AI Procurement Agents With an Enumerated Boundary
Agents that finish the work, not agents that suggest it.
It starts here
Permitted actions, data scope, value limits, entities and escalation paths are configured per agent.
Proconomy runs
- RuleEach agent is given a job and a boundary
- AgentAuthorised multi-step work is executed
- AgentSuppliers and approvers are coordinated
- SystemWork moves across the lifecycle without a handoff
- HumanConsequential decisions return to people
- RecordThe action history remains auditable
No general-purpose agent. A defined job and a permitted-action set.
Each agent is given a job and a boundary
What happens
Permitted actions, data scope, value limits, entities and escalation paths are configured per agent.
Defined permitted actions
What it may do, at what value, in which entity, with which data.
Work moves across the lifecycle without a handoff
What happens
One operating layer carries context from intake to sourcing, contracting, purchasing and supplier action.
A named escalation path
Where it goes when the situation is outside what it may decide.
The action history remains auditable
What happens
What the agent observed, decided, executed and escalated is retained with its explanation.
No general-purpose authority
A supplier-chasing agent cannot award business, however confident it is.
Coordination that waits for a person. Or coordination that does not.
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Supplier coordination
Chases responses, documents and acknowledgements on schedule.
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Approval coordination
Routes, reminds and escalates without ever holding the decision right.
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Cross-lifecycle execution
Carries context from intake to sourcing to contract to purchase without a handoff.
Each agent is given a job and a boundary
What happens
Permitted actions, data scope, value limits, entities and escalation paths are configured per agent.
Authorised multi-step work is executed
What happens
The agent progresses the request, event, supplier case or purchase through the steps it is permitted to perform.
Suppliers and approvers are coordinated
What happens
The supplier coordination agent chases responses and documents; the approval agent routes, reminds and escalates.
See exactly where it runs. And exactly where it stops for you.
Six stages, each with a control you can point at. One of them waits for a person.
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Rule
Each agent is given a job and a boundary
Automation scales without unclear authority.
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Agent
Authorised multi-step work is executed
Routine work moves without a person driving each step.
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Agent
Suppliers and approvers are coordinated
Cycle times shorten with the same control model.
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System
Work moves across the lifecycle without a handoff
Fewer handoffs, fewer re-entry errors, faster end-to-end completion.
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Human
Consequential decisions return to people
Safer automation and greater enterprise trust.
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Record
The action history remains auditable
Autonomy that withstands enterprise review.
Each agent is given a job and a boundary
Authorised multi-step work is executed
Suppliers and approvers are coordinated
Work moves across the lifecycle without a handoff
Consequential decisions return to people
The action history remains auditable
Seen enough?
See Autonomous agents run on one of your own autonomous agents workflows, including the part that usually goes wrong.
Someone from client success replies, not a sales sequence. The assessment asks for no email.
Answer “who approved this, and why” in seconds. Not in weeks.
Routing agent
- Classify a request
- Permitted
- Request missing data
- Permitted
- Select buying route
- Permitted
- Approve above band
- Not permitted
Authority written down
Each agent carries an enumerated permitted-action set and a value ceiling you configure per entity.
Checkpoints that cannot be bypassed
Consequential decisions return to the people your policy names, and no configuration removes them.
Reconstructable
- Original request text
- Retained
- Rule that fired
- CAT-DRV-02
- Approvals and approvers
- Recorded
- Purchase order
- Written to ERP
Retrievable per transaction, without reading a mailbox
Evidence without a separate tracker
Every action is attributed to an actor and the permission that allowed it, retrievable per transaction.
What we need from you. Less than you think.
Your policy, written down
The thresholds, approvers and buying routes you already operate. Configuration is transcription, not redesign.
One data connection
Read access to the master and transaction data this workflow needs. Write-back is scoped separately.
A named process owner
One person who can settle "what should happen when…" without convening a committee.
Work with your existing tools.
Proconomy connects to the systems you already run. The ERP stays the system of record.
Where this already runs. In operations like yours.
- Industrial services and engineered products An industrial group unifies procurement across 18 operating companies 18 operating companies under one group 18 operating companiesOne group-level viewERP retained Read the story
- Automotive and mobility A global automotive manufacturer sees supplier risk beyond tier one Large, complex supplier ecosystem spanning tier one to tier N Tier 1 to tier N mappedOne supplier recordShared scorecards Read the story
Bring us a real Autonomous agents problem. Not a vendor scenario.
Not a vendor scenario — one of yours, including the part that usually goes wrong. You will see where the agents act, where the platform stops, and what it leaves on the record.
Someone from client success replies, not a sales sequence. If we are not a fit we will say so on the first call.
Not ready to talk to anyone?
Fair enough. Both of these work without giving us your email.