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Blackthread
Starts with Suppliers

Applied AI for
supplier ecosystems.

Blackthread is an applied AI company focused on helping enterprises unlock more value from their supplier ecosystems.

We’re building new ways for companies to understand, manage and improve the relationships with the suppliers they depend on.

Many relationships. One living thread.

Starts with Suppliers™

Every supplier relationship
holds potential. Too few receive
the attention they deserve.

Supplier spending can representup to 80%1

of a company’s total costs.

Supplier performance, innovation and relationships compete for limited time. Even in the largest enterprises, the deepest supplier-management programmes often reach only the strategic few.

We believe AI changes that equation. We start with what each side knows, what they need from one another and what they can achieve together.

Mark Perera, founder of BlackthreadPreviously founded Procurement Leaders, sold in 2019.
A Blackthread product

Customer
of Choice.

The Voice of the Supplier

The independent supplier view of which companies suppliers most want to work with.

Understand how suppliers experience your organisation, benchmark against peers and identify where relationships can improve.

Founding 50

We’re currently inviting the first 50 organisations to join the founding cohort.

Explore Customer of Choice

Suppliers choose too.

Why being a Customer
of Choice matters.

Suppliers decide where to invest their best people, ideas and capacity. How they experience your organisation shapes the value you can create together.

01 / Innovation

Earn the attention that brings new ideas.

Suppliers choose where to invest their best thinking and senior attention. Stronger relationships create room for better collaboration.

02 / Resilience

Build the trust you can draw on.

Open relationships help both sides see constraints sooner, solve problems together and respond when circumstances change.

03 / Capacity

Be a priority when capability is scarce.

Specialist people, technology and development time are finite. How suppliers experience your organisation shapes where they commit them, and how quickly work moves.

Vizibl

Supplier management at a different scale.

Vizibl was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2020.

The team behind Vizibl is building a new AI-native platform for supplier management, together with design partners.

Our ambition is to give enterprises the capacity and expertise to actively manage hundreds or thousands of supplier relationships, beyond the strategic few.

People and AI agents work together across supplier performance, innovation and collaboration, with human review, guardrails and auditability built into the design.

People and AI,
working together.

We’re building AI for real supplier-management workflows across procurement and supply chain. People remain involved wherever judgement, expertise or approval matters.

  1. 01

    See what matters

    AIMonitor performance, risk and commitments.

    PeopleSet priorities and decide where to act.

  2. 02

    Prepare to act

    AIResearch, draft and bring information together.

    PeopleDevelop relationships and apply expertise.

  3. 03

    Follow through

    AISupport communication and repeatable work.

    PeopleReview, approve and remain accountable.

Human review, guardrails, evaluations and auditability, built into how the work is designed.

A note from our founder

Mark Perera, founder of Blackthread
“Working with procurement and supply-chain leaders has shown me how much ambition is held back by limited capacity. With Blackthread, we want to bring leaders, practitioners and suppliers together to shape how people and AI work—strengthening supplier relationships today and building the organisations of the future.”
Mark PereraFounder, BlackthreadCo-founder, Buyers x Builders

Be one of
the first 50.

See your business through your suppliers’ eyes. Join the founding cohort of Customer of Choice.

Explore Customer of Choice
Build with Blackthread

Help shape
what comes next.

Bring a supplier challenge as a design partner. Together, we define a focused use case, test it against real work and expand when it proves its value.

We welcome leaders, practitioners, suppliers and technology partners.

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