Freehand officially launched this week at Manifest 2026, debuting as a new company focused on using AI to automate supply chain spend and procure-to-pay work.
The San Francisco-based company says its “AI Teams” are already live with Fortune 500 customers, handling tasks like invoice matching, exception management, and supplier communication. According to Freehand, early deployments have cut accounts payable cycle times by 80–90% and reduced manual procurement and sourcing work by 30–50%.
Founded by Nitin Jayakrishnan and Abhijeet Manohar, Freehand’s platform is designed to read emails, documents, and internal messages; reason across contracts and policies; and execute decisions directly within ERP, procurement, and finance systems.
“The dirty secret of enterprise operations is that companies spend tens of millions of dollars just to keep the lights on,” Jayakrishnan said. “Armies of people and outsourced teams doing tactical work like matching invoices, chasing exceptions, negotiating contracts and reconciling purchase orders is not strategic spend but margin erosion.”
Freehand says the platform is built by the team behind Pi, an AI agent for freight and logistics, and extends that approach beyond freight into broader supply chain spend categories, including logistics, direct materials, and MRO.
The company says its technology focuses on handling exceptions and judgment-heavy work that typically breaks traditional automation, with full audit trails built into every decision.
