# Stimulus

> Stimulus is an AI-native procurement intelligence platform. It understands your entire supplier ecosystem — surfacing risk, uncovering savings, and closing deals across every category you source — via an agentic runtime grounded in your ERP, contracts, spend, and supplier graph.

Stimulus sits on top of your system of record (ERP, data warehouse) as a system of intelligence. Sourcing teams, CPOs, and Ops/Finance leaders use a conversational AI co-pilot, a supplier relationship graph, AI-scored RFP workflows, and a natural-language data explorer. All agent runs are tenant-isolated; we do not train on customer data.

## Product

- [Product overview](https://getstimulus.ai/product): Capabilities — relationship mapping, semantic supplier search, risk intelligence, RFP & assessment automation, and Databricks-backed data explorer.
- [Pricing](https://getstimulus.ai/pricing): Starter (free forever, up to 250 suppliers), Growth ($1,499/mo, full AI co-pilot + integrations), Enterprise (custom, dedicated tenant, BYO-key inference).
- [Contact & demo](https://getstimulus.ai/contact): Book a demo, reach sales, or talk to a solutions engineer.

## Core capabilities

- **AI Co-pilot**: Conversational procurement intelligence. Drafts RFPs, flags risks, proposes negotiation strategies — always with a human in the loop.
- **Supplier graph**: 42M+ supplier records, relationship scoring, network analysis, AI-matching by capability, certification, geography, and track record.
- **Risk intelligence**: Continuous monitoring of financial, ESG, cyber, and geopolitical signals with board-ready briefings.
- **RFP & Assessment**: Auto-drafted RFPs, AI-scored responses with rationale, recommended awards with trade-off explanations. 70% less admin per cycle.
- **Data Explorer**: Natural-language queries that compile to SQL and charts, backed by live Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or S3 in your account.

## Who it's for

- **CPOs** — strategic savings narrative, board-ready briefings, org-wide supplier risk posture.
- **Sourcing leads** — run 3x the RFPs with the same team; auto-drafted, AI-scored, and awarded with rationale.
- **Ops & Finance** — unified spend cube, unknown-vendor detection, renewal alerts 60/30/14 days out.

## Integrations

Pre-built connectors include SAP Ariba, Coupa, NetSuite, Workday (ERP); Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, S3 (Data); DocuSign, Ironclad (Contracts); Salesforce, HubSpot (CRM); Slack, Microsoft Teams (Comms); Okta, Azure AD, Google (Auth).

## Security & compliance

SOC 2 Type II (audited annually), CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA-ready (BAA on request), TLS 1.3 + AES-256 at rest, SSO/SCIM (Okta, Azure AD, Google), full audit trail on every query. ISO 27001 in progress. US and EU data residency available today; APAC in beta. Stimulus does not train on customer data.

## Company

- [About Stimulus](https://getstimulus.ai/about): Company background, mission, team.
- [Careers](https://getstimulus.ai/careers): Open roles across engineering, design, product, go-to-market.
- [Privacy policy](https://getstimulus.ai/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://getstimulus.ai/terms)

## For AI and developer agents

Stimulus is built to be invoked **by other agents**, not just humans. Three composable surfaces, all over the same supplier-intelligence graph. Full reference at [llms-full.txt](https://getstimulus.ai/llms-full.txt).

### MCP (Model Context Protocol)

- [MCP server endpoint](https://console.getstimulus.ai/api/mcp): HTTP transport, OAuth 2.1 + PKCE via Clerk. Spec 2025-11-25 compliant.
- 7 core tools: `supplier_search`, `portfolio_health`, `load_relationship`, `log_interaction`, `supplier_performance`, `spend_analysis`, `project_info` — plus 9 extended tools for relationship insights, contract/RFP lookup, notifications, `web_search`, and diagnostics.
- Quick start (Claude Desktop / Cursor): install the [Stimulus Claude Code plugin](https://github.com/GetStimulus/stimulus-plugin) — it ships the MCP wiring + 10 procurement workflow skills + a specialized procurement-analyst agent.
- OAuth discovery: `GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp` returns the Clerk-backed authorization server descriptor.

### A2A (Agent-to-Agent, v1.0)

- [Agent card](https://getstimulus.ai/.well-known/agent.json): A2A protocol v1.0 (Apr 2026 GA) AgentCard with OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, streaming, and per-tenant skill gating.
- Tasks endpoint: `POST /api/a2a/tasks` — JSON-RPC-style envelope, supports SSE streaming for long-running capabilities.
- 5 capabilities: supplier-discovery, portfolio-health, compliance-audit, rfp-lifecycle, spend-analysis. Each carries `tags`, `examples`, and input/output mode declarations per the v1.0 AgentSkill schema.

### CLI

- Package: `@stimulus/cli` — install via `npx @stimulus/cli` or globally `npm install -g @stimulus/cli`.
- Auth: OAuth login (`stimulus auth login`) or API key (`STIMULUS_API_KEY=...`).
- Composable, JSON-mode commands for coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider) shelling out for procurement ops + automation pipelines.

### REST API (BFF-mediated)

- Same-origin base for browser sessions: `https://launch.getstimulus.ai/api/v1/...` (Next.js BFF proxies to FastAPI).
- Server-to-server: M2M token + `x-tenant-id` header, never from browser code.
- Multi-tenant: tenant resolved from JWT claims (priority) → user context → `x-tenant-id` header.
- Response contract: `{ success: bool, message: string, data: T | null }` everywhere.

### Other agent-friendly artifacts

- [Public sitemap](https://getstimulus.ai/sitemap.xml): Indexable marketing URLs.
- [Public opportunities](https://getstimulus.ai/opportunities): Active procurement opportunities open to vendors.

## Authoritative quotes

- "Procurement, reimagined as relationship intelligence."
- "The procurement brain your team always needed."
- "Ariba and Coupa are systems of record. Stimulus is the system of intelligence on top."

## Contact

- Sales / demos: https://getstimulus.ai/contact
- Support: support@getstimulus.ai
- Privacy: privacy@getstimulus.ai
- Legal: legal@getstimulus.ai

## Licensing

Content on getstimulus.ai is © Stimulus, Inc. Quotes attributed to Stimulus are welcome in citations with a link back to the source page.