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The Business Case

What intelligent AP automation is worth — adjust the assumptions yourself.

Assumptions · drag to model

50,000
Mid-market default. Drag toward enterprise scale to watch the case grow.
$12
IOFM / Ardent Partners benchmark: $10–18 fully loaded.
$3
AI-automated benchmark: $2–4 per invoice.
85%
From your live pipeline (currently 85%).
0.2%
Industry: 0.1–0.5% of invoices paid twice or in error.
$8,000
Drives the value of every prevented duplicate.
0.5%
Faster cycle = more captured 2/10 net 30 discounts.

Estimated Annual Savings

$0

Hard savings$0
Direct, measurable cost reductions — the floor of the business case.
Labour savings$0
Volume × straight-through rate × (manual − automated cost). Counted only on the auto-cleared portion — exceptions excluded to stay conservative.
Duplicate-payment prevention$0
Volume × duplicate/error rate × average invoice value, kept to a conservative 35% net-recovery — the rest is assumed caught in manual review or clawed back post-payment.
Additional upside$0
Depends on capturing discounts currently missed — realistic but less certain.
Early-payment discount capture$0
Spend × discount uplift, applied only to the ~15% of spend assumed to be on early-payment terms.

How this is calculated

Labour savings

volume × STP% × (manual − automated cost)
Cost-per-invoice range from IOFM & Ardent Partners ($10–18 manual fully loaded; $2–4 AI-automated). Defaults sit at the conservative end.

Duplicate-payment prevention

volume × duplicate rate × average invoice value × 35% recovered
Duplicate / erroneous payment rate of 0.1–0.5% of invoices is widely cited across AP audit literature; default uses 0.2%. We keep only 35% as net-new prevention.

Early-payment discount capture

spend × discount uplift × 15% eligible
Reflects faster cycle times capturing 2/10 net 30 terms. Applied to only ~15% of spend assumed discount-eligible — a deliberately conservative haircut.

Every default uses the conservative end of published ranges. Labour savings ignore any benefit on exception invoices, duplicate prevention keeps only 35% as net-new recovery, and discount capture is throttled to 15% of spend. Real-world results typically land higher.

⤢ At enterprise scale

Even on these conservative defaults the case nears $1M a year — nudge the volume slider up and it crosses $1M, then climbs into the millions at 250,000+ invoices.