Find the invoices hiding in my email and get them into Xero

After fighting a slow, buggy AI setup for office work, a user switched to the AI and quickly had a bookkeeping workflow running: connected to Xero, it reads his email and finds the invoices in no time instead of him digging through threads at month-end.

How it works

Connect the AI to Xero and email
Agent searches the inbox for invoices
Extracts and organizes them for the books
Workflow ready for month-end

Why it’s worth knowing

The invoices were never lost - they were unfindable in the one place they all arrive; the agent turns the inbox itself into the accounts-payable tray.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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