What manual AP actually costs
$28,500 per AP employee, per year, just in lost productivity. And 68% of companies are still doing it this way.
$28,500. That is what manual AP work costs per employee, per year, just in lost productivity. 25 AP staff? $712,500 gone.
I spent 25 years living that problem. We moved $50B through Taulia. And the number that always bothered me was not the cost per invoice or the processing time. It was how many people were just waiting.
Someone is chasing approvals. Someone is matching POs by hand. Someone is emailing Frank. Frank is in Thailand. He is not answering.
All the AI tools for finance did not solve this, because every tool only sees one side. AP tools live inside the buyer’s walls. AR tools live inside the supplier’s. The real work lives in the handoff between the two, where no single piece of software has authority. It is still all manual.
That is what we are building Causa Prima to fix. Both sides of every transaction, handled automatically. The money is not really lost, just trapped. Those people could stop chasing invoices from the past and start figuring out what to do with the money once it is in.