AI for AP: Why AI and Why Now

It’s been two years since a global pandemic rocked the world and reshaped the workplace—and AP teams are struggling. Smaller teams with larger workloads, hybrid offices, the loss of institutional knowledge, and a tight labor market highlight the need for AP teams to adapt quickly with an eye on the future.

But while your needs have changed, the solutions sold as the “AP technology of tomorrow” have stayed the same. OCR, RPA, automation, and AI are the popular buzzwords. But only one is capable of tackling today’s challenges with today’s team. Only one can self-adapt as you scale for a more productive and strategic future.

Join AppZen’s SVP of Customer Success, Matt Wright, to discuss why finance AI is the solution you’ve been waiting for. He’ll explain why now is the time to take advantage of its capabilities, helping you reduce spend, effort, costs, and risks. And he’ll show how it provides insights into spending patterns for better business decisions today, tomorrow, and for years to come. Additional topics include:

• AI: What it is and what it isn’t
• Why now is the time for AP teams to invest in AI
• How and where purpose-built AI can improve the AP process and free up staff
• Advice on how to move forward with your own AI project

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Matt Wright
Senior VP of Customer Success, AppZen

As AppZen’s Senior VP of Customer Success, Matt Wright is focused on partnering with the world’s leading companies to deliver Autonomous Finance Operations using artificial intelligence. Through these partnerships, he aims to sharpen cutting-edge finance AI technology by innovating a new set of best practices in finance operations that move away from human-centric, workflow-based approaches toward confident, autonomous operations delivered by finance AI. Matt has spent his entire career in customer-facing roles, mostly in executive leadership, professional services, and sales. Having worked almost exclusively around invoice transactions, he brings his passion for improving efficiency in finance operations to his interactions with every customer.