When the FIFA World Cup 2026 host committees needed to onboard thousands of vendors across multiple cities, they didn't reach for a PDF form and a spreadsheet. They deployed an AI agent.
Forms don't scale. Conversations do.
Procurement for a global sporting event means evaluating thousands of businesses across dozens of service categories — construction, catering, security, transportation, IT, hospitality — each city with its own compliance requirements and diversity goals.
Traditional portals dump vendors into a 40-field form, expect perfect data entry, and produce completion rates below 30%. Every missed field is a follow-up email. Every ambiguous answer is a manual review.
The Stimulus platform replaces all of that with a conversational AI agent. Vendors chat instead of filling forms. The agent collects structured data one question at a time, validates in real-time, and adapts the conversation based on what's already been provided.
How it works for vendors
A vendor visits their host committee's page and clicks "Start Assessment." The agent greets them, explains the process, and starts collecting information through natural conversation. If they pause and come back later, their session is preserved. If something doesn't validate, the agent explains why and helps them correct it.
The agent tracks progress across the entire assessment — confirming what's been saved, flagging what's still needed, and providing helpful examples along the way. The whole process takes about 10 minutes.
Multi-city, multi-language, one platform
Each FIFA 2026 host committee gets its own branded experience with custom compliance rules and configuration — all running on a single platform with full data isolation.
The agent adapts its conversation flow per host committee. Language support is built in — vendors can interact in their preferred language, which matters when you're onboarding international supply chains.
Clean data from day one
On the committee side, procurement officers get a searchable, filterable view of every submitted vendor profile. The data is clean because the agent validated it at collection time — not after the fact.
No spreadsheet cleanup. No follow-up emails for missing fields. Just a pipeline of qualified, structured vendor data ready for evaluation.
Beyond FIFA
Structured data collection at scale is an agent-native problem. The same Stimulus platform powers intake workflows for healthcare organizations, gaming companies, and municipal governments. The FIFA World Cup 2026 deployment is the highest-profile proof point — but the pattern is the same everywhere: replace the form with a conversation, and the data gets better.
The best procurement systems don't feel like procurement systems. They feel like talking to someone who knows what they're asking and why.