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AI Governance for Procurement
Consolidate AI vendor spend and eliminate shadow IT
TL;DR
- —Unified Gateway: Consolidate all AI vendor access through a single platform.
- —AI FinOps & Usage Analytics: Gain line-of-sight into every dollar spent on AI compute.
- —Department Budgets: Enforce hard spending limits on specific teams to guarantee that variable API costs never exceed the negotiated corporate budget.
- —Governed controls help teams adopt AI safely and consistently.
The Challenge
For a Procurement Lead or Vendor Manager, the explosion of generative AI has created a chaotic landscape. Instead of negotiating a single, strategic enterprise software contract, procurement teams are finding that individual departments—and even individual employees—are swiping corporate credit cards to buy subscriptions to dozens of different AI tools, wrappers, and APIs. This decentralized 'Shadow AI' destroys negotiating leverage, duplicates costs, and introduces massive compliance risks.
Remova provides procurement leaders with the ultimate consolidation tool. Instead of buying individual licenses for ChatGPT Enterprise, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini across different departments, you purchase a single enterprise governance platform. Remova's Model Governance acts as a unified gateway to all major frontier models. Procurement can negotiate direct, bulk API rates with the underlying vendors and route all corporate traffic through Remova, achieving massive economies of scale. Furthermore, Remova's FinOps dashboards give you real-time visibility into exactly which departments are utilizing which models, allowing you to accurately charge back costs and forecast future IT budgets.
Beyond cost consolidation, Remova simplifies vendor risk management. You no longer have to perform a grueling security and compliance audit on fifty different AI startups. You audit Remova once. Because Remova strips sensitive data and enforces corporate policy before any prompt reaches a third-party vendor, the compliance risk of the underlying supply chain is drastically reduced.
Key Challenges
- Decentralized 'Shadow AI' purchasing across departments
- Inability to forecast variable AI API costs
- Lack of negotiating leverage due to fragmented vendor usage
- Security risks from unvetted AI startups and wrappers
- Difficulty in allocating IT chargebacks to specific teams
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Where Should Your Team Start with AI?
Tell us your industry and team size. We'll tell you which AI use cases will save the most time with the least setup.
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A shortlist of AI use cases ranked by impact and effort for your situation.
How Remova Helps
Unified Gateway
Consolidate all AI vendor access through a single platform. Stop buying disjointed SaaS licenses and instead manage a unified API strategy that provides access to all frontier models.
AI FinOps & Usage Analytics
Gain line-of-sight into every dollar spent on AI compute. Track token usage by user, department, and model to enable accurate internal chargebacks and eliminate wasted spend.
Department Budgets
Enforce hard spending limits on specific teams to guarantee that variable API costs never exceed the negotiated corporate budget.
Vendor Risk Abstraction
Reduce the compliance burden of auditing downstream AI vendors. Remova's Sensitive Data Protection ensures your proprietary data never actually reaches the underlying model providers.
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Your 30-60-90 Day AI Rollout Plan
What to do this month, next month, and the month after. A concrete plan for rolling AI out to your teams without chaos.
You get
A 3-phase rollout plan with specific actions for each stage.
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