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Latest DSO
DSO – The Metric Everyone Reports, and Almost Nobody Moves
DSO rarely moves no matter how much collections effort is added. Read the five levers that actually reduce Days Sales Outstanding, and where AI helps most.
How Sidetrade’s Data Lake Turns Buyer Behavior into Predictable Cash Flow
Discover how Sidetrade’s O2C Data Lake turns buyer payment behavior into predictable cash flow through SPi, surge detection, and AI Aimie’s recommendations.
Operationalizing AI in Accounts Receivable: A Practical Framework for Finance Leaders
A five-step framework for operationalizing AI in accounts receivable, from selecting the right workflow to governance and responsible scale.
Cash App: What a Finished Day in Cash Application Really Means
See how Sidetrade’s Cash App consolidates payment data, clears exceptions, and turns cash application into a finished process, not just a match rate.
Automation vs Agentic AI: What Finance Teams Need to Know
Discover how automation and agentic AI differ in finance and learn why simple rules-based workflows are no longer adequate in complex O2C environments.
The Net 30 Illusion: Why Payment Terms Mislead and ADP Reveals the Truth
Finance teams often assume Net 30 means paid in 30 days. Discover how Average Days to Pay exposes the real gap – and how Sidetrade predicts it.
How to Reduce DSO Without Overloading Collections Teams
DSO is rising, but more manual chasing isn't the answer. Discover the prioritization, dispute, and data strategies that are making the difference.
The Risks of Building DIY AI for Accounts Receivable
Discover the risks of using generic AI in accounts receivable and why domain-specific AI delivers stronger governance and accuracy.
Part 2: “How Enterprise CFOs Turn Data into Lower Borrowing Costs”
Learn how enterprise CFOs use order-to-cash data to accelerate cash, improve forecasts, manage credit risk, and lower borrowing costs.
The Rise of the AI Receivables Strategist
AI is reshaping receivables management. Learn why the AI Receivables Strategist is becoming critical to finance leadership and execution.
Part 1: “How Enterprise CFOs Build a Data Strategy for Better Decisions”
Discover how modern CFOs use data strategy, AI, and real-time dashboards to improve cash flow, optimize working capital, and drive smarter decisions.
Engineering Blog
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Platform
Why more AI output is making most teams slower
Generation got cheaper and comprehension did not. An internal update that used to be one slide is now five, and everyone downstream pays for the extra four.
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Future
The next wave of Enterprise AI will run on intelligence we control
Most enterprise work does not need the most powerful model in the world. Once good-enough intelligence runs in open weights, cost and control decide the architecture, and the hard part of agents is everything around the model.
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People & Process
Introducing PodFlow, our AI-native R&D operating model
How Sidetrade R&D takes an idea all the way to something a customer can use: what PodFlow is, what was slowing us down before it, and where every human decision sits.
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Platform
The agent is the easy part
First in a series on what enterprise collections agents need beyond the model: why an agent harness, not the model itself, is what makes an AI decision safe to run at scale.
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People & Process
You are nothing without your team
Five days in Portugal, 120+ Sidetraders, 18 projects and AI in nearly every one of them. Why our annual hackathon is the most important week in the engineering calendar.
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Platform
Why we run Sidetrade IQ on ourselves first
Sidetrade IQ is the internal deployment of the platform our customers get as Aimie IQ, on the same framework, the same models and the same controls. Why inside first is how the intelligence scales out.