Sample data vs your data

See the Savings Center, spend cube and should-cost index fully populated before you connect a single real supplier.

What you get

• A pre-built demo — 4 sample suppliers, 8 purchase items across three categories, six months of spend history, and a completed check.
• A fully populated Savings Center and Alerts to explore without spending a research unit.
• A one-click path back to empty when you're ready to add your own purchase catalog.

What the procurement sample dataset contains

Sample data is a showcase dataset, not a starting catalog. It loads:

• 4 suppliers across three categories: Structural Steel, Packaging Materials, and Copper Wiring.
• 8 purchase items, each with an incumbent supplier, catalog price, and an alert threshold.
• Spend lines — roughly six months of sample QuickBooks-style spend history per item, so Spend and the should-cost index sparklines have something to plot immediately.
• Should-cost index links for all three categories, already linked to their matching public index series.
• One completed check, with savings recommendations (a switch-supplier suggestion with a draft RFQ message, a renegotiate suggestion, and one marked investigate) and alerts (including an index_drift alert) already populated in the Savings Center and on Alerts.

Sample mode blocks real checks

While your workspace has sample data loaded, it's in sample mode, and real checks are blocked — selecting Run now on Overview won't trigger a real check until you clear the sample data out. This keeps sample and real results from mixing.

Switching to your own data

1. Go to Settings → General.
2. Under Danger zone, select Reset workspace data.
3. Confirm. This clears the sample suppliers, purchase catalog, spend lines, checks, recommendations, and alerts, taking your workspace back to empty.
4. Follow Get set up in four steps to add your real suppliers and purchase catalog.

Resetting only clears workspace data; it does not touch your account, membership, billing plan, or integration configuration.

Go further

• Get set up in four steps — what to do once sample data is cleared.
• See what needs attention — what the sample recommendations are showing you.
• Understand your spend data — where the sample spend lines come from, and how to bring in your own.
• Track contract renewals — a calendar view once you've added real renewal dates.