Backbone Atlas — The Source-to-Pay Platform

Request to payment

Nine steps. One system. Nothing on paper.

Request

Anyone raises a need

Approve

Budget holder authorises

Source

Buyer runs RFQ or tender

Evaluate

Committee scores, blind to price

Award

Second pair of eyes approves

Contract

E-signed by both parties

PO

Order issued to supplier

Receive

Goods checked against delivery

Pay

3-way match, then payment

Need the whole route drawn? The route map add-on, off by default, draws every path from request to paid invoice as flowcharts, and says where a regime is not modelled rather than guessing.

Why teams choose Atlas

Built to solve the pains procurement actually feels.

Designed with procurement managers, buyers and CPOs — the things that slow a team down, removed. Every one of these is live in the product, not a roadmap promise.

Live in days to weeks, not months

No multi-year implementation. A configured instance stands up in days — in our Canadian region today, or the region you nominate, on request.

Paperless, end to end

Request → approve → source → award → contract → PO → receive → invoice → pay. One system, one audit trail, nothing in email. For stocked goods: suggested reorder points and safety stock, shelf life and batch traceability.

Built for your region

Canada, US, UK, EU, GCC and Australia editions. Currency, tax, thresholds, trade-agreement rules and the whole document library switch to your jurisdiction.

Connects to your accounting system

Eleven accounting systems — QuickBooks Online, Xero, Business Central, NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion, four Sage products and BILL: chart of accounts in, coded bills out, payment status back. Four are proven against live ledgers; the other seven are proven on your own ledger during onboarding. Legacy ledgers (SAP ECC and older networked systems) pull a read-only feed. No middleware, no lock-in.

Single sign-on

Your people log in with their existing Microsoft, Google or Okta accounts. Standard OpenID Connect — no new passwords to manage.

UNSPSC classification

The global commodity standard built in, so spend is categorised consistently and reports speak the same language as the rest of the business.

Contract lifecycle

From award to e-signature to milestones, obligations and renewal alerts — contracts live in the system, not a shared drive.

Supplier management

A full supplier 360 with risk, performance and lifecycle gates that block a purchase from ever reaching the wrong vendor.

Live spend analysis

Under-contract, requisition-backed and off-process spend, supplier concentration and cycle times — computed the moment a PO is raised.

Reporting & exports

Executive lenses for CPO, Category Manager and CFO, plus one-click CSV export of anything for the board pack.

AI at every stage

Built-in guidance on every record — what to do next, what to watch for — plus an optional AI assistant your team can ask in plain English.

Built by procurement people

Shaped around real procurement pain, not a generic workflow tool bent to fit. It works the way your team already thinks.

What Atlas does

Twenty-three capabilities. One licence.

Everything below is included in every edition, in every region — no paid-extra modules, no per-seat meter. Open any one of them to see the actual screens.

See all twenty-three, grouped →

Analyse

See where every dollar goes — and where it leaks.

Live spend analysis across suppliers, categories and departments. The metrics that matter to a CFO, computed the moment a purchase order is raised.

Spend under contract, requisition-backed spend and off-process ("maverick") spend, at a glance
Supplier concentration, diverse-supplier share and estimated Scope-3 emissions
Request-to-PO and invoice-to-payment cycle times
Posts straight into your accounting system, or a one-click CSV and a live feed for anything else
Month-end GRNI and supplier rebate accruals post as journals to six ledgers, once an administrator switches them on — proven live on four

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Spend AnalysisReal numbers, computed at volume across 140 orders.

Every role, their own view

Everyone opens Atlas to their own work.

The same system, a different first screen for each person — so nobody has to learn the parts of it that are not their job. Pick a role to see what they actually open.

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System administrator dashboard — full command view across the whole operation

AdministratorFull command view: every request, event, contract and exception across the operation, plus the settings that govern them.

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Requester's view — their own requisitions and where each one has got to

RequesterRaise a need, then watch it move. No training required, and no chasing anyone to find out where it went.

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Approver's dashboard — the queue waiting on them and nothing else

ApproverThe approvals waiting on them, in order of urgency — and nothing else in the way.

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Evaluator's scoring screen — quality scored blind to price

EvaluatorScores quality against the published rubric — blind to price, because the price score is computed and must not colour the judgement.

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Finance view — invoices, three-way match and what is cleared to pay

FinanceInvoices against their purchase order and receipt. What matched, what is held, and what is cleared to pay.

Trust & control

Enterprise controls, not enterprise complexity.

Encrypted at rest

Supplier bank details and integration secrets encrypted with a key held apart from the database. Passwords salted PBKDF2, never recoverable.

Segregation of duties

No one approves their own request. Milestone certification needs a different person. Sealed bids open only after quoting closes, by the event owner or an administrator, and the opener is recorded.

Immutable audit trail

Every action — and every blocked attempt — recorded with actor and time. The defensible record a challenge or an auditor asks for.

Single sign-on

Sign in with your existing Microsoft, Google or Okta accounts over standard OpenID Connect. Sessions expire; a password change ends them all.

Connects to your finance system

Coded bills post into any of eleven ledgers and payment status comes back. Proven live on QuickBooks Online, Xero, Business Central and Sage Accounting; the other seven are proven on your ledger during onboarding. Older systems pull a feed instead.

Data residency, respected

Atlas runs in Canada (Toronto) today. When you sign, we stand up a dedicated instance in the region you nominate — the US, the UK, the EU, the GCC or Australia — so procurement data stays where the law requires.

Assurance

458 end-to-end flows, 31,161 steps, none failed.

Automated end-to-end tests exercise the whole system — the everyday path, the awkward edge case, deliberate attempts to break it. Every run is written down, step by step.

458End-to-end flows, 0 failed

31,161Steps checked in that run

5Sector packs run end to end

300Earlier full procure-to-pay cycles

Every layer is exercised.

458 flows on 6 September 2026 — the general cycle and all five sector packs, from requisition to payment, in two private settings, Ontario and Dubai. 31,161 steps, none failed.
300 complete cycles, run for real — requisition, approval, sourcing, quote, award, purchase order, goods receipt, invoice, three-way match and milestone payment — ten configurations across five regions, in both public and private form. 7,260 assertions, none failed.
A separate audit checks what each screen actually says against the data behind it, in every one of those ten configurations — so the words on the page can never drift from the records beneath.
Adversarial, not just the happy path. Security and financial-integrity scenarios actively try to bypass an approval, expose a rival's sealed bid or push a figure negative — and prove they cannot.

Deployment

Your data, in your region.

Hosted

We run it for you

A dedicated instance — in Canada today, or your region on request — kept running, backed up and secured by us. Nothing for your team to maintain.

Live in days to weeks, not months
Continuous encrypted backups, off-site every five minutes, and updates
HTTPS, monitoring and patching included

In your region

Canada, or the region you choose

Canada (Toronto) today. When you sign, the same platform is stood up for you in the region your rules require — the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, the GCC or Australia — and your procurement data stays there.

Data residency answered by where it runs
Same product, same 99.5% availability commitment and support
Built for regulated & public-sector buyers

Every procurement decision, from first request to final payment — in one place.

Buying

Sourcing & Contracts

Suppliers & Risk

Control & Compliance

Money & Insight

The whole platform, in four minutes.

Nine steps. One system. Nothing on paper.

Request

Approve

Source

Evaluate

Award

Contract

PO

Receive

Pay

Built to solve the pains procurement actually feels.

Live in days to weeks, not months

Paperless, end to end

Built for your region

Connects to your accounting system

Single sign-on

UNSPSC classification

Contract lifecycle

Supplier management

Live spend analysis

Reporting & exports

AI at every stage

Built by procurement people

Twenty-three capabilities. One licence.

Buying

Sourcing & Contracts

Suppliers & Risk

Control & Compliance

Money & Insight

See where every dollar goes — and where it leaks.

Everyone opens Atlas to their own work.

Built for the way your jurisdiction procures.

Canada

United Kingdom

European Union

GCC / Middle East

United States

Australia

Enterprise controls, not enterprise complexity.

Encrypted at rest

Segregation of duties

Immutable audit trail

Single sign-on

Connects to your finance system

Data residency, respected

458 end-to-end flows, 31,161 steps, none failed.

Enterprise capability, at a fraction of the enterprise price.

Your data, in your region.

We run it for you

Canada, or the region you choose

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