Zycus
Independent supplier intelligence for Zycus
Speya (formerly Find My Factory) is an independent AI supplier intelligence platform for B2B procurement teams. It works beside Zycus as an independent supplier intelligence layer. A team describes the need in plain language. AI agents search 250+ data sources, including suppliers outside your Zycus supplier master, and vet each candidate for certifications, financial health, ESG, sanctions and adverse media before it reaches a sourcing event. Shortlists, with contact details and sources, reach Zycus through the Speya API or a structured export. No suite vendor owns Speya.
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Your suite today
What does Zycus do for supplier discovery today?
Zycus is a source-to-pay suite. Zycus announced in January 2026 that Gartner had named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites. Its supplier surfaces are the Zycus Supplier Network and iSupplier, with a Merlin agent layer on top. Zycus announced the Merlin Agentic AI Platform on 28 January 2025 for launch on 11 February 2025, and as of 3 September 2026 the platform page named Merlin Intake, the Merlin Autonomous Negotiation Agent and Merlin Agentic Sourcing. Zycus’s Strategic Sourcing Suite page says Merlin Agentic Sourcing designs events from historical baselines, “identifies both incumbent and alternative suppliers from enriched data,” and executes the event with AI-assisted bid evaluation. A Merlin Supplier Discovery BOT is marketed on a Zycus video page with AI-driven search, supplier insights and customizable criteria. A September 2025 announcement also records Zycus as a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Source-to-Pay Suites.
Where it stops
Where does Zycus supplier discovery stop?
Zycus does run supplier discovery inside its suite. Merlin Agentic Sourcing, in Zycus’s words, “identifies both incumbent and alternative suppliers from enriched data” (Strategic Sourcing Suite page, checked 26 October 2026), and the Merlin Supplier Discovery Bot is marketed for AI-driven supplier search with customisable search parameters. What we could not find on those pages is the data behind it: no named supplier database, coverage figure or data source. Zycus’s technology partners page named Dun & Bradstreet, EcoVadis, Bureau van Dijk and Moody’s Analytics as of 3 September 2026; in our assessment each mainly enriches a supplier record you already hold. The Zycus Supplier Network is a different surface: a portal where suppliers a buyer already works with receive POs, send invoices, respond to RFx events and update master data. The useful questions for a Zycus team are how wide and how transparent the discovery data is, and whether the discovery layer should belong to the suite vendor.
What Speya adds
What does Speya add alongside Zycus?
Minutes
From need to AI-vetted shortlist
Millions
Supplier profiles, searched live
250+
Data sources, cross-referenced
Speya adds the layer that runs before a sourcing event and leaves Zycus to run the process. A team describes a need in plain language. AI agents search 250+ data sources, including official registries, trade and customs data, financial filings and certifications, and return a ranked shortlist in minutes, with contact details and sources beside every name. Contact details come from public business sources; your team stays responsible for GDPR-compliant outreach.
Every candidate gets a first-pass risk screen before the first call. Speya’s supplier due diligence checks certifications, financial health, ESG, sanctions and adverse media, and ownership, against the criteria you set, and adds your own questions. Each supplier gets a status for every check with the source behind it, as evidence for your reviewer to confirm, and the table exports for the audit file or the onboarding team. The sanctions and adverse-media checks are a first-pass screen; they do not replace your licensed sanctions-screening process.
Sustainability is part of the screen. Speya attaches certifications, public ESG disclosures and sustainability indicators at discovery. For the sourcing stage, Speya RFx sends an RFI with your sustainability and compliance questions to every shortlisted supplier and collects the answers in one place with an audit trail. See supplier ESG compliance.
After award, Speya keeps watching sanction lists, legal actions and ownership changes and alerts your team. It complements, not replaces, a dedicated risk platform. Deep, recurring ESG scoring stays with platforms such as EcoVadis, which Speya feeds with pre-vetted candidates. Speya does not sell listings or rankings to suppliers, so no supplier pays to be found.
How it connects
How does Speya connect to Zycus?
Through the Speya API. The Speya API is live; access comes with a Team or Enterprise agreement and is reviewed per integration. An MCP server is coming. Integrations are built on request through that API where they make technical and commercial sense. It returns structured supplier records a system can write into its own tables. On the Zycus side, integration runs through iConsole, described by Zycus as “the single point of communication between Zycus products and any third party application.” A Zycus REST API guide states that its REST APIs use JSON and need an Application Id from iConsole, and describes a SIM vendors endpoint that creates vendor records. That guide reaches us as a re-hosted PDF and we found no public Zycus developer portal as of 3 September 2026, so confirm the path with Zycus before relying on it. A workflow: describe the category in Speya, review the shortlist and its evidence, then load the chosen suppliers into iSupplier or invite them into an iSource event. Shortlists also export as spreadsheets. Speya has no certified or vendor-listed connector and no AppXtend listing.
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Questions
Common questions.
Does Speya replace Zycus?
No. Speya is not a source-to-pay suite. It does not run sourcing events, contracts, purchase orders or invoices. It sits beside Zycus as the discovery, vetting and monitoring layer, and hands a ranked shortlist with sources to Zycus through the Speya API or a structured export. Zycus keeps the sourcing event, the contract and the transaction.
Does Speya find suppliers that are not in the Zycus Supplier Network?
Yes. The Zycus Supplier Network is a portal for suppliers a buyer already works with: they receive POs, send invoices and respond to RFx events there. Zycus’s Merlin Agentic Sourcing also finds alternative suppliers from enriched data, though as of 26 October 2026 Zycus’s pages do not name the database or coverage behind it. Speya runs a live search across 250+ data sources, with no requirement that a supplier registered anywhere first, and shows the source behind every supplier it returns.
Does Speya do supplier risk assessment and due diligence?
Yes, as a first pass at the shortlist stage. Speya’s AI agents check every candidate for certifications, financial health, ESG, sanctions and adverse media, and ownership, against criteria you set, and link each finding to its source for your team to confirm. The sanctions check does not replace your licensed sanctions-screening process. After award, Speya keeps watching sanction lists, legal actions and ownership changes and alerts your team. It complements, not replaces, a dedicated risk platform.
Does Speya screen suppliers for ESG and sustainability?
Yes, as part of discovery. Speya attaches certifications, public ESG disclosures and sustainability indicators to each supplier. Teams can also send an RFI with their own sustainability and compliance questions to the whole shortlist through Speya RFx. Deep, recurring ESG assessments stay in a dedicated ESG platform such as EcoVadis.
How does a Speya shortlist reach Zycus?
Two routes. The Speya API returns structured supplier records that your team can load into Zycus through iConsole, which Zycus describes as “the single point of communication between Zycus products and any third party application.” A Zycus REST API guide states that its REST APIs use JSON and need an Application Id from iConsole. Or export the shortlist as a spreadsheet for a single event. API access comes with a Team or Enterprise agreement and is reviewed per integration.
Is Speya independent of Zycus?
Yes. Speya is built and operated by Speya Intelligence AB in Stockholm and is not owned by or bundled into any procurement suite or ERP vendor. Suppliers do not pay to be listed or ranked. Independence is worth checking in this category: Coupa announced its acquisition of Scoutbee on 6 October 2025, and Supplier.io announced on 2 April 2026 that it had acquired TealBook.
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Disclosure
Speya is not affiliated with, endorsed by or in partnership with SAP, Coupa, JAGGAER, Ivalua, GEP, Oracle, Workday, Zycus or any other vendor named on this page. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify the products discussed. Statements about third-party products reflect the public sources listed above as of the date shown. Speya does not guarantee they are complete or current and corrects reported errors through the contact page. Speya connects to third-party systems through its open API: enterprise teams can build a custom integration, or ask Speya to scope one, on request and where it makes technical and commercial sense. Speya does not offer a certified or vendor-listed connector for these systems and does not warrant compatibility with, or the availability of, any third-party product.