About node.

We started in 2023 as VendorSage.

The job was simple: help you understand what software you had, how much it cost, then help you stop overpaying. We'd benchmark spend, negotiate renewals and new purchases on behalf of our customers, and flag any wasted spend.

We helped companies like Tracksuit, Halter, and VeVe save hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The product worked.

But the same questions kept coming up. Customers would ask: What tool should we be using? How much should we be paying?

We'd ask back: What work does this tool serve? What does it actually do? How much impact does it have? What's the business trying to achieve, and is this the best fit for that?

The answer was almost always a guess.

And it hit us that it didn't really matter if we optimised spend as much as possible — if the software wasn't doing what it was supposed to be doing. We were only ever cleaning up the mess rather than solving the actual problem.

That's the gap VendorSage couldn't close. Not because the product was wrong — because the problem was bigger than spend. Companies weren't just overpaying for software. They had no picture of how their tools, workflows, and people actually connected. Every decision — buy, renew, cut, deploy — was made without understanding the work it was supposed to support.

So we rebuilt around that problem. VendorSage became Node.

The spend layer is still there — it's where most customers start. But underneath it is a living model of how your business operates: the capabilities, the workflows, the tools, the agents, and the people who depend on them. We don't just tell you what you're paying for. We tell you whether it's working.

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