AI in Procurement Podcast: Supply Chain AI Pro <> DeepStream

There's no shortage of AI hype in procurement. There's a real shortage of people who've actually made it work.

That's the thinking behind our new series - AI in Procurement: the No Hype version.

For the first episode, DeepStream CEO Dan Gianfreda sat down with Asmaa Gad, co-founder of Supply Chain AI Pro and one of the most practical voices on AI in procurement and supply chain today. Asmaa isn't a software vendor - she spends her days helping real teams put AI to work with the tools they already have.

A few takeaways worth sharing:

• Copilot vs agent vs automation, finally made simple. Picture driving a car: a copilot is your sat-nav (you're still driving), an agent takes the destination and drives there itself, and automation runs the same route every day, no hands.
• An agent isn't something you buy - it's a capability you build. It starts with understanding your own process well enough to know what you actually want it to do.
• "Set and forget" is the riskiest myth in agentic AI. Without guardrails, governance and a human in the loop, AI doesn't fix bad data - it amplifies it, faster.

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A candid, hype-free conversation - the kind we think procurement could do with more of.

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