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Where Spend Management meets AI
Learn how AI agents will revolutionise spend management, powered by billions of data points. A sneak peek into the future we're building.
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Introducing SP&A:
Finance at the speed of business
SP&A (Spend Planning & Analysis) is Spendesk's spend-focused version of FP&A that uses real-time, granular transaction data from €10bn in annual spend to help finance teams budget, forecast and optimise spending decisions.
"Agentic AI is unlocking a new category for finance teams. We call it SP&A (Spend Planning & Analysis): the discipline that turns everyday spend decisions into strategic advantage."
Axel Demazy, CEO, Spendesk
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The modern CFO's guide to AI:
Strategy, tools and real results
"AI won't replace us, but it will absolutely transform how we work if we focus it where it matters most."
Pauline Babel, CFO, Spendesk
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Beyond the Hype:
How AI is Actually Changing Finance Teams Today
Spendesk CEO Axel Demazy and CFO Pauline Babel explore how AI is reshaping finance teams, drawing parallels to Excel's revolutionary impact decades ago.
AI insights and resources
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The State of AI Spend
A data-driven analysis with adoption trends, spending patterns and benchmarks to inform your AI strategy.
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How Spendesk is building an AI-native organisation
Spendesk is becoming AI-native by embedding AI across teams to automate work, boost productivity, and scale innovation.
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Spendesk Connect: Integrating AI tools across financial workflows
Finance leaders discuss AI adoption for automating workflows and improving decision-making.
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AI readiness checklist
Start right. Assess readiness, identify what's missing and set your team up for success.
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The State of AI in Finance 2025
Discover how CFOs use AI to streamline operations, the top AI finance tools and a step-by-step implementation playbook.
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Finance teams are finally coming round to AI’s potential
Finance teams are embracing AI as it matures, cutting manual work, speeding decisions, and enabling more strategic, high-value finance roles.
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CFO Connect
From the community we've built with 12,000+ finance leaders: the AI insights, strategies, and discussions shaping how Europe's CFOs work today.
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CFO Connect: AI Demo Day Summit 2025
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How CFOs can accurately assess ROI from AI initiatives
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AI boom with Stripe: Hypergrowth startup lessons
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Future-proofing finance: Upskilling, salary trends, and thriving alongside AI
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6 steps to build an AI ready finance team
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CFO playbook: Driving AI adoption & cultural transformation
Webinars and events
Where finance leaders meet to talk AI. Join our webinars for deep dives into what's actually working, attend events where the best ideas get shared, and connect with CFOs pushing boundaries. Don't just read about it - be part of it.
Finance Masterclass: How to Become an AI-First CFO in 2026
Join Nicolas Boucher (Founder, AI Finance Club) and Pauline Babel (CFO, Spendesk) on 9 December for practical examples and use cases you can build into your 2026 plan (or start using straight away).
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AI tech company eliminates invoice chaos and gains financial control with Spendesk
With Spendesk, we have a single source of truth for all reimbursements and invoices.
Orbem moved from manual invoice processing with poor visibility to AI-enhanced automated spend management.
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Ai — FAQ
Spendesk uses AI to automatically categorize expenses and match receipts by extracting invoice data with OCR, reducing manual reconciliation. Spendesk's AI ties spend data to virtual and physical company cards, enforces approval workflows, and populates automated expense reports, enabling finance teams to close books faster while maintaining policy controls and clear audit trails.
Spendesk secures financial data with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, and detailed audit logs for every transaction. Spendesk's permissioned approval workflows and card controls limit who can spend, while integrations with accounting systems preserve immutable records, enabling compliance and transparent reviews during audits.
Spendesk automates invoice processing by capturing vendor invoices with OCR, matching them to purchase orders and card transactions, and routing exceptions to approvers. Spendesk's automated matching and approval workflows shorten processing times, reduce manual data entry, and provide traceable status updates for finance teams and vendors.
Spendesk integrates with major accounting and ERP systems via two-way sync to export reconciled transactions, invoices, and payment data directly to ledgers. Spendesk's native integrations preserve spend categories and approval metadata, reducing reconciliation time and ensuring accounting teams receive consistently structured entries for faster month-end close.