Governed AI for finance

Finance is a flywheel.
Accelerate with agents.

Finance is the investment flywheel that propels a business forward. Finance teams use Dough to build, deploy and govern AI agents from Claude or Codex.

Agents accelerate all functions

Treasury

e.g. Agent prepares the weekly Treasury cash forecast using current payment data and liquidity projections, flags key variances, refreshes stale assumptions, and produces a submission-ready narrative.

Close

e.g. Agent reconciles merchant proceeds in transit, prepares journal entries and aging files, reviews clearing accounts, and supports receivable write-off analysis across close subtasks.

Procure-to-Pay

e.g. Agent reviews pending Coupa requisitions, purchase orders, change orders, and invoices against budget and committed spend, then recommends approve, return, or discuss outcomes with draft approver comments.

Reporting

e.g. Agent reviews 10-Q and 10-K shells in Workiva by checking roll-forward completeness, financial statement footing, prior-period tracing, stale language, cross-references, and required disclosure consistency.

Audit

e.g. Agent pre-reviews audit memos against historical drafts, prior comment patterns, and auditor-question themes to anticipate likely review comments while preserving human review.

Commissions

e.g. Agent automates commission-cycle calculations by deriving target achievement percentages and representative payout amounts for sales operations review.

Payroll

e.g. Agent performs gross-to-net payroll reconciliation across Workday and other systems to identify variances in gross pay, deductions, taxes, and net disbursements before close.

Budgeting

e.g. Agent produces a monthly SG&A variance report from NetSuite, Anaplan, and DataMart data, with planning-unit context and employee- and vendor-level drilldowns.

Growth Bets

e.g. Agent builds a quarterly growth investment view covering revenue health, ROI by tenure cohort, rep-level indicators, market metrics, and hiring recommendations.

Goals

e.g. Agent supports quarterly KPI planning by recommending measurable KPIs, evaluating proposed targets, and calculating achievement at period end for department, vertical, and team leaders.

Quote-to-Cash

e.g. Agent processes non-standard payment-term deal requests by querying BigQuery, applying finance rules, returning approve/reject/escalate decisions with an audit trail, and logging exceptions for follow-up.

What makes us different
What We Do

Context

Your agents are intelligently routed through one shared context layer: a normalized data lake, direct API connections, and a shared file system. No more exploding your context window with multiple inefficient MCPs.

Agent Sharing

Build an agent once and share it with a single click. Agents and skills live in a versioned repository that is multi-skill, reusable, and governed, instead of scattered across laptops and one-off prompts.

Evaluations

Measure agent efficacy, not vibes. Built-in evals score every agent against your standards, so your team can iterate with confidence and show improvement over time.

Token ROI

See what every agent actually costs. Token spend is tracked per run and tied to ROI, with no vendor token markup and no guessing where your spend goes.

Audit Logs

Every agent run, session, MCP call, and tool call is logged, capturing the full reasoning chain behind each output, audit-ready by default.

Compliance

SOX controls built in, with ICFR card workflows, segregation of duties, plus OAuth and credential management that close the gaps horizontal tools leave open.

Cloud Agents

Run hosted agents on schedules with durable execution. Remove the laptop from the equation and have agents monitor inboxes and close loops on your behalf in our governed environment.

Data Governance

Granular, configuration-driven access control. Data is scoped by role and department, so each person sees only what they should, keeping sensitive data governed end to end.

How We Do It

Governance delivered by Dough.

See how Dough delivers governance automatically for an agent reviewing purchase orders in an enterprise environment.

Run · via Claude Code
Procurement Agent
Review every open PO daily
DOUGH MANAGED LAYER
Auditability Layer
Session Logs · Token ROI · Evals
Compliance Layer
API Keys · Data Access · SOX Controls
Agent Layer
Agent & Skill Repo · Hosted Agents
Context Layer
APIs · Data Lake · File Systems
Outcome
All outstanding POs reviewed.
Exceptions flagged, the rest matched and closed — with the full trail attached.
What each layer delivers
Auditability Layer

Every step is on the record.

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Each PO the agent reviews lands in a full session log, and runs can be used for evals automatically. The back and forth between your team and the agent is logged. The approvals are logged. Your audit trail writes itself.

→ AUDIT-READY BY DEFAULT
Compliance Layer

Access and credentials stay inside the lines.

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RBAC scopes agents to operate on-behalf-of users in platforms like Slack and only disclose data that users are allowed to access. API keys are stored in encrypted vaults not users' laptops. Controls are enforced by the platform, not left to the agent.

→ SOX SCOPES ENFORCED
Agent Layer

Always the latest, reviewed agent.

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The run pulls the current Procurement Agent from the shared repo, not a stale copy on someone's laptop. Agents have skill versions pinned to them and they are only updated when the team approves.

→ ZERO VERSION DRIFT
Context Layer

Agents retrieve data for optimal performance.

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Agents are given the best path to access the data they need. In this case, the agent uses API keys to query outstanding POs (Coupa), data lake snapshot tables to query the latest budget (Anaplan) and a file system to access any ad-hoc changes. No inefficient MCPs exploding the context window.

→ AGENTS GET THE GOLDEN PATH FOR DATA
Fig.05 — Procurement Agent · one governed run
How We Work

Build your own agents or partner with forward-deployed engineers.

You own the agents and the IP either way.

Option 01Self-serve

Deploy and govern day one.

Iteration · improvement
Full platform access — agents, skills, governance
Your team builds using our proprietary framework
Shared context, auditability & RBAC built in
Pricing
Platform subscription
Option 02Partner-built

We build agents for you.

You own · iterate
Our engineers build & deploy your initial agents
You pay on an outcome basis
You own the IP and iterate going forward
Pricing
Platform subscription + outcome-based pricing
Who We Are

We've lived the problem from both sides.

Shriram Apte

Shriram Apte

Co-founder / CEO
3× finance leader
VP Finance at Atticus ($3M → $50M, Series A–C) and Triplebyte (acquired).
Closed $250M+ in capital; led ops, recruiting and GTM.
Delivered an unqualified audit opinion on a 5-entity de-novo structure.
Uday Mantripragada

Uday Mantripragada

Co-founder / CTO
AI-native eng leader
Ex-Uber / Apple technical leader.
Built Uber's Marketplace incentive platform — $1.2B+ annually.
Owned Uber's core spend datasets, scenario planning and reconciliation.
Ran org-wide AI-native initiatives; core AI infra & hosted-agent tooling.
Backed by
Outcast Ventures
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