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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 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.
Sidetrade Repositions Shared Services Centers Through Value, Purpose & Growth-Led Transformation
Sidetrade offers AI-powered solutions for intelligent automation, advanced analytics, customer engagement, and risk management. By leveraging AI and buyer insights from the world’s largest Data Lake in Order-to-Cash, Sidetrade enables SSCs to automate repetitive tasks, enhance accuracy, and free up resources for more strategic activities. The journey from tactical to strategic Order-to-Cash starts with optimizing data, technology and operations. The Shared Services Centers can help their CFOs turn O2C into a data-driven strategic advantage to create a forward-looking approach to payments, best-collection action, and dispute and risk strategy.
Portals to a new world: how buyer and supplier portals can help you optimize Order-to-Cash
Successful Order-to-Cash (O2C) operations depend on a smooth relationship with your buyer’s Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process.
Cash Champions: create a cash culture in your organization – Part 1
See how technology can enhance a cash culture with your organization, help with DSO reduction, optimize cash flow and provide visibility across departments.
Manage your Order-to-Cash with Digital Transformation: Part 3
Implement a digital platform to manage Order-to-Cash will boost revenue, reduce costs, be cash efficient and improve customer satisfaction, find out more.
Digital transformation of your Order-to-Cash process: Part 1 – Working Capital in the spotlight
Both the criticality & complexity of the end-to-end order to cash process has been brought to the fore and rightly placed under the spotlight
Engineering Blog
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SAFE
How we stopped asking the model to write our UI
We let the model write our interfaces in a small invented language. The rules it needed were making the agent worse at everything else, so we took the language away and gave layout to code.
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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.