Could an AI Agent Become Your Cheapest Supplier and Your Toughest Competitor? AI is moving beyond helping businesses make decisions. Agents are beginning to search, compare, negotiate, choose suppliers and complete payments. That creates an obvious opportunity: Lower procurement costs. But it also creates a much bigger competitive problem. If your AI can instantly find cheaper suppliers, renegotiate terms and switch vendors, your competitors can deploy the same capability. The result could be a new form of margin compression where: • supplier search costs collapse • switching becomes easier • pricing becomes more transparent • negotiations become continuous • incumbent relationships become less defensible Our new DN Alpha Thesis introduces the Agentic Supplier Compression Index to measure which business models are most exposed. The strategic question is no longer: “Can AI reduce my costs?” It is: “What advantage remains scarce after every competitor gets an AI buyer?” The article also includes the interactive DN Supplier Compression Calculator. Read the full analysis: https://t.co/nc06GcCK3F #AI #AgenticAI #Procurement #AgenticCommerce #SupplyChain #BusinessStrategy #Automation #DecentralisedNews