Ana by Vertice

Ana by Vertice is an AI procurement tool that negotiates software renewals and vendor contracts on behalf of procurement and sourcing teams. Instead of a buyer manually chasing every SaaS renewal, Ana analyses a contract, benchmarks it against Vertice's dataset of 2M+ vendor price points across more than 32,000 vendors, then builds a negotiation strategy specific to that vendor and drafts the outreach emails, complete with the reasoning behind each move. It is explicitly human-in-the-loop: every message requires team review before it is sent, and you can configure the tone and set operational constraints so the agent stays inside your rules. A deal overview and audit trail document what happened at each step, which matters for procurement sign-off. Ana is aimed squarely at the "long tail" of smaller renewals that would otherwise eat a buyer's week, and Vertice reports averages of 18% savings on renewals and 15 days cut from the renewal cycle. For teams on BestAIFor weighing procurement automation, the draw is handling volume negotiations at scale while keeping a person on the approval step; the main caveat is that it fits mid-to-large enterprises with real vendor spend rather than small teams with a handful of tools.

Automating SaaS renewal negotiations and vendor contract benchmarking for enterprise procurement teams.