By the numbers
Scale from day one
€26B
Combined annual spend
23
Countries
13
AI procurement agents deployed
2.54M+
PEPPOL participants globally
A founding anchor-buyer partnership underpins the first SIGNET deployment — combining €26 billion of annual procurement spend across 23 countries. This anchor-buyer pull is the precondition that network economics require.
Precedent
The BuyIn proof point
BuyIn (Deutsche Telekom–Orange)
- 50/50 procurement JV, ~250 employees
- Consolidated customer, network, IT procurement
- €1.3 billion annual run-rate savings within 3 years
- Expanded to Bell Canada, NOS, Proximus
- Proved that telco procurement consolidation works at scale
The SIGNET Opportunity
- €26 billion combined spend, 23 countries
- Larger starting position than BuyIn
- Agent-native + open-standards + decentralised identity architecture
- Goes beyond consolidation to create a genuine network effect
- SIGNET is the platform; the founding consortium is the first customer
Supported standards
Open standards, by category
Document Exchange
PEPPOL BIS 3.0UBL 2.3EN 16931CIIeForms
Identity & Trust
W3C VC 2.0W3C DID 1.0eIDAS 2.0Solid-OIDC
Data Standards
OCDSeProcurement Ontology (ePO)GS1
AI Protocols
Model Context Protocol (MCP)Agent-to-Agent (A2A)
Security
ISO 27001:2022NIST CSF 2.0NIS2GDPR
Platform landscape
SIGNET orchestrates the stack
| Function | Tool | SIGNET Role |
|---|---|---|
| Sourcing | AVA (Pega) / Coupa | Unified orchestration via Pega case management |
| Contract Lifecycle | Sirion CLM | Single shared instance across entities |
| Integrity Due Diligence | Exiger (DDIQ, Supply Chain Explorer) | API integration via Workato |
| Spend Analytics | akirolabs + AI agents | Category strategy with agent intelligence overlay |
| ERP / P2P | SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba | SAP CPI/APIM integration |
| E-Invoicing | PEPPOL Access Point | EN 16931 canonical format, multi-country compliance |
| Integration | Workato (1,200+ connectors) | Event-driven data pipelines, format translation |
| Identity | Pega operator ID + Azure AD B2C + DIDs/VCs | Three-layer progressive identity architecture |