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How Spendesk uses Spendesk
Steal this Playbook: How Spendesk Used Spendesk to Reach Profitability
May 28, 4:00 PM CET
About the event
TL;DR — Spendesk reached profitability using its own product. Here's exactly how they did it - and how you can steal the playbook for your own company.
Ever wonder how a spend management company actually manages its own spend?
We're popping the hood and showing you exactly how Spendesk's own finance team runs on Spendesk - and how that decision helped us reach profitability.
In this session, Pauline Bellée Babel, CFO at Spendesk, and Guillaume Lemesle, Head of Procurement at Spendesk, walk us through the procurement and approval workflows their team built on their own product - the controls that eliminated wasteful spend, the automation that freed up their team's time, and the savings that ran into the millions.
Pauline gives you the honest CFO perspective on what's genuinely automated, where AI is already saving real hours, and how finance became a strategic engine rather than a back-office function.
Guillaume takes you live into the product: hundreds of vendors, significant spend under management, and the approval flows that replaced scattered Slack threads with full visibility over every purchase.
We'll cover
A full walkthrough of how Spendesk runs its own P2P process
Live in the product with Guillaume - from purchase requests and vendor management to approval routing and contract renewals
What's working, what they'd do differently, and why workflow depth matters
Including the approval and procurement configurations that give finance real control — and how that compares to the alternatives
The CFO perspective: from cost control to profitability driver
Pauline on the decisions that mattered and the savings that ran into the millions
AI in the finance workflow
MCP integration in production at Spendesk - where it genuinely earns its place in a modern finance team
Meet the speakers
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Pauline Babel
CFO, Spendesk
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Guillaume Lemesle
Head of Procurement, Spendesk
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Luc Hancock
Head of Community, CFO Connect
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