What Konyx is, the problem it exists for, who it is for and how it differs from the systems a plant already has.
Konyx is industrial procurement software for MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) and indirect spend. It takes a request from the plant floor to a purchase order in the vendor's inbox: it reads the request, matches it against the company's own catalog and purchase history, ranks vendors, sends the RFQ, compares the quotes and issues the order — and a person reviews every step.
Konyx is a web application used from a browser on a desk or a phone. It is not an ERP and does not replace one: the ERP stays the system of record for the order and the money, and Konyx owns the work that happens before the order exists — the request, the sourcing, the RFQ, the quotes and the decision.
The company is Konyx Industrial Intelligence. The product is at an early stage: complete for pilots, with no published customer results yet.
- Legal name
- Konyx Industrial Intelligence
- Website
- https://konyxai.com
- Product type
- Web application, browser-based, phone-first
- Category
- Procurement software — MRO and indirect spend
- Stage
- Pilot-ready; first design-partner pilots
- Contact
- ceo@konyxai.com
Related: The problem Konyx exists for · Who Konyx is for · How Konyx differs from an ERP, a portal or a marketplace · Four steps, a person at each one
Source: konyxai.com — home page · Checked 26 September 2026 · Version 1 · company.what-konyx-is
In most plants the request-for-quotation cycle for MRO and indirect parts takes days: a technician describes a part without its number, a buyer chases vendors by phone and email, quotes come back as PDFs, and nobody sees what was paid last time. Konyx collapses that cycle to minutes.
The cost is not only the buyer's day. A rush part bought from whoever answers first costs more than the contract price; a quote compared against nothing is accepted as it is; a request that sits in an inbox delays maintenance. Konyx puts the company's own data — catalog, vendors, purchase history, contracts — beside every line, so the decision is informed and quick.
Related: What Konyx is · What did we pay last time? · The technician does not know the part number
Source: Engineering Action Plan — Purpose · Checked 26 September 2026 · Version 1 · company.problem
Konyx is built for asset-heavy plants — refining, chemicals, LNG, aerospace, mills — and for four kinds of people in them: maintenance and operations, procurement, plant and finance leadership, and IT and security.
Maintenance and operations raise requests without leaving the job and see where each one is. Procurement receives structured requests, ranked vendors and comparable quotes instead of chasing. Leadership sees what was asked, what it cost last time, what it cost now and how long each step took. IT and security get one backend, isolation between companies, permissions on every call and an append-only log.
Related: Refining · General manufacturing and MRO · What Konyx is
Source: konyxai.com — Who it's for · Checked 26 September 2026 · Version 1 · company.who-konyx-is-for
Konyx is not an ERP, not a vendor portal for technicians to learn, and not a marketplace. It is the front door that understands a request in plain words and the back office that finishes it — with the company's own vendors, its own prices and its own rules.
Against an ERP: the ERP records orders and money; it does not read a photo of a nameplate, find a vendor for a niche part, or send an RFQ to six suppliers at once. Konyx does that work and hands the ERP a purchase order.
Against an e-procurement portal: a portal asks the requester to know the catalog. Konyx asks what they need, in their words, and does the lookup itself.
Against a marketplace: Konyx does not sit between the buyer and the vendor. The company's own vendors quote directly to the company through a link; Konyx supplies the structure, the comparison and the record.
Related: Does Konyx replace our ERP? · Is Konyx a marketplace? · Ask Konyx — request intake
Source: konyxai.com — What Konyx does · Checked 26 September 2026 · Version 1 · company.how-konyx-differs
Five rules govern the product: the AI is never the system of record; a person presses Send; the database is the source of truth and the model interprets it; every state change is recorded in the same transaction as the change; and each company is isolated below the application, in the database.
These are not policies layered on afterwards. Drafting an RFQ and sending it are separate permissions; the model's confidence is computed in code from what it could and could not confirm, never taken from the model's own estimate; the audit log cannot drift from reality because the same function that changes a status is the only thing that writes the audit event.
Related: A person presses Send · An audit trail that cannot drift · Each company is isolated in the database · What the AI does, and what it never does
Source: Engineering Action Plan — §1, §3.7, §3.8 · Checked 26 September 2026 · Version 1 · company.principles
Email ceo@konyxai.com, or book a demo through the form on konyxai.com. Customers sign in at app.konyxai.com.
A demo is about thirty minutes and walks the request-to-purchase-order flow with the prospect's own part numbers and vendors. No account is created by the demo form; the details are only used to reply.
- Email
- ceo@konyxai.com
- Book a demo
- https://konyxai.com/#demo
- Customer sign-in
- https://app.konyxai.com
Related: One facility, ninety days
Source: konyxai.com — footer · Checked 2 October 2026 · Version 3 · company.contact
