Why Samplify
A four-minute answer to a procurement question hides four years of catalog, retrieval, agent, and policy work. We've done that work so the answer arrives clean.
Where we fit
Samplify isn't another SAM tool, procurement tool or EA tool. It's the layer above all of them that turns what they know into a decision.
The decision layer
Samplify · Software Decision Intelligence
Reads from · governs above
SAM tools
Flexera · Snow · ServiceNow SAM Pro · Apptio · Ivanti · USU
SaaS platforms
Zylo · Productiv · Torii · LeanIX SMP · BetterCloud
EA systems
LeanIX · Ardoq · ServiceNow CMDB · Mega · Software AG
Procurement
Coupa · Ariba · Zip · Workday · ServiceNow Procurement
One · The catalog
The foundation
Samplify ingests data from your procurement, finance, SaaS-management, security and SSO systems, deduplicates it, and turns it into one living catalog you can ask questions of.
Under the hood
Two · Retrieval
Right context, not all context
Sam pulls only the records relevant to your question, so answers are fast, accurate, and explainable. The whole catalog never reaches the model.
Under the hood
Three · Feature comparison
Capability, not category
Sam compares capabilities by what each tool actually does, not by what its marketing page says. Native vs integration. Plan-tier availability. GA vs beta.
Zapier renewal. Should we move to the Team plan at $39k/year?
Power Automate is included in E5 and covers 87% of the active 142 Zaps. Of the remaining 13%, 6 connectors are on the Power Automate roadmap for Q3. Migration effort estimated at 6 engineering weeks; payback inside one renewal cycle.
Under the hood
Four · Multi-agent research
No single point of failure
Every Sam answer goes through specialist agents and a review layer before it reaches you. No marketing-language confusion, no over-confident hallucination.
Documentation agent
Reads vendor docs, release notes, and help-centre articles. Distinguishes shipping capability from marketing prose.
Pricing & packaging agent
Cross-checks plan tiers, contract terms, and feature gates. Knows what's actually included where.
Reviews & market agent
Pulls third-party signal from analyst reports, customer reviews, and integration marketplaces.
Internal usage agent
Checks current ownership, procurement history, and workflow dependencies inside your stack.
Security & compliance agent
Applies policy, data classification, and regulatory constraints to every candidate before it surfaces.
Overseer
Reviews evidence quality across agents. Decides whether to answer confidently, cautiously, or escalate to a human.
Five · Cost discipline
Affordable at portfolio scale
A serious feature comparison touches search, retrieval, large-context reading, and reasoning across multiple agents. At enterprise catalog scale, the bill explodes fast.
What naive AI procurement actually costs
10 features investigated per software product · ~$25 each
10 candidates compared per question · $250 in search and retrieval
AI reading and reasoning over vendor docs, pricing pages, reviews · another $250
$500 per question. $25M to cover a 50,000-record portfolio.
That's the cost of asking the question once. Every time. Without reuse. Without caching. Without routing cheap questions away from expensive paths.
Samplify's caching, precomputed similarity, and routed retrieval make the same coverage affordable enough to catch $2M of duplicate spend every month at a single enterprise.
Under the hood
Six · Governance
Audit-ready by default
Role-aware answers, source citations, confidence scoring, and a queryable audit trail. Sam refuses what it can't defend and escalates what it can't decide.
Do we have anything that maps our AI usage to EU AI Act categories?
No tool in the stack covers Annex III risk classification or model registry obligations. ServiceNow GRC handles policy but not model inventory. With the August 2026 high-risk deadline, this is a real gap. Recommend shortlist of three vendors; PoV scope drafted.
Under the hood
Seven · The aggregate view
What only Sam can see
When every software question routes through Sam, your CIO and CFO see what's in flight, who's asking, and where the spend is leaking. Before any contract lands. This is the Samplify Dashboard: built on every question your organisation asks Sam, and the only oversight layer no other AI company will give you.
Software decisions in flight · this quarter
Rolling 90 daysQuestions asked
Across 6 departments
Vendors under eval
17 are duplicates of approved tools
Spend in flight
If every request is approved as-is
Already preventable
Caught by Sam before procurement engaged
Renewals · next 90 days
Duplicate spend in motion
Compliance & risk in flight
Activity by team · last 30 days
Generic AI
Samplify
You can't aggregate requests across people in a generic AI. The conversations don't connect. Sam does.
Insight and oversight on every software decision in flight. No other AI company is willing to give you this view.
Six months in
Six months after deployment, here's what changes for procurement, EA, SAM, FinOps and the executive layer.
Duplicate spend prevented
Every single month, on top of avoided renewals and consolidations.
01 · Time reclaimed
Across procurement, EA and SAM combined. Hours that used to go to back-and-forth analyst work.
02 · Decisions delivered
Consolidation calls actioned in under 90 days. Every one with a verb, a rationale and sources attached.
03 · Rationalisation
Apps under EA governance, 75% reduction. Approved, contracted, owned.
04 · Response time
Average time from question received to answer delivered, across every category.
05 · Departments live
Functions asking Sam, all visible to the CIO and CFO in one Samplify Dashboard.
06 · Answer accuracy
Every claim cites the contract, vendor doc, release note or review it relied on. Nothing returned without a source.
Try it on your stack
That's why we offer 30 days, free. Start by sending Sam an email.