WHAT IS ESMEai
Financial intelligence built for finance professionals, by finance professionals.
ESMEai is an always-on financial intelligence platform for finance teams. It reads continuously from your live ledger, monitors every cost centre and surfaces what needs attention, giving you assurance at month-end and a forecast you can trust.
DESIGNED AROUND YOU
ESMEai configures to your existing data structures, cost centre hierarchies and reporting frameworks. No process change required. No system replacement. It reads what you already have and makes it work harder.
MEET AXIS
At the core of ESMEai is AXIS — your AI finance assistant. Ask in plain English and get immediate answers grounded in your data, with the workings shown behind every number.
* Indicative figures based on design objectives. Final outcomes subject to baseline assessment with individual organisations.
HOW IT SITS IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT
Your Ledger
Oracle, or an equivalent, stays the source of truth at all times. ESMEai reads from it continuously. It never overwrites, never alters, never bypasses your existing controls.
ESMEai
Every recommendation is traceable to source. Every decision is logged. If you can't see the workings, we don't show you the answer.
AXIS. Your AI Finance Assistant
ESMEai adapts to your organisation's existing structures, your chart of accounts, your cost centre hierarchies, your reporting cadence. Nothing changes except how much insight you get from the data you already have.
SECURITY & TRUST
Your ledger stays your ledger.
Your controls stay your controls.
1. Ledger stays the source of truth
ESMEai reads from your ledger, it never overwrites it. Anything it produces, including journal proposals, is reviewed and posted by your team.
2. Roles and accountability unchanged
Budget holders, business partners, accountants and the CFO continue to do what they do today. ESMEai assists, it does not replace them.
3. Same controls, at scale
Sign-off, segregation of duties, audit trail and budget-holder accountability all behave exactly as they do today. ESMEai works within your existing reporting framework — nothing needs to be restructured to use it.
4. No evidence, no change
Every recommendation, journal proposal and forecast adjustment is traceable to source. If the evidence isn't there, the recommendation isn't made.
HOW IS ESMEai DIFFERENT?
Not more AI. A different kind of AI.
You don't prompt it. It prompts you.
Augment, don't replace
Roles, controls and accountability stay with your people. ESMEai handles the heavy lifting so your team can focus on the decisions that actually matter.
Nothing is a black box
Every recommendation is traceable to source. Every decision is logged. If you can't see the workings, we don't show you the answer.
Configures around you
ESMEai adapts to your organisation's existing structures, your chart of accounts, your cost centre hierarchies, your reporting cadence. Nothing changes except how much insight you get from the data you already have.
HOW IT WORKS
From dashboard to decision. End to end.
1. The dashboard
The first screen you see: your live financial position across every cost centre, anomalies already flagged, and a clear view of needs attention today — not buried in a report you have to go looking for.
2. Drill into a variance
Click on any number and it opens straight into the individual transactions behind it. What used to mean exporting to a spreadsheet and searching by hand now takes seconds.
3. AXIS-suggested cause
Next to the number, AXIS writes a plain-English explanation of what likely caused the variance, with the evidence and reasoning laid out, not just an answer to take on trust.
4. Capturing conversations
Drop a Teams recording or an email thread onto ESMEai and AXIS reads through it for financial commitments — a budget change mentioned in a meeting, a one-off cost agreed by email — and turns them into forecast adjustments automatically.
5. Journal proposal
AXIS drafts the correcting journal entry in your ledger's own upload format, with every line linked back to the evidence behind it. Nothing posts until your team has reviewed and approved it.
6. The senior view
One screen for the CFO and Director of Finance: this month's live outturn, the variances driving the biggest swings, and how the next 12 and 24 months are tracking.
7. Enquiry to budget holder
AXIS drafts the query, sends it to the right budget holder, and chases it if there's no response. When they reply, the forecast updates — no one has to re-key the answer.
8. The audit trail
Every suggestion AXIS made, every decision a person took, and the evidence behind it, logged in order and fully reversible, so nothing is ever just “trust me.”
WHAT CHANGES
What ESMEai means for every person in the room.
Director of Finance
Trusted forecasts. No year-end surprises.
Confidence that every cost centre is reviewed every month. A live position you can defend in a board meeting.
Finance Staff
Hours back. More time advising.
The transactional work moves to the system. Your team focuses on business partnering and the analysis that moves the dial.
Budget Holders
Answers when you need them. Not at month-end.
Self-serve access to financial intelligence via AXIS. Clear, timely answers without waiting for a meeting or a spreadsheet.
Audit & Governance
Complete trail. Every decision. Every time.
Every forecast change and AI recommendation logged — who, what, when and on what evidence. Nothing is a black box.
GET IN TOUCH
GET IN TOUCH
Ready to see what ESMEai can do?
Book a demo and see ESMEai in action. A live walkthrough, led by finance people, for finance people.
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