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Product updates, hackathon recaps, customer stories, and insights on AI-native finance from the team at Light.

Flash #11: The App Store is live

September 1, 2026

The workflow you need is too specific to buy

August 27, 2026

You can swap anything except the ledger

August 25, 2026

The second entity is where it starts to hurt

August 20, 2026

How to tell AI accounting from AI marketing

August 18, 2026

We Fine-Tuned an Open-Source 8B Model to Replace a 1T Model

August 16, 2026

Matching payments on the day they arrive

August 13, 2026

Flash #10: Custom Agents, Claude connector, audit trails

August 13, 2026

Count the handoffs in your last close

August 11, 2026

How long does an ERP implementation really take?

Running 4 countries without 4 ledgers

July HighLights

AI is coming for the bookkeeping, not the job

Most invoice tools automate 3 steps out of 7

Flash #9 – Filters, credit note approvals and SaaS Metrics

How We Taught Our Agent to Learn

Most close software manages the work instead of removing it

What changes in an audit when the controls run themselves

The procurement agent killed the intake form

Real SaaS contracts break revenue tools

AI ERP: What It Actually Means, and How to Choose One

The 7 jobs inside a month-end close

Can you audit an agent?

Agentic Accounting vs. RPA: Why Rules Hit a Ceiling

Copilots Inform. Agents Act. The Line That Divides Finance AI

One set of numbers for the board and the filing

Bank reconciliation that finishes before month-end

Flash #8 – Controls, flexibility and cleaner invoicing

The 4 joins where order to cash breaks

Hackathon #10: Canary Wharf… and a Garden

Evaluating an ERP when every vendor says yes

23 currencies, 4 entities, a 5 day close

Most accounting automation just makes you faster at typing

Flash #7 – PO upgrades, notifications and smarter contracts

Three way matching on every invoice, not just the big ones

The 5 day close comes from not saving the work up

The procurement tool people actually use

When the contract does the revenue recognition

Finance Hackathon #9: Copenhagen

Flash #6 – Bills that find their own way home

The board pack that builds itself

Testing every transaction instead of 40 of them

900 invoices a month and nobody reviews them

Finance Hackathon #8: New York

How to migrate an ERP without losing your history

Intercompany eliminations that post themselves

Flash #5 – SaaS metrics, credit notes and physical cards

Every agent has a name, a job and an audit trail

Finance Hackathon #7: Amsterdam

Invoices that get paid without anyone opening them

Faster consolidation software will not shorten your close

Flash #4 – New faces, fiscal years and FinHacks

Flash #3 – Agents, Memory & IFRS

Starsite IX: the Italo edition

Finance Hackathon #6: the Helsinki edit

Best Practice in the Age of AI

February 23, 2026

How KeyShot Automated Global Finance with Light and Avalara

October 1, 2025

Run Multi-Entity Finance with Just 2 FTEs — Powered by Light + Abacum

September 2, 2025

Seamless Global Spend: See the Light x Adyen Partnership

August 21, 2025

Did AI deliver the holy grail of real-time financial reporting?

AI Bookkeeping: The Future of Financial Management

February 10, 2025

Accounts payable and receivable bottlenecks, and how to fix them

February 4, 2025

Reducing human error in financial management with AI

January 28, 2025

Your Guide to Successful Financial Consolidation Practices

January 21, 2025

Automating Accounts Payable in 2026

January 14, 2025

How to Choose the Best ERP for Your Business Needs

January 7, 2025

Light Manifesto

January 30, 2024

Revolutionizing CFO Tooling: Three Waves Since 2000

Leveraging AI for Finance: Balancing Stability and Transformation

The Finance Function Unleashed: From Open Banking to Open Finance

Navigating the ESG Tsunami with PwC