Keelvar Kai and autonomous sourcing agents (Sourcing, RFI and Optimal Close agents)

What it does

Keelvar is an AI-native sourcing optimisation and autonomous sourcing vendor founded in Cork in 2012. Kai, its AI orchestrator, sits across the platform: a user describes what they need, Kai picks the right sourcing agent and hands off to it to run the full event end to end (intake, event creation, supplier selection, award). Named agents include a Sourcing agent, an RFI Agent that generates the RFI question set and response settings from a prompt, and an Optimal Close agent that uses machine learning to set bid duration and auto-close rules. Kai can also build optimisation scenarios from plain language and route users to events, rates or agents. On the Autonomous Sourcing page, prebuilt category agents handle intake, supplier recommendation, event creation, multi-round bidding and award/reporting for tactical and tail spend; 'your team sets the rules, the agent applies them every time', and intake can be triggered without human input. Savings and cycle-time figures are vendor claims. Pricing is not published (demo/pricing by request).

Frameworks (vendor-stated)

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Pricing (as published)

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Tasks

process automationworkflow automationagentic ops

Sources

1. keelvar.com/kai (primary)
2. keelvar.com/autonomous-sourcing
3. keelvar.com/about-us
4. keelvar.com/privacy-policy

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Use-case comparisons

• Procurement and autonomous-sourcing AI agents — 21 verified listings (Intake-to-award procurement, autonomous sourcing, supplier operations and procurement orchestration)

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FAQ (from this dataset)

What does Keelvar Kai and autonomous sourcing agents do?

Procurement sourcing platform whose AI orchestrator, Kai, takes plain-language requests and hands them to specialised agents that run sourcing events end to end (intake, supplier selection, event creation, multi-round bidding and award) under rules the procurement team sets.

How much does Keelvar Kai and autonomous sourcing agents cost?

Not published

Where is Keelvar (Keelvar Systems Ltd) headquartered?

Ireland

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