Services spend falls through the gap between procurement and the business. apadua closes it.
Services are the fastest-growing spend category in companies. But teams aren't growing with it. Every day, budgets for services are awarded without control – simply because there's no time, or because procurement isn't involved at all. apadua makes sure your team keeps pace with growing spend. With AI. Without you having to grow your team.
Average Savings
12–19%Average Process Time Reduction
90%Avg. Processing Time per Tender
3.6 hrsTrusted by procurement teams at
Companies have already cost-optimized their traditional spend categories. Services — one of the largest, fastest-growing spend pools — remain a blind spot where almost no savings get captured.
From first request to contract award: source services faster and with full transparency.
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Step 1 — Capture
Demand Intake
An AI chat captures every need in a structured way – even if the requester has no procurement experience. Without capture, nothing is fully leveraged: it's the foundation for everything that follows.
Step 2 — Scale
Automated tendering, vendor sourcing & communication
From the captured need, the complete tender is generated automatically – timeline, pricing sheets and matching vendors included. Vendor questions come in directly through the platform, and the AI answers standard questions wherever it can. This lets your team run a multiple of tenders in parallel, without growing.
3.6 hrsinstead of50–60 hrsmeasured in customer processes
Step 3 — Realize
Structured offers, AI analysis & negotiation
Offers aren't submitted as PDFs or spreadsheets, but structured and directly comparable. The AI puts differences side by side, flags negotiation potential and suggests strategies.
12–19%savingsanalyzed across 1,000+ tenders
Step 4 — Ask
AI Analysis
AI Analysis sits inside the sourcing event and reads everything the vendors submitted – financial proposals, uploaded SOWs and the qualitative Q&A. Ask a question in plain language and get an answer that traces back to the actual bid data. A general-purpose assistant does not know your event. This one does.
With apadua, business needs meet procurement standards.
Insights
Whitepapers, talks and podcasts from people who buy professional services every day, on what works, what doesn’t and where AI really helps.
Whitepaper
Language: English
A practical guide for procurement teams looking to use AI with purpose.
By Markus Sinz, Co-founder of apadua
Video · Jun 22, 2022
Language: German
How have digitalisation and the pandemic changed consulting procurement? At Procurement Summit 2022, Dr. Franziska Seewald (Siemens) and Gregory N. Vider (apadua) discussed relationships, digital pitches and negotiations by video.
WatchPodcast · Dec 19, 2025
Language: English
In this episode of The Procurement Software Podcast, James Meads is joined by Gregory Vider and Markus Sinz, co-founders of apadua. Drawing on their backgrounds as procurement practitioners, Gregory and Markus share a grounded, thoughtful perspective on what AI really means for procurement.
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