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Finance Automation

The workflows that consume finance teams — matching, chasing, approving and posting — handled by agents with a human gate where you want one.

Finance documents such as invoices, bank statements and supplier email processed in the PTAS AI app and posted to the ERP.

The symptoms

What Finance Teams Actually Complain About

Nobody asks for document extraction. They say the close keeps slipping, and that is a different sentence describing the same thing.

You would say

The close keeps slipping

Because most of what happens in the close window is work that could have happened during the month, and did not.

You would say

We hired to keep up

Headcount added to process volume rather than to judge anything. The second kind is worth hiring for; the first is not.

You would say

Nobody can find the backup

Every query becomes an archaeology exercise because the document and the entry live in different places.

What is underneath

Manual matching

Two or three documents describing the same purchase in different words, reconciled by a person, thousands of times a month.

What is underneath

Approval chasing

More time spent finding out where an invoice got stuck than the approval itself takes.

What is underneath

Deferred reconciliation

Bank, ledger and payables reconciled once a month because doing it continuously was never practical by hand.

The shift

Move the Work, Not the Deadline

A close is long because processing was deferred into it. The fix is not a faster close — it is less work waiting there.

Where the work sits

Runs during the monthAgents
Supplier invoices captured and readInvoice AgentContinuous
Coded to ledger and cost centreAccounting AgentContinuous
Three-way match against PO and GRNMatching AgentContinuous
Bank statements reconciledReconciliation AgentDaily
Accrual and recurring journalsAccounting AgentDrafted
Still happens at closeYour team
Judgement calls and estimatesFinancePeople
Exceptions the agents escalatedFinancePeople
Review and sign-offControllerPeople

Nothing in the second list should be automated. The argument is that it should be the only list.

Work moves earlier

Matching and coding happen on arrival, not in the close.

Judgement stays

Estimates and sign-off are not things to automate.

Backup attached

The document travels with the entry it created.

FAQ

Questions Teams Ask

Is this different from buying FinSuite?

It is the same platform, approached from the other end. FinSuite is the product with its capability list; finance automation is the outcome you are buying, which usually means two or three of those capabilities configured to your rules. If you already know you want AP automation specifically, the product pages are the faster read.

Will this shorten our close?

It should, because the work that fills a close window — matching, coding, reconciling — moves into the month instead. We are not going to put a number on it before seeing your data, though; how much it moves depends on how much of your close is processing versus judgement.

Do we have to change our ERP or our chart of accounts?

No. The agents work in front of your system of record and post into it using your existing accounts, cost centres and dimensions. Teams mid-migration between two ERPs often find this easier rather than harder, because the workflow layer is not tied to either.

What do we need ready before starting?

A month of real documents, your coding rules as they actually are rather than as documented, and a decision on who approves what. The third one is usually where the conversation takes longest, and it is worth having before implementation rather than during.

Next step

Pick the Queue That Eats the Most Time

One workflow, on a month of your real documents. That answers the question faster than any deck.