Noumenai engineers AI that does real finance work.
The work you can't afford to get wrong — done, evidenced, and ready for audit.
Finance is not like the rest of the enterprise.
Everywhere else, an AI assistant can be roughly right and still useful. In finance it cannot. Every number has to tie to a source. Every entry has to survive an audit. Every output carries the name of the person who signed it. A plausible-sounding answer that is wrong is not a small failure here — it is the failure.
Looks right, isn't right.
The number that reads plausibly and the number that ties to source are not the same number. Advisory AI can afford the gap. A signed one cannot.
No trail, no trust.
If the work cannot show its evidence — cited, reversible, attributable — it cannot be posted, filed, or defended. Provenance is a first-class output, not a log line.
Three readers, three questions. Pick yours — or read on.
Choose your door
The Method
02 — Two agents, one gate
One method, under everything we build.
Whatever the process, the agent works the same way. It never acts on trust. It acts on evidence, and only after a check.
An example: a supplier invoice, classified and allocated. The method is the same whether the work is a reconciliation, a VAT return, or a cash forecast — propose, check, confirm, then act.
A real supplier invoice, cross-referenced against two supporting documents, composed into a single proposed entry. Anonymised data.
Merges evidence across documents
Three sources, one entry.
Confidence per field
Not blind extraction.
Understands the document
Recognises the transaction type, the tariffs, the sessions.
Reasons from the rules
Splits across sub-accounts by acquisition value, per the tax code. Not a rule-table.
Institutional memory
Supplier confirmed against 247 prior entries by the firm itself.
Knows what it doesn't know
Flags partial deductibility for human verification rather than assuming.
Analytical allocation
Splits the net across cost centres, ready.
Into the Ledger
03 — In production
Past the demo. Into the ledger.
Noumenai systems are running in production today. They read live systems of record. They propose work against real source documents — merging evidence across several where they must. A second agent independently re-derives the answer and checks it. A person confirms. Then they write back to the systems of record, with the evidence tied to them and the trail intact.
ERP-agnostic by architecture — every system the agent touches connects through one governed tool layer. Live today against a mid-market European ERP.
Sooner
04 — Time-to-knowing
Not just correct. Sooner.
A CFO does not lie awake worrying about journal entries. They lie awake about not knowing something soon enough — the margin quietly eroding, the cash gap in week nine, the provision that has been wrong for a quarter.
The agent doesn't out-think your team. It compresses the time between a problem existing and you knowing about it — from months to days. Not smarter. Sooner.
Anonymised data from real client ledgers.
The Range
05 — Coloured honestly
Eight process families. Coloured honestly — proven, in production, or buildable.
Record to Report
Order to Cash
Procure to Pay
Treasury & Cash
Planning & Analysis
Tax & Compliance
Investment & Funds
Controls, Audit & Risk
Earned Trust
Trust ladder
Autonomy is earned, never switched on.
Systems climb a trust ladder — Shadow, Eligible, Human-enabled, Auto-post. Promotion is measured on how often a human accepts a proposal unchanged. Demotion is automatic on any correction.
How trust is earnedIf a finance process is costing you people, time, or confidence — and you need whatever replaces it to be defensible — that is the conversation we want to have.
Tell us the process. We'll tell you honestly whether an agent can carry it yet.