Tesora

TL;DR

Tesora builds AI procurement analysts for mission critical industries. Our agents manage supplier discovery, qualification, and communications over voice and email, creating a function that was never possible before. Teams gain the capacity to reach more vendors, qualify them faster, run price discovery at scale, and unlock meaningful cost savings without adding headcount.

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🛑 The Problem

Procurement teams know they can unlock savings and stronger terms if they could reach more suppliers, run more RFPs, and get more high quality quotes to build leverage in negotiations. The current bottleneck in this process is labor:

• Supplier data scattered across inboxes, spreadsheets, and ERPs
• Vendor qualification and onboarding slow and repetitive
• Engineers waste weeks finding bespoke suppliers and handling follow-ups around timing and process
• Limited team capacity means the long tail of spend can be ignored even though costs add up

The result is slower sourcing, higher prices, and missed savings.

⚡ The Tesora Analyst

Tesora is the first AI procurement analyst that replicates the work of a sourcing team. Each analyst comes with the tools of a real employee: their own email and phone to reach suppliers directly, calendar sync for deadlines and reviews, a document hub for specs and quotes, and tasks to manage qualification and onboarding.

These analysts can:

• Perform Deep Research across the web, certifications, and trade databases
• Run RFPs by reaching out, qualifying, and vetting vendors through live email and voice conversations (for specs and timing)
• Negotiate quotes by collecting bids, running pricing rounds, and creating auction-like competition between suppliers

This closes the loop end-to-end, giving teams infinite scale to source, negotiate, and capture savings, while building a structured supplier database that compounds in value over time.

📈 Why Now

Procurement has always been seen as a massive market, but every prior solution has been a point tool. Suites like Coupa and Ariba automate narrow workflows but break down with heterogeneous suppliers, unique pricing agreements, and varying SLAs. Despite years of development in procurement tech, buyers still operate out of email with their suppliers.

With the advent of agents, teams can finally rebuild procurement as an AI-native function embedded where they work. Tesora analysts manage supplier qualification, RFPs, parallel negotiations, and auction-like dynamics directly from the buyer’s inbox. For the first time, procurement teams can scale infinitely, negotiate at depth, and capture savings that were never possible before.

🛠 Who We Serve

Mission critical industries including aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing

💬 Ask

If you know procurement or supply chain leaders who need to find hard to source suppliers faster, run more negotiations, and capture cost savings across their spend, connect us at founders@tesora.ai.

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👤 The Founders
Vivek: Former private equity investor at Sycamore Partners ($14B AUM) and consultant at McKinsey & Company. BA/MBA in Economics & Finance from UChicago.

Federico: Former AI researcher in graph neural networks, founding engineer at Kumo AI (fastest promotion), and member of Google’s Doc AI team. BS/MS in Computer Science from Stanford.