{"id":104430,"title":"Saldor: Helping businesses buy goods and services, and close their books faster","tagline":"AI-Native Procurement and Accounts Payable","body":"### Hey everyone,\n\nWe’re [Jack Cameron](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackmcameron/) and [Jacob Bland](https://linkedin.com/in/bland-jacob) at [Saldor](https://saldor.com/) .\n\n**TL;DR:** Saldor helps businesses buy goods and services, and close their books faster.\n\n**The Ask**: If you work in procurement or finance, or if you’re building a company with complex purchasing needs, email us at [team@saldor.com](mailto:team@saldor.com). We’d love to talk.\n\n**The Offer**: We’re offering customers a white-glove pilot with no implementation fee.\n\nAfter a brief onboarding call, we’ll do the work required to configure Saldor, connect your existing systems, and load real company data so your team can evaluate it in a live workflow for a short period at no cost.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/szTFpL0NWpg\u003e\n\n**The Problem**\n\nBuying something at a company is rarely as simple as placing an order.\n\nAn employee submits a request. Procurement checks vendors, pricing, security, and lead times. Finance reviews the budget. Legal may review a contract. Someone creates a purchase order, follows up with the vendor, tracks delivery, and eventually matches the invoice against what was ordered and received.\n\nMany companies still manage this through email and spreadsheets, or procurement systems that are expensive and cumbersome to operate.\n\nThe problem gets worse for companies building ambitious physical infrastructure. When data centers, factories, and robotics companies cannot get the right equipment on time, entire projects can be delayed.\n\nWe saw this firsthand at Crusoe, where we helped build GPU data centers. Existing procurement systems could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement, required large teams to operate, and still slowed the business down.\n\n**Our solution**\n\nSaldor is an AI-native procurement and accounts payable tool.\n\nEmployees can request goods or services, and Saldor routes each request through the appropriate approval, security, legal, and finance workflows.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=104430\u0026key=user_uploads/1733940/50e219d2-f23a-4531-b6f6-1c4410b188d2)\n\nOur AI agent communicates directly with vendors to collect documents, follow up on quotes and delivery dates, and keep records updated automatically.\n\nSaldor can then generate purchase orders, track receipts, process invoices, and match bills against what was ordered and received.\n\nTeams can also interact with Saldor through MCP and connect it to their ERP, accounting system, or other internal tools.\n\n**The Team**\n\nJack and Jacob worked together as Crusoe building AI infrastructure before leaving to start Saldor. Jack (CTO) holds a B.S in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Jacob (CEO) holds a B.S in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=104430\u0026key=user_uploads/1733940/15b63775-05a7-4be6-89dc-30fc96fcb553)\n\n","slug":"RAM-saldor-helping-businesses-buy-goods-and-services-and-close-their-books-faster","created_at":"2026-07-01T17:01:59.082Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T13:26:51.881Z","total_vote_count":15,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RAM-saldor-helping-businesses-buy-goods-and-services-and-close-their-books-faster","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=104430\u0026key=user_uploads/1733940/50e219d2-f23a-4531-b6f6-1c4410b188d2","company":{"id":29848,"name":"Saldor","slug":"saldor","url":"https://saldor.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/969e2ae0dfd7ddfac6d9c2979dffb8f5842af866.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["B2B","Procurement"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29848"}}