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Memo

Vendor MX-882 billed you twice. I've held the second payment — 84,200 pesos — and attached both invoices.

10 min → 1m 40s
median review per invoice
0
duplicate payments released since launch
98%
of discrepancies caught before payment
40%
faster month-end close
The process he owns

No payment should leave the company without something behind it a person can point to.

He owns the stretch between a document reaching finance and your controller releasing the money. There he reconciles against your own records rather than the payment deadline, and he is measured on what he stops as much as on what he clears. Releasing the payment stays human. What changes is that nothing reaches that decision unchecked.

The artifact

The payables run 0518, exactly as Memo filed it.

Every line carries the check that produced it, and anything held stays visible with its reason attached. Structure and logic from a live deployment; values changed.

ConsoleTue 24 Jun 15:38
Memo — payables run 0518 · 412 documents
MemoFinancial integrityAwaiting controller
Payables run 0518 · 412 documents3held for a person09:12filed at
F-4480Almex Refacciones · PO-2214 · receipt attached · $12,400Clear
F-4482Almex Refacciones · duplicate of F-4478, paid 4 May · $84,300Held
F-4488Ferrimex Industrial · no purchase order found · $9,800Held
F-4501Transportes Bajío · partial delivery only · $31,050Query
CFDI ×312Validated against the SAT recordClear
Vendor note · email · 09:12

«Reenviamos la factura porque no vimos el pago reflejado en nuestro estado de cuenta.»

Memo’s decision

The payment did clear on 4 May under a different reference. Memo attaches that bank line to the exception and holds F-4482 rather than paying it again — then tells the controller, not the vendor.

run 0518 · closed 11:40 by L. Ordaz, Controller2 holds upheld · 1 query resolved · $94,100 not paid twiceFull audit trail →

What Memo does.

Every capability trained on your chart of accounts, your tax framework and your reconciliation logic — not a default template.

01

Reconciles invoices against the order

Matches every invoice to its purchase order and receipt, and flags the difference before the payment run rather than after it.

02

Finds the payment you already made

Scans historical and incoming payments for duplicates and overpayments, across references and vendor aliases.

▲ Possible duplicate · F-4482 · Almex · $84,300 MXN — payment held, awaiting your approval
03

Reconciles the bank against the books

Matches statement lines to your ledger and surfaces only what won’t reconcile, in the currency it arrived in.

04

Validates every transaction against the rules

CFDI, SAT, IRS or whichever framework you are audited under, checked per document.

May P&L (partial) — revenue $4.2M · expenses $3.1M · 26% margin — generated 09:48, ready for review
05

Produces the reports your board reads

P&L, cash flow and the custom cuts your controller builds by hand today, under your own account structure.

06

Tells your team the moment it stops adding up

A named person hears about the discrepancy in seconds, not at month end.

Sound like what your finance team needs?
How he gets specialized

He doesn’t arrive knowing your operation. He is taught it, on your records, before he touches anything live.

Four stages. You see his calls next to your team’s before anything is delegated.

Weeks 1–2

Diagnostic

Someone from our forward-deployment team works a full payables run by hand — the real exceptions, the vendors who always invoice twice.

Weeks 3–4

Your chart of accounts, ingested

Account structure, tax rules, approval thresholds, and the vendor quirks your controller carries in her head. Permissions scoped per system in the same pass.

Weeks 5–8

Shadow mode

Six months of closed payables, writing nothing. You compare his holds to the ones your team made, and every disagreement goes back into the matching rules.

Month 3

Live

He matches, flags and holds. The payment release stays with your controller, on the record, with her name on it.

First usable results in weeks · full operation ≈ 3 months
Reach

No new platform. He works inside what your team already opens every morning.

Nobody learns a finance dashboard. Invoices keep arriving where they arrive; the exception appears in the system your controller already has open.

Systems

Connected on the systems you already run

CONTPAQiQuickBooksSAPOdooCFDI / SATBank portals+ any system with an API
Documents he reads

What he can take in

InvoicesBank statementsPurchase ordersReceiptsCFDI XMLFuel-card exports+ anything else you send
In production in

Where Memo is already deployed

CommerceAutomotiveRetailManufacturingLogistics+ more
Languages
Spanish · English
Same rules, either language, in one run
Regions
Mexico · US · LatAm
Data stays in the region you nominate
Availability
24 / 7 / 365
Work picked up as it lands, not in a batch
Time to launch
≈ 3 months
First usable results inside the first weeks
Scope, escalation and error

What he can reach, what he can’t, and what happens when he is wrong.

Every permission is set by you, per system, and visible on the trust page. Memo reads everything and moves no money — which is the point.

Permissions, as deployed
SystemReadWrite
CONTPAQi · ledgeryesjournal drafts
Bank portalsyesno
CFDI / SATyesvalidation only
ERP · purchase ordersyesno
Payment executionnonever
Release a paymentn/anever
When a number doesn’t add up
01 · Hold

He holds the payment rather than guessing, and names the line that failed. A held invoice is never quietly dropped from the run.

02 · Escalate to a named person

Within 60 seconds to the controller you nominated, on WhatsApp and by email, with both documents and the bank line attached.

03 · When he’s wrong

He’s wrong on about 0.9% of invoices — almost always a false hold on a legitimate one. Your controller releases it in one click, the reversal enters the audit log, and the reason writes back into the matching rules.

04 · The line he doesn’t cross

Memo cannot release a payment, file a return or close a period. Those stay with your controller.

Results

The workload, redistributed.

What a three-person accounts payable team was carrying alone, and what it looks like after Memo has been through shadow mode and gone live.

Before
Your team, alone.
Manual review hours / week60
Error / miss rate8%
Process coverage45%
With Memo
The same team, on the exceptions.
Manual review hours / week6
Error / miss rate2%
Process coverage100%
One commercial distributor, ~4,000 invoices a month · six months either side of go-live · nobody was let go; the AP lead moved onto vendor terms.
90%
Commerce

Invoice processing at scale

The accounts payable team spent ten minutes reviewing each invoice. Memo does it in under two, and only the exceptions reach a person.

Commercial distributor · MX · NDA
40%
Automotive

Bank reconciliation, from days to hours

Monthly reconciliation took days. Memo matches every line automatically and surfaces only what needs human judgement.

Automotive group · MX · NDA
0
Retail

Duplicate payments in a dual-currency operation

Memo validates USD ↔ MXN rates, flags inconsistencies and consolidates both currencies. No duplicate payment has been released since go-live.

Binational retailer · MX/US · NDA

Put Memo on your payables run.

Two weeks of diagnostic on your real ledger, with our forward-deployment team on site.

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No commitment · 2-week diagnostic · clear proposal