AP and controllership run on volume nobody staffed for. Invoices land from a dozen systems — the ERP, procurement portals, the AP inbox. Three-way matching means toggling between the ERP and a spreadsheet. The close checklist records that a step happened, not who did it or where the evidence lives. And the most dangerous message in the inbox is a vendor “updating” bank details — payment-diversion fraud targets that exact workflow because the change looks routine and the verification step is informal.
Generic automation handles the happy path. Finance is judged on the exceptions, and on whether it can prove — months later — who approved what.
Agents take the reading and matching; the deciding stays where it is. Extraction, record lookup, and discrepancy flagging run as workflow nodes. Records live in Data Tables inside the platform or in your ERP through an integration — the agent reads both the same way, and a match is a proposal, not a posting.
The control layer is the point. Approvals above a threshold require N-of-M consensus — two of three named approvers, not one tired one — with SLA timeouts and escalation chains so nothing rots in a queue. Every proposal, approval, rejection, and escalation lands in an append-only audit log spanning eight event categories. Evidence attaches as versioned artifacts: when auditors ask for support, you send a URL, not a zip file. Guardrails and PII redaction run before any model call, so vendor banking data and employee details are filtered before inference. Spend ceilings cap what any run can cost.
Runs are durable. A close step that pauses Tuesday for a controller’s sign-off resumes Thursday when it arrives — state intact, no re-run, no babysitting.
Payment release. Every change to vendor banking details, verified out-of-band by a person — the agent only assembles the evidence. Threshold sign-offs. Judgment on real exceptions: whether a price variance is a negotiated change or an entry error. An agent on this platform cannot approve its own proposal; the human gate is a node in the workflow, not a policy document. In finance, the log that proves it is half the value.
Start with one workflow. The free tier is enough to run a real one — agents propose, your team decides.