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VendorIQ

A 120-day head start on every vendor renewal.

VendorIQ turns scattered contracts, scorecards, and spend reports into a living vendor-management system that flags renewal windows before they close and compounds with everything you log.

Built on the same second-brain architecture behind CanvasPM's Lens and StakeholderIQ, applied to a twelve-element vendor-management framework.

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The Scattered Vendor Problem

Contract terms live in PDFs. Performance impressions live in whichever relationship manager happens to remember the last QBR. Spend lives in a finance export nobody's reconciled since last quarter. Every scorecard, every renewal brief, every governance packet starts the same way: re-gathering context you already had once.

Two vendors on the same tier can get graded on different KPIs, because nothing enforces consistency across scorecards written months apart. A renewal option window closes before anyone flags it, and the vendor, now holding the leverage, sets the terms. A decision from last quarter's review gets minuted, then quietly drops, because nothing tracked it to closure. The same integration failure that got escalated in Q1 resurfaces in Q3, treated as a brand-new problem because the Q1 history isn't searchable.

The knowledge exists. It's scattered across PDFs, spreadsheets, and the parts of your own head you can't guarantee you'll remember three renewal cycles from now.

Why This Exists

CanvasPM built VendorIQ on the same second-brain architecture behind Lens and StakeholderIQ: memory that compounds, specialist agents that each own one slice of the work, and a framework built specifically for vendor governance. For VendorIQ, that framework is a twelve-element vendor-management structure covering everything a VMO lead owns: the vendor registry, contract library, tier classification, performance scorecards, governance calendar, risk register, preferred vendor program, onboarding package, escalation log, spend analysis, exit plans, and policy standards.

Every scorecard you log, every renewal you track, every escalation you classify becomes material the system reasons across. It applies the same KPI set to every vendor on a tier, flags a renewal window while there's still time to negotiate, and remembers the last time this vendor caused this exact problem.

Every scorecard applies the same standard

Two vendors on the same tier get graded on the same KPIs, every cycle, because the tier's scoring rules live in the system, applied the same way every time.

No renewal window closes without an owner

Every renewal and notice deadline inside the next 120 days shows up with a name attached, while there's still time to negotiate from strength.

Escalations stop repeating as if they're new

Recurring vendor issues surface as recurring, because the history is searchable. Nobody re-diagnoses a problem the system already has three quarters of context on.

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How It Works

Fifteen commands run the whole workflow. It starts with what's due, ranked by deadline, tier, risk, spend, and visibility:

Command What It Does
/due Ranks every open renewal, risk, decision, and spend item so you know what needs you first
/ask Quick answer to a vendor-management question, pulled straight from memory
/setup Guided configuration: seed your vendor registry, contracts, and standards
/scorecard /renewal-brief /qbr /escalation /spend-analysis Plan one of five vendor deliverables — type and memory set already loaded, no guessing
/plan Fallback plan for anything that doesn't fit those five deliverable types
/work Execute the plan with todo tracking
/certify Six specialized reviewers check the draft before it reaches leadership
/learn Extract what worked into memory, so the next cycle starts smarter
/recall Search all vendor memory for relevant history before you start
/grow Check vendoriq-health metrics: pattern confidence, time savings, quality trend
/audit Recompute vendoriq-health summaries from source rows and catch drift

A /certify run takes about a minute. What it prevents is a scorecard with an unsourced figure, or a renewal brief that missed a notice period, reaching leadership before anyone catches it.

Eleven specialist agents run underneath those commands: a chief of staff that routes the work, four specialists who build the deliverables (scorecards, contract analysis, spend analysis, risk and escalation), and six reviewers each tuned to a distinct failure class: Data Accuracy, Contract Alignment, Risk & Compliance, Tier Consistency, Actionability, and Executive Communication. No two would flag the same defect.

Who This Is For

For you if:

Not for you if:

Built on Real VMO Methodology

VendorIQ runs on a twelve-element vendor-management framework covering the full VMO work breakdown, from vendor registry through exit planning. Six specialized reviewers, each tuned to a distinct failure class the others wouldn't catch, check every deliverable before it reaches leadership. Five deliverable types get their own dedicated memory and workflow: performance scorecards, renewal briefs, QBR packets, risk and escalation reports, and spend analyses.

It's part of the same second-brain architecture CanvasPM itself runs on, and the same one behind Lens and StakeholderIQ: memory that compounds, one specialist agent per slice of the work, adapted from Iwo Szapar's AI Second Brain V1.0 framework. VendorIQ is an independent implementation, built specifically for vendor management, with no affiliation to or endorsement from him. Every file in the system is yours to read, transparent by design.

Honestly: this is the one CanvasPM tool not built on Mirror / Telescope / Hammer. Its anchor is the twelve-element VMO structure above — a different job needed a different framework, and forcing an MTH connection that isn't real wouldn't serve you.

What You Get

This is the complete system: all fifteen commands and all eleven specialist agents, ready to run the day you get it.

Price: $149 Billing: ONE-TIME PURCHASE. No subscription.

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Questions Before You Get It

I already track vendors in a spreadsheet. Why do I need this? A spreadsheet holds a snapshot: vendor name and last contact date, overwritten every time you update a cell. VendorIQ holds the history: every KPI score and every escalation, reasoned across time so the same problem doesn't get re-diagnosed as new.

How is this different from Lens or StakeholderIQ? Lens runs the full Mirror and Telescope thinking layer against any plan or decision you're making. StakeholderIQ tracks the people: your relationships, their history, their tone shifts. VendorIQ tracks the vendors: contracts, performance, risk, and spend, governed through the same second-brain architecture applied to a different domain.

Do I need to know how to code, or use Claude Code, to run this? You run it through conversational slash commands inside Claude Code. If you can answer questions about a vendor's last quarter, you can run /plan on a scorecard. No coding knowledge required.

Is this a subscription? No. It's a one-time purchase of $149 for lifetime access to the full system: all fifteen commands, all eleven specialist agents, and every update that follows.

How long until I see value? Your first /recall on an existing vendor, before your next scorecard or renewal conversation. The six reviewers start checking your very first deliverable, and the memory compounds from there.

What if I only manage two or three vendors informally? Then this probably isn't for you yet. VendorIQ earns its keep once you're running recurring scorecard, renewal, or governance cycles across a real portfolio, the kind that outgrows a spreadsheet and a good memory.

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