Product principle

The value is not “AI for invoices.” It is the controlled path between supplier trust and payment approval, with explicit review and explainable outcomes at every sensitive step.

Workflow map

The product roadmap follows the order AP teams actually feel the risk.

Stage 01

Map trust before approvals drift

Planned

Build a customer-local source of truth for suppliers, contacts, domains, and payment methods so reviewers stop relying on scattered context.

  • Supplier registry and trust fields
  • Versioned payment methods
  • Verification-method capture
Stage 02

Ingest invoices into a controlled pipeline

Planned

Bring uploads into a tenant-aware workflow with durable jobs, object storage references, and explicit file lifecycle handling.

  • Secure web upload
  • Object storage and checksums
  • Durable job creation
Stage 03

Review with context instead of guesswork

Planned

Compare extracted invoice fields to trusted supplier data and keep sensitive bank details masked until someone has the right context.

  • Explainable trust verdicts
  • Masked viewer and controlled reveal
  • Field-level comparisons
Stage 04

Keep the decision trace after the invoice is gone

Planned

Preserve the reasoning around supplier updates, review actions, and suspicious events so auditability is built into the workflow.

  • Audit events
  • Notification routing
  • Retention-aware file controls
Trust foundation

Supplier context before invoice pressure

PO Walls is designed to start with trusted supplier state: workspace entities, payable accounts, supplier identities, trusted domains, contacts, and versioned payment methods.

Customer-local supplier registry

Planned

A structured registry is planned to hold canonical supplier trust fields instead of treating invoices as the source of truth.

Controlled payment-detail changes

Planned

Payment-method versioning and required verification-method capture are part of the core trust model.

Intake and extraction

Bring documents into a durable workflow

The architecture already separates durable job orchestration from OCR and extraction work. Intake, object storage, parsing, OCR, and confidence signals sit on that split.

Durable async substrate

Foundation

The schema already models processing jobs and worker payloads so file handling can plug into a durable pipeline.

Secure upload and extraction path

Planned

Web upload, parsing, OCR, canonical extraction, and confidence gating are planned product capabilities.

Review and decision

Turn invoice review into a payment decision

The MVP value is not a flashy AI score. It is a controlled review experience with an explainable verdict, masked payment details, and a defensible audit trail.

Deterministic trust verdicts

Planned

Matching logic is planned around supplier identity, trusted domains or contacts where needed, and separate bank-detail comparison.

Masked viewer and controlled reveal

Planned

Reviewers are meant to see the right evidence without overexposing bank data by default.

Walk through the product arc with the real roadmap in view.

Use a demo conversation to review where the platform foundation already exists, which product layers are planned next, and how PO Walls fits your AP workflow.