When AI agents touch the books: Guardrails for the autonomous back office

By Varun Borawake, Co-Founder and CEO, AvanSaber Inc

You ask an AI agent to clear a week’s backlog of supplier invoices. It reads each one, matches it against the purchase order and the goods receipt, flags two mismatches for a human, and posts the rest to the ledger. Two days of clerical work is finished in twenty minutes, with a tidy summary at the end.

Then comes the question that decides whether this becomes a capability or an incident: if one of those postings was wrong, when would you have found out, and who would have been accountable?

Gartner projects that by 2028, a third of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from under one per cent in 2024, and that 15 per cent of day-to-day work decisions will be taken autonomously. The direction is settled. What remains open is whether enterprises will build the controls before the...

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