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.
01 / Our thesisWhy the supplier opportunity exists
Starts with Suppliers™
Every supplier relationship
holds potential. Too few receive
the attention they deserve.
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 2019.02 / Now launchingThe Voice of the Supplier
A Blackthread productCustomer
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.
We’re currently inviting the first 50 organisations to join the founding cohort.
Suppliers choose too.
03 / The business caseWhy being a Customer of Choice matters
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.
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.
Build the trust you can draw on.
Open relationships help both sides see constraints sooner, solve problems together and respond when circumstances change.
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.
04 / What we’re building nextVizibl
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.
05 / The operating modelPeople + AI
- 01
See what matters
AIMonitor performance, risk and commitments.
PeopleSet priorities and decide where to act.
- 02
Prepare to act
AIResearch, draft and bring information together.
PeopleDevelop relationships and apply expertise.
- 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
“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.”
06 / Work with usBe part of what comes next
Be one of
the first 50.
See your business through your suppliers’ eyes. Join the founding cohort of Customer of Choice.
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.
hello@blackthread.com