01AP invoice agent
Every vendor bill was typed in twice, into two systems, about 30 a day. The agent went live about six weeks after the on-site day. It reads each bill from email, matches it to the purchase order, and enters it in both systems once the clerk approves.
- A specialty manufacturer · accounting software + a custom operations database
- 64 of 67 bills through the agent in week one
- Kept running for a monthly fee
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02A finance team run on agents
At a multi-company manufacturer and distributor, about 13 agent roles do daily work: AP and cash receipts entered into the ERP, payroll and month-end entries, purchase orders, and collections. A person approves each entry.
- About 13 agent roles
- Nine live dashboards
03Collections agent
From live aging, the agent drafts the collections email and the statement for each past-due customer. A person reviews each one and sends it. A morning of work in the ERP and the inbox, now ready when the day starts.
- Agent · ERP + inbox
- Drafts from live aging
- A person sends every one
04Payroll preparation
The agent prepares the payroll entries, and the controller approves them.
- Agent · payroll + accounting software
- The controller approves every run
05Month-end close entries
An agent prepares the month-end entries, and the controller approves them before anything posts.
- Agent · ERP
- Approved before posting, every month
06Cash receipts
Remittances and ACH detail, read and keyed into the ERP.
- Agent · ERP + bank
- A person approves each entry
07Sales & margin
Sales and gross margin by customer, product and rep, read straight from the ERP, including every entry the agents made. It replaces the report someone exported every morning.
- Dashboard · ERP
- Replaces a daily export
- Multi-company, one view
08Receivables & aging
Live aging by customer, the same view that feeds the collections agent.
09Consolidated financials
A live income statement and product-margin view, consolidated across sister companies, that shows the month-end result.
- Dashboard · ERP
- Multi-company GL consolidation
- An income statement that's never stale
10Purchasing & PO write-back
The agent drafts purchase orders and writes them back to the ERP.
- Agent · ERP
- Approval-gated
AP automation →
11Bank reconciliation
The agent matches the bank to the book.
- Agent · ERP + bank feed
- Approval-gated
12AP workbench
Every open bill, its PO match and its approval state.
- Dashboard · accounting software
- Live
AP automation →
13Job costing & production rates
Production rates feed real per-job cost and margin: estimate against actual during the job, not at close. Costs the agents enter show up the same day.
- Dashboard · production data + ERP
- Estimate vs. actual per job
- Overruns surfaced early
14Purchasing
Open POs, receipts and vendor price changes.
15Commissions
Rep commissions from live sales.
16PTO tracking
Balances and requests.
17Ask your data (AI)
Plain-English questions over the same live data. It drafts entries for a person to approve.
- AI assistant · the same live data
- A person approves each entry