The Supply Chain Team That Fired Itself: How Three Founders and 141 AI Agents Replaced an Entire Procurement Department
A case study in autonomous supply chain management and the dark startup model eating corporate functions
The bankruptcy notice arrived on a Tuesday morning in October 2025.
KraussMacher GmbH, critical HVAC supplier to seventeen managed properties across Germany. €47 million in outstanding contracts. Six-month lead times on specialized equipment. No viable alternatives in the European market.
The bankruptcy would have been catastrophic. Except it wasn’t news.
Our AI had flagged KraussMacher’s financial distress six weeks earlier. Analyzed quarterly reports that humans marked “stable.” Detected payment delays to sub-suppliers through unstructured vendor data. Monitored shipping volume declines that didn’t match seasonal patterns.
Cross-referenced executive departures against industry norms.
By the time the bankruptcy notice arrived, we’d already re-sourced to three alternative suppliers, negotiated pricing that saved 12% against the original contracts, and positioned inventory to eliminate disruption risk.
The procurement team didn’t predict this.
They were too busy negotiating quarterly orders to analyze supplier financial health. The AI system spotted the pattern, generated alternatives, and orchestrated the transition while the humans were still reviewing last month’s invoices.
This is SCRS.
The AI-Powered Supply Chain Resilience System.
Where €890 million in annual disruption costs met autonomous procurement and one of those things stopped being necessary.
Welcome to the dark startup model applied to corporate supply chains.
Where three founders and 141 AI agents replace departments of fifty people.
Where procurement becomes autonomous.
Where humans stop making decisions and start validating machine outputs.
The future isn’t coming.
It’s running live across €4.2 billion in procurement spend at Indigi Labs.
And it doesn’t need your procurement team anymore.
