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Automate expense reports

Card feeds give you the charge. They don't give you the receipt. Sai collects those from supplier portals and your inbox, matches them to each charge, and tells you exactly what's still missing.

Build my [monthly] expense report for [period]. Step 1 — Collect the receipts. Check [my inbox] for emailed invoices, and log in to [supplier portal 1], [supplier portal 2] and download any invoice issued in that period. Save each one to [folder]. Step 2 — Match each receipt to a charge in [the card statement / this spreadsheet] by amount, date and merchant. If a receipt matches more than one charge, or the amounts differ, do not guess — list it as ambiguous and show me both. Step 3 — List every charge that still has no receipt, and every receipt that matches no charge. These two lists are the point of the exercise. Step 4 — Flag anything that looks outside [our expense policy]: amounts over [limit], categories we don't reimburse, or duplicate submissions of the same receipt. Step 5 — Compile the report in [format] and leave it for my review. Rules that never change: never invent a merchant, an amount or a date. If a receipt is unreadable, say so rather than estimating. Do not submit or approve anything — leave the finished report for me.
Run my expense report

HOW IT WORKS

You review the finished report. Sai does the other three steps, every month.

Step 1

Say Where the Money Goes Out

The portals, the inbox, the card statement, the policy limits. Once.

Step 2

Sai Collects the Receipts

Downloads invoices from each supplier portal and pulls them out of your inbox.

Step 3

Sai Matches and Flags the Gaps

Each receipt against each charge — and a clear list of what has no match.

Step 4

Sai Compiles It Again Next Month

Same run, same format, on schedule. Nothing is submitted without you.

RELEVANT USE CASES FOR SMALL TEAMS

BUILT FOR SMALL TEAMS AND THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THEM

The charge was never the hard part. The receipt was.

Every Charge Matched, Every Gap Named

Sai pairs each receipt to its charge by amount, date and merchant — and where nothing matches, it says so. You get the list of what's missing instead of finding out at month end.

Policy Exceptions Flagged, Not Decided

Amounts over your limit, categories you don't reimburse, the same receipt submitted twice — Sai marks them and explains why, and leaves the judgement to you.

If a Person Can Click It, Sai Can Run It

Sai works in a real browser inside your own logged-in sessions, so it can sign in to a supplier portal and download the invoice — no integration, no card program, no API required.

Nothing Is Submitted or Approved Without You

Sai compiles the report and stops. It never submits a claim, never approves an expense and never moves money — the finished report waits for your review.

Automating expense reports

What "automated expense reporting" usually means

Most guides to automating expense reports open the same way: connect your corporate cards so charges flow in automatically. Where that applies it works well — the merchant, the amount and the date arrive without anyone typing them. But it describes only one half of an expense report, and it assumes a card programme that every employee is on. Plenty of small teams reimburse people who paid on a personal card, and every team, card programme or not, still has to produce the document the charge refers to. The charge is the easy half.

Collect the receipts, match them, and name what's missing

Sai starts where the card feed stops. It signs in to the supplier portals that issue your invoices and downloads the ones for the period, pulls emailed receipts out of your inbox, and matches each document to a charge by amount, date and merchant. Where a receipt matches nothing, or a charge has no receipt, Sai lists it rather than quietly leaving a gap — those two lists are the actual output, because they are what someone would otherwise spend the last week of the month chasing. Anything ambiguous, such as two charges close in amount and date, is shown to you with both options rather than resolved by a guess.

Expense reporting when there's no integration and no card programme

The obstacle is rarely the maths. It is that the invoices live in places that were never designed to be automated: a supplier's billing portal behind a login, a subscription receipt buried in an inbox, a hotel folio only available as a PDF download. Small teams generally have no integration budget, and a supplier will not expose an API to a customer regardless of budget. Sai operates a real browser inside your own logged-in sessions and retrieves those documents the way a person does. Nothing has to be connected first, and nobody has to be issued a new card.

Why this belongs on a schedule, not in a month-end scramble

Expense reporting is not a project that gets solved once; it recurs on the same cadence forever, which is exactly what makes it worth automating properly. Run weekly rather than monthly, the missing-receipt list stays short enough to act on while people still remember the purchase, and the month-end close stops being a scramble. The same run also produces the same format every  time, which matters more to whoever reviews it than any individual month does — the run that counts is the hundredth one, not the first.

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