About Vidonas
A firm designed yesterday, with deep intellectual roots.
Vidonas is a procurement consulting and advisory firm powered by VISE, our AI-enhanced negotiations engine. We help procurement leaders elevate their teams, their supplier relationships, and their outcomes through published methodology, proprietary technology, and evidence-based consulting.
Why “Vidonas”
Classical name, modern practice.
The name carries Greco-Roman gravitas. The work carries restraint, rigor, and an AI substrate. The point of the contrast is the point of the firm: the discipline is ancient (negotiate, source, partner), and the tools have caught up.
The team
Practitioners, not presenters.
Jason Cipriano
Founder, Vidonas
Two decades leading procurement transformations across industrial, healthcare, and financial services. Author of SRM 2.0 and Procurement 4.1.
Partner, VISE Engineering
Technology · Workflow
Designs the VISE engine and the operator console. Background in applied ML and enterprise sourcing systems.
Senior Director, Engagements
Delivery
Runs client engagements end to end. Former Head of Category at a Fortune 100 industrial.
Who does the work
The person who wins the room is the person who runs the work.
In most firms, the experience you are sold and the experience you receive are two different people. A partner presents; an analyst executes, learning on your spend. We built Vidonas the other way around. The senior operator who scopes your engagement is the one who runs it, and there is no pyramid for the work to disappear into.
We know the legacy model because we have built and bought inside it. Our operators have worked within the major savings-share consultancies and negotiated against them as enterprise buyers. That is the source of our conviction about where those fees go, and why the work rarely justifies them.
Practitioners on your deal, not presenters in your pitch.
Credentials
Two books on the shelf is two more than most.
The Vidonas frameworks aren’t whitepapers in a pitch folder. They’re books with publishers, ISBNs, and readers who push back. See the books →