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Invoice & AP Agent

Matches, codes and routes invoices and expenses against policy.

50–75% of invoices processed touchlessly

The problem. Accounts payable absorbs headcount on matching, coding and chasing approvals, while late payments cost discounts and duplicate payments cost real money.

The agent performs two- and three-way matching, codes the invoice to the right account and cost centre, and routes it to the correct approver with the exception clearly stated.

It applies expense policy consistently, flags duplicates and out-of-policy claims, and explains why rather than simply rejecting.

Payment release always stays with finance; the agent prepares, it does not pay.

Before

AP clerks key, match and chase, month-end is a scramble, and policy is applied unevenly across regions.

After

Clean invoices flow straight through, exceptions arrive explained, and finance approves rather than assembles.

Reference architecture

Where this agent sits in the stack.

Document, decision and workflow automation layered over the process platforms and systems of record you already run.

Process intakeSystems of record
  1. 01

    Intake channels

    Email, portals, EDI, scanned documents, shared mailboxes and API events captured into a single classified queue.

  2. 02

    Document intelligence

    OCR, IDP and LLM extraction with confidence scoring, validation rules and straight-through-processing thresholds per document type.

  3. 03

    Decision & workflow orchestration

    Business rules, agentic steps and process orchestration across BPM, RPA and native platform workflows — with exception routing.

  4. 04

    Exception & analyst desk

    A worklist for the cases automation should not close alone, with an analyst copilot that explains the extraction and proposed action.

  5. 05

    Core systems

    ERP, finance, ITSM, HCM and line-of-business systems updated through governed integrations rather than screen scraping.

Integration surface

  • ERP and accounts payable module
  • Procurement and purchase-order data
  • Expense management platform
  • Vendor master and banking controls

Guardrails & human oversight

  • The agent never releases payment or changes banking details — both are human-controlled.
  • Vendor bank-detail change requests are treated as fraud risk and escalated.
  • Every action outside policy stops at a reviewer queue with the agent's reasoning, evidence and proposed change attached.
  • Coding and approval thresholds follow the finance delegation of authority.

What has to be true first

  • ERP and PO data access with a test company.
  • A current delegation-of-authority matrix.
  • Expense policy expressible as rules.

Security, data & compliance

  • Runs under a dedicated service identity with least-privilege, per-tool scopes — never a shared admin account.
  • Customer and employee data stays inside your tenancy and region; no training on your data by default.
  • PII is redacted before it reaches a model, and prompts, responses and tool calls are retained under your retention policy.
  • Every tool call, input, decision and system write is logged and replayable for audit and model-risk review.
Rollout

How this agent reaches production.

  1. Weeks 1–2 · Scope

    Invoice and expense mix analysis, DOA capture, exception taxonomy.

  2. Weeks 3–6 · Build

    Matching, coding, policy checks and approval routing in the ERP.

  3. Weeks 7–10 · Production pilot

    One entity live with finance reconciliation each cycle.

  4. Quarter 2+ · Scale & run

    Multi-entity rollout with duplicate detection and month-end reporting.

Measurement plan

What we agree to be measured on.

Ranges drawn from comparable production engagements. Your baseline is agreed before build starts, and the same numbers are reported after go-live.

MetricExpected range
Invoices processed touchlessly50–75%
Invoice cycle time50–70% faster
Early-payment discounts capturedMaterially higher
Duplicate payments detected before release90%+ of identified cases

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Production pilot

One legal entity live with reconciliation each cycle and a measured touchless rate.

Fixed-price scope · milestone billing · price on request.

Scale & run

Multi-entity, multi-currency AP and expense coverage with month-end and control reporting.

Retained pod · quarterly outcome review · price on request.

Agent specification

The full Invoice & AP Agent specification, as a PDF.

A multi-page specification your architecture, security and procurement reviewers can read without a call: what the agent does, the architecture, the integration surface, autonomy and guardrails, security posture, rollout plan, measurement plan and engagement shape.

  • Process before and after, with the decision that stays with a human
  • Layered architecture diagram and named integration surface
  • Guardrails, approval gates, escalation and audit trail
  • Security, data handling and compliance posture
  • Phase-by-phase rollout and the measurement plan
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