Use Cases

Invoice Intelligence for Every Finance Role

One archive, accessible to everyone who needs it. Finance teams, procurement, finance leadership, auditors, and operations all need invoice data, but most of them cannot easily get it. Invoice Intelligence changes that. One indexed archive. Self-service access for the teams that need it.

Finance Teams

Stop being the search function for your organisation.

The problem:

Finance managers and the people who handle invoices know their archive better than anyone, which is exactly why every lookup request lands with them. Auditors need invoices. Management wants to verify a charge. Procurement needs to know what was spent with a supplier. Operations wants to trace a delivery cost.

The requests are constant. Finding each invoice takes time, and that time compounds across hundreds of requests per year. A significant share of finance staff time goes on supplier inquiries and invoice lookups, work that requires access and knowledge the rest of the organisation does not have. A significant portion of that is simply finding invoices that already exist in the system.

What Invoice Intelligence does for finance teams:

  • Give colleagues self-service access to the invoice archive, so they stop routing requests through the finance team.
  • Find any invoice in seconds: by supplier, date, amount, expense category, cost centre, or any text in the PDF.
  • Respond to audit requests with a direct link to the source document, not a manual search.
  • Reduce the time spent on ad hoc lookups and focus on the work that actually requires finance expertise.
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Answer

You paid £87,420 across 14 invoices last quarter, all coded to utilities, spread over three cost centres. Spend peaked in the winter months.

Total 87,420 Net, last quarter
Invoices 14 All utilities
Avg invoice 6,244 SD 1,180
JAN
12,340
FEB
10,210
MAR
6,610

Illustrative: your data, your suppliers, your currency.

Procurement

Know what you spent before you negotiate.

The problem:

Procurement teams need invoice-level spend data: by supplier, by category, by period, by business unit. In most organisations, that data exists in the finance system, but it is not easy to extract. Running reports requires system access, specialist training, and often help from the finance team. By the time the data arrives, the negotiation has moved on.

What Invoice Intelligence does for procurement:

  • Search spend by supplier, category, date range, amount, or cost centre, in plain language, without needing access to the finance system.
  • Access source invoices when you need to verify a line item or understand what was actually purchased.
  • Compare spend across periods or entities to identify consolidation opportunities before going into supplier negotiations.
  • Find invoices that reference a specific contract number or purchase order.
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Answer

You invoiced £142,890 with Staples across 23 invoices last year. Spend was highest in Q1 and Q4, consistent with year-end purchasing patterns.

Annual spend 142,890 23 invoices
Avg invoice 6,213 Office supplies
Peak quarter Q4 45,200
Q1
38,400
Q2
22,100
Q3
37,190

Illustrative: your data, your suppliers, your currency.

Audit and Compliance

Every invoice, traceable. Every answer, evidenced.

The problem:

Audit evidence gathering is time-sensitive and high-stakes. Auditors need to find specific invoices, sometimes dozens of them, and verify that the amounts, approvals, and coding are correct. In most finance environments, that means asking the finance team to run searches, pull PDFs, and compile documentation. The process is slow for both sides.

What Invoice Intelligence does for audit:

  • Search the full invoice archive by any combination of supplier, amount, date, expense category, cost centre, or VAT treatment.
  • Open the original PDF in one click. Not a copy, not a summary. The source document.
  • Trace every answer back to documentary evidence. Invoice Intelligence does not generate or interpret; it retrieves.
  • Run your own queries without needing finance team support, reducing the disruption to finance operations during audit periods.
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Answer

7 invoices matched, totalling £124,340. All coded to professional services, all with original PDFs available. Largest single invoice: £31,500 from Deloitte LLP.

Matched 7 Invoices found
Total value 124,340 Excl. VAT
Largest 31,500 Deloitte LLP
Deloitte LLP14 Aug31,500PDF ↗
KPMG UK02 Sep24,200PDF ↗
Addleshaw Goddard19 Sep18,640PDF ↗

Illustrative: your data, your suppliers, your currency.

Operations and Sustainability

Search inside the invoice, not just around it.

The problem:

Operations and sustainability teams sometimes need to find invoices based on content that only exists inside the PDF itself: a product description, a service line, a delivery location, a carbon category. Standard finance system search only covers structured fields. The text inside the document is invisible to most systems.

What Invoice Intelligence does for operations and sustainability:

  • Search the full text of every invoice PDF, not just the header fields.
  • Find invoices by product description, service type, delivery terms, or any phrase that appears in the document body.
  • Support sustainability reporting by identifying invoices related to specific goods categories, energy suppliers, or logistics providers, even when that information only appears in the PDF text.
  • Pull source documents to verify content before it feeds into reporting.
Answer

11 invoices contain those terms in the PDF body, totalling £68,120 across 4 logistics suppliers. The matching text appears in line-item descriptions, not header fields.

PDF matches 11 Full-text search
Total value 68,120 4 suppliers
Date range 12 mo Rolling year
Arctic Freight Ltd08 Jan14,800PDF ↗
Norbert Dentressangle22 Mar9,440PDF ↗
Cool Logistics UK11 May7,250PDF ↗

Illustrative: your data, your suppliers, your currency.

Cost-2-Carbon

Carbon reporting starts with the data you already have.

Cost-2-Carbon extracts activity data from your indexed invoices and automates the data transfer for your carbon reporting. No duplicate data collection, no new document stack.

See how Cost-2-Carbon works →