From manual accounting chaos to autonomous financial operations

How Enliven Systems built a scalable agentic accounting system, enabling end-to-end autonomous bookkeeping and slashing operational costs by 65% through next-generation agentic automation.

Problem

Absence of agentic operational workflows before the AI boom

Before agentic systems became feasible, accounting operations relied almost entirely on manual workflows. Teams spent 60–75% of their time on repetitive classification, reconciliation, and compliance tasks that could not scale. This pushed operational costs up by 40–70%, with back-office spend growing faster than revenue. Without an autonomous, agent-driven execution mode, organizations were forced to onboard additional staff for every 20–30% increase in transaction volume, creating a costly, unsustainable linear scaling curve.

Slow and unreliable responses to financial thresholds and compliance triggers

Traditional accounting platforms reacted far too slowly to threshold breaches, anomaly detection, and regulatory triggers. Alerts often arrived 12–48 hours late, causing companies to miss critical filing deadlines, breach internal financial controls, or overlook early signs of fraud. This lag increased compliance risk by up to 35%, while delayed detection of cashflow anomalies could push forecasting accuracy down by 20–30%.

Cost-inefficient architectures from other vendors leading to long-term lock-in

Competing providers offered monolithic, closed-source accounting systems with 6–18 month implementation cycles and high-cost proprietary integrations. Total ownership costs were 50–80% higher than modern, modular architectures, driven by long-term licensing, mandatory consulting fees, and expensive customization cycles.

Solution

By combining an agentic actor-system framework with an on-demand, SQL-like configuration layer running on Apache Spark, we enabled fully autonomous financial workflows that adapt instantly to new rules and thresholds. This architecture delivered real-time agentic decision-making for day-to-day accounting tasks. At the same time, Spark’s distributed batch engine provided fast, scalable processing for high-volume reconciliation and compliance checks, all without vendor-dependent customization.

Services provided

Industry

Accounting

3 months

Timeline

3 months for the Minimum Viable Product

Location

Hungary

Engagement model

Onboarded in 2 weeks under a fixed price model, then transitioned to a time-and-material structure as system complexity and agentic workflows expanded.

ONBOARDED IN 2 WEEKS

Project management model

After the Minimum Viable Product, we adopted an n-stack project management model that combined agile iteration with continuous research-driven refinement.

WATERFALL

AGILE

EXTREME

Business impact

65%

Reduced operational costs

Enabled fully autonomous accounting operations, replacing manual workflows with agentic execution and reducing operational costs by 65%, far surpassing traditional automation approaches.

Faster responsiveness

Achieved near-instant financial threshold detection and compliance triggering, improving responsiveness by up to 20× compared to legacy systems that relied on delayed, manual review cycles.

80%

Faster Reconciliation & Reporting

Delivered a configurable, SQL-like rule engine on top of Apache Spark, cutting reconciliation and reporting time by over 80% and enabling real-time audit readiness.

“Working with Enliven Systems brought our finance operations to a new level of precision and automation. Their ability to solve complex accounting challenges with scalable, production-ready solutions was unparalleled.”

Robert L

CEO of Nueva

Area of expertise required

Compliance standards implemented

GDPR
ISO 27001

Our solutions comply with GDPR and ISO 27001, trusted by clients across regulated industries.

Key technological challenges

Challange 1

Ad-hoc batch analytics at scale

Supporting accounting workflows that depend on rapid, on-demand analytics required an architecture capable of executing complex financial queries within seconds. Traditional batch systems were too slow, lacked configurability, and couldn’t reload transactional data fast enough to support real-time compliance checks. To overcome this, we built standby Apache Spark clusters optimized for instant spin-up, enabling ad-hoc SQL-like queries across millions of transactions with minimal latency.

Continuous data ingestion from NoSQL ensured the batch engine operated on near-live data, while strategic caching and incremental reloads reduced query execution times by up to 85% under peak load.

Challange 2

Enabling resilient agentic operations

Delivering agentic accounting required agents that could act autonomously, route tasks intelligently, and remain fully reliable even during high-volume financial periods. This introduced challenges around agent data partitioning, request coordination, and fault recovery.

We engineered a distributed agent framework in which actors were partitioned by domain, transactions, compliance, reconciliation, and thresholds, ensuring deterministic behavior and natural horizontal scaling.

Implementation

Due to confidentiality agreements with our enterprise partners, the detailed technical implementation for this case study cannot be publicly disclosed. The project involved proprietary architectures, internal legal processes, and protected operational models that we are contractually obligated to keep private.

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Accelerate financial close and reporting cycles by 80%
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From manual accounting chaos to autonomous financial operations

Problem

Absence of agentic operational workflows before the AI boom

Slow and unreliable responses to financial thresholds and compliance triggers

Cost-inefficient architectures from other vendors leading to long-term lock-in