Presented by Art of Procurement
In partnership with Zycus
A new agentic AI procurement podcast

The Agentic
Procurement
Diaries

CPOs and procurement leaders on their agentic AI transformations. The bets, the constraints, and the calls that never make the board deck.

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Board decks show the outcome. The diary holds everything else.

What this series is

Agentic AI in procurement, told by the CPOs living it.

01

No pitches. No vendor scorecards.

Only the reasoning behind real agentic decisions, from the leaders who made them. Including the ones that felt reckless at the time.

02

Agentic AI in the real enterprise.

Every guest runs agentic AI inside a live enterprise. Real budgets, real teams, decisions still in motion.

03

The off the record conversation.

The conversations you would want to have privately if you were leading a transformation, or inheriting one mid-change. We record them.

Philip Ideson
Art of Procurement
Your host

Philip Ideson

Founder & Managing Director, Art of Procurement

Over a decade interviewing CPOs and procurement leaders, first as a practitioner, then as the voice of Art of Procurement. He knows the follow-up question that gets past the polished answer.

Everyone tells you what worked. Almost nobody tells you what they were afraid of while it was happening. That second conversation is the show.
Art of Procurement sets the questions AOP holds editorial control of every entry. Zycus co-produces and does not review the interview.
Guests are chosen on merit AOP’s editorial team picks who appears. Nominate a peer, or yourself.
A new entry every two weeks On YouTube and via RSS, as recordings wrap.
The diary

Every entry so far

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Entry 00 · Live

Why a software company made a series that is not about software

Aatish Dedhia
Aatish DedhiaZycus · 33 min
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Entry 01 · Live

The procurement bets behind SLB's North America supply chain

Jeffrey Ostrander
Jeffrey OstranderSLB · 37 min
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Entry 02 · Oct 14, 2026

Procurement for a power fleet that cannot go dark

Liza Tsimbal
Liza TsimbalTransAlta
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Entry 03 · Oct 28, 2026

The intake problem nobody wanted to own

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Entry 04 · Nov 11, 2026

Governing agents you did not hire

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Entry 05 · Nov 25, 2026

The savings number that stopped meaning anything

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The companion notes

Every agentic procurement entry.
Every decision framework.
In your inbox.

Each entry ships with a two-page companion: the guest’s decision framework, the questions to put to your own team, and the moments worth replaying.

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About Zycus

Zycus delivers Autonomous Procurement. From Intake to Outcomes with Agentic AI.

Zycus co-produces this series with Art of Procurement. Source to Pay automates processes. Zycus runs the full span from Intake to Outcomes with Agentic AI in charge, on the Merlin Agentic Platform. AI decides. Suite governs. Enterprise stays in control.

Experience The Platform Read the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ report
32+Patents in procurement AI
$1Tr+In spend processed globally
LeaderGartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites 2026
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A podcast series co-produced by Art of Procurement and Zycus. CPOs and procurement leaders talk through their real agentic AI transformations: the decisions, the constraints, and the judgment calls. New entries every two weeks.
AI that plans, reasons, and executes multi-step procurement work on its own, inside enterprise governance guardrails. Zycus puts Agentic AI in charge of the full span from intake to outcomes, on the Merlin Agentic Platform. That is what makes procurement autonomous.
The single architecture behind Autonomous Procurement. It unites native Intake and end to end Source to Pay, with Agentic AI embedded in every process, and executes toward outcomes rather than workflows. 32+ patents, over $1 trillion in processed spend, and a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites.
Philip Ideson, Founder and Managing Director of Art of Procurement. Over a decade interviewing CPOs and procurement leaders, as a practitioner and as a host.
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