PE-backed & LBO CFOs

Thirty years of procurement expertise.Inside software that works for you.

Sourcing, RFP, negotiation: the work is done in minutes, not weeks. You cover all of your spend and you hit the savings target most people miss. You validate.

Annual savings programme · YTDLIVE
£0.0M
annual target met
Telecom · Mar invoicePASS
Fleet · Mar invoicePASS
Cleaning · Mar invoiceFAIL +2.3%
A full RFP, drafted and sent to suppliers
under 10 min
Questionnaires and pricing analysed
under 10 min
Negotiation deck, drafted for you
ready to adjust
The saving that actually lands
in your accounts
0+ yrs
field practice in procurement
<0 min
to draft and send a full RFP
All your spend
covered, not just the big categories
Every month
the real saving, not a spreadsheet
01 / The target you signed up to

Most savings targets are quietly missed.

You commit to a savings target in front of the sponsor. Then daily life resumes. Renegotiations sit in the to-do, sourcing waits, categories pile up. 43% of organisations hit their target in year one. 11% sustain it for three (Gartner). The rest run out of time, not out of savings.

You don't miss the target because the savings aren't there. You miss it because there was never time to go and get them.

02 / Where the savings leak

Negotiating the price is the easy part. Making it land on the invoice is not.

Only 38% of CFOs are confident negotiated savings reach the P&L (Fine Tune / CFO Leadership, 2025). Between signature and payment, 30% to 60% leaks away: price drift, off-contract buying, missed renewals. Each month, DFBL ties the expected saving to the real invoice, and verifies a sample of supplier invoices against your negotiated prices.

STAGE 1

Locked baseline

Every line points to its source invoice or contract. The starting point is fixed, traceable to the penny.

STAGE 2

Negotiated price

Each supplier round is timestamped and normalised against a common pricing grid. The winning bid is locked, lot by lot.

STAGE 3

Monthly Savings Check

Every month, the expected gain is tied to the actual invoice. Verdict PASS, PARTIAL or FAIL, weighted by spend. No spreadsheet to chase.

STAGE 4

Realised on the invoice

The cell turns green only when the invoice confirms it. The saving is real, and it holds in front of the board.

Baseline · IT category
£412,000
Sourceinvoice #4471
Volume1,240 u.
StatusLOCKED
Winning round · BAFO 2
£348,500
SupplierChallenger C
Saved vs baseline−15.4%
StatusLOCKED
Savings Check · March
−£5,080
Sample10 invoices
Adherence96%
VerdictPASS
Realised · YTD
£63,480
Reconciled tosupplier invoice
Targeton track
Board packREADY
03 / The method of a thirty-year buyer

Not AI on its own. A proven procurement method, run for you.

01 · SOURCING & RFP

A full RFP, drafted and out the door in minutes.

The AI identifies incumbents and challengers, then drafts the RFP from a pre-filled template. Your team starts from a draft, not a blank page, and addresses categories that used to stay untouched.

AI sourcing · IT category
Incumbent · current£412,000
Challenger A£361,000
Challenger B£348,500
RFP draftedSENT
02 · BIDS & NEGOTIATION

Questionnaires and pricing, analysed for you.

Every response is parsed and scored on price and quality in minutes. The negotiation deck carries the levers that actually make a supplier move, the ones you learn over thirty years at the table, not in a manual. You review, adjust, and send.

Negotiation deck · auto-drafted
Volume commitment−4.2%
36-month term−3.1%
Payment terms−1.4%
Target concession−8.7%
03 · INVOICE CONTROL

It checks the invoice against what you negotiated. Every month.

The control that makes the saving real: each month a sample of invoices is checked against the negotiated price, verdict PASS, PARTIAL or FAIL, weighted by spend. The leak closes, and the number holds.

Invoice Control · March
TelecomPASS
FleetPASS
CleaningFAIL +2.3%
04 / Engagement

Built to make savings stick. However lean your team.

Operated by the people you already have. The AI does the grunt work; you keep control.

If finance runs it

No headcount to wait for.

Operated directly by your CFO, COO or CEO. First Benchmark sent in under 10 minutes, first baseline in under 5. The AI sources, parses and drafts; you validate and sign.

If you have a procurement lead

One stretched person, the output of a full desk.

Your lead is asked to do more with less. The AI runs the sourcing, the analysis and the negotiation deck, so they cover far more spend, and every saving is finally provable. The credit lands where it is due.

For the sponsor

Numbers that reconcile.

Same Savings Check cadence across the portfolio, same board pack PDF every Monday, same IC pack format. Every figure ties back to the invoice.

DAY 14
First Initiative live
DAY 45-60
Negotiated Savings recorded
DAY 60-90
First Savings Check on invoice
MON · 8AM
Board pack PDF

A subscription. No performance fee, no percentage on savings. Operated by your team, not instead of it.

05 / What CFOs ask on the first call

The questions, answered straight.

How fast can we actually run an RFP?
A full RFP is drafted from a pre-filled template and sent to suppliers in under 10 minutes. Responses are parsed and scored in minutes, not days. The point is volume: you address the categories a lean team never had time to touch.
We already have an ERP and a spend module. Does DFBL replace them?
No. DFBL Procure sits on top of your ERP. The ERP keeps purchase orders and invoices. DFBL handles what it does not: RFPs from pre-filled templates, AI sourcing, multi-round BAFO, negotiation decks, three-level Savings tracking, and monthly invoice verification. No data migration.
We run lean on procurement, or have no dedicated team. Does this still work?
Both cases work. Operated directly by the CFO, COO or CEO when there is no procurement function, or as a force-multiplier for a lean one: the AI does the heavy lifting so one stretched person delivers like a full desk. You adjust before sending and signing.
How do you make sure the saving is real, not just on paper?
Inside the Initiative. Each Realised Saving links to its Savings Check, which links to the supplier invoice. The negotiated price links to the winning round. Every month, the invoice is checked against the price you negotiated, weighted by spend.

Hit the number.

A few questions. An instant estimate of your savings opportunity.

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DFBL Procure — thirty years of procurement expertise, run for you