Arkestro Predictive Procurement Platform

Arkestro, Inc. is a US company headquartered in San Francisco, led by CEO Rob DeSantis, that offers a predictive procurement platform for large enterprises. It addresses the slow, reactive nature of traditional sourcing, where buyers wait for supplier quotes before knowing whether a price is competitive and much spend is never benchmarked.

The platform combines AI and game theory with three patented technologies: Negotiation Science, Supplier Science and Process Science. Before suppliers quote, it generates benchmarks and data-backed offers, and Predictive Sourcing runs competitive events that suppliers can accept or counter. Continuous Procurement provides always-on benchmarking across direct, indirect, tail, services and spot spend. It serves oil, gas and energy, manufacturing, automotive, life sciences, transportation and logistics and consumer goods companies, and now offers Model Context Protocol connectivity.

• Predictive Sourcing: AI-generated benchmarks and offers sent to suppliers before they quote.
• Continuous Procurement: always-on benchmarking of prices across categories.
• Patented sciences: Negotiation, Supplier and Process Science based on AI and game theory.
• Spend coverage: direct, indirect, tail, services and spot buys in one platform.
• Supplier collaboration: supplier portal for accepting or countering data-backed offers.
• Integrations and MCP: connects to existing tech stacks and supports Model Context Protocol.

• An automotive parts maker in Vietnam can send data-backed target prices to component suppliers before quotes arrive.
• An oil, gas or power company can continuously benchmark MRO and services spend.
• A building materials manufacturer can raise supplier participation in tenders for raw materials and logistics.

• Arkestro reports 18.8% average savings on all spend and ROI within 45 days.
• Customer examples include 24% average savings per event at an oil and gas company and 13-day average cycle times at a materials company.
• Data-backed offers raised supplier participation to 92% at a construction materials manufacturer.
• Teams can manage three times more spend without adding resources.

Volatile material and energy prices push manufacturers and energy companies to benchmark continuously rather than tender once a year, and AI-generated price recommendations are entering mainstream sourcing. Arkestro reports interactions spanning 34 countries; Vietnamese manufacturers, energy firms and automotive suppliers face similar pressure to reprice components and services quickly.

Arkestro, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco and led by CEO Rob DeSantis; Edmund Zagorin is a co-founder. It announced a US$36 million strategic investment in May 2025. In 2026 it began working with Nissan Americas, expanded in Europe after nearly US$300 million of European spend ran through the platform, and was named a Gartner Hype Cycle Sample Vendor for the fourth consecutive year. Customers shown include Chevron, Koch, JLL, BMI Group, Dover and Valvoline. Its site displays SOC 2 and ISO badges and a Trust Center.