Eagl

A few weeks ago, we hosted our first AI Finance Hackathon and invited 10 companies. They spent the day building AI for their own work: remittance matching, chasing late payments, treasury forecasting, intercompany reconciliation, flux analysis and more. Watch how the day went. 👇 Thank you to the teams in the room: 9altitudes, Aikido Security, Copus, Guardsquare, House of HR, In The Pocket, Lighthouse, Pluxee and Telenet group

Upvest is a leading investment infrastructure provider in Europe, powering some of the largest banks and wealth platforms with their API-first trading technology. As they scaled, their finance team had to manage high transaction volumes and rigorous compliance requirements across multiple entities, getting everything cleanly and accurately into NetSuite. To scale efficiently, the underlying manual close tasks, like manually matching transactions, tracking manual VAT risks, and managing accruals, had to be run autonomously. That is why Upvest's VP of Accounting & Reporting, Toni Krüger, chose Eagl to go beyond static close tracking and embed AI accounting agents directly into their record-to-report workflows.

We are super excited to officially announce our partnership with Payhawk! 🚀 Corporate spend management and the month-end close belong in the same workflow. Today, we’re making that a reality. For too long, multi-entity finance teams have dealt with the exact same friction: spend happens in one system, and the close is managed in another. That gap creates a natural lag at the end of the month. Together, Eagl and Payhawk are completely eliminating that gap.

Accruals are one of the hardest things to automate in accounting. We just cracked it. Eagl now runs the full accrual lifecycle automatically: detect the month an expected invoice never posted, book the accrual, write it to your ERP, and reverse it on its own when the invoice arrives. Plus a full cutoff analysis every close. Rolling out now.

Most finance teams catch accounting errors by hunting for outliers in a reporting tool. Which means you only catch the ones big enough to stand out. Eagl works differently. Our financial controlling agent reviews every journal entry and document against every check your finance team typically runs. No sampling. It flags what needs your attention, explains why, and proposes the corrective action. Controlling finally becomes proactive.

Today, we’re launching Eagl. AI will change finance. That part feels inevitable. But AI is only as good as the data underneath it. That's why we built Eagl: AI agents that continuously review accounting data, detect mistakes, and help finance teams trust their numbers. Before finance can be automated, the data has to be right.

We organised the AI Finance Hackathon at Wintercircus Ghent last week. Ten of Belgium's leading finance teams spent the day building on real problems from their own teams. What stood out was how much overlap there was in the room. Reconciliation that eats days. Intercompany differences that bounce between countries. Variance comments that need a finance partner to crosscheck one by one. Manual checks across dozens of entities. One reflection from the day: building a working prototype turned out to be the easy part. The harder questions sit on either side. Scoping the right problem upfront. Processing large volumes of data at a reasonable cost. Keeping data quality high enough for the model to be trusted in production. Congrats to Lighthouse for the win with a remittance matching agent that turns Salesforce and NetSuite cases into one-click approvals. Runners-up Pluxee (2nd) with their penalty invoicing system, and In The Pocket (3rd) with BUDGY, an AI-powered budget variance platform. And to the other finance teams that brought real problems and the energy to match: Telenet group, Copus, Mint Tandartsen, House of HR, Aikido Security, 9altitudes & Guardsquare Big thanks to Spott, McKinsey & Company, Finhouse and Smartfin for making this happen together.

10 teams. 1 room. 1 day to ship something real. 26 May, we're hosting the AI Finance Hackathon. Bringing teams from Aikido Security, Pluxee, Lighthouse, Telenet group and six other leading Belgian companies together at Wintercircus Ghent for one full day of building. Each one walks in with a real problem from their finance division. Each one walks out with a working solution. The premise behind the day: finance teams are still closing books manually while the AI that could do it already exists. We're closing that gap.  Live, on real data, in one sitting. Built together with our partners at Spott, Eagl, McKinsey & Company, Finhouse and Smartfin. Judged by: Jeremie Sneessens (Managing Director, McKinsey BeLux), Thomas Guenter (Managing Partner, Finhouse Fund), Sebastien Thiel (Partner/CFO, Smartfin) and Tycho De Saeytyd (Head of US, Spott). No theory. No demos. Just building.