akirolabs builds an AI-powered category management platform that helps enterprise procurement teams create category strategies using AI-assisted reasoning and scenario modeling.
akirolabs is a Berlin-based software company, founded in 2021 by procurement veterans, that builds an AI-powered Category Management Platform for enterprise procurement teams. Its product, the akiro Category Management Platform, is a guided and collaborative workbench that combines business objectives, internal and external intelligence and stakeholder input, and applies scenario modeling with AI-assisted reasoning to help teams produce category strategies more quickly and at higher quality.
The company reports that the platform reduces strategy creation time by up to 50% while unlocking up to five times more business value. Technical work spans artificial intelligence, AI-assisted reasoning, scenario modeling, data analytics and business intelligence integration, applied to the specific domain of category management software.
Enterprise customers include Axpo, Bertelsmann, Haleon, UCB Pharma and Raiffeisen Bank International, spanning the energy, media, consumer health, pharmaceuticals and banking and financial services sectors. akirolabs has received multiple awards for innovation in procuretech and positions procurement as a business partner that drives smarter spend decisions.
