Expenses & Invoices
Accounts payable is a queue of things nobody is objecting to. An invoice arrives, gets keyed in, goes to an approver who is in meetings all week, and sits. A month later a vendor emails asking about it, and an AP clerk spends twenty minutes reconstructing where in the chain it stopped. Expense claims are the same story at smaller amounts and higher volume: mostly fine, occasionally out of policy, always slow.
A Skynet agent takes the administration out of the middle. It reads the document, extracts the fields, checks it against the PO and your policy, sends it to the right approver in the tool they already use, and follows up when nothing happens. The approval decision is still a person’s. The chasing is not.
How it works
Read and extract
The agent reads incoming invoices and receipts, extracts vendor, amount, dates, line items, and tax, and codes them against your chart of accounts using how similar documents were coded before.
Check it against the rules
It matches the invoice to its purchase order and receipt where one exists, and checks expense claims against your policy — limits, categories, required receipts. Mismatches are flagged with the specific discrepancy named, not just marked as an error.
Route to the right person
Using your approval thresholds and cost-centre ownership, the agent sends each item to whoever should decide it, in Slack, with the supporting document and any flags attached. Approving takes a glance because the context is already there.
Chase the silence
If an approval sits untouched, the agent follows up, then escalates on your schedule. Duplicate invoices and unusual amounts get held back and flagged for a person rather than being routed through.
Build it from a prompt
One description covers both flows.
The queue keeps moving without anyone owning the job of nagging. Vendors get paid on terms, expense claims clear in days, and the exceptions — the duplicate, the out-of-policy dinner, the invoice that does not match its PO — get a human’s attention because they are the only things left in the pile.