Beyond the AI hype: where AI is delivering real value in AP

AI in finance has a familiar pitch by now: agents that run your close, tools that replace your team, transformation that happens overnight. Most AP Managers and Controllers have heard some version of it, and most have learned to be skeptical. The gap between what AI vendors promise and what’s actually working on the ground in AP is wide, and it’s getting harder to tell the difference from the outside.

That gap is exactly what this session addresses. We’ll showcase 3 problems AP teams actually deal with every week, and where AI is genuinely doing useful work today, not someday: supplier and internal queries that bury the inbox, approvals that stall processing and strain supplier relationships, and reporting gaps that leave finance leaders making decisions on data that’s already out of date.

You’ll leave with a clear, honest view of where AI in AP is proven versus still aspirational, and a practical sense of what real AI-assisted AP work looks like day to day.

What we’ll cover:

• Why so much AI-in-finance messaging promises more than it delivers, and how to tell the difference
• Where AI is already reducing the manual burden of supplier and internal AP queries
• How approval bottlenecks quietly damage supplier relationships, and where AI is easing them
• Why finance leaders are often making decisions on reporting that’s already stale, and what closes that gap
• What genuine AI-assisted AP work looks like in practice, day to day
• The questions worth asking before you trust any AI claim in this space