Workforce
Your control tower for the entire organisation
Agents, users, policies, integrations and workflows, governed in one place. Executive agents do the work, audit agents verify it, and your policies define what right looks like.
How does Light
handle agents?
Handling external auditors, boards, internal stakeholders, and your team is already complicated. Agents add another layer of complexity. Light gives it one structure: executive agents do the work, audit agents check it, and your policies define what right looks like.
01The rules
Policies are the foundational documents that define how the work should be performed. They inform your agents and workflows, and give audit agents the standard to check against.
- Accounting policy
- Approval policy
- Vendor risk management
- + more
02The work
Different actors play different roles. Agents do tasks end to end, people make the judgment calls, workflows run fixed steps, and integrations keep your stack in sync.
Executive agents
Read and writeCreated to perform tasks, end to end.
Users
People stay in charge: directing agents, approving work, making the judgment calls.
Workflows
Non-agentic automations: fixed steps that run the same way every time.
Integrations
Banks, custom APIs, and the rest of your stack, connected and kept in sync.
03The proof
Audit agents oversee the work of executive agents, workflows, and people. They verify every output against policy, and they check the instructions executive agents run on, not just their results.
Monthly control report
What was checked, what passed, and what was flagged, documented every month.
Everything is verified against policy
Materiality-based approval controls
Autonomy has limits.
You set them.
Light uses materiality-based approval controls to determine what can run automatically and what needs human approval.
Your approval policy sets its own limits.
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€4,820 accrual
Runs automaticallyWithin approval limit
- 2
€42,000 manual adjustment
Controller approvalMateriality threshold reached
- 3
€280,000 agent adjustment
CFO approvalMateriality threshold reached
The same materiality controls apply to people and agents.
Agents operate within the same approval limits as the rest of the finance function.
If an action exceeds an agent’s authority, Light stops the work and routes it to the person required by policy.
The logic, in
three examples
Your policy sets the rules, agents do the work inside them, and an audit agent checks every result after the fact. Each example ends the same way: in the monthly control report, as a pass or a flag your team can act on.
Audit trail Pass
- Policy
The expense policy says software subscriptions are coded to account 642000, and anything over €10,000 needs a second approval.
- Bill Agent
A €4,300 design-tool invoice arrives. The Bill Agent codes it to 642000 and routes it for approval, exactly as the policy directs.
- Audit agent
Read-only and after the fact, the audit agent re-checks the entry against the policy: right account, right approval path.
- Control report
The check is recorded as a pass in this month's control report.
Audit trail Flagged
- Policy
The accrual policy says goods received but not yet invoiced are accrued at month-end, from €5,000 up.
- Accrual Agent
An admin edits the Accrual Agent's instructions to skip anything under €20,000, to save time at close.
- Audit agent
Because it checks instructions as well as output, the audit agent compares the Accrual Agent's directives to the policy and catches the mismatch before entries go missing.
- Control report
The finding is flagged to your team in the control report, together with the policy it breaks.
Audit trail Flagged
- Policy
The vendor risk management policy says every new vendor is risk-screened before their first payment.
- Workflow
The vendor approval workflow runs exactly as designed: the right people approve the new vendor and a first payment is scheduled. Nobody can skip this part.
- AP clerk
The risk screening is a separate task outside the workflow. Under pressure to get the vendor paid, the AP clerk skips it.
- Audit agent
Comparing the books against the policy, the audit agent finds a vendor approved and due for payment with no screening on file. It notifies the admins of the breach in real time.
- Control report
The gap lands in the control report, with the vendor and the missing step attached.
Each part,
clearly defined
Every piece of the structure has one job, and something watching that it does it right.
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Executive agents
Created to perform tasks. The Bill Agent codes bills, the Contract Agent manages contracts, the Accrual Agent books month-end entries, the Bank rec Agent clears the bank, and you can create more for any task. They work end to end inside the roles and approval limits you set, and every action they take lands in the audit trail.
Create your own - 2
Audit agents
Read-only by design: they can inspect everything and change nothing. They oversee the work of executive agents and people alike, verifying outputs against policy and checking the directives executive agents run on. Each month, they produce a control report: what was checked, what passed, what was flagged.
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Policies
The foundational documents of the system. They define how work should be performed, and everything else takes its cue from them: executive agents get their directives, workflows their steps, and audit agents the standard they verify against.
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Workflows
Non-agentic automations: fixed steps that run the same way every time. Audit agents oversee the adherence between policies and workflows, so an automation can never quietly drift from the rules it was built to follow.
Plain language
Describe what needs to happen and the agent does it: no scripting, no configuration screens, no consultants.
End-to-end
Agents don't just flag work, they finish it: post the entry, chase the receipt, route the exception, close the loop.
Everywhere you work
The Light Command Interface (LCI) runs every agent in Slack, Teams, and the web app with the same permissions and audit trail.
Agents that
run the close
The work your finance team used to run by hand, run continuously instead.
01
Exceptions, handled
When something doesn't match, like a duplicate bill, a missing receipt, or an unreconciled payment, the agent investigates, gathers what's missing from the people involved, and resolves or escalates with full context.
02
Governed by design
Agents act inside Light's roles, approval workflows, and immutable audit trail. Every action is logged, attributable, and reversible through the same controls as human work.
Astra, the always-on analyst, watches everything agents and humans post, and flags what needs attention.
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