BILL the intelligent finance platform trusted by nearly 500,000 businesses to manage, move, and maximize their money, today announced new agentic capabilities designed to give finance teams greater control and confidence in how AI works for them. The features help protect against payment errors; empower finance teams to control where AI works for them; answer questions in natural language chat, accelerate onboarding; and organize inbound documents.
Quick Intel
- BILL launches new suite AI capabilities put finance teams control AI protect every dollar risk intelligence AI controls chat faster automated onboarding give businesses confidence put AI to work with money.
- SMBs want more control confidence in AI 86% small medium business leaders report using AI tools financial operations only 19% trust AI completely data quality security cited key reasons keep humans loop nearly 90% accounting firms described themselves ambitious when comes to AI yet only around half trust AI data accuracy somewhat.
- Risk intelligence for your money In FY2026 BILL flagged ∼$1.5 billion payments made customers result simple mistakes unusual payments vendor sends invoice wrong amount simple mistakes cost finance teams time fix new risk intelligence capability BILL AI checks invoices before payment scheduled automatically flagging invoices deviate from vendor established billing history during approval stage finance teams can correct mistakes faster keep money moving August to September 2026 BILL risk intelligence autonomously detected average $138,000 mistakes unusual payments per customer saving total 1,800+ days manual work.
- Control how AI works in business almost 9 in 10 finance teams want centralized or in-workflow control AI now customers get consolidated hub where can monitor actions BILL AI taken switch AI tools on or off control how much AI does for them hub will play essential role how finance teams tailor deploy control AI across business.
- Chat with BILL Beta finance teams can now talk BILL plain language right where they work users can ask which vendors need paying when where invoice stands what's driving card spend how month-end close receivables tracking which bills subscriptions recur get answer AI-handled support conversations growing more than 250% one year BILL Meets Finance Teams in Their AI Tools 9M+ network members with BILL login can now connect accounts available AI assistants with BILL external Model Context Protocol MCP leverage tools ask questions BILL financial operations get answers one AI chat window thousands developers already build BILL APIs usage grown 7x two years.
- AI-Assisted Onboarding new AI-assisted onboarding gets new users up running faster setting up new platform usually means filling every field manually now BILL does first pass personalizes business profile recommends products based how business works helps users add vendors assign default approvers users cut platform setup time up to 50% vendor customization time up to 70% inbox capabilities automatically identify label incoming invoices W-9s finance teams know what looking at without manual sorting.
Finance Leaders Know Their Businesses Best
"Finance leaders know their businesses best, and they should be empowered to decide how and where AI works for them. With these new capabilities, BILL is giving finance teams the choice and confidence to use AI to protect their money, log AI actions, and equip them to control and run their business their way," said René Lacerte, CEO and Founder of BILL. "Built on more than $2 trillion in payment volume, BILL's AI has seen just about every payment, vendor pattern, anomaly, and fraud signal. We're leveraging this scale and data to deliver AI that finance teams can trust to help protect their business, and save time and money."
About BILL
BILL is the intelligent finance platform trusted by nearly half a million businesses and their accountants to manage, move, and maximize their money. BILL powers businesses ranging from fast-moving startups to growing companies with complex operations. We use AI to deliver strategic finance capabilities in one integrated platform that includes AP, AR, expenses, forecasting, procurement and more. With a member network of more than 9 million, BILL's platform processes ∼1% of US GDP annually. Headquartered in San Jose, California, BILL is a trusted partner of leading U.S. financial institutions, accounting firms, and software providers.
