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Documents read themselves. You just approve.

We automatically read invoices, delivery notes and PDFs, match them and hand them over to your processes. A person reviews and decides. Processing in the EU only, on request.

  • Read documents
  • A person approves
  • EU processing
Stack of documents next to a laptop showing extracted line items

Starting point

Today, someone retypes documents.

Invoices arrive as PDFs by email. Delivery notes lie on paper in goods receipt. Someone reads off the amount, date and order number and types them in. That is slow and error-prone.

  1. 01

    Retyping

    Amount, date, number: every document is entered by hand.

  2. 02

    Matching by eye

    Purchase order, delivery note and invoice are compared one by one.

  3. 03

    Inbox as an archive

    Documents stay in emails until someone moves them.

  4. 04

    Paper in goods receipt

    Delivery notes are scanned, but not read.

  5. 05

    Queries without a trail

    Only one colleague knows whether a document has already been checked.

  6. 06

    Peaks at month-end

    The pile grows, and with it the error rate.

Use cases

Where AI takes work off your hands every day.

We use AI where it reads routine documents and makes suggestions. Deciding remains up to your people.

  • 01

    Incoming invoices

    PDF E-invoice Email

    Vendor, amount, line items and due date are read and created as a proposal in Business Central.

  • 02

    Delivery notes

    Goods receipt Scan Photo

    The delivery note is recognised and matched to the purchase order. Discrepancies are flagged.

  • 03

    Order confirmations

    PDF Email Supplier

    Dates and prices are compared with the purchase order. Differences land with you.

  • 04

    Contracts and agreements

    PDF Deadlines Clauses

    Terms and notice periods are found and stored as reminders.

  • 05

    Inbox sorting

    Outlook Attachments Categories

    Incoming emails and attachments are recognised and filed in the right folder or case.

  • 06

    Matching and checks

    Purchase order Goods receipt Invoice

    Automatic three-way match. Only exceptions go to a person.

  • 07

    Questions to your documents

    Manuals Policies Knowledge

    Employees ask in Teams and get answers from your documents, with sources.

  • 08

    Archiving

    SharePoint DATEV Business Central

    Documents are filed in an audit-proof way and linked to the transaction.

  1. Rule 01

    A person approves

    Every posting and every handover goes through an approval. AI reads and suggests, your people decide.

  2. Rule 02

    Estimate certainty

    Every value read has a confidence score. Uncertain fields are flagged and checked by hand.

  3. Rule 03

    Data in the EU

    Processing exclusively in EU data centers on request. Your documents don’t train third-party models.

  4. Rule 04

    Stay traceable

    We log what was read, suggested and approved. Even months later.

  5. Rule 05

    Start with clear cases

    We begin with one document type and a handful of suppliers. Only once that runs reliably do we add more.

  6. Rule 06

    Clarify data protection early

    We clarify roles, retention and deletion periods in advance, on request with our external data protection partner.

Process

Four steps to documents that read themselves.

  1. System Audit

    ½-day workshop

    We review document types, volumes and target systems. You receive an assessment of where AI pays off.

  2. Test with real documents

    Duration: 1 to 2 weeks

    We test with your documents how well the extraction works. Only then do we decide how to proceed.

  3. Implementation

    Duration: depends on scope

    Extraction, matching and handover to Business Central with an approval step. Your team tests along.

  4. Operations

    Duration: ongoing

    We monitor the hit rate, improve recognition and add new document types.

  1. Processing time

    Metric 01

    Minutes per document from receipt to posting.

  2. Correction rate

    Metric 02

    Share of fields a person has to change.

  3. Lead time

    Metric 03

    Days from receipt to approval.

Platform
Azure AI Document Intelligence and AI Builder, depending on document and licence.
Development
Workflow in Power Automate, as an AL extension in Business Central if needed.
Connectivity
Business Central via API, mailbox via Microsoft Graph.
Integration
Storage in SharePoint, handover to DATEV or your archive.
Operations
Monitoring of runs and the hit rate, notification on errors.
Security
Entra ID, Key Vault for credentials. EU data centers only on request.
Quality
Testing with real documents, thresholds per field, approval by people.
Handover
Documentation, training, a log of all decisions.

Audit deliverables

  • Overview of your document types and volumes
  • Assessment of where AI pays off and where it doesn’t
  • Draft data protection and approval concept
  • Roadmap for the first document type

Yes, which is why someone approves. Uncertain values are flagged. Nothing is posted until your people have checked it.

On request, exclusively in EU data centers. Your documents are not used to train third-party models.

Yes. We read structured e-invoices directly. PDFs without structure are read via document recognition.

There is no fixed threshold. The more regular the documents, the better. In the System Audit we check whether it pays off at your volume.

They land on a review list with a person. Nothing gets lost, nothing is posted unchecked.

Yes, if it is set up properly. We clarify roles, retention and deletion periods in advance, on request with our external data protection partner.

Usually not. Ready-made services such as Azure AI Document Intelligence are enough for standard documents. We only train when necessary.

For recurring documents, often yes. For one-off cases, rather not. We tell you honestly in the System Audit.

Where is your company losing time it does not need to? Let’s find out what will speed your business up.

No obligation. Plain language. Focused on your actual business benefit.

In a first conversation we work out which processes offer the biggest lever – functionally, technically and commercially. No buzzwords, just a clear view of feasibility, risks and benefits.