A supplier invoice reaches purchasing. The system compares it with the order and the goods receipt, and the buyer only explains the differences.
Automation, paid once
from €3,000 net
Test on your process: €0
You pay 50% after acceptance
How much does AI for a procurement team cost, and when does it pay back?
Short answer
AI for a procurement team costs from €3,000 net. In our scenario it pays back in 1.3 months. Today, checking 800 supplier invoices by hand costs €2,792 a month. With the system, the same work costs €422. The buyer decides on every difference. Payment approval stays with the people authorised to give it. The test on your process is free.
Statistics
Invoices, e-invoicing and AI: statistics 2026
18 bn
According to the European Commission (2023), around 18 billion invoices are issued in the EU every year.
According to the European Commission (2026), 90% of companies using AI say people take the decisions. In these companies, 2% of decisions are fully automated.
a month for checking 800 supplier invoices by hand
Today€2,792
With the system€422
Payback: 1.3 mo.
In your company
Small team
200 invoices · €698 a month
5.1 mo. payback
Team of 5 buyers
800 invoices · €2,792 a month
1.3 mo. payback
Large department
3,000 invoices · €10,470 a month
0.3 mo. payback
The team gets back about 68 hours of work a month, or 9 working days, and the company €28,440 a year. We count after the time a person spends checking and after the model cost.
800 × 6 min = 80 h × €34.90 = €2,792 a month. With the system, a person checks the output in 15% of the old time (€419) and the model costs €3. That leaves €422. The saving is €2,370 a month, so €3,000 pays back in 1.3 months.
Assumptions: 6 minutes to compare an invoice with the order and the goods receipt and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: €0.0040 per invoice, measured in our invoice coding system (0.004514 USD), at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
foap.com customer service: 95% of replies are sent automatically.
Users from several countries write to foap.com, in several languages. The system reads the entire conversation and the terms of that person, and then sends a response in that person's language. Questions about money and exceptions go to the team with a ready draft, so they have to check and send them.
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
95%
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
30 s
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
100%
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
47 h
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
Data from foap.com production, October 20-21, 2026. Estimate: 3 minutes for handwritten response.
It proposes the account and the cost centre, checks the invoice against the order and holds anything missing before the document reaches the accountant. Reading an invoice and making the proposal costs €0.0040.
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Comparing the invoice with the order and the receipt
A list of price and quantity differences
A queue of explanations for the buyer
Passing matching invoices on
What happens to your data
You choose the test cases. We anonymise them on request.
They stay in the EU and we delete them after the test.
We sign the NDA and the data processing agreement before we receive anything.
After acceptance you keep the code, the test set and the documentation. You pay for licences and model usage directly to the provider. Buyers on ChatGPT or Claude: from €1,150 net for a team of up to 10 people.
Questions
Where should a procurement team start with AI?
With comparing invoices against orders and goods receipts. In the review we count how many invoices you check and how many differences you find.
How much does automating invoice checks in procurement cost?
From €3,000 net, paid once. After the 5-day test the build takes 2 to 6 weeks. You get a fixed price before the contract: 50% on signing and 50% after acceptance on your own invoices.
Is ChatGPT enough?
ChatGPT will help write a query to a supplier. Comparing thousands of invoices with orders needs a system connected to your purchasing records. Buyers on ChatGPT or Claude are a second step, from €1,150 net.
When does it not pay off?
Below 90 invoices a month the payback takes more than a year. Then it is better to start with ChatGPT or Claude for the team, from €1,150 net, with training on your own tasks.
What do we need to prepare?
20 to 100 invoices with their orders and receipts, including some with differences, and your list of suppliers.
Let's talk
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We work fast because we hate corporate cotton wool. We don't have salespeople or managers to keep an eye on managers. You talk immediately to engineers who then build your system. We respect each other's time and yours too.
We will accept 3 more companies by the end of the year.
What our OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships mean for you.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT and Anthropic makes Claude. We belong to the partnership programs of both companies, so we work with their tools every day and learn from the creators themselves.
Claude Partner Network
01We will select a tool for the task
We implement both ChatGPT and Claude. We check both on your documents, and you choose the one that makes fewer corrections and saves more time.
02Knowledge straight from the creators
We learn from official OpenAI and Anthropic courses and materials. Your team learns about the features and settings that work today.
03Licenses without our margin
You buy accounts directly from OpenAI or Anthropic and receive an invoice from them. We do not add anything to the license.
04Certified engineers
On the team, we have an AWS certification in machine learning and an Anthropic certification in systems architecture on Claude.
Participation in programs does not mean that OpenAI or Anthropic endorses our services.
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