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Agentic Architecture

The Agentic
Finance Function

The ERP does not get replaced. It stops being something people operate, and becomes something agents transact in, under your policy, with your people setting the rules and taking the exceptions.

  1. Your data
  2. Your context and IP
  3. Your controls
  4. Your model choices
How agents will change finance

The ERP does not get replaced.
It stops being something people operate, and becomes something agents transact in.

TodayA person drives the screen
A personA screenThe ERP

Every transaction has a person in front of it. Throughput is bounded by headcount, the audit trail is a login, and the policy lives in a document nobody reads.

With agentsThe agent transacts, under your policy
An agentThe layerThe ERP
The person sets the policy and takes the exceptions

Throughput stops being a function of headcount. The audit trail is written as the work happens, and the policy is the thing the agent is actually executing.

What has to happen for this to be possible
01

The policy is machine-read

Credit terms, approval limits, matching tolerances and payment rules, written where an agent can execute them, not in a manual.

02

Master data is defined in code

One customer, one vendor, one cost centre, one definition of margin. Where this is unresolved, nothing above it can be trusted.

03

Authority is explicit

What an agent may do alone, what needs a human, and what needs two. Delegation of authority becomes a configuration rather than a convention.

04

Every action is provable

Who acted, on whose authority, against which data, at what cost: reconstructable months later, for an auditor who was not in the room.

AI progress

Most are busy with augmentation.
Autonomy is the next acceleration.

Automation has been leveraged before. With agents, the process becomes more intelligent.

Automation
Repetitive task execution

Work you automate completely. No person in the loop. The machine runs it, and you stop paying for it again every year.

AI agents replace RPA tools, with a more intelligent, learning-based approach to execution.

Augmentation
Human capability enhancement

Work where AI augments your people. The team stays. They simply get further in a day than they could before.

Tools like Copilot and Claude give knowledge workers more power to perform.

Autonomy
Independent decision-making

Work where an agent runs an entire function: not assisting a person through it, but carrying the function itself.

Agentic orchestration platforms provide the scale to run and manage autonomous agents.

Our work building the frontier

Examples of our
client work

Open an area to see what clients built with us.

01Generative AI in the journeyProducts customers and patients use, not internal demos.
HealthcareDischarge summaries rewritten into plain language. 4,553 patient queries, 1,541 patients, 90% satisfaction.
WoolworthsA decade of Taste content turned into a Gen AI Shopping and Culinary Platform.
EVT30,000 comments a month read, themed and flagged in real time.
02Predictive and governed MLModels a clinician, or a regulator, will accept.
HealthcareReadmission risk scored pre-discharge. Explainable outputs, drift monitored continuously.
PepsiCo30% reduction in staff overtime running cost, optimising utilization, demand and workforce configuration.
ArcelorMittal90% reduction in text ordering and 95% compliance to Contract Management in less than 1 year.
03Agents inside the processWhere the work actually gets done, at volume.
Henry Schein70% of customer chats resolved by an agent, in 11 languages, against live order data.
Kogan40% of enquiries handled end to end: tracking, cancellations and returns.
Austin HealthResearch compliance review from 15 minutes to 1, approvals in a day not weeks.
04The foundation underneathWhere most of the effort goes, and where it fails without it.
OmniaLegacy and siloed to a governed lakehouse for 3,800 people, with certified data products.
MiningA production AI data platform stood up in four weeks, then handed to their own team.
MedTech14.5 TB of reclaimable storage down to 119 GB. An architecture fix, not a clean-up.
Proposed next steps

Speed one gets value out of the door.
Speed two builds the foundation underneath.

01
CFO Working SessionTwo hours

Your close, your working capital and your planning cycle, mapped on effort against value by the people who run them. You leave with a shortlist your own team built.

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02
Planning DiagnosticTwo weeks

How many versions of the plan exist, where the cycle actually goes, and what a re-forecast really costs. A costed view of the planning estate and what to fix first.

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03
Close and Reporting DiagnosticTwo weeks

Where the days in your close actually go, which controls exist only because a person performs them, and what could be carried by an agent inside twelve months.

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04
Architecture and Tech ValidationTwo weeks

Current-state assurance across the finance estate, then a costed and sequenced target state across data, context, control and model routing, defensible to your audit committee.

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05
Stalled POC AccelerationFour weeks

Take what has already been built and get it into production, with forward deployed engineers and data scientists working alongside your team.

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Speed one · First 90 days

Value out of the door. The first use cases identified in the diagnostic, delivered alongside your team. The business sees a return while the foundation is still being built, and gets used to continuous delivery rather than waiting for a programme to land.

Speed two · Running in parallel

The foundation underneath. The data layer, the context and IP, the controls and the model routing. Built once and built properly, so the second wave of use cases costs a fraction of the first and nothing starts from zero again.

Giving everyone a licence is a productivity decision.

This is a business architecture decision.

Choosing the first step

Five fixed programmes for the finance function.
The discovery conversation picks one.

Choose the statement closest to your organisation.

Which sounds most like you?

Start with Two hours · No fee

CFO Working Session

Where agents belong in finance, decided by the people who run it

Your close, your working capital and your planning cycle, mapped on effort against value by the people who run them. You leave with a shortlist your own team built.

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