Because buyers deserve better than generic tools: assistants built by the craft, held to its rules, deployed with the confidentiality that prices and suppliers demand. Yxalo was born in the field — not in an agency.
Twenty years in industrial procurement — the plant, the supplier crises, the negotiations, leading procurement teams in France and across Europe. Then four years training buyers. And everywhere, the same observation: the craft spends an enormous share of its time on preparatory work — reviewing, compiling, re-reading, re-drafting — at the expense of the gesture that creates value.
In parallel, a practice built from the inside: production websites, agents, automation pipelines — AI daily, for real, not in theory. And a market that confirms it: buyers already use AI, massively — but on consumer tools, with no procurement specialisation, no craft perspective, no operating method. The decisive step was missing: professionalising AI.
Yxalo was born where those two worlds meet. Assistants designed by people of the craft — total landed cost, proof of effectiveness, clause doctrine — with confidentiality as architecture, teaching as heritage, and one principle: professionalising AI happens within a frame that respects each company's culture and DNA. Nobody offered that to buyers. So we built it. Craft first, AI inside.
20 years in automotive purchasing and supply chain — plant buyer, global commodity manager, regional procurement leadership in Europe. Buyer trainer for 4 years. Builds with AI daily: the Yxalo assistants, and before them production websites, agents and automation pipelines.
A procurement assistant is not judged on a polished demo. It is judged on your RFQs, your 8Ds, your contracts — and on what it refuses to invent. That is how we build them. — Nicolas Mattiuzzi, founder
Buyers and managers from automotive, aerospace, mechanical industries: raw material, parts, subcontracting, ramp-ups.
Intellectual services, IT, general expenses, capex: the categories where savings sleep — and where AI excels.
SQA, 8D, audits, crisis management: industry's quality rigour as an inheritance.
Planning, flows, supply securing: continuity above all.
All buyers or former buyers, senior, trained in the Yxalo method and assistants — mobilised to fit your sector and your need, across France and Europe, in French and English.
No lectures, no generic slides: workshops, simulations, debriefs — and the final workshop always runs on your real files.
The rule taught from the start and wired into the assistants: every figure gets verified, every recommendation gets arbitrated. AI never invents — and never decides.
Training, then a trial on your real files, then a quantified pilot, then a tooled daily routine: the journey is continuous, and your teams stay autonomous after us.
What we built for procurement — reliable, framed, non-inventing craft assistants — is a method, not just a product. It already transposes to supplier quality and supply chain, and tomorrow to other functions of the company. Our procurement clients are served first — and best placed to open what comes next.
Bring an RFQ, a spend extract or a supplier 8D — we run it through the assistants in front of you.
