Pulse automates procurement with AI to reduce supply chain risk. Our AI agents eliminate the time wasted on fragmented supply chain data in emails, spreadsheets, and ERPs.
Procurement on autopilot
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### Procurement on autopilot

Pulse automates procurement with AI to reduce supply chain risk. Our AI agents eliminate the time wasted on fragmented supply chain data in emails, spreadsheets, and ERPs.



Pulse AI

Founded:2024

Team Size:2

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Sid Manchkanti, Founder

Co-Founder/CEO of Pulse AI (S24). Prev NVIDIA, D.E. Shaw, Berkeley CS



### Ritvik Pandey, Founder

Co-Founder/CTO of Pulse AI (S24). Prev Tesla ML, Goldman Sachs, Georgia Tech CS/Math



### Company Launches

[### ⚡ Pulse AI - Procurement on autopilot](

We help companies automate procurement workflows, supplier reliability analysis, and ML-based demand forecasting, giving the company more time to prioritize critical and innovative tasks. Employees are saving hours a day and are ~25% more productive on previously tedious data transcription tasks.

Hey everyone, we’re Sid and Ritvik — the founders of [Pulse AI](



❌ **The Problem**
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Legacy ERPs are extremely antiquated, expensive, and slow. However, they are a vital part of nearly every company.

When we were working at Tesla and NVIDIA, we saw firsthand how supply chain teams wasted hours of time on inefficiencies + manual transcription tasks that could have easily been solved with better ERP tools.

✅ **The Solution**
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Pulse AI offers intelligent automation tools, like supplier health tracking and onboarding, procurement automation, semantic search engine, planning analytics, and much more.

We know how difficult it is to swap out entire ERP systems from the very beginning. This is why our product integrates on top of existing ERPs (SAP, NetSuite, etc.) alongside email, messaging tools, and document suites in under 10 minutes.

Using Pulse AI’s software, **employees**:

✔️ Can save hours a day on previously tedious searches and disorganized information.

And **companies**:

✔️ Save millions of dollars by identifying and fixing supply chain inefficiencies.

✔️ Automate dozens of back-office supply chain functions, giving the company more time to prioritize critical and innovative tasks.



**🧩 Team**
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The founding team has deep machine learning experience at Tesla, NVIDIA, D. E. Shaw, and AWS — as well as research experience at world-class AI labs at Berkeley and Georgia Tech.

Our team also consists of supply chain advisors who have worked in the industry at Fortune 500 companies for the past 25 years. We are super excited to be working with veterans in supply chain!

🙋**Our Ask**
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*   Please share this post, as you never know who it may help! Feel free to contact us directly at [founders@trypulse.ai](mailto:founders@trypulse.ai)
    
*   Follow us on [Linkedin]( and [book a demo with our team here](
    
*   Do you know anyone that deals with supply chain processes? Connect us with global supply chain directors, planners, and/or operations strategists!
    
    **_A quick blurb to copy & paste_**_:_ A team of former Tesla, NVIDIA, and AWS employees recently created a [software suite]( to automate manual processes from legacy supply chain systems with AI. Check them out and contact [founders@trypulse.ai](mailto:founders@trypulse.ai) for more.
