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

Insights · August 27, 2026

The workflow you need is too specific to buy

The workflows worth automating are too specific to buy and too small to prioritise, so they stay on a roadmap while somebody runs them by hand.

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Insights · August 25, 2026

You can swap anything except the ledger

Insights · August 20, 2026

The second entity is where it starts to hurt

Insights · August 18, 2026

How to tell AI accounting from AI marketing

Technical Staff · August 16, 2026

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

Insights · August 13, 2026

Matching payments on the day they arrive

Flash · August 13, 2026

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

Insights · August 11, 2026

Count the handoffs in your last close

Insights · August 6, 2026

How long does an ERP implementation really take?

Insights · August 4, 2026

Running 4 countries without 4 ledgers

Company updates · July 31, 2026

July HighLights

Insights · July 30, 2026

AI is coming for the bookkeeping, not the job

Insights · July 28, 2026

Most invoice tools automate 3 steps out of 7

Flash · July 27, 2026

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

Technical Staff · July 23, 2026

How We Taught Our Agent to Learn

Insights · July 23, 2026

Most close software manages the work instead of removing it

Insights · July 23, 2026

What changes in an audit when the controls run themselves

Insights · July 22, 2026

The procurement agent killed the intake form

Insights · July 21, 2026

Real SaaS contracts break revenue tools

Insights · July 21, 2026

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

Insights · July 20, 2026

The 7 jobs inside a month-end close

Insights · July 20, 2026

Can you audit an agent?

Insights · July 20, 2026

Agentic Accounting vs. RPA: Why Rules Hit a Ceiling

Insights · July 20, 2026

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

Insights · July 16, 2026

One set of numbers for the board and the filing

Insights · July 14, 2026

Bank reconciliation that finishes before month-end

Flash · July 13, 2026

Flash #8 – Controls, flexibility and cleaner invoicing

Insights · July 9, 2026

The 4 joins where order to cash breaks

Events · July 7, 2026

Hackathon #10: Canary Wharf… and a Garden

Insights · July 7, 2026

Evaluating an ERP when every vendor says yes

Insights · July 2, 2026

23 currencies, 4 entities, a 5 day close

Insights · June 30, 2026

Most accounting automation just makes you faster at typing

Flash · June 29, 2026

Flash #7 – PO upgrades, notifications and smarter contracts

Insights · June 25, 2026

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

Insights · June 23, 2026

The 5 day close comes from not saving the work up

Insights · June 18, 2026

The procurement tool people actually use

Insights · June 16, 2026

When the contract does the revenue recognition

Events · June 15, 2026

Finance Hackathon #9: Copenhagen

Flash · June 12, 2026

Flash #6 – Bills that find their own way home

Insights · June 11, 2026

The board pack that builds itself

Insights · June 9, 2026

Testing every transaction instead of 40 of them

Insights · June 4, 2026

900 invoices a month and nobody reviews them

Events · June 2, 2026

Finance Hackathon #8: New York

Insights · June 2, 2026

How to migrate an ERP without losing your history

Insights · May 28, 2026

Intercompany eliminations that post themselves

Flash · May 28, 2026

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

Insights · May 26, 2026

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

Events · May 25, 2026

Finance Hackathon #7: Amsterdam

Insights · May 21, 2026

Invoices that get paid without anyone opening them

Insights · May 19, 2026

Faster consolidation software will not shorten your close

Flash · May 8, 2026

Flash #4 – New faces, fiscal years and FinHacks

Flash · April 28, 2026

Flash #3 – Agents, Memory & IFRS

Company updates · April 27, 2026

Starsite IX: the Italo edition

Events · March 18, 2026

Finance Hackathon #6: the Helsinki edit

Insights · February 23, 2026

Best Practice in the Age of AI

Customers · October 1, 2025

How KeyShot Automated Global Finance with Light and Avalara

Partners · September 2, 2025

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

Partners · August 21, 2025

Seamless Global Spend: See the Light x Adyen Partnership

Insights · June 9, 2025

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

Insights · February 10, 2025

AI Bookkeeping: The Future of Financial Management

Insights · February 4, 2025

Accounts payable and receivable bottlenecks, and how to fix them

Insights · January 28, 2025

Reducing human error in financial management with AI

Insights · January 21, 2025

Your Guide to Successful Financial Consolidation Practices

Insights · January 14, 2025

Automating Accounts Payable in 2026

Insights · January 7, 2025

How to Choose the Best ERP for Your Business Needs
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Insights · January 30, 2024

Light Manifesto

Insights · July 21, 2023

Revolutionizing CFO Tooling: Three Waves Since 2000

Insights · May 30, 2023

Leveraging AI for Finance: Balancing Stability and Transformation

Insights · May 9, 2023

The Finance Function Unleashed: From Open Banking to Open Finance

Insights · April 24, 2023

Navigating the ESG Tsunami with PwC
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