N° 01 — Flagship practice
Most automation fails because technologists don't understand finance — and finance teams can't build. Acugate's AI & Automation practice sits at the intersection: chartered accountants and engineers on one team, shipping systems that survive an audit.
Why this practice exists
Every consulting report ends the same way: a list of recommendations someone on your team is supposed to implement. Months later, half are done, none are measured and the problem is back.
We built this practice to close that gap. When Acugate recommends a control, a reconciliation, a reporting pack or a workflow — we can also build the system that runs it. The recommendation and the software arrive together.
"We don't hand over findings. We hand over working systems."
Apps we've built
Three examples from our deployed portfolio — each one custom-built for an Indian business, integrated with their ERP and in daily use.
Field and site teams raise expense claims from their phone — photo the receipt, OCR fills the entry, GST and ITC eligibility are checked line-by-line, and the claim moves through approval to payout without a single email.
Barcode-scanning stock verification for multi-warehouse operations — offline-capable, synced to the ERP in real time, with expected-vs-actual variance surfaced at the point of scan. Used by field operators across warehouses.
From requisition to purchase order in one flow: requirements raised by any department, RFQs sent automatically, vendor quotes compared side-by-side on price, delivery and track record — and the PO raised with a full audit trail.
| Vendor | Quote | Delivery | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shree Steels | ₹ 4.12L | 6 days | 92 · Best |
| Kanha Metals | ₹ 4.05L | 14 days | 81 |
| Apex Tubes | ₹ 4.38L | 5 days | 78 |
Six practices
Engage one practice or chain them — each is scoped as a standalone module with a defined deliverable.
A pragmatic roadmap of where AI actually pays back in your business — ranked by effort, risk and return.
Invoices, bank statements, contracts and tax notices — read, extracted, validated and posted without manual keying.
The close, reconciliations and compliance calendar on autopilot — with exceptions routed to humans, not the other way round.
Assistants trained on your policies and data — answering the questions your team asks each other all day.
One version of the truth: pipelines from your ERPs and ledgers into dashboards your board actually reads.
Continuous controls monitoring instead of annual sampling — the audit trail builds itself.
Technology stack
We build on your stack where possible and introduce new tools only where they earn their keep.
Where it lands
Procure-to-pay automation, inventory reconciliation, GST at scale.
Continuous controls, regulatory reporting, exception monitoring.
Marketplace reconciliation, returns accounting, multi-GSTIN compliance.
Project accounting, RERA compliance packs, collections dashboards.
Claims and receivables automation, vendor compliance, cost MIS.
Freight invoice audit, POD matching, fuel and toll reconciliation.
Timesheet-to-billing automation, WIP dashboards, engagement economics.
Investor-grade MIS, runway dashboards, finance ops from day one.
Engagement model
No multi-year transformation programmes. We prove value on one process, then scale what works.
We shadow the process, quantify the manual effort and agree a measurable success metric before any build begins.
A working system on one process, running in parallel with your team — measured against the metric we agreed.
Roll out to adjacent processes with training, documentation and a support model — or a full managed-service handover.
Why us
Every engagement is directly owned by the firm's senior leadership — your work is never handed down the ladder.
Chartered accountants who build software and design systems — the translation gap disappears.
If a task is repetitive, we automate it — your fees buy judgement, not data entry.
Tally, Zoho, QuickBooks, Xero, SAP, NetSuite — we work in your stack, not around it.
Domestic depth with proven offshore delivery for UK firms — same team, same standards.
Turnaround commitments in writing, live dashboards to verify them. Trust, then verify.
Start here
In one call we'll tell you honestly whether it's worth automating, what it would take and what it would save.
Discuss a use case