Governed AI for procurement and finance

Discover how governance enables AI to safely automate high-impact business purchasing processes.

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Shadow AI is already inside your workflows

AI is everywhere your team works, but the guardrails aren't.

62%

of employees use AI multiple times per day in their work

57%

of employees have used AI tools their employer hasn't sanctioned

$5M

maximum regulatory fine for SOX violation

Most companies are missing the governance layer

AI needs to operate safely with context, guardrails, audit trail, and observability.

Systems of intake

Zip Governance layer

Role-based permissions, policy enforcement, complete audit trail

Orchestration layer

Integrations, cross-team approval, dynamic workflows

Context layer

Company policies & playbooks, approval thresholds, org structure

Systems of record

Four requirements for an AI governance layer

Policies

Policies and approval thresholds that guide agents

Guardrails

Role-based controls and human-in-the-loop approval

Auditability

Full trail of every decision and the approvals behind it

Observability

Real-time visibility to catch issues and self improve

Only Zip delivers a governed AI platform

Zip AI automates your workflows without compromising security.

Real-time AI spend visibility

Monitor Zip AI token usage and cost breakdown in real time to keep spend predictable.

Complete audit trail

Maintain a complete audit trail of every agent action and decision.

Human-in-the-loop approval

Dictate what actions agents can take and when human approval is required.

Centralized policy library

Ground agents in your internal policies, approval thresholds, and playbooks.

Granular action controls

Deploy agents across Slack, Teams, and email with governance built in.

Flexible drafts and versioning

Track changes to agent configuration, save drafts, and revert to previous versions.

Zip’s Superagents run procurement for you

Superagents execute procurement work end-to-end across your business.

Intake Superagent
Procurement Superagent
Contract Superagent
AP Superagent
Config Superagent

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We get the procurement platform our team runs on, fully governed AI agents automating the work, and forward-deployed engineers who specialize in procurement AI and build alongside us.

Mithun Sharma
CPO at Block

Mithun Sharma

CPO

If the AI is working and alleviating some of the tactical work, taking reporting off our plates and daily tasks that bog us down, the team is able to be more strategic, lean in, and do it all.

Katie Streu
Head of Procurement at Anthropic

Katie Streu

Head of Procurement

What stood out to us about Zip’s agents was its ability to bring greater visibility, alignment, and discipline to complex enterprise decisions. In one major IT infrastructure initiative, it contributed to more than $20 million in cost avoidance and value recapture.

Susanna Rustad, CPO at UCI Health

Susanna Rustad

CPO

For procurement, AI is transformational. These moments we spend chasing POs, unlocking terms and conditions, explaining risk for the fifth, tenth, fifteenth time — they don't just eat minutes, they eat our creativity, our focus, our innovation, the good stuff.

Ann Fleishell
- VP, Procurement at OpenAI

Ann Fleishell

VP, Procurement

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