Our Manifesto

Software governance is stuck in the past.

It's a category built on hindsight. A charge appears. Then you investigate. A renewal is 90 days out. Then you scramble. A "new app" shows up in discovery. Then you react.

That's not management. That's cleanup.

And now, with AI sprawl, it's accelerating. New tools are easier than ever to try. Harder than ever to track. And riskier than ever to ignore—because they touch data, identity, and budgets in ways that don't wait for quarterly audits.

Dashboards didn't fail. The timing did.

The problem isn't that companies don't have visibility. The problem is that visibility shows up after the damage is done—after adoption, after access spreads, after data moves, after the vendor has leverage, after the org is already dependent.

The rearview mirror is not a control plane.

We're building the opposite: software intelligence that runs upstream.

Porcia is an AI agent designed to act like an automated software procurement + spend management assistant. Not another place to stare at charts. Not another workflow for humans to push paper through.

An always-on system that finds the truth, keeps it current, and turns it into action—across your entire technology footprint: SaaS, AI tools, cloud services, and whatever comes next.

We plug into where reality actually lives.

Software sprawl doesn't live in a spreadsheet. It lives in the systems your team already uses—every day—without asking permission. And in the age of AI, that sprawl is accelerating faster than ever.

So Porcia connects to the sources of truth:

• •Identity / SSO (Azure AD, Okta, Google Workspace) — See access, adoption, and shadow IT at the user level
• •Native email integrations (Gmail + Outlook) — Vendor signals don't disappear into inbox gravity
• •Browser extension + sensors — Catch tools before they become official, expensive, and politically sticky

Because the moment that matters isn't the renewal. It's intent. "I need a survey tool." "I'm trying this AI assistant." "I'll just sign up and expense it."

That's where sprawl begins. That's where control should exist. And in 2026, that moment happens ten times more often than it did two years ago.

From reactive to continuous.

Today's tooling mostly helps you manage consequences: Consequences of shadow IT. Consequences of fragmented data. Consequences of humans doing work that doesn't scale.

Porcia is built for a different operating model: Continuous discovery. Continuous usage truth. Continuous leverage.

Not quarterly audits. Not "true-ups." Not spreadsheet archaeology. Always on. Always current.

We don't just surface problems. We help you execute.

Porcia is designed to turn insight into outcomes:

• ✓Finds wasted spend (unused seats, redundant tools, dormant subscriptions)
• ✓Tracks renewals so you're never negotiating from panic
• ✓Benchmarks pricing with market context so you walk in with leverage
• ✓Drafts clean, professional, data-backed negotiation emails—fast

And we're obsessive about trust: human-in-the-loop. Porcia drafts. Porcia recommends. Porcia flags risk. You approve. Always.

Enterprise-grade security, as a baseline—not a roadmap item.

Modern companies can't adopt "smart" tools that act reckless with data. Porcia is built with enterprise-grade security principles from day one:

• ✓Strong encryption
• ✓Private model hosting (Azure OpenAI)
• ✓No training public models on your data (period)

Trust isn't a feature. It's the product.

Why we're called Porcia

Porcia is named after Portia—a genus of jumping spiders known for hunting other spiders with patience and strategy.

They don't win by brute force. They win by reading the environment, adapting their approach, and choosing the right angle. Portia spiders are famous for aggressive mimicry—plucking another spider's web to imitate the vibrations of trapped prey. They're also known for detour planning—choosing indirect routes to reach prey, even when it means losing sight of the target temporarily.

That's the metaphor we wanted: Porcia (the product) lives in the web of vendors, seats, renewals, terms, and shadow IT—and helps you move through it with leverage, not panic.

The bet

The industry calls this space "SaaS management." We think that framing is already dead. SaaS was the first wave. AI tools are the second. What comes next—agents, plugins, embedded AI, composable cloud services—will make today's sprawl look quaint.

Three to five years from now, the winners in this space won't be the companies with the prettiest dashboards.

They'll be the companies with the best autopilots: systems that can observe continuously, act safely, prove what they did, and roll back when needed.

Software doesn't need more hindsight. It needs an immune system.

That's what we're building. Porcia.