Procurement teams aren't short on work — they're short on time. And for city managers, that shortage has a real cost. Hours spent on scope drafts, vendor outreach, addendum summaries, and purchase request rework are hours not spent on strategy, vendor relationships, or oversight. That's capacity your team could be using elsewhere, and it's money sitting on the table when competitive bidding slows down.

AI is handling specific parts of the procurement workflow today — not as a future promise, but as a live capability that municipalities are already using to move faster without cutting corners. In this session, we'll walk through five concrete ways AI is giving procurement teams their time back: scope building, vendor discovery, addendum management, solicitation review, and insurance management automation. For each one, we'll show what the task looks like today, where the time actually goes, and how AI changes the equation.