Why this matters now
Your best people spend 75% of their time on work a machine should own
Your finance team closes the books in people-hours because that is how finance was built. Chasing journal entry support, matching transactions, clearing exceptions, running reconciliations, filing into the ERP. All of it rule-based, all of it auditable, all of it taking the judgment your team was hired for and spending it on process instead.
Zero headcount, full close is not a claim about eliminating your finance team. It is a description of work running without a person executing it: the close gets done, the exceptions get resolved, the lineage is in the ERP. Your team governs the agents and spends its time on the judgment, analysis, and advice your CFO actually needs.
No rip and replace
Runs on SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or your custom stack. No migration, no consultant-months to go live.
Audit-ready by default
Every action logged, traceable, reversible. Plain-English lineage from policy to close entry. Not a confidence score.
Governed autonomy
The agent resolves what is inside policy and escalates only the genuinely novel. Your team governs, the agent executes.
What you will see live
One agent, commissioned end to end, on a live ERP
Not a slideware demo. One agent, on a real ERP, every step on screen.
- Commissioning in about 15 minutes. From a gold-standard, APQC-aligned SOP — the agent taught your chart of accounts, thresholds, and approval policy in plain English, on a live ERP, on camera.
- The close executed deterministically. Reconciliations run, transactions matched, journal entries filed, with no human executing the individual steps. Watch the books close.
- An exception resolved autonomously. The agent encounters something outside the trained path. The Context Graph provides the structured context it needs to reason through it — and resolves it within policy, with the reasoning logged.
- What gets escalated and why. Only the genuinely novel reaches a person. You will see the exact handoff: the exception, the explanation, the escalation, and the audit trail attached.
- The full AI-native finance workforce. Record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash — the complete picture of what a zero-headcount close looks like in the systems you already run.
Speakers
Who you'll hear from
Two stories every attendee walks away with
One for the board, one for the CFO
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The Operating Story.
A finance team that stops executing the close and starts governing the agents that close it. Reconciliations, matching, entries, exceptions: done without headcount attached to them. The team's time shifts from process execution to judgment, analysis, and advice.
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The Economic Story.
Labor per close period reduced. Cycle time compressed. Headcount growth decoupled from business growth. The output of finance operations scaled without scaling the team.
Inside the session
55 minutes, structured for finance leaders
0 to 5 min
Framing. Why finance still closes the books in people-hours and what a zero-headcount close actually requires.
5 to 20 min
Live commissioning. One agent, one SOP, one ERP — 15 minutes from blank to executing. Policies taught in plain English, every step on screen.
20 to 35 min
The close runs. Reconciliations, matching, journal entries, exceptions. Watch the agent close the books and resolve its own exceptions through the Context Graph, with full audit lineage on screen.
35 to 45 min
The full AI-native finance workforce. Record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash. What the deployment looks like, what the team shifts to, what the controls look like at scale.
45 to 50 min
The Finance Operations Automation Assessment. What it covers, how to claim yours, and what it will show about your environment.
50 to 55 min
Q&A. Your close, your exceptions, your policy: size what a zero-headcount close would change in your environment.
Who this is for
Built for the leaders who own the close
- Controllers and Assistant Controllers
- CFOs and VPs of Finance
- Heads of Shared Services and GBS
- Finance Transformation and Automation leaders
- Internal Audit, Risk, and SOX leaders
Companies: 500 to 5,000 employees. Strong fit: organizations carrying a heavy manual close or scaling F&A without scaling headcount.
“Working with Kognitos has helped us to automate extremely complex use cases that existing automation solutions on the market have been unable to handle. Our team is empowered to automate and even handle unforeseen edge cases without increasing the demand on IT.”
Jim McCullen, Chief Information Officer, Century Supply Chain
Claim your Finance Operations Automation Assessment
A board-ready benchmark personalized to your environment
Every attendee can claim a complimentary Finance Operations Automation Assessment — prepared by Kognitos’ Finance Practice, personalized to your environment, and delivered as a 24-page PDF within 5 business days of a 30-minute working session.
- Your top automation opportunities ranked by ROI
- Estimated labor and cycle-time savings
- Control and audit improvement mapping
- A recommended pilot use case
- A prioritized 90-day implementation roadmap
Claim it by attending live or requesting it within 48 hours of the recording. The 30-minute working session is the only prerequisite.
Bring us one SOP
You have a SOP for a close process. We will commission an agent from it, live, in a private session — so you see what your own zero-headcount close looks like before you commit to a deployment.
Book a private session
FAQ
Common questions before you register
What is "Zero Headcount, Full Close"?
"Zero Headcount, Full Close" describes work running without a person executing it — not a claim about eliminating headcount. It refers to closing the books through AI-native agents that execute deterministically, resolve exceptions within policy, and escalate only the genuinely novel, so the work that consumed the close gets done without headcount attached to it. The finance team shifts from executing reconciliations and exception handling to governing the agents and focusing on judgment, analysis, and advice.
What will I see live in the session?
One agent commissioned end to end on a live ERP in about 15 minutes, then put to work — every step, every exception, and the audit trail on screen. You will see the commissioning process from a gold-standard APQC-aligned SOP, the agent taught your chart of accounts and policies in plain English, the close executed deterministically, an exception resolved through the Context Graph, and a view of the full AI-native finance workforce across record-to-report, procure-to-pay, and order-to-cash.
Who should attend?
Controllers and Assistant Controllers, CFOs and VPs of Finance, Heads of Shared Services and GBS, Finance Transformation and Automation leaders, and Internal Audit, Risk, and SOX leaders, at companies of 500 to 5,000 employees. It is a strong fit for organizations carrying a heavy manual close or scaling F&A without scaling headcount.
What is the Finance Operations Automation Assessment?
A board-ready benchmark prepared by Kognitos' Finance Practice, personalized to your environment, and delivered as a 24-page PDF within 5 business days of a 30-minute working session. It covers your top automation opportunities ranked by ROI, estimated labor and cycle-time savings, control and audit improvement mapping, a recommended pilot use case, and a prioritized 90-day implementation roadmap. Every attendee can claim it free.
How long does it actually take to commission a finance agent?
The live session shows commissioning a working agent on camera in about 15 minutes — from a gold-standard SOP, teaching it policies in plain English, and watching it close the books. Full production rollout, with policies hardened, audit review completed, and integrations confirmed, is typically days to weeks, not months. The distinction matters: the 15 minutes shows the commissioning capability, not a production-hardened, audit-passed deployment.
Does this require replacing my ERP?
No. The AI-native finance workforce runs on top of the ERP you already use — SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or a custom stack. No rip and replace, no migration. The agents read from and write to the same systems your team already operates, with every step in plain English and full audit lineage.
What is the Context Graph?
The Context Graph is Kognitos' mechanism for exception resolution. When an agent encounters something it cannot resolve against the policies it was taught — a match that does not tie, a policy edge case — the Context Graph provides the structured context the agent uses to reason through it. Exceptions that are within policy are resolved autonomously with the reasoning logged; only the genuinely novel are escalated to a human, with the explanation attached.
What does "governed autonomy" mean in practice?
Governed autonomy means the agent resolves what is inside the policy it was taught and escalates only the genuinely novel — rather than handing every exception back to a person, as traditional automation does. Every action is logged, traceable, and reversible. The human governs the agent, sets the policies and thresholds, and approves escalations; the agent executes the high-volume, rules-bound work without requiring a person for every step.
How do I register, and does it cost anything?
Registration is free. Reserve your seat using the form in the sidebar. Each registrant receives the calendar invite and the same-day recording. Every attendee can claim the complimentary Finance Operations Automation Assessment within 48 hours of the session.
What if I cannot attend live on August 12?
Register anyway. Every registrant receives the recording on the same day as the session. You can also book a private session to see your own close process commissioned — bring a SOP and we will show you what the zero-headcount version looks like before you commit to a deployment.
