Defensible vendor decisions, in minutes.
Describe a specific sourcing need in plain English, or start from the vendor you use today. AI Core ranks millions of vendors on fit and resilience, and assembles the landscape, table-stakes, best-in-class, essential RFP inclusions, negotiation points and resilience into one board-ready Category Overview.
Defensible enough for a Fortune 100.
Every claim traces to its source, which is why a Fortune 100 insurer's procurement organization runs Kopernicus AI Core in live sourcing work. The customer will join your call as a reference.
"Each Kopernicus report saved our team two weeks."
Category Manager · Fortune 100 insurerAt the customer's procurement all-hands, a leader ran a category review budgeted for over a week, live in front of the department, in minutes. The thank-you note arrived the same day.
A customer's established sourcing process had cleared a listed business-process provider for renewal. Kopernicus showed where and why the provider's resilience was failing, mapped the landscape, and showed which supplier already under contract could perform the same function. The customer switched. A few months later, the provider filed for Chapter 11.
A single customer case; names withheld. Kopernicus informs a decision and does not guarantee an outcome.
Kopernicus AI Core is a pilot in the ~5% of enterprise AI pilots that succeed (MIT NANDA, "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025"), now a full enterprise license.
You run a disciplined process. What you lack is the weeks.
A clear brief, the right people in the room, sound judgment. What's missing is the time to turn a market into a recommendation that holds up, read, scored and evidenced from every angle. So when the contract reaches the board, you meet the question you can't wave away: did we see the whole market, and can we prove this was the right call?
Describe the need.
Plain English, or the name of your incumbent. Direct or indirect spend, any category niche, no data or prep.
Keep the fits.
The field arrives ranked by relevance to your need. Each vendor shows its KOFO Resiliency Score, or Unassessed. You choose the shortlist.
Generate the Category Overview.
Strategy, capability, positioning and RFP-ready actions, built on your shortlist and traceable to source.
Eight sections. Every one builds on the last.
Core separates what every serious vendor must have from what the leaders actually do, then tells you what to require in the RFP and where to press in the negotiation. Every section is connected, specific to the need and traceable.
Strategic Overview
Market structure, competitive landscape, risk posture.
Market Trends
What's changing, each trend tied to a named vendor.
Capability Matrix
Typical offerings against best-in-class, proven point by point.
Resilience & Rankings
The KOFO Resiliency Score per vendor, in bands.
Vendor Positioning
Capability against resilience on one map.
Actionable Insights
Observation, recommendation, reasoning.
Diligence Mandates
The RFP proof points to demand, scored by importance.
Market Force Analysis
The forces that set your negotiating leverage.
The decision, and the years that follow.
Core builds the case when you buy. Commander watches the suppliers once you hold them, scoring your live supply base by spend and tying what changed to the renewal it affects. One audit-grade foundation, from decision to renewal.
Kopernicus AI Core, answered.
How is Kopernicus AI Core different from a general-purpose AI assistant?
An AI assistant reads the open web and can be confidently wrong. AI Core draws on exactly two sources, licensed audit-grade S&P Global data and each vendor's own published material, and covers 3.5M+ private companies with audit-grade financials. Every claim traces to its source, so the result can stand in front of a board, an auditor or a regulator.
What does AI Core produce?
A board-ready Category Overview built on the shortlist your team chooses: the market landscape, table-stakes, best-in-class, essential RFP inclusions, negotiation points and a KOFO Resiliency Score wherever audit-grade financials exist. Each session is saved as an auditable record.
How long does a Category Overview take?
Minutes, for work that traditionally takes weeks per category. Every claim is checked against its source before it reaches you, which is why it takes minutes rather than seconds.
What does my team need to provide?
Nothing to start: no spend files, supplier lists or integration. Describe a specific sourcing need in plain English, or start from the vendor you use today and refine it into the need.
Can a vendor pay to rank higher?
No. Placement is never sold. Two vendors with the same relevance and the same resiliency always receive the same placement, at any size.
How does AI Core work with Ariba, Coupa or other procurement platforms?
They are complementary. Procurement platforms manage the buying process: intake, RFx, contracts and payments. AI Core informs the decision that process acts on: who is in the market, who fits, how resilient each vendor is, and what to require.
How is it different from a research platform?
Research platforms speed up finding and reading documents. AI Core produces the decision artifact itself, with the market mapped, capabilities proven point by point from each vendor's own material, and every claim traceable to its source.
Who uses Kopernicus AI Core today?
AI Core is in commercial use at a Fortune 100 insurer, where category managers run it in live sourcing work. A Big Four firm has run a paid pilot.
Bring a live sourcing need. Keep the result.
Book a demo on a category you are sourcing now. A Kopernicus product expert runs it with you, and the Category Overview is yours to keep. No data or prep required.