Accounts payable is where finance teams lose time: bills arrive in different formats, evidence is incomplete, and approvals get stuck in email.
The finance agent is most useful when it:
- drafts the intake work
- routes approvals explicitly
- keeps evidence connected to decisions
See:
The AP intake workflow (control-first)
- Intake: capture the bill and evidence
- Draft: extract key fields and propose coding/routing
- Review: humans confirm, correct, or reject
- Approve: money/commitment actions require explicit approval
- Execute: payment workflows run with traceability
Related product workflows:
Fail closed on missing evidence
Do not let "we will attach later" become the default.
If evidence is missing:
- block the approval
- route an exception to the owner
- require completion before execution
Evidence-first is how you prevent end-of-month disasters.
Keep the audit trail attached
At any time you should be able to answer:
- who approved this?
- which evidence was attached?
- what changed between draft and final?
If you cannot answer those questions, you cannot safely scale automation.
What to do next
- Deploy the agent: Finance Agent
- Build the AP chain: Vendor bills -> Vendor payments
- Lock governance: Trust and governance