AI product readAI-powered guided buying assistant and automated punchout authentication for enterprise procurement platforms
Helps enterprise procurement teams efficiently find and purchase items across multiple procurement platforms (Ariba, Ivalua, Onventis, Newtron) by injecting AI-guided search widgets into platform pages and automating the vendor punchout login process
1. Extension is configured with TenantId and ApiKey (either by admin via managed storage or by user manually). 2. On supported procurement platform pages, the extension fetches configuration from askLio API and injects an AI guided-buying search widget. 3. Users type search queries or select suggestion prompts; searches open in a new tab via the askLio chat interface. 4. For punchout flows triggered from askLio web app, the extension navigates to vendor sites, displays a branded 'Signing you in' overlay, waits for authentication to complete (using timeout, URL-stability, or cookie detection strategies), then redirects to the target item.
Injects AI-powered guided buying search widget into procurement platform pages (Ariba, Ivalua, Onventis, Newtron)Automated punchout authentication - handles vendor site login flows automatically with configurable detection strategies (timeout, URL-settled, cookie)Punchout overlay UI showing 'Signing you in' progress with vendor name and product detailsMulti-language support with automatic language detection for widget UITenant-specific remote configuration fetched from askLio APIEnterprise-managed deployment support via Chrome managed storage
- Target users
- Enterprise procurement teams / Organizations using Ariba, Ivalua, Onventis, or Newtron procurement platforms / askLio customers
- Cannot determine askLio's pricing model or whether the destination service has paid tiers
- Remote config fetched from api.lio.asklio.ai is not available for inspection - it may gate features server-side based on tenant plan
- No information about what happens when chatBaseUrl (used for AI search) is opened - may require askLio web app authentication
MonetizationNo paid features detected
No evidence of paid features, payment flows, subscription gating, or upgrade UI within the extension source code. Searches for premium, subscription, payment, billing, upgrade, and plan returned zero relevant matches. The 'pro' keyword hits were all false positives (protocol, promise, productCard, stopPropagation, injectionInProgress). The 'license' hit was just the MIT license for the Pico CSS library. The extension itself does not gate any features behind a paywall. However, since the extension requires an askLio tenant account with API credentials, the askLio destination service likely has its own pricing/contract structure for enterprise procurement AI features.
- Confidence
- 80
- Payment platform
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- Source
- AI / High
- Login required
- Yes
- Reason
- The extension requires a TenantId and ApiKey to function. Without these credentials (obtained from an askLio tenant account), the extension throws 'No credentials' error (background.js:18) and cannot fetch its remote configuration from api.lio.asklio.ai. The popup displays a setup form for entering Tenant ID and API Key (popup.html:44-48, popup.js:10-13). These are askLio service-level credentials, not a traditional user login. The 'authentication' in the manifest description refers to punchout authentication (automating vendor site logins), not the extension's own login.