Insights

Writing from the Causa Prima founding team on agent-to-agent finance, the future of the office of the CFO, and what they learned building Taulia and Finoa. Mirrored from LinkedIn.

Maex Ament — Co-Founder & CEO

• Do we still need payment terms? — 2026-06-09
  Net 30 is a fossil. And we are all still building around it.
• Learnings from Taulia — 2026-06-09
  At a Taulia user conference in 2016, a woman who ran a cleaning company made me rethink everything we had built.
• Strategic finance is the future — 2026-06-08
  Agentic finance has almost nothing to do with the back-office work it is replacing.
• Brownfield enterprises are where the money is — 2026-06-05
  Everyone is obsessed with greenfield. The real money is in the brownfields — the Intels and Targets of the world.
• The Pope on AI, and the Jevons paradox — 2026-06-04
  When the Pope writes 40,000 words on AI, it is worth reading.
• The anthropomorphization phase of AI — 2026-06-02
  Every AI agent apparently needs a first name, a personality, and a job title. Your agent is not your co-worker.
• What manual AP actually costs — 2026-06-01
  $28,500 per AP employee, per year, just in lost productivity. And 68% of companies are still doing it this way.
• Going backwards to look forwards: AI will not kill finance roles — 2026-05-27
  Finance roles will shift from chasing money to deciding what to do with it.
• Origin story: 25 years solving the same problem — 2026-05-26
  I grew up wanting to build video games. Instead I have spent 25 years in accounts payable.
• Agent-to-agent is the only model that actually works in B2B finance — 2026-05-22
  At Taulia we processed $50B a quarter across 5 million suppliers before AI. We could have done 100x that with agent-to-agent.

Henrik Gebbing — Co-Founder & COO

• Learnings from Finoa — 2026-06-10
  Eight years building Finoa. €10B in assets. Institutional investors trusting us with their crypto. And invoicing still ran on spreadsheets.
• Who sets the rules in agent-to-agent negotiation? You do. — 2026-06-09
  The biggest concern CFOs have about agent-to-agent negotiation is control.
• When AP becomes a revenue center — 2026-06-08
  Dynamic discounting only ever worked on large invoices, because of processing costs. Now that constraint is gone.
• "A human checked it" is not the safeguard you think it is — 2026-06-04
  For 22 years, the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois did every transaction manually. She also stole $53.7 million.
• The context graph is the moat — but it lives between companies — 2026-06-02
  A year ago, AI agents could work autonomously for about 2 hours. Today it is 12. Capability was never the problem. Context was.
• Finance leaders: more strategic, or less relevant? — 2026-06-01
  Most CFOs have never actually done the job they were hired for.
• Do invoices even need to exist? — 2026-05-28
  The logic of an invoice has not changed in 2,000 years — only the format has.
• Origin story: from a denied visa to Causa Prima — 2026-05-26
  In 2014, my US visa application was denied. That rejection led me to McKinsey, my wife, a $10B custodian, and now Causa Prima.
• Agents remove the emotion that stops good financial decisions — 2026-05-22
  You are a supplier owed $10K in 60 days, but you need money now. Do you pick up the phone to ask for it early? Most people will not. An agent does not have that problem.

Last updated: 2026-06-09