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Guess what just dropped? 👇 THE NEXT BUILD E03: Superagents In this episode, Zip principal product manager Natasha Berk and software engineer Dexter Min Hyung Lee break down Zip’s AI Superagents, explaining why they’re built to operate like teammates instead of task-runners. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e_W7VSEF

Last week we wrapped our AI Roadshow in Toronto, Redwood City, and Chicago! That makes eight cities and eight *incredible* rooms full of accounting and procurement leaders redefining the industry for the AI era. Want to find your flow with the next generation of AI for procurement? Join us at Zip Forward this September in NYC: https://lnkd.in/gAS2gNpV P.S. To the chef who crafted that dish with fog coming out of it – bravo!

We just wrapped the third installment of Zip's Partner Advanced Enablement Workshop—and our first ever in EMEA! Over three days in London, we hosted attendees from our partners at Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, 4C, excelerated, and The Hackett Group Inc., diving deep into Zip's I2P, P2P, and AI implementation tracks. A huge thank you to our attendees Aryan K., Sydney Heinicke, Clinton Jonga, Julia Cullen, Philip Lüngen, Alok Jha, Danielle Bernini, Ben Lutzko, Cormac M., and Asma Noori MCIPS for the energy and engagement you brought all three days - and to our facilitators Daniel Herron and Ahmed K. for making it all come together! Want to get your team enabled with Zip training? Contact Eric S. Brown to learn more!

Zip is hiring! We're expanding our team as we continue to build the future of AI for procurement. If you’re excited about helping top global enterprises achieve peak performance through smarter spend orchestration, we’d love to hear from you! - Principal Product Manager, Global Payments Platform and Controls https://lnkd.in/gZY5cajM - AI Forward Deployed Engineer https://lnkd.in/gMCrgsmC - Director, GTM Strategy & Operations https://lnkd.in/gea3GMbk Please reach out if interested or share with anyone you believe would be a good fit! For the full list of open roles, visit: https://ziphq.com/careers

Your legal playbooks only work if someone enforces them. Now Zip's AI does it for you. Upload a playbook, and Zip extracts every clause and fallback position automatically. During contract review, it flags deviations and surfaces the approved language on the spot. Let legal set the rules. Let Zip enforce them. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gRHtdedU

Invesco was managing $1.1B in spend with email, Excel, and a 19-person team. Consultants told them they needed 50+ people just to keep up. Instead, they implemented Zip and saw a *26% increase in savings* with 3x procurement ROI. Here's how they did it: https://lnkd.in/gUjY-PGT

The people have spoken: Zip Forward is the place to be. Two packed days of keynotes, product workshops, and roundtables built for procurement and finance leaders. Grab your pass and find your flow. https://lnkd.in/gAS2gNpV

Flashback to DPW New York:  “Accelerating dysfunction” might be the best phrase we’ve heard yet to describe what happens when you layer AI onto an already broken process. Rujul Zaparde and Humana CPO Bryan Miller discussed how to build an AI-enabled procurement operating model. Read our DPW and AI Summit recap: https://lnkd.in/eXWxCaSG

Procurement has always carried friction. Requests vanish into inboxes. Approvals stall in endless loops. Visibility arrives too late to matter. Most vendors have denied that reality. Zip hasn't. Talk to Rujul, Lu and Felix and you feel it immediately: this is a founding team with a deep understanding of procurement pain points as actually lived by their customers, and the ambition to solve problems over a long time horizon. They have said they want Zip to be the global standard for AI in enterprise procurement in 2030. From what I’ve seen, that is not a press release ambition. It shows up in how they build: → massive investments in engineering, → an in-house team of former CPOs and procurement leaders advising customers directly, → and a very rigorous listening loop with their customer base. Zip understands something most vendors are still figuring out: AI in procurement without governance is just chaos at scale. They have built the orchestration layer that lets the enterprise define the guardrails, rules, and permissions needed to run procurement with agents, so speed and control are not in tension. This isn’t “bolt-on AI”. It’s native AI governance for the era where agents are doing real procurement work. And they’re fearless about doing that work end to end, from intake to pay. Here is the thing about Zip that often goes unsaid: they are making the whole space better. They have forced vendors who had grown comfortable to move faster. They have raised the bar on what enterprise buyers should expect. They’ve stimulated innovation in competitors. That is what category leaders do. That is why I am excited to announce we are partnering on content going forward. Expect practical breakdowns of what procurement orchestration actually looks like in the era of AI and where the real implementation challenges lie. Which topic do you want us to tackle first? Let me know in the comments 👇 _________________________ P.S. Every week I share frameworks, tools, and best practices that help procurement leaders navigate complex challenges. If you want to follow the thought leadership coming out of this partnership, join here: https://lnkd.in/gd7g2qQQ