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No slides. No sandbox toys. You build the agent.
Fifteen procurement, sourcing, and finance leaders sit down with laptops open — and leave having built, briefed, and deployed a working negotiation agent on a real enterprise scenario.
The premise is simple: every sourcing leader already knows how to write a negotiation mandate. Walk-away price, concession ladder, the clause you'd trade first, the one you'd die on. In this session, you turn that mandate into an agent — live, on Monq.
How it works. Guests receive an anonymized multi-year sourcing deal drawn from an actual enterprise tender. In small teams, you define your agent's brief: its BATNA, its target and reservation points, its concession curve, its escalation rules — the moments it must stop and call a human. Then the agents negotiate each other, round by round, while you watch your own playbook execute without you. Where does it hold the line better than you would? And where does it give away leverage you'd never surrender in the room?
One layer deeper. Between rounds, we open the hood: how stateful negotiation agents maintain memory across rounds, how game-theoretic framing shapes their moves, where they still fail — and what it actually takes to make an agent you'd trust with seven-figure spend. This is a builder's conversation, not a demo.
Hosted by Yasin Bostanci, CEO of Monq (ex-Revolut CEO Office, ex-Huawei R&D Director, Palantir Startup Fellowship). Held under Chatham House Rule, so buyers and builders can speak candidly about what's real and what's hype in AI-led dealmaking.
Every guest leaves with: the agent they built — configured with their own negotiation logic — plus a "negotiation telemetry" readout of its performance: leverage created, concessions traded, and what it left on the table versus what you would have.
Who should apply: CPOs, VPs of Sourcing & Procurement, CFOs, Heads of Direct/Indirect Spend, and senior AI researchers building agentic systems. No coding required — if you can write a mandate, you can build an agent. No service providers, no press.
Due to the hands-on nature of the session, seats are limited to fifteen. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
This event is part of #SFTechWeek — a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com
