Business functions
Finance & Accounting
Month-end that runs on overtime, and a control environment that has to hold anyway.
Where it hurts
The week these teams actually have, in their own words. If two of these are yours, the rest of this page is about you.
Month-end compression
The same work, always in the same five days.
Invoice exceptions
Matching failures that each need a human and a phone call.
Audit evidence
Assembled retrospectively because nothing captured it at the time.
Our work
Energy & Utilities~120group companies covered every monthEnergyLink Invoice Reconciliation Automation for a US Oil ProducerOil and gas producer · United States · NYSE-listed, about 120 group companiesRead the case
Energy & Utilities20+automations in productionIntelligent Automation Program for an Italian Multi-UtilityListed multi-utility · Italy · five provinces, energy, water, waste and public servicesRead the case
Retail & E-commerce7sister companies in one routineSAP and Esker Invoice Integration for a Luxury Fashion HouseLuxury fashion · Italy · part of a global luxury group, seven sister companies in the processRead the case
What the work runs on
The products these engagements were built on, most used first.
Ways to start here
Fixed-scope engagements we have run against exactly this kind of problem.
Start here
Automation Discovery Sprint
Four weeks. We measure what your process costs today and hand back a ranked backlog, including the candidates we tell you not to automate.
Fixed scopeDuration: 4 weeks
Retainer
Managed Automation Care
Monthly retainer covering monitoring, incident response and the change work that keeps automations alive as the systems underneath them drift.
RetainerDuration: Rolling, 3-month minimum
Diagnostic
Process Mining Diagnostic
Six weeks of event-log evidence answering where the cost actually sits, often upstream of the process you were told to fix.
Fixed scopeDuration: 6 weeks
From the practice
7 min read
Automation strategy
Your automation backlog is a list of opinions
Most backlogs rank candidates by who asked loudest. Event logs rank them by what they cost.
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Process intelligence
Your invoice process is mostly exceptions
Accounts payable teams describe a clean three-way match. The event data almost always shows something else, and the difference is the whole business case.
6 min read
Agentic AI
When not to use an AI agent
If the rules fit on one page and never change, an agent is an expensive way to run an if-statement.
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Technology transformation
You do not need to replace the system to fix the process
Most of the pain attributed to a legacy platform is actually in the gaps between platforms, and gaps are far cheaper to close than cores are to replace.
How we see it
Accounts payable and receivable, reconciliation, intercompany and reporting. The processes with the hardest deadlines and the least tolerance for an unexplained number.
Talk to us
Bring us one Finance & Accounting process and we will tell you what it would take.
Not a proposal: a read on whether the thing you have in mind is worth automating at all, what it costs, and where it usually goes wrong in this function.
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