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The agents

A team of agents that works every deal.

Not one model and a prompt. A coordinated team where each specialist owns a stage of the deal, a lead agent orchestrates them, and the work gets sharper with every vendor you evaluate.

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Orchestrated

A lead agent decides which specialists to run, dispatches them in parallel, and synthesizes one answer.

Self-correcting

A critic reviews each agent's output; if it falls short, the agent revises before you ever see it.

Always learning

Every deal teaches the agents how a vendor behaves. The next deal with them starts sharper.

Author

Before you go to vendors

Atlas

Scope Authoring

Interviews you, surfaces the traps vendors exploit for your project type, and authors a vendor-proof scope.

Watch

Once proposals arrive

Mira

Scope-Drift Sentinel

Watches every proposal version and catches the moment the vendor quietly narrows scope or shifts a commitment to “future phase.”

Iris

Commitment Ledger

Tracks every promise the vendor makes across versions, and flags the ones that get weakened or vanish before signing.

Quinn

Gap Interrogator

Reads the proposal against your locked scope, scores coverage, and drafts the exact questions it’s dodging.

Rex

Demo-to-Reality Auditor

Checks what the vendor showed in the demo against what they actually committed in writing. Catches demo-ware.

Live

In the vendor meeting

Echo

Session Co-pilot

Reads the vendor’s answer against your scope in real time and hands you the single sharpest follow-up to ask next.

Orchestrate

Across the whole deal, automatically

Vera

Deal Monitor

The lead agent. Assesses the deal, dispatches the specialists it judges relevant, synthesizes one prioritized view, and nudges you on a schedule.

The platform

Every active evaluation.
Risk-scored. In one view.

Your dashboard shows every vendor evaluation in flight, risk score, generation status, and project stage. Run a project from initial evaluation through vendor selection in a single workspace.

  • Risk score calculated per project across 12 categories
  • Generation status tracked through all three output types
  • Project lifecycle: evaluating → awarded → delivering
  • Team access with role-based visibility controls
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Acme Corp

Team plan

Active evaluations

3 projects · 2 in progress

+ New project
84SAP S/4HANA Migration
Interrogating
ERP Implementation·$4.2M exposure·54 Qs ready
61Salesforce CRM Deploy
Scoping
CRM Deployment·$1.8M exposure·41 Qs ready
47Workday HCM Rollout
Awarded
HR Platform·$800K exposure·46 Qs ready

Total exposure

$6.8M

Avg risk score

64

Qs generated

141

Output quality

This is what a scope red line looks like.

Not a checklist. Not a generic tip. A specific walk-away condition tied to your vendor and project type, with the exact contract language to enforce it.

  • Specific to your vendor, project type, and budget band
  • Dollar risk estimates calibrated to your contract size
  • Contract language and prevention clauses ready to paste
  • Walk-away conditions that your legal team can act on
Generate a scope package
Scope red line, 2 of 5
Walk-away condition

No named hypercare lead committed beyond go-live day 30

Vendors routinely reduce post-launch support to a shared helpdesk pool within 30 days. Without a named hypercare lead contractually committed to 90 days, you are on your own when production issues emerge, often $80K-$200K to fix commercially.

Required contract clause

Vendor to assign a named hypercare lead (minimum senior consultant grade) for 90 days post go-live. Any substitution requires written client approval. Non-compliance triggers SLA credits of $X per week.

Workday HCM · Cloud Implementation · $500K-$2MBenchside
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SAP S/4HANA Migration, Vendor Meeting

12 asked · 3 flagged · 39 remaining

22%
CriticalResourcing · Q 13 of 54

“Who is the named programme director, and what is their contractual minimum commitment to this engagement post go-live?”

Directors are often shared across 3-5 engagements simultaneously. Vague language around “dedicated” rarely holds post-contract.

Vendor's answer (notes)

“Sarah Chen will be the director, she's on 2 other active engagements currently...”

Flag as:SatisfactoryFollow-upRed flagNext →

Recently flagged

Q 08 · Data migration ownershipRed flag
Q 11 · Fixed-fee scope definitionFollow-up

Session mode

Run the interrogation
live, in the room.

Session mode turns your interrogation kit into a live interview workflow. One question at a time. Capture the vendor's answer, flag red flags, and mark follow-ups, all without breaking eye contact.

  • Full-screen focus UI, one question at a time
  • Real-time answer capture and flag tagging
  • Red flags automatically surface in post-session summary
  • Export flagged answers to PDF after the meeting
  • Generate a negotiation playbook from your flagged answers
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