AI Cost Reduction · Manufacturing

Manufacturers lose 5–15% of spend to inefficiencies they can’t see.
OptiSpend sees them.

OptiSpend continuously analyses your procurement data to surface savings opportunities your team can act on — in weeks, not months.

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  • Intelligence automated, judgement stays human
  • Savings identified in 60–90 days
  • No rip-and-replace — plugs into existing systems

Built by an ex-McKinsey procurement specialist and an ex-ARM machine learning engineer. Designed for manufacturers.

We are onboarding a small number of founding manufacturing partners. Performance-based model. Our success depends on yours.

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The Problem

Most manufacturers only optimise 20% of their spend. The rest is abandoned. Too time-consuming for teams, too expensive and episodic for consultants.

Data scattered, savings invisible

Spend, contracts, invoices, and supplier data sit in disconnected systems. No single person has the full picture. So savings that exist on paper never get acted on.

Teams are too busy to find the savings

Your procurement team manages relationships and firefights. They can’t manually scan millions of line items to find where money is leaking.

Consultants are expensive and episodic

A procurement cost reduction engagement costs £150K–£500K, runs for 3–6 months, and leaves no capability behind. The savings window closes the moment the engagement ends. It never reopens.

The Solution

What used to require a consulting engagement now runs continuously inside your business.

Finding what’s leaking, quantifying what’s recoverable, supporting your team to act, without the consulting retainer.

Your Existing Systems

SAPSAP
OracleOracle
Dynamics 365Dynamics 365
Slack
Excel
Tableau
Connect & consolidate All spend data unified in one place
Detect & quantify AI finds leakage across every category
Support & execute Business cases built, execution supported
› No workflow disruption › API-first integration › Continuous monitoring

Actionable Outputs

Prioritised savings pipeline Negotiation briefs ready Execution tracking

Use Cases

Where OptiSpend finds the money

Tier 1 Quick wins · typically identified within 60 days

Contract vs Invoice Compliance

Detect invoices billed above contracted prices and recover overpayments automatically.

Typically recovers 0.5–2% of affected spend

Price Arbitrage Across Plants

Spot the same parts purchased at different prices across divisions, sites, or regions.

Often undetected across multi-site manufacturers

Share of Business Optimisation

Identify where volume is over-allocated to higher-cost suppliers and rebalance for better pricing.

1–3% savings potential on consolidatable categories

Tier 2 Strategic savings · 60–180 days

Index-Based Pricing Compliance

Link raw material prices with market indices to detect savings from index pricing gaps in contracts.

Particularly valuable for metals, polymers, and energy-linked materials

Supplier Consolidation

Identify overlapping suppliers and consolidate volumes for better pricing and simpler management.

Leverage gains of 3–8% on consolidated categories

These are five of the levers OptiSpend deploys. The full diagnostic surfaces opportunities specific to your spend profile, category mix, and supplier base, not a generic checklist.

How It Works

Intelligence automated. Judgement preserved. Savings realised.

1

Connect

Plug into your ERP, SRM, analytics, and collaboration tools. No data migration or system replacement needed.

Works with SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365, and more

2

Detect — Intelligence

AI does the intelligence work: scanning spend data, cross-referencing contracts, benchmarking prices, and spotting anomalies at a scale no team can match.

Data gathering & pattern matching at machine scale

3

Estimate & Prioritise — Intelligence

Rank every opportunity by estimated value, confidence, and implementation effort, with fully constructed business cases.

Quantified, risk-adjusted, ready for review

4

Decide & Act — Judgement

Your experts decide what to pursue: the strategy, the relationships, the timing. Once approved, OptiSpend drafts RFQs, prepares negotiation briefs, and tracks follow-through. Human judgement at the gate. AI doing the legwork after.

Humans make the calls. AI handles the follow-up.

Example output from Step 3 — Estimate & Prioritise

Sample Opportunity

Fastener Family: Supplier Consolidation

Potential savings£380k
ConfidenceHigh
Next actionDraft negotiation brief

Why OptiSpend

We don’t sell a tool. We do the work.

OptiSpend does the work that consultants and analysts do today and delivers it at machine speed.

We do the work consultants do, without the retainer

Data gathering, spend benchmarking, contract scanning, opportunity quantification: OptiSpend runs the intelligence layer continuously and autonomously. No engagement kickoff. No slide deck at the end. Just a live pipeline of savings opportunities.

Judgement stays with your experts

Strategic decisions, supplier relationships, negotiation timing: the work that requires experience and taste stays with the people who have it.

The abandoned long tail

Most enterprises only optimise their top 20% of suppliers. OptiSpend works the other 80%: the long tail where nobody looks, and where the found money lives.

AI layer, not another platform

Plugs into existing ERP, SRM, and analytics tools. No rip-and-replace. Every improvement in AI makes the service faster, cheaper, and harder to compete with.

From insight to execution

Doesn’t stop at dashboards. Generates recommendations, business cases, and negotiation briefs, and tracks follow-through with nudges.

AI gets better, you pay the same

Every advance in AI models makes OptiSpend more thorough, faster, and more accurate. The intelligence compounds. Your cost doesn’t.

Impact

What working with us looks like

5–10% spend reduction potential
60–90 days to initial savings

Based on industry benchmarks across manufacturing procurement categories. Actual savings vary by spend base, category mix, and data quality. We will share real pilot results as they become available.

Week 1–2

Connect

We connect to your ERP and spend data. No migration, no disruption. We need read access to purchase orders, invoices, contracts, and supplier master data.

Week 3–6

Detect & Quantify

OptiSpend scans your spend data and surfaces a prioritised list of savings opportunities, each with an estimated value, confidence level, and recommended next action.

Week 7–12

Your team acts

Your procurement team reviews the opportunities, decides what to pursue, and OptiSpend supports execution. First savings typically confirmed within 90 days.

Founder-friendly commercial terms. Our incentives are fully aligned with yours. We succeed when you save.

Founding Partner Programme

Work with us to find savings
you didn’t know existed.

We are working with a small number of UK and European manufacturers to run pilots and co-develop the product. We do the work. You get the savings.

  • Free spend diagnostic 3–6 weeks to a prioritised savings pipeline. No cost, no commitment.
  • Direct access to the founders Ex-McKinsey and ex-ARM, not an account manager.
  • Aligned incentives: we succeed when you do Performance-based commercial model. No large upfront commitment. We are motivated to find and deliver real savings, not just produce a report.

We are selectively onboarding manufacturers with £50M+ annual procurement spend in automotive, aerospace, or industrial manufacturing. Spots are limited.

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Performance-based model. We only win when you do.

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We are onboarding a small number of manufacturing companies for pilot programmes. Tell us about your business and we’ll be in touch within 24 hours.