AP automation
The agent reads each vendor bill from email, matches it to the purchase order, and flags a price difference before anyone pays. A person approves it, and nobody retypes it.
- Vendor bills and PO matching
- A person approves each entry
Based in St. LouisAI consulting and automation
AI Consulting & Automation in St. Louis
lumic is an AI consulting and automation firm based in St. Louis. Its Forward Deployed Engineers have finance backgrounds. They come on site, find the back-office work your team does by hand, build an AI agent for one job at a time inside the systems you already run, and keep it working. A person on your team approves every entry before it posts.
What lumic automates
Advice that ends in a working agent.
A consultant can tell you where AI fits. lumic also builds it, inside your own systems, and stays to run it. Each agent does one back-office job end to end.
Cash receipts and collections
Remittances and ACH detail, read and keyed into the ERP. Collections emails and statements drafted from live aging, ready when the day starts.
- Cash receipts keyed for approval
- A person sends every collections email
Payroll
The agent builds the payroll journal entry from your payroll reports and checks every line. The controller reviews it and posts it.
- Accruals and reversals
- Posted only on the controller’s click
Month-end close
An agent prepares the recurring month-end entries and runs the tie-outs. Every entry waits unposted until the controller posts it.
- Agent · ERP
- Approved before posting, every month
Dashboards and reporting
Sales and margin, receivables, purchasing, job costing and consolidated financials, read live from your ERP. No more morning export.
- Live, on your own data
- Dashboards only read
How an engagement runs
lumic starts where the work happens. Live in weeks, not quarters.
On-site diagnostic.
lumic’s FDEs work beside your team where the work happens. They map your systems, your data, and the manual steps that take the most time.
Build the agent.
The team builds an agent for one job, connects it to your systems, and sets up the approval step. Your team tests it on real work before it goes live.
Managed and kept working.
lumic watches it, tests it, fixes it, and upgrades it, for a monthly fee. You run the business.
The method in full: How lumic works. The practices on every agent: Guardrails. Starting prices: Pricing. On site across the region: St. Louis. What an FDE is: Forward-deployed engineers.
Questions
AI consulting in St. Louis, in plain answers.
Does lumic offer AI consulting in St. Louis?
Yes. lumic is based in St. Louis, and its FDEs come on site across Greater St. Louis, Missouri and Illinois. The work starts with a free consultation, then an on-site diagnostic of the back-office jobs your team does by hand.
What does lumic automate?
Back-office jobs, one agent per job: vendor bills and PO matching, cash receipts and collections, the payroll journal entry, month-end close entries, and live dashboards and reporting.
How is lumic different from an AI consultant?
A consultant advises and leaves. lumic's FDEs build the agent inside your own systems and stay to run it after launch, for a monthly fee.
Who approves what the agent does?
A person on your team. The agent makes the entry, and a person checks it and approves it before anything posts. The final post stays in your hands.
What does AI consulting and automation cost?
Free consultation. On-site work $1,500/day, credited toward phase one. Managed agents from $1,000/month. Full build-and-run from $2,500–6,000/month. Final pricing depends on your workflow and systems. These figures are starting points, not quotes. Details: Pricing.
Which areas does lumic serve?
Greater St. Louis: St. Louis City, St. Louis County, St. Charles County, Jefferson County and Franklin County in Missouri; Madison County and St. Clair County in Illinois. lumic travels for the right fit. The area in full: St. Louis.
Based in St. Louis. Start with a conversation.
Every engagement is led by a senior FDE, on site.
How to start
- 1A 20‑minute call.You walk the team through the work your people do by hand.
- 2A written proposal.What lumic would build, the timeline, and the cost.
- 3An on-site visit.lumic’s FDEs meet your team where the work happens and confirm the plan. St. Louis first; they travel for the right fit.