Vendor table · scroll to reveal intelligence columns Simple view · 4 columns
VendorOwnerAnnual CostRenewalInvoice SurchargeSSO UsersAuto-Renew WindowPrice ChangeAPI Dependency
DataForgeUnassigned$9,680Aug 14, 2026+12% usage tier1830 days+8% YoYCRM sync · billing API
LedgerPathOps$1,188Nov 3, 2026None290 daysFlatERP export
SignalDeskGTM$2,388Sep 22, 2026Seat minimum830 days+14%Webhook ingest
CloudRelayPlatform$3,600Oct 1, 2026Overage clause1845 days+3%Auth SSO

Starts as Vendor, Owner, Annual Cost, Renewal — reveals surcharge, SSO, auto-renew window, price change, and API dependency on scroll.

Vendor FoundDataForge appears in invoice line items, SSO logs, and API gateway traffic — absent from the approved vendor list.
Source annotations · viewable
  • Invoice PDFAP-2026-0412 · $806/mo · verified
  • SSO IdP18 active seats · unconfirmed owner
  • API Gatewaybilling.sync v3 · dependency depth 2
Change FoundUsage tier surcharge applied March 2026 — contract still lists flat per-seat pricing.
Source annotations · viewable
  • Contract v2.1Flat $48/seat · margin note intact
  • Invoice delta+12% usage surcharge · Mar 2026
  • Owner labelFinance tagged · GTM still paying
Dependency FoundDataForge API failure blocks renewal quote generation and nightly CRM enrichment.
Source annotations · viewable
  • WorkflowRenewal brief · blocked at step 3
  • SystemSalesforce enrichment job
  • Customer impactRenewal notices delayed · 2 customer pilots

Scan My Vendors runs exposure discovery — expandable panels show sources without extra CTAs.

Scan my vendors

Turn An Expense Export Into A Vendor Discovery Project

Four steps — no sales form. Upload sources, VendorMist opens a temporary scanning project, then hands off to Vendor Discovery for confirmation.

1

Upload Expense CSV Required

Card and AP export with vendor name, amount, and date columns — this is the only required source to start a scan.

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Upload contract directory Optional

PDF or DOCX order forms — adds contracted price, renewal date, and margin-text comparison against invoices.

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Create temporary scanning project

VendorMist opens a disposable project scoped to these files only — nothing is written to your permanent portfolio yet.

4

On complete → Vendor Discovery

Recognized vendors route straight to the Discovery Inbox for confirm, merge, or ignore — never a sales form.

Scan My Vendors runs exposure discovery — expandable panels above show sources without extra CTAs.

Vendor reality drift

Your Vendor List Is Already Wrong

Six ways a clean vendor list quietly stops matching reality — this is the exposure VendorMist exists to surface.

01Shadow procurement

Teams buy tools on a card outside the approved vendor list — Finance sees the charge, not the relationship.

02No-owner tools

The person who signed up left or changed roles — the subscription keeps renewing with no one accountable.

03Auto-renew windows

Notice deadlines pass unnoticed inside a PDF nobody re-opens until the charge lands again.

04Price hikes after signature

Usage tiers and surcharges apply months after the contract was approved at a flat rate.

05API deprecations

A vendor retires an endpoint your billing or CRM sync depends on — with two weeks notice buried in a changelog.

06Missing backups

A single vendor becomes a single point of failure for a workflow nobody mapped as dependent on it.

VendorMist is the AI Vendor Exposure Intelligence Layer — not a procurement ERP, not a payments platform, and not a simple spend-tracking tool. It builds one evidence-backed record per vendor from the systems you already run.