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Does Beroe give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. Beroe publishes some public evidence of logging or observability, but narrower than full tracing and auditability across agent runs. Evidence basis: Events follow a structured, transparent and auditable format in which suppliers know the rules, inside a workflow buyers control. That asserts a record of what happened in each event without naming a log or trace surface, retention, or any. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Beroe require human approval before an agent acts?

Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. Beroe publishes some public evidence of guardrails or oversight, but narrower than a documented human approval step before an agent acts. Evidence basis: The agent executes multi-stage negotiations while keeping buyers in control every step of the way, inside a structured workflow that buyers control, and buyers set the strategy, anchor points and event design before it runs. No review and a. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Beroe

Also known as: nnamu, nnamu GmbH, Beroe nnamu, Beroe Live.ai nnamu

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Enterprise operations agentacquiredVerified 2026-09-08

Entry priceEnterprise pricing through Beroe. Contact sales.Full pricing detail

nnamu, sold by Beroe as a module of Beroe Live.ai, is an autonomous procurement negotiation agent that recommends a game-theory strategy, simulates supplier behavior and runs multi-stage supplier negotiation events blending auctions and negotiation, with buyers setting the parameters and keeping control of each step.

Nnamu is an autonomous procurement-negotiation solution that pairs game theory with AI to run supplier sourcing events. Founded in Germany as nnamu GmbH, it was acquired by Beroe Inc., a global procurement decision-intelligence company, in March 2025, and now operates as part of Beroe's platform, with the original nnamu team continuing under a new German entity.

The product recommends the best negotiation strategy, simulates supplier behavior, and runs autonomous, multi-stage events that blend auctions and structured negotiation. The approach is transparent and auditable, designed to be a format suppliers accept and a process buyers can trust, and it spans tail, tactical, and strategic spend through a strategy advisor and a hands-off negotiation bot.

Nnamu's negotiation agent is built on a 20-year dataset of more than 2,000 negotiations run by over 100 game-theory and economics specialists, with cumulative value exceeding 400 billion euros. Beroe has been folding its own proprietary market intelligence into the agent and integrating it into the Beroe Live.ai platform. Reported outcomes include average total-value savings of up to 15 percent at roughly twice the speed of manual events, with customers such as BT Sourced, JLR, and Deutsche Bahn.

Nnamu was founded by co-CEOs Christian Paul and Martin Walter, and following the acquisition it sits within Beroe, a procurement-intelligence company founded in 2006 and led by founder and CEO Vel Dhinagaravel. Access is through Beroe on a sales-led basis.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.beroeinc.com/nnamu-autonomous-negotiations/

Company status

acquired

Use cases & customers

In practice

Your team only has bandwidth to negotiate the biggest contracts, so tail spend goes unmanaged. Nnamu runs autonomous, multi-stage negotiation events across tail, tactical, and strategic spend.

You're walking into a supplier negotiation without a strategy. Nnamu recommends the approach and simulates how the supplier is likely to behave, drawing on a dataset of more than 2,000 past negotiations.

Suppliers balk at opaque reverse auctions. Nnamu's process is built to be transparent and auditable, a format suppliers accept and buyers can trust, now available through Beroe's platform.

Agentic Index coverage score

2.5 / 14 capabilities · 18%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Not documented
Negotiation events run inside the hosted Beroe Live.ai platform, and no integration catalog, custom tool support or authenticated action framework into sourcing, ERP or supplier systems is documented; supplier participation happens inside the event itself. The product datasheet is gated behind a form. SourceBeroe, beroeinc.com/nnamu and /nnamu-autonomous-negotiations, probe recordedread 2026-09-07
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Nnamu runs autonomous, multi-stage negotiation events blending auctions and negotiation, executing multi-round, multi-parameter sourcing events end to end from strategy recommendation through execution, with multiple supplier participants in a structured workflow. The limit: it is a single agent running one event type rather than a general multi-agent runtime. SourceBeroe, beroeinc.com/nnamu-autonomous-negotiations and /nnamu FAQread 2026-09-07
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Partial
Strategy recommendations draw on 3,000-plus real negotiations and over 400 billion euros of verified sourcing data, which the vendor's own guide describes as data the algorithms were trained on; the same guide says Beroe's market intelligence enhances the agent as contextual data without describing the mechanism, and the current product pages do not mention it. No maintained retrieval structure over the customer's knowledge is documented, and no page shows the agent querying a persistent Beroe or customer corpus at run time. Sourceberoeinc.com/nnamu-autonomous-negotiationsread 2026-09-07
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Partial
The agent executes multi-stage negotiations while keeping buyers in control every step of the way, inside a structured workflow that buyers control, and buyers set the strategy, anchor points and event design before it runs. No review and approve surface, approval gate or escalation mechanism is documented. SourceBeroe, beroeinc.com/nnamu-autonomous-negotiationsread 2026-09-07
Security, Identity & Governance	Not documented
No access controls are documented and the compliance claims are hedged. The selling entity's own Security and Certification page states Beroe adheres to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance standards, and the June 2026 privacy policy describes annually audited security measures aligned with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001; no certificate, auditor, report, date or trust portal is named, and the page title says certification while the body does not. No SSO, SAML, SCIM, RBAC or named access model is documented for nnamu or Beroe Live.ai, the datasheet is gated behind a form, and the product login at abi.beroelive.ai is a sign in, not documentation. SourceBeroe, beroeinc.com/security-certification and disclaimer-privacy-policyread 2026-09-08
Observability & Auditability	Partial
Events follow a structured, transparent and auditable format in which suppliers know the rules, inside a workflow buyers control. That asserts a record of what happened in each event without naming a log or trace surface, retention, or any reconstruction of why the agent chose a strategy or move; the strategy recommendation is decision support before the event. What a buyer can export from each event is not stated. SourceBeroe, beroeinc.com/nnamu-autonomous-negotiations and /nnamu FAQread 2026-09-07
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
Nnamu draws on historical negotiation data for training but documents no persistent cross session agent memory. Sourceberoeinc.com/nnamuread 2026-09-07
Deployment & Data Residency	Not documented
Beroe's June 2026 privacy policy names Microsoft Azure as the cloud infrastructure and states personal data is stored on servers in the EU region, the US or India, with transfers subject to applicable law. Those three regions are a fact about the vendor's own footprint, not an offering: no region list a buyer selects from, no customer environment option and no selection surface is documented anywhere, and nnamu is delivered as a module of the hosted Beroe Live.ai platform. The product-specific privacy notice the policy points to for nnamu resolves to the product page and carries no hosting statement. SourceBeroe, beroeinc.com/disclaimer-privacy-policy sections 9, 10 and 12read 2026-09-07
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Not documented
One negotiation agent covers tail, tactical, and strategic spend; there is no library of prebuilt agents. Sourceberoeinc.com/nnamuread 2026-09-07
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Not documented
Nnamu negotiation events are set up by users inside the platform, with no broader multichannel or event driven trigger documented. Sourceberoeinc.com/nnamuread 2026-09-07
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
Proprietary game theory agents do the negotiating, with no user facing model routing, selection, or bring your own key option documented. Sourceberoeinc.com/nnamuread 2026-09-07
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Not documented
Nnamu documents no public developer application programming interface, software development kit, or Model Context Protocol server. Sourceberoeinc.com/nnamuread 2026-09-07
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Not documented
No harness, scored test cases, release gate or controlled post-deployment experiment measuring the agent is documented. The vendor's pages describe simulating supplier behavior to recommend the best strategy and parameters and to optimize trade-offs, which tests the customer's negotiation strategy rather than the agent, and the FAQ describes AI learning during and after events without a documented loop. The 3-5 percent and 10-15 percent savings figures are the vendor's own marketing. SourceBeroe, beroeinc.com/nnamu-autonomous-negotiations and /nnamu FAQread 2026-09-07
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
Structured negotiation logic is what Nnamu executes, with no general browser or computer use capability documented. Sourceberoeinc.com/nnamuread 2026-09-07

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Recent platform changes

2026-09-29·Agent capabilityVerified

Beroe launched Bilateral Negotiations, an AI and game theory module for single supplier deals that scores six negotiation approaches, recommends the strongest and builds a round by round plan with expected concessions and exit thresholds the buyer can change at any stage. With the launch, nnamu became Beroe Competitive Negotiations powered by nnamu, part of a new Beroe Negotiations suite.

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Pricing

Enterprise pricing through Beroe. Contact sales.

Key ambiguities

Sold as module 5 of Beroe Live.ai since the March 2025 acquisition; whether nnamu is priced as a separate line item or bundled with the platform is undisclosed, and the datasheet sits behind a form. No first-party figure exists to withdraw or confirm.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-07

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