askLio CEO and co-founder Vladimir Keil explains how his company is leading the transformation toward agent-operated procurement and empowering teams to focus on strategic impact over operational grind…
The world of procurement is in the midst of a profound transformation; one that moves beyond automation and analytics into a new frontier of collaboration between humans and intelligent agents. Few companies are pushing that frontier further or faster than askLio, the San Francisco-based start-up redefining how enterprises think about operational efficiency, scalability and value.
Founded by a team of AI engineers with backgrounds in Silicon Valley and SAP, askLio has created what it calls the ‘agent operating system’ for procurement; a platform that allows organisations to deploy a digital workforce capable of handling the heavy operational lifting, freeing procurement professionals to focus on strategy, collaboration and innovation.
For Vladimir Keil, askLio’s CEO and Co-Founder, the mission is simple yet radical. “Procurement teams are drowning in repetitive, transactional tasks, leaving no room for strategic work,” he tells us, in our media suite above the bustling crowd of DPW Amsterdam. “Even with all the amazing tools available, many employees still find procurement frustrating. We asked ourselves: is this really the best impact procurement can make? That’s where askLio comes in.”
Born in the age of agentic AI
askLio isn’t an older platform retrofitted with AI features; it is AI-native, built from the ground up at the same moment that large language models and agentic systems began reshaping enterprise technology. “askLio was born in the era of agentic AI,” says Keil. “We didn’t have to ‘make it AI-ready’ – it was designed that way from day one. Procurement is an incredibly text-heavy and unstructured space. For us, generative and agentic AI were the missing puzzle pieces to finally unlock automation that actually works.”
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