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Freehand Debuts as New Company with Dedicated AI Teams for Supply Chain Spend Management

· Source: globenewswire.com

In short

Freehand, a newly formed agentic AI studio, has launched with a mission to deploy autonomous AI Teams that handle operational work across procure-to-pay processes. The company's AI Teams read unstructured documents, reason across contracts and policies, make decisions and execute them directly inside enterprise systems, with early deployments at Fortune 500 companies cutting reconciliation and accounts payable cycle times by 80-90%. Built by the team behind Pi, the platform uses a proprietary context graph to connect every decision, action and exception across an enterprise's supply chain, transforming manual processes into autonomous operations.

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Tags: AI, automation, procurement, spend, supply-chain, logistics

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