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The latest news, research, and insights for procurement teams.

Industry trends

Introducing the State of AI in Spend

What 1,050 leaders told us about AI, ROI, and what’s actually working.

Industry trends

The governed middle ground of procurement AI

What a second IDC MarketScape says about where procurement AI is headed.

Introducing Zip Superagents, MCP, and AI Spend Automation

Meet the first governed AI platform for procurement.

Forrester TEI study finds Zip delivered 386% ROI for enterprise procurement

A new TEI study examines what procurement leaders already know about Zip.

Editor’s picks

Accounts payable

What it takes to get to a continuous close with AI

The three moves separating finance teams running a zero-day close from the rest.

What is procurement orchestration? The complete guide to unifying intake-to-pay

Here’s how to streamline intake, control spend, and automate workflows with AI.

Industry trends

Why the future of S2P runs on procurement orchestration

Here’s how procurement orchestration expanded from intake to full source-to-pay.

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Zip Forward 2026: New AI products across the Zip platform

Meet AI Risk Orchestration, two new Superagents, an app marketplace, and more.

Zip updates

AI

Zip and Hackett partner on procurement AI governance

Here's why the controls that make source-to-pay work are the ones AI agents most need.

Zip updates

Industry trends

How AI contract review works in 2026

Learn how AI can boost accuracy, detects risks, accelerate legal workflows.

AI

Procurement

Zip named a Leader in the Nucleus Research S2P Value Matrix

Here’s why an intake-first architecture defines the modern source-to-pay stack.

Zip updates

Procurement

Industry trends

What procurement should do with the time AI hands back

Three places to reinvest the hours AI gives back to procurement teams.

Industry trends

Procurement

AI agents examples: 20+ real-world uses (2026)

We cover six AI agent types, 20+ examples, and Zip use cases.

AI

Procurement

Zip welcomes Aaron Brinker as SVP, Field GTM and Operations

The Databricks and Salesforce GTM leader joins to scale field execution.

Zip updates

Accounts payable

Why finance and AP have the most to gain from Zip Procure-to-Pay

IDC found a 434% three-year ROI, with 43% of the benefit in finance and AP.

Accounts payable

AI

Accounts payable

AI AP Inbox finds the invoice in every email

Real invoices pulled from the noise, vendor questions answered with live Zip data.

Accounts payable

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