AI Accounts Payable Assistant
An AI-powered digital worker that automates end-to-end supplier invoice and accounts payable processes for SMEs.
Why SMEs Need an AI AP Assistant
Fragmented digital foundations
Most SMEs run on basic accounting tools, while enterprise-grade ERPs are overbuilt for their scale.
Squeezed by rent and labor costs
Rent and labor costs keep climbing, while lean teams absorb growing manual workloads.
Heterogeneous documents, high exception rates
Invoices arrive in countless formats, pushing three-way match exception rates to 50–60%.
Rigid entry-level systems
Entry-level software offers limited flexibility, making post-entry corrections costly.
What is AI Accounts Payable Assistant?
AI Accounts Payable Assistant by Laiye Worker is an AI-powered digital worker that automates end-to-end supplier invoice and accounts payable processes for SMEs. Through its conversational interface, users can instruct and supervise the Worker, which understands invoices and supporting documents, validates and matches transactions, identifies exceptions, routes approvals, and executes data entry and reconciliation across accounting and business applications. It integrates with Xero, QuickBooks, and AutoCount, while supporting desktop and web applications. Human-in-the-loop validation and continuous learning improve processing accuracy over time, reducing repetitive manual work while maintaining audit trails and control.
Core Features
Automatically reads and extracts data from invoices in PDFs, scanned images, and email attachments, without predefined templates.
Laiye Worker executes AP tasks from invoice validation and matching through data entry and approval across accounting and business applications.
Matches invoices against purchase orders and goods receipts, and flags discrepancies for review.
Automatically routes invoices for approval based on business rules and approval thresholds.
Users can instruct, review and supervise Laiye Worker through its natural-language ChatUI, with human intervention for exceptions.
From Download to AP Assistant — in 6 steps
Set up AI Accounts Payable Assistant: install Laiye Worker, create your ADP account and install the ADP skill — the AP workflow is already built in. Then try it end to end with the sample pages
Forward an invoice from your Gmail — the AI AP Assistant reads it with ADP, runs a three-way match against the purchase orders and goods receipts, flags anything unusual, and creates the bill in Xero for approval. The full setup is just 6 steps, detailed below.
Follow these steps to get the AI AP Assistant running with Laiye Worker
Download on desktop and sign in — supports macOS 12+ or Windows 10+.
Download for macOS →Download for Windows →
Create your ADP account once — registering automatically builds in the AP workflow. Follow the guide to get your API key.
Open ADP →API guide →
Make sure you have a Xero account — this is where the approved bills will land.
In Laiye Worker, open the Skills Library and install the ADP and Xero skills.
Follow the in-app prompts to authorize and connect the ADP and Xero accounts you set up.
Download the sample invoice page then open a new chat in Laiye Worker and drag the file into the conversation — it runs the three-way match and creates the bill in Xero.
Download the sample pages →
Download Laiye Worker
Download on desktop — supports macOS 12+ or Windows 10+.