tl;dr
Autonomous accounting is the practice of running accounting processes, coding, matching, reconciling, closing, end to end through AI, without a person carrying out each step by hand.
It goes further than automation of a single task. The system handles the full workflow, including the exceptions that used to require a person to stop and investigate.
Older approaches automated pieces of the job: a rule that codes a recurring vendor, a script that flags a mismatch. Autonomous accounting removes the gaps between those pieces. Nothing sits in a queue waiting for someone to notice it.
At Light, autonomous accounting runs through agents that work inside the same controls, approval chains, and audit trail the finance team already has. The team sets the policy. The system runs it, continuously, across every entity and currency.
See how this works in Light's Agents.
