🚀Tech is changing faster than we're ready for

🧠Here's how to catch up (Get your RFQ Prompt here too)

Hey, Procurement Legends,

I’ve been knee-deep in Procurement and Contract tech for a long time now. I'm constantly playing around with new AI solutions to understand how they can help me with a variety of tasks, whether that be doing them for me, getting a first draft, or automating research, etc.

In short, I’ve been incredibly pleased with my current setup.

But 2025 is going to see a significant change.

OpenAI has unveiled Operator, an advanced AI agent designed to autonomously perform a wide range of web-based tasks, from coding and data analysis to online shopping and social media management. The agent incorporates their safety measures, user-friendly natural language processing, and a tiered rollout strategy for early access.

This is the start of mainstream agentic offerings that will carry out tasks while you do something else.

Procurement and supply chain teams will eventually use autonomous AI agents as their primary method of task execution.

Why?

Well I wrote about this in part on Wednesday here, so check out that post.

But we’re accelerating to a world where “your wish is AI’s command”.

And we should absolutely take that opportunity up.

This doesn’t diminish your work.

It accelerates it, makes you more effective, and lets you do more. And guess what? That grey matter in your head is still extremely important. That will not go away.

But we are also hearing that Open AI and others have developed PHD-level chatbots that will enhance our ability to tackle complex tasks.

I can't wait to have an army of Ph.D.-level agents performing various tasks in my personal and professional life.

So here are my suggestions to help you get started here, including your RFQ prompt that I like to use with GPT 4o and 4o1: