Launching Merlin Agentic Sourcing: one layer, not fifty bots.
The architecture behind governed agentic sourcing. Featuring Omid Ghamami on Agent Debt.
You are collecting agents faster than you can govern them. One hour: what that costs, and the layer that replaces them.
Describe a business problem.
Get a sourcing strategy.
Merlin Agentic Sourcing (MAS) builds the strategy before the first supplier is contacted, then runs the event end to end.
An independent voice, and the person who runs the product.
Thirty minutes of argument. Thirty minutes of proof.
Procurement educator, author, and founder of the CPSCM certification program. He named Agent Debt, and he has spent two years documenting what it costs the organizations that ignore it.
The Center for PSCM ExcellencePSCMInstitute.com
Ronit deploys agentic sourcing in regulated and complex categories. He takes one real business problem all the way to an award recommendation, showing exactly where the agent acts and where you approve.
Merlin Agentic Platformzycus.com
Nobody bought a shadow agent estate. Everybody is building one.
An RFP bot in one team. A supplier lookup in another. A contract summarizer somewhere else. Each does a task. Together they duplicate work, share no context, answer to no owner, and leave no audit trail.
That is Agent Debt. It accrues quietly and is repaid with interest at scale.
"We found more than fifty agents running inside our own marketing division before we put governance in place. We lived this problem before we built the answer to it."
The Zycus shadow agent audit, referenced in session oneFifty bots
Point agents from different vendors, each doing one task in isolation. Fragmented data, no shared context, no owner. Governance bolted on late, if at all.
What it costs
Duplicated work. Uncontrolled access to supplier, contract, and pricing data. Agent actions nobody can reconstruct at audit. Rising spend with nothing defensible to show a board.
One sourcing intelligence layer
Two agentic flows on shared intelligence, native to the Zycus source-to-pay foundation. Compliance enforced at source, human approval at every consequential decision, every action logged and policy-mapped.
Two sessions.
Thirty minutes each.
The first half is the argument. The second half is the product. No slideware tour.
For CPOs, procurement and sourcing leaders, category managers, and the transformation leaders who own the AI decision.
Save my seatThe shadow agent audit
- Where Agent Debt comes from, and how fast it compounds
- Four failure modes, from duplication to invisibility
- Agent estate versus agent architecture
- What to ask before you approve the next agent
First look at Merlin Agentic Sourcing (MAS)
- Category intelligence and should-cost, built up front
- Supplier discovery with D&B, AVL and ESG gates
- A publication-ready RFP with compliance gates
- Four award scenarios with savings and rationale
- Where the human approves, and what gets audited
Two agentic flows. One sourcing intelligence layer.
MAS thinks like your best category manager. Then executes like your fastest sourcing team.
Spend, contracts, should-cost and supplier scoring, all completed before an event is issued.
Replaces €50K consultant engagements per category.
30-line pricing tables in three minutes, 28 to 31 questions auto-loaded, 8+ compliance gates enforced.
100% supplier response rate in live demos, against a 60 to 75% norm.
Measurable outcomes. Not just promises.
Your next agent should be your last.
One hour. Two sessions. The case against the agent estate, and the first look at the layer that replaces it.
The audit questions that surface what is already running, and who owns it.
What to require before any agent touches supplier or contract data.
One problem statement to one award recommendation, step by step.
Sent to every registrant, whether or not you make it on the day.