AP at ap@company.com gets 300 emails a week. One of the team has to sort them into real bills, supplier queries and noise.
Finance operations platform
Outlook automation, built for Australian finance teams.
Not a finance platform, but where most finance workflows actually start. The automation opportunity is intercepting inbox-driven work and routing it into systems that can audit it.
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named automations shipped on Outlook
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Context
Why Outlook matters for mid-market finance.
Outlook isn't a finance platform, but it's where most Australian finance workflows actually start. Supplier bills land in a shared inbox. Client invoicing queries come in by email. Approvals run through email threads instead of through the workflow tool that was supposed to handle them. Ordron's Outlook automation intercepts these email-driven workflows at the inbox and routes them into structured systems, so finance gets an audit trail and a process instead of a manual triage of whoever's in the inbox first. Microsoft Graph does most of the heavy lifting, with AI classification separating bills from queries from noise.
Outlook is the ledger. The hours live in the gaps between Outlook and everything else in your stack. The job is to close those gaps, not to replace Outlook.
Where the hours go
The four signals that Outlook is costing you more than it should.
Approval threads live in Outlook. If you can't find the email, the approval doesn't exist.
Our shared finance inbox has 40,000 emails in it. We have no idea what's actually been actioned.
Our contract renewals and compliance deadlines live in email. When someone leaves, the knowledge goes with them.
What we’ve shipped
10 automations we’ve built on Outlook.
Grouped by where they sit in your finance month. Each one is a named build Ordron has shipped, not a capability slide. Tap a card to see what it actually does.
Accounts Payable
1 automationAccounts Receivable
1 automationMonth-end close
1 automationReporting
2 automationsOperations
5 automationsCost of inaction
What Outlook is costing your team in manual work.
Slide in your team size, invoice volume and close duration. The headline number and the line-by-line breakdown are always visible. Enter your email to unlock the top three automations for Outlook and the written roadmap PDF.
The Outlook hours, in dollars.
Pre-set to Outlook. Change team size and volume to match yours. Written roadmap PDF emailed on request.
5people
1FTEs in finance and accounting30
300per week
0Bills in plus AR invoices out1,500
10days
1From period end to signed-off reports20
Current platformChanges the named automations shown
All dollar figures in AUD. Assumes a blended finance rate of $55/hour and 50 working weeks per year.
Your annual cost of manual finance
$106,400
Ordron-style automation typically captures $79,500 of that per year. On a typical $10,000 project, payback lands at roughly 7 weeks.
The approach
How Ordron automates on Outlook.
Outlook automation uses Microsoft Graph API as the primary interface, falling back to RPA only for interface automation Graph does not expose. The goal is to extract the structured finance workflow out of email and route it into systems that can actually track it, while leaving genuine correspondence (supplier queries, client conversations) in the inbox where it belongs. AI classification does the heavy lifting on sorting what belongs where, and every extracted workflow writes back to Outlook as a linked record so nothing is lost.
Database-first
Every transaction, contact and tracking category writes to a structured Azure-hosted database you own. The platform stays the ledger; your data is never vendor-locked.
Automation layer
OCR, coding models, matching rules and approval workflows run next to the platform, tuned to your chart of accounts and approval thresholds.
Control Panel
Your team logs into one interface to review exceptions, see throughput, and audit every automated action, with a named owner for every exception path.
Proof
Outlookwork we’ve shipped.
- Logistics
AP OCR and SharePoint filing
AP cycle: 4 hours to 15 minutes per batch
OCR and workflow logic plugged into an existing SharePoint-based AP process. No new software, 100% automated filing.
- Manufacturing
Automated invoice and reporting hub
75% of invoices processed automatically
Email intake, OCR extraction, PO matching, auto-approval under preset rules, and a live spend dashboard.
- Distribution
Enterprise AP with IDU
>95% coding accuracy, 65% faster invoice processing
RPA combined with intelligent document understanding reads, PO-matches and codes supplier invoices, routing only exceptions to humans.
Go deeper
Related automation guides.
The pillar guides unpack each function across every platform, not just Outlook. Useful when you are benchmarking or briefing the rest of the leadership team.
Next step
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