Coupa Inspire 2025 - new agents pave the way to autonomous collaborative commerce

Spend management vendor Coupa today unveiled several new AI agents and other components towards its mission to create an autonomous fabric for enterprise buying and selling. In a product keynote at the company's Inspire conference in Las Vegas, Salvatore Lombardo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Coupa, set out how these new agents are designed to immediately reduce manual effort through automation, while at the same time building towards the ultimate goal of fully autonomous procurement.

Briefing diginomica in advance of today's news, Lombardo adds that Navi, which made its debut at last year's Inspire as an AI assistant, now takes on an expanded role as the entry point to the platform's agentic AI capabilities. He explains:

Navi is the front door, the face of the agents... Navi will be the autonomous agent of the future, and it is done by adding intelligent agents underneath, which ...