Claws
Claws to get you started
Catch vendor spend anomalies
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Compares the trailing week's vendor spend against a trailing 90-day baseline -
Distinguishes a lumpy one-off charge from a sustained climb -
Escalates only sustained shifts with a concrete read per vendor -
Surfaces creeping expansion before it becomes a CFO conversation
Draft SLA credit requests
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Computes the SLA credit you are owed each month from contract terms and incident history -
Drafts the credit-request mail per vendor with incidents, durations, and percentages -
Runs once on the first business day of each month and gates itself the rest -
Asks for credits most vendors never surface unless prompted
Screen suppliers against sanctions lists
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Screens your supplier list against OFAC SDN, EU consolidated, and UK sanctions lists weekly -
Re-runs on every list update and matches aliases across spelling and transliteration -
Reports the designation matched, the date, and the controlling regulator -
Logs every passing supplier with a date so an audit trail always exists
Track alternative vendors
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Maintains a current alternatives list per major vendor category -
Surfaces new entrants from review sites, the open web, and trade press -
Filters against your stated category requirements with a differentiator per alternative -
Arms every renewal with a credible substitute ready to reference
Diff perks vendor pricing
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Snapshots perks vendor pricing pages weekly and diffs against baseline -
Surfaces price increases, plan changes, and removed features -
Strips cosmetic edits so alerts stay meaningful -
Flags vendors that go unusually quiet before a renewal
Track vendor SLA usage
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Watches every vendor status page in your stack every 15 minutes -
Computes running SLA utilization per vendor per billing cycle against your contract terms -
Pages early when a vendor approaches breach so you can request proactive credits -
Stays silent on quiet days so alerts always mean something
Diff vendor pricing pages
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Snapshots each vendor's public pricing page daily and diffs against the baseline -
Strips cosmetic noise and surfaces only material changes -
Reads each change for its technical implication, not just the headline rate -
Carries the link to the prior version on every diff
Watch vendor news
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Watches blog, press, and open-web news for every vendor in your stack -
Ranks items by ops relevance and drops marketing noise -
Delivers a weekly brief of items that warrant a vendor conversation -
Suppresses items already surfaced across runs
Reconcile vendor invoices
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Reconciles each vendor's billed usage against your own usage records once a month -
Surfaces charges for inactive users, unused capacity, double-charges, and missing credits -
Drafts the discrepancy report you take to the vendor with specific items called out -
Never touches the ledger and stays silent when everything reconciles