Press Release – Market Dojo Earns Validation in The Hackett Group’s Spring 2026 SolutionMap Procurement Technology Assessment

Stroud, UK, April 27, 2026, Market Dojo (an Esker company), a leading provider of AI sourcing solutions, has announced it has been recognized as a validated provider in The Hackett Group’s Spring 2026 SolutionMap, the industry’s most rigorous, data-driven benchmark for procurement technology. Market Dojo was evaluated as part of an assessment spanning 118 vendors across 16 source-to-pay (S2P) categories.

SolutionMap assessments are conducted by The Hackett Group’s Solution Intelligence analysts, formerly the Spend Matters™ analyst team. Each evaluation is built on 500+ detailed functional and capability criteria, mandatory product demonstrations, and impartial, anonymized, verified customer value ratings. The result is an independent, evidence-based view of the procurement technology landscape – one that procurement leaders actively rely on when evaluating solutions, building business cases and gaining internal buy-in for technology investments. For technology providers, SolutionMap Validated status represents credible, third-party confirmation of their solution’s strengths in a market where differentiation is increasingly difficult to establish and easy to question.

“The cost of a mis-buy is higher than ever – and AI marketing is making it harder to see what truly works,” said Carina Kuhl, Principal, Solution Intelligence at The Hackett Group®. “SolutionMap gives leaders confirmation they can defend: clear shortlists, credible comparisons and reality-checked capability insight to support stakeholder buy-in.”

As AI-enabled capabilities become more widely embedded across procurement platforms, the bar for meaningful differentiation continues to rise. Procurement professionals are making technology decisions that carry real consequences – for their organizations’ performance and their own credibility. SolutionMap is designed to give them the facts they need to select best-fit solutions with confidence, and give providers a trusted platform to demonstrate why they belong on the shortlist.

To view the full Spring 2026 SolutionMap and learn more about The Hackett Group’s procurement technology assessment methodology, visit www.thehackettgroup.com/solutionmap.

Alun Rafique, CEO of Market Dojo, commented:
“Procurement teams have spent years being buried under spreadsheets, chasing stakeholders and trying to make sense of disconnected supplier data. Agentic AI changes the game entirely. We’re moving from software that simply helps people work faster to intelligent sourcing agents that can actively guide decisions, surface risks before they become problems, and take care of the heavy lifting procurement professionals never had time for in the first place.

The real challenge in procurement right now isn’t access to AI, it’s knowing which solutions genuinely deliver value versus which are just wrapped in AI buzzwords. That’s why independent validation like SolutionMap matters. It cuts through the noise and gives procurement leaders confidence that the technology they’re investing in can actually move the needle on cost, risk and supplier performance.”

About Market Dojo

Market Dojo is a leading global procurement software provider built to solve inefficient sourcing and supplier management processes. Trusted by organisations worldwide with headquarters in the UK, Market Dojo is 51% owned by Esker, a global cloud platform with headquarters in Lyon, France. 

Press Contact: David Smith, Head of Marketing, Market Dojo, [email protected].
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