Coupa Unveils a Series of Agentic Products at Inspire 2026

Enterprise AI hits a new milestone with the launch of Coupa Compose at Coupa Inspire 2026 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas.

Coupa is already the leading platform for autonomous spend management and with the new offering, it provides an environment to build, manage and orchestrate AI agents across enterprise workflows.

Including outcome-based pricing and AI transformation services delivered by forward deployed engineers and solution architects, Coupa positions the technology as a system for deploying what it terms a digital workforce of AI agents.

Leagh Turner, Chief Executive Officer at Coupa, says: “Coupa AI is fundamentally different from anything else in the market.

“While others are bolting AI onto ageing systems, we have one platform that scales, with governance, for your data, your workflows and your agents. This architecture, built on a foundation of US$10tn in spend data, is why we can say we are AI-native.”

Leagh adds: “We are helping our customers build a digital workforce where AI works for people to orchestrate and execute at unprecedented scale, with trust. This is our moment to move at speed and reshape the workforce of the future for the better using agentic AI.”

Architecture of agentic orchestration

Coupa Compose offers a unified package that enables organisations to deploy agent-led autonomous orchestration with control over governance and outcomes. The system comprises three interconnected components.

The Navi Agent Studio has a no-code interface that allows organisations to build and configure custom agents using natural language, monitor agent activity and assign role-based access to agents. This will become generally available in May.

Smart intake and orchestration functions as the entry point for all intake requests and triggers. It orchestrates the end-to-end process to fulfil requests using agents and systems, with human intervention where required. The system preserves business context within the Coupa system of record and triggers agents at each process step.

To make sure that the intelligence layer is never siloed, Navi Connect serves as the integration layer across third party agents and systems. It enables agent-to-agent communication and allows agents to perform actions such as real-time ERP updates across the system landscape.

Agent deployment at scale

“To win in the agentic era, your ability to absorb change must match the speed of the technology,” says Salvatore Lombardo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Coupa.

“With Coupa Compose, we are empowering our customers to easily build, deploy, orchestrate and connect agentic AI through our core platform, no migrations, no new code, just instant AI agent activation grounded in our proprietary dataset that generates business outcomes others can't match.”

Coupa has already deployed more than 20 specialised persona-based agents across its platform. The agents are powered by aggregated intelligence from Coupa’s community data.

The May product release features an expanded catalogue that includes agents for sourcing event creation, bid comparison, risk sentinel, sanctions risk, autonomous opportunity analysis and scenario ranking. These agents automate workflows to deliver measurable gains.

According to Coupa, the agents could achieve a 40% reduction in set-up time and identify millions in efficiencies. 

Implementation through transformation services

To cross the barrier of a clear vision to real world activation, Coupa has introduced Coupa Catalyst AI transformation services. The services are designed to accelerate deployment of what Coupa describes as a co-workforce of agents and humans.

With Catalyst, Coupa provides forward-deployed engineers and business solution architects who work with customers to bridge the gap between product capability and AI value delivery. 

Salvatore adds: “Coupa Compose, together with our Catalyst AI workshops and transformation strategies, is a revelatory way to help all our customers accelerate strong business outcomes with agentic AI.

“Couple this with our leading AI-native platform that includes domain specific language models with Rossum and strategic partnerships and we’re uniquely capable of helping customers realise tremendous business outcomes in their AI journeys.”