success and failure are both monitored and surfaced.
Architecture

Your systems of record stay exactly where they are.

Approved context is read from the ERP and adjacent systems, governed work executes around it, and approved outcomes are written back with monitored synchronisation and visible error handling. Nothing unapproved reaches the record system.

Bring one real workflow. We will run it, exceptions included.

A platform overview describes the model. Watching your own process execute under governance is what makes it assessable.

Someone from client success replies, not a sales sequence. If we are not a fit we will say so on the first call.