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Who is this for?

It isn't about your size. It's about who signs it off.

Most systems are sold by company size. That is the wrong question. The right one takes a sentence to answer.

The one question

Does a purchase need sign-off from someone other than the person who wants it?

If yes, Atlas has rules to enforce, a record to keep and a decision to defend. If no, and one person wants, approves and orders it, every control here just gets in the way. Don't buy it.

That holds for a forty-person firm and a four-hundred-person council. So this isn't a list of company sizes.

Where it fits

Four kinds of organisation.

Public buyers with a legal duty. Councils, school boards, health, universities, agencies. You must prove each purchase was fair. The record, audit binder and generated policy exist for exactly that. Atlas's strongest fit.
Private firms with real sign-off limits. Manufacturing, construction, engineering. Nobody makes you tender, but someone has to sign. Approvals step up with how critical an item is, not just its value. A cheap safety-critical part gets proper checks.
Buying still run on email and spreadsheets. Quotes in an inbox. Approval by reply. A policy in a Word file nobody opens. The work gets done, but nothing is recorded that you could show anyone.
Organisations that had a painful audit. If proving why a supplier was chosen once took days, the binder now builds that pack from the record in one click.
Said plainly

Where we are the wrong answer.

We would rather lose the meeting than the first year. Each of these is a real limit, not a bargaining position.

Not for
Why
What to do instead
One person buying
Under about twenty or thirty people, the nine roles fall onto two or three people. Separating duties stops meaning anything.
A spreadsheet and a filing system. Come back when a second person signs.
The largest global enterprises — not yet
Built today: group structure, enterprise SSO and two-way links to eleven finance systems. Four are proven on live ledgers. The other seven are proven on your own ledger at onboarding. What a 10,000-person global firm still buys a suite for: a supplier network, payment execution and independent audit reports.
Ariba, Coupa or Ivalua today. This is where we are heading as reference customers arrive.
Legacy SAP ECC or Oracle E-Business Suite, needing a two-way link
S/4HANA and Oracle Fusion connectors are built and check for changes every 15 minutes. Each is proven on your own system during onboarding. Journal posting into either is built on request. ECC and E-Business Suite get no full connector. They can pull Atlas's read-only feed (JSON/CSV, one API key) as often. A custom connector can be added.
On the modern products this is not a limit. Ask us what your ledger supports.
Anyone needing SOC 2 today, or 24/7 support
We do not hold SOC 2. We commit to 99.5% monthly availability, with service credits, not penalties. Support targets run in business hours: 09:00–17:00 Eastern, Monday to Friday. Saying otherwise would be the easiest lie on this page.
If it is a hard requirement, we don't meet it. Tell us, and we will say so in writing.
High-volume retail or e-commerce stock
This is a buying system with inventory in it. It is not a warehouse or merchandising system. Tens of thousands of transactions a year is the wrong fit.
A dedicated inventory or ERP product.
US & Australian public sector — set up when you sign
Public buyers work today in Canada, the UK, the EU and the Gulf. For US and Australian public bodies, we set up the local rules and documents when you sign. The buying process stays the same.
Australian private sector works today. See the Australia page.
The quickest way to find out

Fifteen minutes, and an honest answer.

Tell us how a purchase gets approved where you work. That settles it faster than a feature list. If you don't need Atlas, we'll say so.

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