- November 3rd, 11 AM ET
Beyond Point Agents: How Merlin Autonomous Sourcing Delivers Governed Outcomes
Procurement has spent two years proving that AI agents work. The result, for most teams, is a growing population of isolated point agents, whether built, bought, or embedded, that run in isolation: unnamed, unowned, unpriced, and hard to switch off. Each one does a task. None delivers an outcome. Together they quietly accrue what we call agent debt.
This session goes beyond point agents. We’ll show why isolated agents accumulate risk instead of value, and what changes when every agent lives inside a governed flow, one with an owner, a scope, a meter, a log, and a kill switch from the start.
Then we’ll take it live with Merlin Autonomous Sourcing: turning a real business problem into a sourced outcome, end to end, fully governed.
presenters
Meet your Launchpad host
Constantine Limberakis
Founder & President
Liberis Consulting
Pankesh Betala
Associate Vice president of Product Management
Zycus
Braden Robinson
Senior Solutions Consultant
Zycus
speaker bios
Pankesh Betala is a customer-centric product leader with 18+ years in software and 11+ in product management, having built large, complex products across SaaS, AI, Fintech, payments, subscription, procurement, and real estate. Earlier in his career he led global payments work at Chargebee, implementing gateways including Adyen, Stripe, Braintree, GoCardless, and Authorize.net, and payment methods spanning cards, direct-debit schemes (SEPA, BACS, BECS, ACH, Autogiro), and wallets. Today he is AVP at Zycus, heading the enterprise-grade, AI-powered contract, risk, and vendor management suite and shaping overall product strategy for the eInvoice suite.
Braden Robinson specializes in solutions consulting and presales at Zycus, a provider of source-to-pay procurement technology and the Merlin Agentic Platform. He partners with global enterprise organizations to architect AI-driven procurement solutions, translating complex business requirements into scalable implementation roadmaps. He has more than a decade of experience across solution engineering, customer success and presales leadership, with prior roles at CommerceIQ, Citrine Informatics and Ultria. Having led enterprise customer lifecycles and the rollout of AI solutions at scale, he brings a practical view of what it takes to turn technology investment into measurable business outcomes.