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Funf Baren LLC
Indirect procurement for US firms under $100M that still live in Workspace.
Guided intake and approvals in Google Workspace, sold with fractional CPO / HITL, because you do not have a procurement seat yet.
After
Intake door → approvals → trail
IntakeApprovalsTrail
Who it is for
A seat you have not hired yet.
Firm
Tech-forward, under $100M
US firms buying indirect. Workspace is already where the work lives.
Team
No full-time procurement hire
IT is drowning in renewals and tool sprawl. There is no procurement seat yet.
Review
CFO or attorney on the contract
A GC or attorney reviews without a deep bench. The path still has to be clear.
What you get
A door, a human in the loop, and one first path.
Workspace
Drop-in
A request front door, approval routing, and exception handling in Google Workspace.
Practice
Fractional CPO / HITL
Design, exceptions, and rollout with a human in the loop.
Order
Clear first path
Process before AI. Automate the painful slice first.
How it works
One request path. Then expand.
- 01
Map
Map your sheet and email flow.
- 02
Intake
Stand up guided intake in Workspace.
- 03
Route
Route approvals and exceptions with HITL.
- 04
Expand
Expand only after the first path works.
How a request moves
Intake, context, then humans on approval and exceptions.
Request
Intake lands
Context
Policy + history
Approval
Human in the loop
HITLException
Human in the loop
HITL
Built from intake-to-pay orchestration experience. Written in public at Zen & the Art of Procurement Automation.
Featured writing
Insights from Zen & the Art of Procurement Automation
Context Is the Agent.
Preconfigured agents underwhelmed until we fixed placement and context. The lesson: where the agent sits, and what it knows about how you work, matter more than swapping models.
Memory Is Not a System.
Sales keeps every call in a CRM. Buyers often keep memory and a shared drive. Here is a systems-agnostic setup that links vendors, reps, calls, and tasks so the record compounds, and AI finally has something real to read.
AI Scales What You Already Have.
If your procurement process is a mess, automation does not clean it up. It runs the mess faster. AI readiness is mostly an operating-model problem: write the rails before you deploy the agent.
Early access
We are building a Workspace-native orchestration MVP you can configure and hand off.
Get reserved pricing interestQuestions
Start with one path.
Book a 15 to 20 minute Workspace walkthrough. One request path. Human checkpoints. Book a walkthrough.