AI agents can already compress sourcing cycles from weeks to hours; what stalls them at most enterprises is the months they sit in IT, security, and data review before they ever touch live spend. Ben Leiken and Philip Gollucci share a first look at agentic workflows on Arkestro, including a live agent checking price agreements against market movement through the Arkestro MCP, plus the enterprise trust architecture behind it (identity, permissions, data boundaries, audited controls) that gets you from demo to deployed while your competitors are still filling out questionnaires.