Overview
Autonomous Accounts Payable reimagines Accounts Payable by placing business outcomes at the core. Designed with deep domain expertise and insight, it delivers measurable gains in business value by optimizing overall cycle time, elevating vendor experiences and enhancing controls for risk and compliance. The solution ensures interoperability across systems, enabling seamless data flow and real-time insights.
By combining decision autonomy to solve for exceptions with built-in forensic controls, enterprises can confidently determine growth indicators, strengthen compliance and assure payments. With Agentic AI, operations self-learn and adapt, reducing manual effort while driving speed to value and a frictionless supplier experience. Crucially, it addresses data security and human oversight to prevent errors and hallucinations, ensuring trustworthy outcomes and resilient supplier relationships.
The Strategic Edge
The shift from assisted automation to true autonomy is transforming the world of AP operations. Traditional AP automation alleviates manual tasks but still relies on human input. Autonomous Accounts Payable, powered by Agentic AI, breaks this dependency. It enables systems to sense, make decisions and drive the AP cycle end-to-end, autonomously.
Business outcomes that define your strategic edge
Compliance and accuracy
Built-in Agentic AI validations, anomaly detection and duplicate checks deliver error-free processing and fortified regulatory guardrails, resulting in accurate reporting and ensuring compliance with regulations.
Payment assurance
Intelligent tracking and prioritization ensure punctual payments, uphold vendor trust and safeguard supply chain continuity.
Numbers that Speak Volumes
Improvement in cycle time
Fewer errors
Lower fraud risk
Repeated payments
Touchless processing
Vendor satisfaction
Realization of early payment discount
Late-fee avoidance
Leadership Dialogue
Without a solid process in place, we’ve seen in the past that automation programs often fail to deliver ROI, sometimes not even covering their own costs. But with all the AI technologies emerging, there’s both a need and an opportunity to shift the focus from a productivity-driven operating model to a business outcome–driven one.
Executive Lens
Executive Vice President, HCLTech
“I believe the future of AP goes beyond automation. With Agentic AI, we’re enabling systems that don’t just execute tasks, but make smarter choices. That shift means compliance is stronger, payments are reliable and partners have a smoother experience—outcomes that directly fuel growth and trust.”
Recognitions
Leader in ISG Provider Lens F&A Outsourcing services report
詳細を見るLeader in Avasant's Finance and Accounting Business Process Transformation 2024–2025 RadarView™
詳細を見るHCLTech named a CX Star Performer in ISG Star of Excellence™ for GenAI
詳細を見るHCLTech positioned as a Leader in Everest Group’s Custom Application Development Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
詳細を見るHCLTech positioned as a Leader in Everest Group's Application Management Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025
詳細を見るResources
Why traditional accounts payable is failing?
Agentic AI-driven AP transforms finance—boosting agility, optimizing cash flow and turning operations into strategic business value.
From workflows to outcomes : the eminent evolution of Accounts Payable
Redefining Accounts Payable (AP): Agentic AI transforms AP from workflows to outcomes — automating invoices, resolving exceptions and optimizing spend for smarter, adaptive and strategic finance.
