Cost management has become a strategic priority for finance and business leaders as AI, cloud, and SaaS spending accelerate and margins come under pressure.
The Cost Management Tech Showcase brought together technology providers and practitioners to demonstrate how modern tools can deliver real-time visibility, tighter financial control, and smarter decision-making across the finance stack—from expenses and AP to cloud and AI infrastructure and SaaS portfolios. The session positioned cost management not just as a compliance or savings exercise, but as a core enabler of sustainable growth and resilient business models.
Johanna from ExpenseIn joined GrowCFO to demonstrate how their platform simplifies expense and AP management while giving finance teams granular control over spend. She showed how users capture receipts on mobile, with AI extracting key data (date, merchant, amount, VAT) and auto-categorising expenses, while Google Maps-powered mileage claims calculate distance, VAT, and even carbon emissions for reporting.
Celine Duplessis from Yooz walked through an AI-driven AP automation platform designed to de-risk and streamline the entire procure-to-pay cycle. She showed how Yooz connects to 250+ ERP and accounting systems, ingests invoices from emails, portals, and the cloud, and uses proprietary AI to read any document format, auto-populate fields, and perform 2‑way/3‑way line-level PO matching—with clear visual cues when lines don’t reconcile.
In this demo, Spendbase showcased how its three core services help companies become leaner by cutting software and AI spend. The session covered their discount-negotiation engine, “ghost stack” detection for unused or underused SaaS, and a visibility platform that maps licenses, usage, and renewals down to the employee level—so teams can quickly spot waste like dormant Anthropic or Patagonia seats.
