AI & Explainability

AI You Can Understand
Results You Can Trust

AI is only valuable in spend analysis if the outputs are explainable, defensible, and consistent over time, especially when decisions impact budgets, compliance, and supplier strategy.

SpendCraft is designed to make classification and insights transparent: users can see what changed, validate outcomes against underlying transactions, and refine results as business rules evolve.

Built for governance and audit readiness.

FOUNDATION

Explainability starts with clean, structured spend

Most "black box" outcomes aren't a model problem—they're a data problem. If vendor and item data is inconsistent, categories drift, and taxonomies change without control, explainability disappears.

SpendCraft builds explainability on a foundation of normalized vendor and item data and a consistent classification structure. That makes downstream analytics easier to validate and easier to defend.

AI Classification Foundation
ARCHITECTURE

AI works directly with business users, not through intermediaries

In many enterprise tools, AI outputs are shaped by layers of configuration, implementation logic, or consulting workflows before users ever interact with them. This creates distance between the data, the system, and the people responsible for decisions.

SpendCraft is designed differently. Once data is connected from source systems, AI operates directly on normalized and classified spend—without intermediary implementations or translation layers.

Business users interact with the system directly: exploring results, validating outcomes, and refining classification logic as needed. There is no handoff between "AI outputs" and "usable answers."

This direct interaction is what makes results explainable, reviewable, and actionable.

AI outputs are not translated—they're examined.

Trace classification results
TRACEABILITY

Trace every result back to supporting detail

SpendCraft is built for drill-down. Users can move from rollups to vendors, invoices, and line items to confirm why a category, trend, or signal appears.

This provides a clear lineage from "what the dashboard says" to "what the transactions show", which is essential for finance leadership, audits, and cross-functional alignment.

CONTROL

Stay in control as taxonomies and strategies change

Spend changes. Category strategies change. Reporting structures evolve. Explainability breaks when changes require rebuilds or consultant cycles.

SpendCraft supports reclassification across taxonomies so teams can update category structures and re-run classification while keeping the underlying data consistent. Results remain comparable, and changes stay transparent.

GOVERNANCE

Business users guide outcomes without technical burden

SpendCraft is designed for business users to review results, validate edge cases, and refine how spend is categorized, without building pipelines or rewriting models.

This creates a practical feedback loop: the system accelerates analysis, while users keep the judgment and governance where it belongs.

PRINCIPLES

What we avoid to keep AI trustworthy

SpendCraft avoids patterns that make AI outputs hard to defend:

  • Opaque answers without supporting evidence
  • Unexplainable category drift and surprise changes
  • Outputs that can't be validated at transaction level
  • Workflows that require "trust us" to move forward

Explainability is not a feature, it's an operating principle.

Explainable Spend Intelligence Is the Only Kind That Scales

Enabling Business Users