Hosted by Philip Ideson
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912 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2026-07-01 · ~36 min/episode
Rank
#5553
Substance
41.0
/ 100
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Scored 2026-07
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Art of Procurement ranks #5553 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 41.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on insight density and guest caliber. The episode is heavily padded with meandering background storytelling and generic procurement platitudes. The few substantive observations (e.g., policy living in a PDF on SharePoint vs. digitally embedded policy) are common knowledge in the space, and there are almost no novel claims per minute across 32 minutes.
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The episode is heavily padded with meandering background storytelling and generic procurement platitudes. The few substantive observations (e.g., policy living in a PDF on SharePoint vs. digitally embedded policy) are common knowledge in the space, and there are almost no novel claims per minute across 32 minutes.
“the whole company depends on this group so that it can accelerate its own roadmap”
“not so good. Looks like this is written down in a PDF document. The PDF document is stored on SharePoint. Everyone's supposed to read it”
The episode recycles well-worn procurement consulting talking points - seat at the table, silos, holistic approach, transparency as a virtue - without offering any contrarian or first-principles arguments. The 'aspirins vs. vitamins' framing is a cliché imported from generic SaaS discourse.
“vitamins as opposed to aspirins as we say in software”
“procurement is a consensus building org”
Jesse Lee is a co-founder/CEO of a small, early-stage procuretech vendor with a background in SaaS product and management consulting - he is not a procurement practitioner who has run a function at scale. The conversation is structurally a vendor promotional slot, which further limits the practitioner credibility on offer.
“we come. The core early group comes from um, a SaaS product and community that served a CFO, CIO really”
“we found procurements”
There are virtually no named customers, dollar figures, metrics, or concrete case studies in the entire episode. The most specific references are regulatory acronyms (GDPR, DORA) and a generic Suez Canal metaphor, neither of which constitutes actionable evidence for a B2B operator.
“if the boat gets stuck in the Suez Canal, our company still operates”
“leap over a lot that's happened into dora Digital Operational Resilience acts even more in Europe only so far”
The host asks broad, open-ended questions with no follow-up probing and routinely summarises the guest's answers approvingly rather than challenging them. The conversation functions as an uncritical vendor showcase with no productive disagreement or sharp follow-up anywhere in the episode.
“it sounds to me like you've just described what good digitally enabled supplier management looks like”
“that sounds like it's a three step action plan then for our listeners”
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