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Automate finance without weakening financial controls

Govern agents that touch payments, financial records, forecasts, and ledgers.

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01 / IDENTITY02 / POLICY03 / AUDIT
FABRIQ / RIPPLEIDENTITY · PERMISSIONS · VISIBILITY
Autonomy, with accountability.FABRIQ / FINANCE
01 / THE CONTEXT

Close the books faster.
Keep the approval chain.

Finance agents can reconcile accounts, process invoices, prepare forecasts, and initiate payments. But the same access that makes these workflows useful can also bypass spending limits or separation of duties.

ILLUSTRATIVE · SPEND AUTHORITYQuickBooksXeroStripe
  1. AP coordinatorInvoice 4471 · known vendor$2,400Clears
  2. AP coordinatorInvoice 4472 · known vendor$48,000Holds for a controller
  3. ControllerBank detail change · new counterparty—Holds for confirmation
  4. close-agentLedger read · entity 02read onlyClears
  5. close-agentInvoice 4471 · second posting$2,400Refused as a duplicate

Each line resolves from the acting identity and what it is asking for, not from one ceiling shared by the whole integration.

02 / IN PRACTICE

Autonomy, with accountability.

ILLUSTRATIVE · ONE CLOSE, DAY BY DAYfinance-agent, acting for one analyst in one entity
D1Mondayclose opens
  • StripePull the settlement feed for the periodAllowed · read, her entity
  • QuickBooksMatch supplier invoices to their purchase ordersAllowed · the invoices assigned to her
D2Tuesdayaccruals
  • XeroDraft the accrual schedule from open POsAllowed · draft only
  • XeroOpen the sister entity’s ledger “to compare”Blocked · not her entity, so not her agent’s
D3Wednesdaypayment run
  • QuickBooksAssemble the payment run and attach every POAllowed · entry, with the documents required
D4Thursdaythe line
  • StripeRelease the run — one payment above the thresholdHeld · a controller decides, not the agent
  • StripeRelease the payments below itAllowed · inside her own limit
D5Fridaysign-off
  • BoxFile the close pack with its working papersAllowed · every line traceable to its request

Five days, one entity, one analyst’s authority. The week reads the same whether the work was done by a person or by the agent acting for her — including Thursday, where entry and release stay in different hands.

03 / WHAT CHANGES

Control, in the details.

01

Cap an agent at the purchasing authority of the person it acts for.

The tool list it receives is the intersection of its own grant and that requester’s permissions, so authority follows the person — not a single ceiling shared by the whole integration.

02

Separate invoice entry from payment release.

The release action is left out of the agent’s grant, so no agent — and nobody acting through one — can carry a payment from entry to release alone.

03

Restrict agents to approved accounts, entities, cost centers, and counterparties.

Allow-lists are enforced at the action layer; an unfamiliar counterparty or off-books entity fails before money moves.

04

Require supporting documentation before an action can proceed.

Policy can demand the PO, contract, or receipt is attached and matched before the transaction posts.

05

Prevent duplicate, unusual, or out-of-policy transactions.

Transaction-aware checks catch a second posting of the same invoice or an amount outside pattern before it executes.

06

Keep the irreversible actions out of the grant altogether.

Releasing a payment and changing bank details are actions the agent is never given, so they never appear in its tool list and stay with a controller.

07

Trace financial actions back to the request, the data, the agent, and the person it acted for.

Every posted transaction carries its full lineage, so reconciliation questions end at the record instead of an email thread.

THREE LAYERS. ONE DECISION.

The boundary travels with the work.

Explore the context attached to every request.

What is this agent allowed to do?

finance-agent has a defined purpose and a bounded set of tools.

04 / WAYS TO PUT IT TO WORK

Built for your real workflows.

01An accounts-payable agent that can enter invoices but not release payment.

Entry and release are separated structurally: the agent is granted the draft bill and nothing past it, no matter what an invoice or a prompt says.

Identify→Authorize→Record
02A procurement agent that can only buy from the vendors the requester may already use.

The requester’s own authority caps every order, and a vendor outside it is not reachable through the agent at all.

Identify→Authorize→Record
03A close-management agent with read access to ledgers and narrow posting authority.

Ledger reads are open for the close, while posting is granted entry type by entry type rather than as one blanket write.

Identify→Authorize→Record
04A forecasting agent that can analyze payroll data without exposing individual compensation.

Aggregate analysis is permitted while individual compensation records stay outside the agent’s readable scope.

Identify→Authorize→Record
QUESTIONS

A closer look.

Can we add controls without rebuilding our finance automations?+

Yes. Fabriq sits between your agents and the ERP, payment, and procurement systems you already run. The automations keep working; every transaction they attempt is checked against the requester’s own authority and the agent’s grant first.

How does this protect against invoice fraud?+

A fraudulent invoice can convince a model, but it cannot widen a grant. Changing bank details and releasing a payment are not actions the agent holds, so the forged document reaches a draft bill and stops there — with the attempt on the record.

What does the audit trail give our controllers?+

Every agent action with both identities and the verdict — filterable by service and time window, and exportable for close and audit work.

Can spending limits differ per employee?+

Yes — that is the point of resolving per user. The same agent is capped at each requester’s own authority: a coordinator’s agent cannot reach what a director’s can, and separation of duties holds because authority follows the person, not the integration.

Can an agent be stopped from moving money at all?+

Yes — leave the release actions out of its grant and they never appear in the tool list it is handed, while entry-level work flows. Every call it does make lands in the record with both identities.

How do agents connect to our ERP and tools?+

Through the hub — prebuilt connectors for the suites you run, OpenAPI import for internal APIs, and Postgres with read-only guardrails, all behind one governed endpoint.

YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

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room to move.

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