Ep 01: The Agentic Procurement Diaries: Why This Is a Once-in-a-Few-Centuries Revolution

Dear Diary…

"I believe we are in the midst of a revolution — and I think in a revolution, we as a vendor also

want to invest a lot in educating the community on what's really changing and how it's

changing."

This episode kicks off a new Art of Procurement podcast series, produced in partnership with

Zycus. I sit down with the person who made the series possible to talk about why it exists and

where agentic AI is really heading.

Aatish Dedhia is the Founder and CEO of Zycus, a company that entered procurement in the

early 2000s and has lived through every wave of its digitization since.

He traces procurement's last 20 years from digitization to machine learning to generative AI,

then makes a bold claim: this is a once-in-a-few-centuries change, closer to the Industrial

Revolution than to mobile or cloud.