Unveiled at Zip’s AI Summit in New York featuring speakers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Datadog, and Humana, AI can now take on real procurement work without leaving Zip’s controls, audit trail, or governance behind.
Zip’s customers include the world’s leading AI companies as well as enterprises like T-Mobile, Discover, and Dollar Tree. Together they have saved more than $10 billion through Zip’s AI suite.
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Zip, the AI platform for enterprise procurement, today announced two major launches: Zip Superagents and Zip MCP. Designed to work alongside the humans who handle procurement today, Superagents are an AI platform that takes on real work – reviewing contracts, unblocking approvals, coding invoices, and researching vendors – with every action audited and governed inside Zip. Zip MCP is a procurement-native implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects Zip’s procurement intelligence directly to AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT, enabling employees to work in their preferred AI tools without leaving Zip’s controls behind.
“In one major IT infrastructure initiative, Zip’s AI Spend Automation contributed to more than $20 million in cost avoidance and value recapture.” – Susanna Rustad, Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer, UCI Health
Zip is also launching Zip AI Spend Automation, a new enterprise offering that combines platform access, AI consumption credits, and support from Zip’s own forward-deployed engineers to help the most progressive organizations fully automate their intake-to-pay process. Block and UCI Health are among the first enterprise customers to deploy AI Spend Automation.
The Governance Gap Shadow AI Left Behind
Most companies don’t have the infrastructure to safely run AI on their procurement data yet, but employees aren’t waiting for it. Across the enterprise, employees are uploading spend data into Claude to analyze it, redlining sensitive contracts inside ChatGPT, and generating internal financial analyses in personal Gemini or Copilot accounts. Every time they do, sensitive enterprise data leaves systems where every action is controlled and audited, entering environments with no oversight, no compliance controls, and no record of what was done.
The consequences for getting this wrong aren’t hypothetical. SOX violations carry fines of up to $25 million. Executives can face prison time. Public companies that fail compliance audits can be delisted from the stock exchange.
“After working with hundreds of enterprises – including the world’s leading AI companies – we’ve learned that this kind of work is already happening, with or without governance,” said Lu Cheng, Co-Founder and CTO at Zip. “Even the companies building AI themselves want this work governed. They want the audit trail. They want the controls. They want the integrations to their systems of record.”
Zip Superagents: Governed AI That Takes On the Work
Zip Superagents are AI agents designed to reason, act, and collaborate inside the workflows where procurement actually happens. Unlike general-purpose AI tools or scripted automation, Superagents are embedded within Zip’s orchestration platform, where each customer’s approval policies, supplier data, ERP integrations, contracts, spend history, and stakeholder workflows already live.
At launch, Zip is introducing five Superagents built around the highest-friction areas of procurement:
- Procurement Superagent: Unblocks stalled requests, manages tail-spend negotiation, and handles repetitive follow-up within procurement’s approved policies and approval controls.
- Contract Superagent: Reviews and redlines contracts against company-approved playbooks, flags deviations from standard terms, and routes high-risk issues to legal stakeholders.
- AP Superagent: Sorts, codes, matches, and routes invoices using existing approval rules, supplier records, and ERP data.
- Config Superagent: Identifies workflow bottlenecks and drafts configuration improvements for admin review.
- Intake Superagent: Guides employees through compliant request creation, routing purchases to the right buying channel.
“At Block, we’ve made a fundamental bet on AI,” noted Mithun Sharma, Chief Procurement Officer at Block. “Every team has a mandate to automate, and procurement is no different. This is one of the many reasons we have partnered with Zip.”
Zip MCP: Procurement Governance, Wherever Employees Work
Zip’s vendor-hosted MCP connects Zip’s AI procurement platform directly to any MCP-compatible AI assistant. An employee researching vendors in Claude can have Zip proactively surface a request submission directly from that conversation, creating earlier visibility for procurement teams without any context switching. Power users can pull aggregated reporting across suppliers, requests, invoices, and payments from within a single AI conversation. Every action respects user permissions through OAuth, runs inside Zip’s compliance controls, and generates a complete audit trail.
Zip MCP is model-agnostic, ensuring procurement governance travels with the work regardless of which AI tool an employee prefers. This is the first time MCP has been implemented natively for enterprise procurement.
Availability
Zip MCP and Zip Superagents are available in beta today, included with all core Zip products, and will be generally available this summer. Zip AI Spend Automation is available now for enterprise customers.
Zip is valued at $2.2 billion. The announcements arrive as SAP unveiled its “Autonomous Enterprise” vision at Sapphire 2026 and Coupa launched its Compose platform at Inspire 2026. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will include task-specific AI agents by end of 2026, up from less than 5% today.