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At Levelpath, our aim is to make procurement delightful. We believe that the most effective software platforms are AI-native and that procurement teams truly benefit from a supplier-centric view when analyzing their spend. Levelpath provides essential procurement functionality and enables AI-native transformation that’s streamlined, accelerated, and strategically focused.
Hyperbridge: Levelpath’s Foundational AI Reasoning Engine
Levelpath provides this AI-native experience because the key to the Front Door experience is not simply an open AI entry field, but a proprietary Hyperbridge AI reasoning engine designed to comprehend your key sourcing and enterprise data sources. Hyperbridge assists users with relevant legal, finance, security, and IT business functions as well as public information that improves data quality and enriches records with relevant contextual metadata. Hyperbridge combines cutting-edge large language models with the scale-up and scale-out advantages of hyperscaler platforms to ensure that procurement teams are always accessing the most useful, functional, and effective models and data tools as AI rapidly evolves.
Procurement professionals have their hands full managing complex spend categories, contract renewals, negotiations, and sourcing activities. The last thing that procurement teams need is to add AI foundational model management to their existing burdens.
The Hyperbridge reasoning engine assists Levelpath’s users by using AI to enrich supplier record data with real-time public data, personalizing sourcing bids events with supplier-specific and category-specific information, mapping document content to relevant business metadata through our optical character recognition (OCR) technologies, and providing a trusted and persistent AI Assistant to help every user ranging from the sourcing newbie to the procurement veteran trusted to support the most complex projects.
While the majority of existing solutions are adding AI features into their existing architecture as an afterthought, Levelpath is built from day one on an assumption that AI would be central to procurement. The Hyperbridge reasoning engine serves as the backbone of this AI-native approach, bringing deep intelligence to help procurement professionals manage every sourcing activity, every contract, every supplier record, and to support a variety of best-in-class AI models used to improve procurement outcomes as evolving AI technology is rolling out to the world. With Hyperbridge, Levelpath provides businesses with management and administration assistance powered by AI.
Savings Starts with Levelpath’s Front Door
Levelpath’s procurement experience centers on the Front Door, an AI-native interface that reimagines how teams approach sourcing and procurement. Instead of wrestling with traditional workflows, users can pose natural language questions to Levelpath and receive immediate insights across suppliers, contracts, sourcing initiatives, and procurement projects. This positions AI as a core procurement partner, streamlining processes for line-of-business buyers while preserving critical guardrails, audit trails, contract governance, and value oversight.
Complex sourcing categories, vendor evaluations, and relationship management create ongoing challenges for businesses. Effective procurement platforms should eliminate barriers to finding answers, regardless of complexity. Levelpath’s Front Door delivers this capability through an intuitive, conversational interface that helps businesses discover, evaluate, and manage vendor relationships seamlessly.
Transforming Sourcing with AI-Native Tools
Levelpath provides a sourcing experience that allows for a variety of approaches. The platform includes Quick Bid capabilities for fast-track sourcing and a questionnaire builder that allows category experts to design detailed evaluations for complex spend categories with specific due diligence needs. Both experiences allow for a variety of due dates for bidders to show their intent to bid, answer questions, and submit their bids. Along the way, Levelpath provides AI that can provide suggestions to improve the sourcing process, request additional specificity from bidders, gain greater expertise associated with the spend category, and provide additional clarity and context to RFx responses.
Our sourcing module’s combination of continuous AI tool and model upgrades through Hyperbridge, persistent AI and AI Agent assistance, and supplier data enrichment ensures that businesses can make educated decisions. Levelpath takes full advantage of AI to make sourcing events as easy or detailed as the buyer wants while ensuring that buyers ask questions that adequately differentiate vendors while keeping in touch with technology, business, and macroeconomic trends.
Managing Contracts with Levelpath
Levelpath recognizes that contracts are not just static repositories with obligatory renewal dates. They define the relationships between a company and its suppliers, enriched with relevant metadata, performance metrics, pricing, and macroeconomic and geopolitical trends that may affect delivery, performance, and renewal. Contracts should be accessible to all relevant stakeholders who are affected by the potential impact of the terms.
Levelpath’s contract module operates on the principle that contracts should be proactively managed and renewed, giving buyers maximum visibility and runway to negotiate effectively. When customers view their contract details, they see not only basic information such as supplier name, contract amount, and renewal date, but also access to renewal projects and supporting documents. The platform streamlines metadata input during contract intake by using OCR to scan for business-relevant fields, while handling approvals and signature handoffs through Docusign integration.
Levelpath’s AI-native approach transforms contracts into the central hub of buyer-supplier relationships, connecting data, documents, and metadata in meaningful ways. Rather than treating contracts as isolated agreements, the platform helps buyers understand the interconnected relationships across all contract-related information and connect that data to other critical areas of the business. This comprehensive view enables buyers to extract maximum value from their agreements while making more informed decisions about renewals, performance management, and strategic vendor relationships.
Managing Project Pipeline and Value with Levelpath
Levelpath enables structured project management associated with contract creation and delivering holistic visibility into spend and savings through the Pipeline view. Users can initiate projects either from the initial Front Door intake experience or from the central Hub used to manage procurement activity to provide a consistent framework for tracking activity and view costs. Within Pipeline, Levelpath ensures data consistency by mapping key fields such as requester, department, and estimated spend from the initial intake process using predefined system fields.
Finance and procurement executives need a shared view to support operational transparency for sourcing projects. Enterprise sourcing is a portfolio management challenge where procurement must always make tradeoffs of time, resources, and skills to evaluate and acquire goods and services while reducing the risks of uncontrolled spend, unaligned renewals, and undocumented supplier relationships.. Procurement is acutely aware of how details matter and acutely feel the difference between a well-managed contract renewal that is negotiated and a poorly managed or missed contract where money is left on the table.
To track project savings, Levelpath also provides Value Tracking capabilities within Pipeline to help procurement departments track the savings and value provided to their organizations. Value Tracking exists within each Levelpath project, which allows procurement professionals to effectively visualize spend and savings associated with Levelpath-based sourcing activity and align to the company’s bottom line. With customizable records, this tracking can include both quantitative and qualitative value provided to the organization, which can then be credited to the buyer or the procurement department.
To support the need for real-time procurement status views and proactive value generation, Pipeline tracks contract renewal activities in one central location and monitors the estimated spend, projected and actual savings, and contract value for every supplier and project status in one accessible location. By showing the business impact and work required for each contract, businesses can effectively allocate time and resources to suppliers that provide high business impact.
Levelpath helps procurement departments easily manage a constantly changing portfolio of renewals with limited resources. Procurement departments constantly use a combination of hard power and soft power to support complex negotiations and seek visibility not only into key renewals, but the scheduling, resources, key terms, and quantifiable value associated with each contract. The combination of custom data selection and value tracking that Levelpath supports on a vendor-specific or category-specific basis can lead to deeper insights regarding the timing, business drivers, and external factors associated with achieving savings.
Levelpath Data Manager: Redefining Procurement Data Customization
Effectively managing procurement data goes far beyond simply collecting information, it requires the ability to define, structure, and contextualize every piece of data and metadata across sourcing, contracts, suppliers, and ongoing supplier management. Levelpath Data Manager empowers organizations to take control of this complexity by offering a highly configurable platform. Administrators can tailor fields and semantic layers across suppliers, contracts, projects, value tracking, and system-wide modules, ensuring that procurement data aligns seamlessly with enterprise applications and evolving business needs. With this flexibility, teams can define custom categories and field types for any sourcing or procurement task, creating a data foundation that is both robust and adaptable.
In the AI-driven landscape, the ability to customize data and metadata is essential for maintaining high data quality and unlocking the full potential of intelligent automation. Unlike legacy systems that force organizations into rigid workflows, Levelpath Data Manager is built on an AI-native architecture that prioritizes modular flexibility and future readiness. This approach ensures that every module is designed to support advanced analytics and AI from the ground up, enabling procurement teams to transform data complexity into a strategic advantage and drive better business outcomes.
Embrace AI-Native Procurement Transformation Today
Procurement stakeholders preparing for an AI-driven future require both advanced AI capabilities and a software platform designed to unlock true procurement transformation. Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle analysis recognizes Generative AI for Procurement as having “Transformational” benefit potential, validating that AI-native platforms can fundamentally reshape how organizations approach sourcing operations by targeting time-consuming tasks and enabling teams to focus on strategic decision making and supplier management.
The Levelpath approach elevates your procurement environment into this strategic advantage that delivers mseasurable, quantifiable value for both individual teams and the enterprise. Request a demo today or join one of our monthly sessions to discover how we can transform procurement into a delightful experience that drives real business results. Request a demo today or join one of our monthly sessions to see how we can help make procurement a delight.
Ready to experience transformational procurement AI? Request a complimentary copy of the full Gartner Hype Cycle paper and discover how Levelpath’s AI-native platform can transform your procurement operations.
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