Four document workflows that quietly cost you a department.

High volume, high friction, and staffed by people re-typing what a machine can already read. A pilot starts in one of them.

Pick a document family See the five stages

01 / the four families

The same five stages run over all of them.

Pick a family to see what it costs today and what it becomes once mastered.

Contracts and agreements

Commercial terms, obligations and renewal dates live only inside signed PDFs. Someone re-keys them — or nobody does and an auto-renewal fires unnoticed.

INMSAs, NDAs, leases, amendments→OUTcontract-metadata fields, counterparties resolved

Volume2,400 docs / yr

Straight through92%

Steward review8%

Killsmissed auto-renewals

Invoices and accounts payable

Supplier documents arrive in hundreds of formats across email, portals and post, driving manual keying and a permanent exception backlog.

INinvoices, POs, remittance advice→OUTheader and line items matched to PO and goods receipt

Volume148,000 docs / yr

Straight through96%

Steward review4%

Killsthe exception backlog

Customer and supplier onboarding

Onboarding means configuring records by hand from application forms, identity documents and due-diligence packs that arrive in no fixed shape at all.

INforms, applications, KYC / due-diligence packs→OUTmaster records with taxonomies populated

Volume3,100 packs / yr

Straight through88%

Steward review12%

Killsmonths of onboarding lag

Inbound notices and correspondence

Counterparties and authorities send time-critical notices as PDFs, scans or free-format text, with no machine-readable form and no owner until someone opens the inbox.

INnotices, letters, free-format messages→OUTdates and required actions in the operational queue

Volume9,700 items / yr

Straight through94%

Steward review6%

Killsmissed-deadline losses

02 / at a glance

All four, side by side.

Document family	Today	Once mastered	Volume/yr	Straight-through
Contracts & agreements	Terms and renewal dates live only inside signed PDFs.	Contract-metadata fields with counterparties resolved against your party master.	2,400	92%
Invoices & AP	Hundreds of formats and a permanent exception backlog.	Line-item detail matched to POs and goods receipts, scored per field.	148,000	96%
Onboarding packs	Records configured by hand from packs in no fixed shape.	Structured master records with non-standard requirements flagged.	3,100	88%
Inbound notices	Time-critical PDFs with no owner until someone opens the inbox.	Dates and actions matched to the affected record and queued.	9,700	94%

Volumes are indicative. Every value carries its source file, page and bounding box; anything under your threshold goes to your stewards, not into the database.

03 / what has to be true first