Invoices handled correctly & valid to clear, across live clients
60⁃90%
Lower AP operating cost
cost-to-process falls as volume scales, not headcount
100%
Discrepancies surfaced
every error and mismatch caught, nothing waved through
The Problem · And The Kognify Answer
AP is the last corner of finance that still scales with headcount.Kognify breaks that link.
Existing tools prefil extracted values - then people take over for verifications & approvals: recalculate, match against order, chase missing goods, sign off. It's slow, it's expensive per invoice, and it locks up cash. Every increase in volume means another hire. Meanwhile the real risk - the <1% of invoices that are actually wrong - hides inside the 100% your team rubber-stamps.
TodayWith Kognify
✕Cost scales with volume. More invoices means more AP staff, more overtime before close, and a rising cost-to-process per invoice.
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✓Scale up free of administrative cost Process 2x or 5x the invoices without 2x/5x the effort - 60-90% lower AP operating cost, falling further as you scale.
✕Cash is trapped. Multi-day cycle times delay payment decisions, forfeit early-payment discounts, and blur the cash-flow picture.
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✓Cash becomes a lever. Invoices are payment-ready in hours, not days - capture discounts and time payments deliberately.
✕The close is unpredictable. Backlog piles up before period-end, and finance can't forecast when it will clear.
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✓The close is predictable. Every invoice is verified the day it lands, so the backlog clears continuously - no pre-close scramble.
✕Automation doesnt reduce the verification work. Current automation has an average success rate of ~60%. But even when succesfull, all AP automation demands full manual recalculation & verification.
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✓Automation you can rely on. 98% success rate across live clients. Every line is recalculated, verified and reconciliated, so people can focus on the real discrepencies..
✕Full review, shallow checks. Accountants review 100% of invoices, yet shallow total-level matching lets real errors and overbilling slip through.
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✓Line-level checks catch what totals hide. Every line is recalculated and matched to the order, the delivery and the contract price, so errors and overbilling are surfaced and explained allowing accountants to quickly understand and resolve the real issues.
✕Change waits on IT. A new supplier format or regulation means a ticket and a queue, not a same-day fix.
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✓Change is same-day. Finance writes rules in plain language and they go live immediately - no developer ticket, no wait.
~80%
of Accounts Payable effort goes to mechanical work - checking math, matching orders, chasing exceptions.
With Kognify
98%
reduction in mechanical work. Invoices come out verified, validated & reconcilated, with meaningfull overview & argumented invoice & delivery statuses. Detailed review is available for all.
>1 week
typical cycle time from receipt to payment-ready - cash sits idle and discounts expire while it runs.
With Kognify
<30 s
to verify each invoice on arrival - payment-ready in hours, not days.
<2%
of invoices actually have problems - yet the team reviews 100%, so the exposure hides in plain sight.
With Kognify
100%
of discrepancies are surfaced & flagged - your team can review only the unresolved few.
The Business Case
Six ways autonomous AP reshapes the finance function.
This isn't a productivity tweak for the AP desk. Automating verification and decisioning changes the shape of the finance function - its cost base, its cash position, its risk posture, and its capacity to grow.
💰
Free up working capital
Faster, confident payment decisions let you time payments deliberately - capture 2/10-net-30 style discounts and optimize DPO instead of paying on autopilot.
📉
Break the cost-to-volume link
Process 2x or 5x the invoices without 2x the AP team. Cost-to-process falls as you scale - a structural change to the finance operating model.
🛡️
Strengthen controls & audit
Every invoice is recalculated bottom-up and matched line by line, with a full audit trail on each AI decision. Real exposure surfaces instead of hiding in the 100%.
⏱️
Compress and de-risk the close
Backlog clears continuously, not in a pre-close scramble. A predictable, faster close with fewer surprises reaching the finance leadership's desk.
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See cash in real time
Ask in plain language for spend by supplier, category, or period and get an instant breakdown - live payables visibility without a BI project.
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A beachhead for finance AI
AP is the entry point to an enterprise platform of autonomous operators - a repeatable path to AI adoption across the finance org and beyond.
How It Works
Kognify doesn't move data around. It verifies the invoice and decides.
The reason autonomous approval can be trusted is what happens on every invoice, every time. For the first time, true automation is possible in accounting - not data entry with a human safety net, but AI that reads, recalculates, matches and verifies. Here is the path each invoice takes:
Invoice inEmailPDFScanPhotoDMS / M-Files
ProvenYour ruleStops
01
Document to data
Read until nothing is missing
Multi-method readingDistinct methods, chosen by how clear the result is
Pages sortedPages of interest found, multi-document files split
Pre-emptive calculationsState evaluated, recalculation plan prepared
Your configuration appliedCompany-specific setup and checks against your data
03
Recalculate
Solve the invoice from the bottom up
Every line, every fieldConsequential line items identified and read
Build full solving logicPlan calculation from unit to total navigating discounts, surcharges, VAT, excise, compound units...
Proven value by valueRecalculated vs on-page - recalculated line sum to on-page line sum, recalculated lines sum to on page invoice total
Your validationsCustom checks run, custom fields derived
04
Match - your processes
Reconcile every line like your best accountant
POs found by logicDetermined from the items themselves - no PO id on the invoice needed
Price & QuantityIdentify price and quantity differences
Delivery StatusDelivered vs ordered - delivered, non-delivery, partial/supplemental delivery, unordered
Your rulesHardened against your synced data, nomenclatures and tolerances
↓ Outcome
98%+ verified~2% escalated
✓ Verified
98%+
of invoices are successfully handled autonomously by Kognify
Successfully recalculated, matched and posted straight to financeRecalculated→Matched→Posted
All invoices are available for review at any time
Approvals can also be enabledDepending on your preference.
! Escalated
~2%
of invoices have issues in recalculation, verification or reconciliation
Clearly marked with a bright red or yellow statusRed - stopsYellow - your rule
An overview of where and what the issue is
Each line is provided with reasoningShowing how the results were decided.
Where The Money Shows Up
From a cost center to a lever on cash and control.
The operational wins convert directly into financial ones. When verification and matching are autonomous and instant, finance gains real optionality over payment timing, cost, and close.
60⁃90%
Lower AP operating cost as manual verification and matching are removed
Days → hrs
Cycle time from receipt to payment-ready, freeing decisions on discounts and DPO
Integrated
Line-level 3-way matching with extrapolation of correct PO & intelligent handling of real-world exceptions
<1 mo
To a pilot running in production - payback measured in weeks, not quarters
Across The Month - Full Example
Aware of the whole process. Every document verified against it.
One supplier, one month, every source connected. Kognify knows where each document sits in the process: it extracts what arrives from outside, syncs what your team creates and verifies every line against everything already on file - so the matching is done before the month closes. This is the fully connected picture, not a requirement - Kognify works with invoices alone or with one additional source such as purchase orders, and every source you add makes validation stronger.
DocumentLedger & price in forceExtracted by KognifySynced by KognifyEntered by your teamKognify flowAgreesYour ruleStopsRe-checked by a later document
Illustrative example · Arda Packaging · March 2026
Hover or tap any document. Invoices, credit notes and statements are extracted before the ERP; contracts, orders and receipts are synced from it. Swipe sideways for the whole month.
Proven in Production
Numbers we commit to - backed by a plan that earns them.
Live results with real clients today, and a roadmap ahead. Backed by structured onboarding and responsive strategy for support - not optimism.
99.17%
6-month average success rate in live production.
98%
Success rate in the very first month of deployment.
~30%
Higher extraction success on Bulgarian documents.
vs. ABBYY Vantage
50%
Of clients expand into additional processes.
within 2 months
Benchmarked · Accounts Payable
Kognify vs. the industry benchmarks.
Kognify's production performance measured against Ardent Partners' "AP Metrics That Matter in 2025" - a study of 212 AP & finance professionals. Best-in-Class = the top 20% of enterprises.
Autonomous processing
Higher is better ↑
Kognify98%
Best-in-Class49.2%
Industry avg32.6%
Processing time
Lower is better ↓
Kognify1 day
Best-in-Class3.1 days
Industry avg9.2 days
Cost per invoice
Lower is better ↓ · loaded cost
Kognify€0.25
Best-in-Class€2.43
Industry avg€8.22
Metric
Kognify
Best-in-Class
Industry avg
Autonomous invoice processing
98%
49.2%
32.6%
Autonomous 3-way reconciliation
95%
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Self-monitoring accuracy
99.9%
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Invoice processing time
1 day
3.1 days
9.2 days
Cost per invoice (loaded)
€0.25
€2.43
€8.22
Explainable, human-language output
Yes
not measured
not measured
Read in 20 seconds
🤖
Autonomy
Runs invoices ~2× more hands-off than Best-in-Class, ~3× the industry average.
⚡
Speed
1 day autonomous (1.5–2 with per-invoice approval) vs 3.1 days Best-in-Class, 9.2 days industry.
🎯
Accuracy
99.9% self-monitoring catches fraud, bad recalculations and misaligned verifications - a human steps in only when truly needed.
💶
Cost
€0.25 vs €2.43 Best-in-Class and €8.22 industry - roughly 7× below top performers, ~23× below average.
🔍
Clarity
Every result carries a plain-language reason - directly attacking the report's #1 AP challenge (invoice exceptions, 53%).
📈
Market timing
75% of AP teams already use some AI and 61% expect major impact in 2025 - buyers are primed for exactly this.
Source: Ardent Partners, "AP Metrics That Matter in 2025" (underwritten by Pagero), based on 212 AP/finance professionals. Kognify figures are internal production metrics. Benchmark cost per invoice is a fully-loaded operational cost (staff, technology & overhead); Kognify's €0.35 is its loaded per-invoice cost. Report costs converted USD→EUR at €1 = $1.14.
Controls, Audit & Compliance
Auditable by design - built for a regulated finance function.
Autonomy without control is a non-starter. Every decision Kognify makes is explainable, logged, and traceable, on infrastructure that meets EU financial-services standards.
🔐 Azure EU · Dedicated tenant isolation📋 GDPR · NIS2 · DORA · PSD2 · EBA🔍 Full audit trail on every AI decision⏱️ <3-day issue resolution SLA🚫 No client data trains public models
Owned by Finance, Not IT
Configured the way you'd onboard a colleague.
No IT consultants, no deployment cycles. Your finance team configures rules in plain language and sees changes live immediately - so the system keeps pace with new suppliers and regulations without a developer queue.
📝
Natural-language rules
Configure per field: company quirks, data relationships, transformations. Written as instructions, not code.
⚡
Changes live immediately
New supplier format or fresh regulation? Business users address it directly - no developer ticket, no wait.
🔗
True 3-way matching
Logical comparison across invoice ⇔ PO ⇔ delivery note by item, code, quantity, and contracted vs. invoiced price.
💬
Conversational reporting
Ask in free text - "total expenses per supplier last year" - and get a breakdown plus chart. No BI project.
🔌
Fits your finance stack
SAP, M-Files, SharePoint, MS Teams, Confluence. Webhook-driven hand-off to Power Automate and downstream systems.
🛠️
Part of the Kognify AI Platform
AP is one operator on an enterprise platform of AI operators - the foundation of a full Business AI adoption plan.
Client Voice
Serving some of the largest companies in Bulgaria.
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As one of Bulgaria's leading courier companies, we process thousands of invoices every month. With Kognify, in the very first month of deployment we achieved over 98% successfully processed invoices - even while the system was still being tuned. The system independently identifies discrepancies and escalates only genuine exceptions. That gives us confidence without losing control.
TL
Tsvetelina Lazarova
Manager, Projects & Relationships, Finance Group · Speedy AD
Free POC in under 2 weeks. First pilot running in production in under a month, with a dedicated one-month 'Frictionless Onboarding' period where we fine-tune the system to your specifics. Bring your real invoices; we'll show you the cost, cash, and control impact before you commit.