Beyond the Plateau: Automating the Last 20% of AP Without Losing Control
Every enterprise AP team hits a version of the same wall: the easy invoices automate quickly, touchless rates climb into the 60s or 70s, and then they stall. What's left is a long tail of invoices that each fail for a different reason, and resolving them by hand fixes today's invoice and nothing behind it.
In this demo, we'll show how to break through that ceiling while keeping every decision auditable.
Invoicetrack's Policy Builder applies AI once, at build time, rather than to each invoice in production. It reads 12 months of your posted history, takes your own tax and accounting policies in as guardrails, and builds automation for one cluster of stalled invoices at a time. It backtests that automation against the outcomes those invoices already have on record, so you can count on its accuracy before go-live. A person reviews and approves. From there it runs as machine code: fast, repeatable, and with no model call per invoice, so cost stays flat as volume grows.
What breaks the plateau is that each fix carries forward. Every cluster you automate becomes a reusable, versioned skill bound by your policy, so the next matching invoice clears on its own, and the rate moves again. Where a case can't be automated, the system says so and classifies why.
Key takeaways of this session include:
- Move the plateau: Each fix becomes a reusable, policy-bound skill, so the touchless rate keeps rising rather than settling in the 60s and 70s.
- Automate without the token bill: AI works once at build time and production runs as code, so cost holds steady as invoice volume grows.
- Defend every decision: Automation stays inside your own policies, is backtested before go-live, and carries a full audit trail, with honest, typed blockers for whatever can't be fixed.
Attendees can watch live as we take one cluster of failing invoices, build the automation, backtest it, approve it, and put it into production, then open the audit trail behind each decision. You see how the last stubborn fifth of your invoices gets automated without giving up control of your policy or your compute budget.
Speakers
Steve Standring
CRO
Springtime Technologies
Steven Standring has spent the last 25 years as a CRO in companies in the P2P world, from early stage through to mature. Five of those successfully exited for over $100m and one achieved Unicorn status. As CRO, he has defined and driven the whole go to market strategy including building elite (without being elitist) sales teams, sales support and proactive focussed marketing. All of these companies became early market leaders due to their sharp focus and GTM effectiveness. His focus is on client success and adding value to clients and partners in every interaction. Steve also spent 5 years consulting to and supporting the Shared services market with advice around branding, leadership, customer satisfaction, contracting suppliers and making sure they deliver.
Paul Beale
Partners & Commercial Operations
Springtime Technologies
Paul holds a senior commercial role at Springtime Technologies, spanning global sales, partnerships, and commercial operations. He focuses on strategic positioning helping enterprise and GBS buyers modernize their accounts payable operations.
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