Beroe and The Hackett Group® Announce Strategic Partnership to Deepen Market Intelligence for Procurement Leaders

Raleigh, NC & Miami, FL – May 20, 2025 – Beroe, a global leader in procurement decision intelligence, and The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT), a leading Gen AI strategic consultancy and executive advisory firm, have signed a new strategic partnership to boost category market intelligence offerings for procurement leaders and organizations around the world.

This new multi-year agreement builds on the longstanding business relationship between Beroe and The Hackett Group®, and directly addresses the challenges posed by increasingly volatile markets, delivering category market intelligence data with greater depth, scale, and speed.

As part of their membership, The Hackett Group’s clients will receive complimentary access to a select number of curated Beroe category reports each year, produced by a global research team of category and domain experts, enabling enhanced insights, greater visibility, and more proactive decision-making.

The Hackett Group’s clients will also be able to purchase full access to Beroe Live.ai as well as Beroe’s custom services, at specially discounted prices. Beroe’s clients will gain access to quarterly insights produced by The Hackett Group®, focused on their strategic capability areas.

In a move designed to deliver greater value to both firms’ clients, Beroe will onboard The Hackett Group’s category market intelligence function and embed it within its own world-leading procurement research team.

Chris Sawchuk, principal and Global Procurement Executive Advisory Practice Leader at The Hackett Group® said: “As procurement organizations strive to deliver both strategic impact and essential cost savings, this partnership bridges the gap between leadership-level transformation and deep, category-level market insights. With Beroe as our sole market intelligence partner, we can focus on our core business while also empowering clients with data-driven decision-making throughout their procurement functions as part of our delivery model.”

Vel Dhinagaravel, founder and CEO at Beroe added: “Together, we can help procurement leaders and their teams operate with greater foresight and agility. This deeper relationship with The Hackett Group® signals the start of a new era of greater collaboration between our two companies, with a shared vision of enabling smarter, faster, and more strategic procurement decisions.”

As well as access to category market intelligence and custom research capabilities, the roadmap for the partnership includes The Hackett Group’s advisory service clients being able to make integrated intelligence requests. Through Beroe’s AI-powered procurement assistant, Abi, insights will be delivered seamlessly within the Hackett Connect™ portal. In addition, complementary proactive alerts on key market developments will also be made available via Beroe’s always-on intelligence engine.

About Beroe

Beroe has been on procurement’s leading edge since the company’s founding in 2006, bringing a world of insights forward. The unique combination of Beroe’s expertise, AI tools, and vast amounts of reliable data enable organizations to make smarter, faster, better procurement decisions. Not tomorrow, not today, but now. Selected by ProcureTech as one of the “most pioneering Analytics, Data and Intelligence solutions in 2024”, Beroe helps thousands of organizations sift through the data noise, mitigate risk, face fewer surprises, and ultimately gain a competitive edge.

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About The Hackett Group®

The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) is an IP and platform-based, Gen AI strategic consulting and executive advisory firm that enables Digital World Class^® performance. Using AI XPLR^ä and ZBrain^ä – our ideation through implementation platforms – our experienced professionals help organizations realize the power of Gen AI and achieve quantifiable, breakthrough results, allowing us to be key architects of their Gen AI journey. Our expertise is grounded in unparalleled best practices insights from benchmarking the world’s leading businesses – including 97% of the Dow Jones Industrials, 90% of the Fortune 100, 70% of the DAX 40 and 51% of the FTSE 100. Visit us at www.thehackettgroup.com.

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