Metis — an AI purchasing copilot you can drive in your browser
- My role
- Designed and built, solo
- Data
- Synthetic, labelled SIM — nothing leaves the tab
- Runs on
- Your browser: SQLite via sql.js, state in localStorage
A distributor raises hundreds of purchase-order lines a week, and every line has to clear three checkpoints: Was it ordered? Did the vendor confirm? Did the warehouse receive it? Most of that is routine chasing — reading confirmation emails, nudging silent vendors, matching paperwork. Metis does the routine part and hands a person only the genuine exceptions.
The 2.0 demo is a complete simulated company: 10 vendors, about 2,000 products and 200 PO lines a week, entirely synthetic. Step the clock forward, work the exception queue yourself, and watch the honest number appear — roughly 81% of lines handled end-to-end with zero human touches. The dashboard shows 100% before you have worked the queue. That is the mirage; 81% is the truth.
The demo also publishes its own failure. The first real supplier email we fed it (fully desensitised) returned nothing: the payload sat in PDF attachments, the date was day/month/year, the PO number was the wrong shape. That gap is on the page as a fix list, not hidden.
This is the realistic shape of AI in a back office — not replacing the team, but clearing the routine 80% so people only handle the calls that need judgment.