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How H6.ai builds AI-powered financial automation with Lakebase Postgres

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In short

The enterprise accounts payable platform has deployed dedicated customer databases to isolate and debug complex accounting workflows without altering live client environments. By using storage-efficient copy-on-write branching, the engineering team captures exact historical contexts whenever errors occur, allowing them to distinguish between software bugs and fluctuating financial records. This architecture ensures high deterministic policy compliance while safely validating machine-driven matching against real enterprise data. Automated regression tests execute on temporary run branches that are deleted immediately after completion, preventing unintended updates from posting to client ERP…

Key points

  • Branching architecture enables safe regression testing against production data contexts w…: Branching architecture enables safe regression testing against production data contexts without modifying live ERP records.
  • Preserved snapshots let engineers determine if processing anomalies stem from code revisi…: Preserved snapshots let engineers determine if processing anomalies stem from code revisions or shifting customer data.
  • Isolated database environments allow reliable evaluation of matching accuracy and company…: Isolated database environments allow reliable evaluation of matching accuracy and company policies across varied invoice formats.

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For H6.ai, database branching isn't just an infrastructure convenience. It is how we build AI-powered financial automation that customers can trust.

by Benji Borg and Mauro Pirrone

Traditional accounts payable and invoice processing tools often force companies into a trade-off: moving quickly using AI automation and risk losing control, or maintaining tedious manual oversight. H6.ai was founded to solve this problem.

H6.ai automates accounts payable on top of a company's existing ERP. It reads each invoice, matches it to a purchase order, assigns its lines to the right accounts and checks it against the company's own policies. Our approach combines AI-assisted understanding with approved, deterministic and auditable policy execution. Our challenge was finding a backend solution that could support frequent regression testing at scale.

In this industry, no two customers look alike. Each has its own ERP, suppliers, purchase orders, chart of accounts and policies. Invoices range from a one-line service bill to documents with hundreds of lines.

And the data keeps moving. At 10 AM an invoice matches an open purchase order with enough quantity left. By the afternoon…

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