Procurement's next AI leap will come from agents that combine an intuitive conversational experience with the intelligence to understand what a company already owns, find qualified alternatives, evaluate trade-offs, and bring a clear recommendation into the workflow where decisions are made.

That's why we're excited to announce Teem's partnership with Zip.

As a launch data partner, Teem will bring AI-native supplier intelligence to Zip Superagents. Together, we're enabling procurement teams to discover and compare suppliers, identify redundant spend, and continuously optimize their portfolios, all within the Zip workflows they already use.

Zip has built the orchestration layer for modern procurement. Its Superagents can reason across procurement work, coordinate specialized skills, take action inside workflows, and involve people when judgment or approval is required. Teem supplies a critical intelligence layer: rich, continuously updated insight into supplier capabilities, product overlap, market alternatives, and portfolio fit.

The result is a procurement experience that can do more than move a request forward. It can help determine whether the request should move forward at all and, when it should, identify the best path.

Stop bad spend before it starts

Many sourcing processes begin with the wrong question: "Which new supplier should we buy from?"

The better first question is: "Do we already own something that can solve this problem?"

Teem-powered cost deflection helps Zip Superagents analyze incoming project requests and upcoming renewals against the capabilities already present in a customer's supplier and application catalog. When there is meaningful overlap, the agent can surface the existing option before a new sourcing event is created.

That means procurement can intervene at the moment of intake, not weeks later after stakeholders have selected a vendor and organizational momentum has taken over.

Instead of simply automating the purchase of another tool, the combined experience can help prevent unnecessary spend in the first place.

Turn every business need into a qualified supplier list

When a genuine need exists, supplier discovery often becomes a slow, manual research project. Teams search across fragmented sources, chase internal recommendations, build long lists, and struggle to separate credible options from market noise.

Teem changes that.

Zip Superagents can send Teem the business context and requirements captured during intake. Teem's agentic research then evaluates both the customer's existing supplier base and the broader market, returning a structured set of qualified suppliers.

The research can consider factors such as:

• Alignment with the stated requirements
• Relevant products, modules, and capabilities
• Fit with the customer's existing technology environment
• Potential overlap with incumbent suppliers
• Available market alternatives

Once qualified suppliers have been identified, Teem produces evidence-backed, side-by-side comparisons across capabilities, product overlap, requirements, and business fit. Zip Superagents can bring those comparisons directly into the request, giving stakeholders and procurement teams a shared, documented view of the alternatives.

This creates a more efficient evaluation experience without requiring every decision to begin with a heavy RFx process. When a formal sourcing event is appropriate, the structured research and comparison provide a stronger starting point for the next stage of the workflow.

The recommendation and its supporting reasoning stay inside Zip's approval processes, policy guardrails, and audit trail. Teams gain speed without sacrificing governance.

Continuously optimize the supplier portfolio

Supplier intelligence should not begin and end with a purchase request.

Teem's portfolio analysis gives procurement teams a continuously updated, 360-degree view of their supplier and application landscape. By combining internal portfolio context with market intelligence, Teem can surface duplication, consolidation opportunities, capability gaps, and suppliers that warrant deeper review.

With these insights available to Zip Superagents, portfolio rationalization becomes an ongoing discipline rather than an occasional spreadsheet exercise.

Customers have used Teem's capabilities to reduce redundant software spend by 20% to 35% and cut sourcing cycle times in half. By making those capabilities available to Zip Superagents, we can bring that impact directly to the point where procurement decisions happen.

"Zip has built the workflow layer where procurement decisions actually get made, Teem brings the supplier intelligence those workflows need. Together, we can help procurement teams move from a request to a defensible recommendation in minutes instead of weeks while stopping unnecessary spend before it starts." said Ben Mappen, founder and CEO of Teem.

"Our vision for Zip Superagents is to equip procurement teams with the intelligence and capabilities required to complete real work end to end, Teem brings deep supplier intelligence to that experience, helping customers evaluate alternatives, and act with greater speed and confidence." said Michael Denari, General Manager, AI at Zip.

Building the intelligent procurement function

AI agents are only as effective as the data and expertise behind them. By combining Zip's procurement orchestration with Teem's AI-native supplier intelligence, we're creating an experience that can understand a request, evaluate the market, account for what the business already owns, and recommend the best next action.

This partnership is an important step toward a more proactive procurement function, one that does not simply process demand but shapes it.

We can't wait to show customers what Teem and Zip Superagents can do together.