• AI-powered due diligence: sizing the procurement prize before you sign — how operating partners are using AI to analyze spend data, benchmark supplier contracts, and model savings potential during diligence, turning a gut-feel estimate into a defensible, data-driven number that shapes the thesis

• Rewriting the value creation plan: from 90-day sprints to AI-accelerated roadmaps — using AI to compress the time between close and capture, building detailed, category-by-category procurement roadmaps faster and with higher confidence

• Optimizing the procurement function itself: AI as the operating partner's force multiplier — how AI tools are reshaping procurement team structures at portfolio companies, from automated RFPs and contract analytics to AI-assisted supplier negotiations

 • The trust problem: getting management teams and suppliers to act on AI-generated insights — how do you build conviction with skeptical CFOs, procurement teams, and suppliers? What's the change management playbook in an AI-first world?

• What's next: agentic AI and the future of procurement in private equity — a forward-looking close on where the technology is heading and what operating partners should be preparing for now