The problem
Meridian’s finance team processed hundreds of supplier invoices a week by hand, keying line items into their accounting system. It was slow, error-prone, and the backlog grew every month.
What we built
We built a pipeline that:
- Ingests invoices from email and a shared drive
- Extracts line items, totals, and tax with a document model, then validates them against purchase orders
- Flags only the exceptions for a human to review
- Writes clean records straight into their accounting system
The result
Within six weeks, 92% of invoices flowed through with no manual touch. The team went from drowning in data entry to reviewing a short exception queue, and the error rate dropped below 1%.
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