09/08/2026
Two-thirds of finance teams saw manual work increase last year, even with new tools in their stack. That's the quiet failure mode of automation that only follows fixed rules: the moment an invoice looks unfamiliar or an exception doesn't fit the pattern, it lands back on someone's desk.
AI agents work differently. They read messy inputs, code transactions, match invoices to purchase orders, and reconcile accounts, then stop and hand judgment calls to a person when something doesn't check out. Gartner estimates that only about 130 of the thousands of vendors claiming to offer agentic AI are the real thing. The rest is RPA with a new label.
At NEXT Insurance, a lean finance team used Tipalti's AI agents to process more than 1,000 invoices a month and cut two hours a week from approvals, without losing the audit trail auditors require.
The teams getting this right aren't handing off control. They're freeing their best people to review exceptions instead of retyping GL codes.
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