Finance & AccountingSOC 2 · GDPR

Turn the chaos of finance into audit-ready data.

Invoices, receipts, payments, and purchase orders, structured into the schema your ERP expects. Three-way match across PO, invoice, and goods receipt in a single call. Every field typed, every value confidence-scored, every output reproducible for the auditor.

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Documents we handle

The whole AP and finance stack, structured.

Bem ingests every file finance teams actually receive. Multi-modal in, type-safe JSON out, with a confidence score on every field and a reproducible audit trail on every call.

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Invoices

Vendor invoices, PDFs, scans, faxed copies. Line items, taxes, totals into your AP schema.

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Receipts

T&E receipts, crumpled photos, mobile captures. Merchant, date, category, amount.

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Purchase orders

POs in any format. Match line items against the corresponding invoice and goods receipt.

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Payments & remittance

ACH advice, wire confirmations, check images, remittance details. Apply to open invoices.

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Payment records

Bank statements, payment runs, reconciliation files. Hydrate against your GL.

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Statements & 10-Ks

Audited financials, vendor statements, earnings releases. Structured into typed JSON.

The workflow

Five functions. Posting-ready data.

Chain composable functions into a reusable AP workflow. Each function is versioned, auditable, and improves with every correction your team submits in the review queue.

Three-way match
SPOTLIGHT

PO, invoice, goods receipt. One call.

Bem joins the three documents that have to agree before a payable posts. Quantities, prices, line items, tolerances. Mismatches surface with a confidence score and the exact field that disagreed.

PO
Approved purchase commitment
Invoice
Vendor billing document
GR
Receiving confirmation
A worked example

An invoice, posted in 3.2 seconds.

POST /v3/workflows/ap.run200 OK · 3.2s
{
  "invoice_id": "INV-2026-04881",
  "vendor": {
    "id": "VEN-014",
    "name": "Acme Industrial"
  },
  "total": 38420.50,
  "currency": "USD",
  "match": {
    "po": "PO-44910",
    "goods_receipt": "GR-118842",
    "status": "matched"
  },
  "confidence": 0.984
}
Posts straight to NetSuite. Audit trail on every line.
01
Classify

Identify the input. Invoice? Statement? Remittance advice? Route to the right workflow based on your taxonomy.

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Extract

Layout-aware extraction of vendor, line items, tax, totals, GL codes. Schema-typed and confidence-scored.

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Join · 3-way match

Reconcile invoice against the purchase order and goods receipt in a single pass. Flag mismatches before posting.

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Enrich

Resolve vendor against your master, map to GL codes, attach cost-center metadata from your ERP.

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Payload Shaping

Shape the final structured output to the schema your ERP expects. NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Sage Intacct.

Customer · Ascend

“The schema is the contract. We define what the ERP expects, bem enforces it on every call, and the team stops re-engineering the pipeline every time a vendor changes their invoice template.”

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