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Notes on finance operations.
Short essays on payables, controls and the careful use of Ingrid, for finance teams that run on Spire.
The controls that catch a bad invoice before it is paid
Most payables losses are ordinary: a duplicate invoice, a changed bank detail, a vendor nobody checked. Where software can do the looking, and where a person still has to decide.
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Typed once: why finance tools belong inside the ERP
Re-keying invoices into Spire costs hours, but the larger cost is two versions of the truth. What integration should actually mean, and what to ask of it.
3 min read
Before you paste the ledger into a chatbot
Public AI assistants are useful. The question for a finance team is where the data goes, what the model can see, and who decides what reaches the books.
4 min read