A $14,000 billing error, caught in week one

The challenge

Blythe Group’s finance team was re-entering invoice data from three systems into their ledger by hand. Errors were rare, but when they happened, they were expensive and took weeks to unwind.

“We weren’t short on skill, we were short on hours,” says Maren Fielding, COO at Blythe Group. “Everyone was busy copying numbers instead of checking them.”

The approach

The team set up a Lumora agent to match invoices, payments, and purchase orders automatically, flagging anything that didn’t line up for a person to review.

Within days of going live, the agent flagged a duplicate vendor charge worth $14,000 that had slipped past two manual checks.

The results

In the first month, reconciliation exceptions fell by 68%, and the team launched its first agent nine days after signing up. Finance now spends its time reviewing, not re-keying.

“Lumora’s agents caught a $14,000 billing error in their first week. It paid for itself before the trial ended.”

Blythe Group has since added agents for expense approvals and month-end reporting.