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Mithra, in the procurement conversation.

Founder interviews, podcasts, expert talks, masterclasses, and customer stories on clean, AI-ready spend data. Most is free to read and watch; masterclasses and the course just ask for a work email.

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The two pieces that best explain who we are and why we built Mithra.

CPOstrategy
Founder interviewArticle

Think big, challenge the status quo

Co-founder Arash Saberi on why a solid data foundation, "10X thinking" and starting small change procurement.

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Guides, deep dives & case studies

Retail & FMCG
3 wksto a 100%-covered spend cube
Case study

How SPAR replaced months of manual data work with Atlas

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Food & Agriculture
€40Kfrom one 3-hour project
Case study

How AGRA turned invoice PDFs into negotiation power

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Customer story
Week 1to first results
Case study

Why Compass standardized on Mithra

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Food & AgricultureLamb Weston
100%auto-classified at 95%+ accuracy
Case study

How Lamb Weston unlocked spend visibility without changing tools

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ManufacturingFranke
3 wksto a validated taxonomy
Case study

How Franke turned messy spend data into strategic advantage

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Use case
$300M+hiding in "just tail spend"
Use case

Tail spend: unexpected insights & takeaways

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Taxonomy
guide
Guide

The procurement taxonomy guide for AI-ready teams

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How-to
3 stepsto a working taxonomy
Guide

How to create a spend taxonomy

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Perspective
20×faster, from data to business case
Perspective

Rewiring spend analytics: the new era

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Perspective
12 → 620x times faster
Perspective

Turbocharge your category strategy execution

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Guide
Many → 1one trusted view, in days
Guide

Data harmonization to expand your addressable spend

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Perspective
Parent → childthe true total spend
Perspective

Finding and acting on supplier relationships

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Guide
20–50%the addressable-spend gap
Guide

Addressable spend: key challenges and enabling technology

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Use case
Weeks, not quartersverify your framework with AI
Use case

Using AI to verify and improve your spend framework

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Perspective
5× ROIon a clean data foundation
Perspective

Your spend data foundation has an ROI, here's how to calculate it

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Perspective
Foundation firstmanufacturing AI readiness
Perspective

Are manufacturers ready for AI in procurement?

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Buyer's guide
What to evaluatechoosing spend analytics
Buyer's guide

The strategic buyer's guide to spend analytics

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Perspective
8 waysAI transforms spend data
Perspective

Top 8 ways AI is transforming spend data

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On demand
~12 minwith Rasa Raoufi
Masterclass

Taxonomy masterclass with Rasa Raoufi

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Masterclass
Masterclass

Procurement data quality for AI-ready teams

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Procurement Tactics
Courseself-paced
Course

Spend analysis course with Rasa Raoufi

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The library

Everything, in one place

Case studyRetail & FMCG

How SPAR replaced months of manual data work with Atlas

A 100%-covered spend cube in three weeks, replacing months of spreadsheets.

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Case studyFood & Agriculture

How AGRA turned invoice PDFs into negotiation power

One 3-hour project surfaced €40K of negotiation leverage from invoice PDFs.

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Case studyCustomer story

Why Compass standardized on Mithra

From pilot to standard, first results landed in week one.

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Lamb Weston
Case studyFood & Agriculture

How Lamb Weston unlocked spend visibility without changing tools

100% of spend auto-classified at 95%+ accuracy, no rip-and-replace.

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Franke
Case studyManufacturing

How Franke turned messy spend data into strategic advantage

A validated, procurement-native taxonomy in three weeks.

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Masterclass~12 min

Taxonomy masterclass with Rasa Raoufi

Build a procurement-native taxonomy that actually holds up, on demand.

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Masterclass
Masterclass5 sessions

Procurement data quality for AI-ready teams

Five short sessions on getting procurement data AI-ready.

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CourseSelf-paced

Spend analysis course with Rasa Raoufi

A self-paced course on turning raw spend into a clear analysis.

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Digital Procurement
in Practice
SessionRecap

Digital Procurement in Practice: two live use cases

Co-founder Rasa Raoufi walks through indirect-spend optimization and M&A spend-synergy discovery, with the numbers and a live Q&A.

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8 ways AI
transforms spend
PerspectiveArticle

Top 8 ways AI is transforming spend data

From classifying every transaction to answering questions in plain language, the eight shifts that matter most.

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Buyer's guide:
spend analytics
Buyer's guideArticle

The strategic buyer's guide to spend analytics

What actually decides success, the criteria that matter, the questions to ask vendors, and the red flags to avoid.

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AI readiness
for manufacturers
PerspectiveArticle

Are manufacturers ready for AI in procurement?

Why manufacturing spend is harder, the AI-readiness ladder, and a self-check to find your gaps before the agents arrive.

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The ROI of
clean data
PerspectiveArticle

Your spend data foundation has an ROI, here's how to calculate it

The simple equation, the four value levers, and a worked example that lands at 5× ROI in year one.

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Verify your
framework
Use caseArticle

Using AI to verify and improve your spend framework

An AI taxonomy builder health-checks your framework and proposes a first allocation in under a week, weeks, not quarters.

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Addressable
spend
GuideArticle

Addressable spend: key challenges and enabling technology

Managed spend should equal addressable spend, but the gap runs 20–50%. The six root causes, and the technology that closes it.

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Supplier
relationships
PerspectiveArticle

Finding and acting on supplier relationships

Parent-child relationships across your supplier base reveal the true total spend and drive segmentation, benchmarking and master agreements.

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Data
harmonization
GuideArticle

Data harmonization to expand your addressable spend

Spend data is scattered across systems and formats. See how harmonizing supplier records and transactions delivers one trusted view, in days.

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Category
strategy
PerspectiveArticle

Turbocharge your category strategy execution

Over 40% of identified opportunities are never executed. See how AI agents cut the Plan-to-Strategy process from twelve steps to six.

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Spend
analytics
PerspectiveArticle

Rewiring spend analytics: the new era

The lead time from raw transactions to a costed business case can be cut by 20×, with AI doing the harmonization, classification and case-building.

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Spend
taxonomy
GuideArticle

How to create a spend taxonomy

Define the purpose, find a baseline, and allocate spend at scale. A practical, three-step guide to a procurement-native taxonomy.

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Use case
Use caseArticle

Tail spend: unexpected insights & takeaways

A manufacturer was sure the rest was just tail spend. In 3 weeks Mithra classified all of it, 28% of those suppliers were strategic, unlocking $300M+.

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CPOstrategy
Founder interviewArticle

Think big, challenge the status quo

Arash Saberi on the data foundation, "10X thinking" and the launch of the Collaborative Initiative Tracker.

Read on CPOstrategy
Art of
Procurement
Podcast + articleArt of Procurement

Introducing Mithra-AI

Helen Mackenzie and co-founder Rasa Raoufi on "taxonomy as DNA" and why data cleaning had become taboo.

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Procurement
Magazine
Customer featureProcurement Magazine

Liberty Global: customer-centric procurement

A company report on Liberty Global's procurement transformation, featuring Mithra.

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Procurescape
Founder Q&AProcurescape

Data-driven insights

A concise Q&A on the plan-to-strategy process, Mithra's ideal customer, and the AI behind the platform.

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AOP Provider
Directory
Provider profileArt of Procurement

Mithra on the AOP provider directory

An at-a-glance third-party profile: spend intelligence, founded 2021, Amsterdam, the facts in one place.

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