Archlet MCP brings your sourcing data into the AI assistant you already use
Most procurement teams have an AI assistant at work by now: Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini or a model the company runs itself. It knows your emails, your documents and your calendar. Ask it a sourcing question, though, and it very likely knows nothing.
The models are really good at many of the tasks buyers handle every day. But they can’t see your sourcing data. So you jump between systems to get a task done, even for something as simple as a PowerPoint in your company’s template that explains an award decision to leadership.
Customers have asked us for exactly these slides again and again. The models can already build them in your company’s design. They just lack the right data.
So we built the Archlet MCP. MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard that connects AI tools to other systems. Think of it as a plug. It lets the AI assistant your company already uses look things up in Archlet and take certain actions there, with each person’s own login and permissions.
And companies already using Archlet can connect today.
Stop losing the context and stay in the chat
Take the moment after an RFP is completed. You ask your AI assistant what was awarded and why, or how the prices compare with your last few RFPs. The answer comes straight from your Archlet data, in the chat you are already in.
And it doesn’t stop at reading. You can trigger actions in Archlet too.
Think about where sourcing work begins. You are working through a category strategy in the AI chat of your choice. At some point you decide that going to market and checking supplier prices is the right next step. Until now that meant opening another system and explaining everything again. Now the sourcing event is created from the conversation you are already in.
A new sourcing event can also be created from an approved intake request in a tool like Oro, or straight from Teams or the other communication tools you are in all day anyway. Your next RFP, planned from your category strategy, is set up in Archlet at the push of a button.
Accessible where you already are
For years, software has asked people to come to it. The technology has evolved, and now the other way around is possible.
Archlet’s sourcing agents run on your company’s context and on the skills you’ve created, so that what can be automated is automated. Often you will still be inside Archlet, because that is where we can present information for you to approve in the most accessible format today. But more and more often it will also be an AI conversation you are already having. Whichever AI tool your company uses this year or next, your sourcing data is reachable from it.
Permissions fully under control
One thing we cared about from day one: your AI sees only what you see, and every step is on record. And nothing is sent to a supplier until a person has reviewed and approved it.
This is only the start, and we’re curious what you will do with it.
PS: Want to connect your company’s AI assistant to your own sourcing data? Get in touch here: Link
