Run the back office without hiring one.

Invoices, bills, licenses and bank statements land on the same few people. ALK checks each one, catches price differences, duplicates and deadlines, and shows where your cash stands, with the source attached to every answer.

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What changes with ALK

The back office, before and after ALK.

Vendor invoices

Before

Checked against POs by hand, if at all

With ALK

Price differences and duplicates flagged before you pay

Licenses and certificates

Before

Renewals found after they lapse

With ALK

Expiry dates tracked, renewals flagged early

Cash position

Before

Pieced together from bank exports

With ALK

A daily cash chart, in plain language

BEFORE FRIDAY’S PAYMENT RUN

See a week of supplier bills checked and approved in time.

ALK checks each supplier invoice against its purchase order and receiving slip, holds what’s wrong and waits for your sign-off. Here’s how.

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Asked what is owed to suppliers by Friday, October 2: $24,544.10, charted by supplier.

The week’s 20 supplier invoices with the result of each check.

ALK explaining why invoice BD-77310 needs a credit note: butter billed at $4.85 against an agreed $4.35.

Leavenhill’s purchase order showing unsalted butter at $4.35 a pound, next to the value ALK read.

The Hold stage: three invoices held from Friday’s run.

An invoice waiting for the owner’s approval, with Approve and Reject.

Friday’s run split by status: $15,646.30 ready to pay, $6,132.40 on hold, $2,765.40 waiting on suppliers.

Telling Pulse what to watch: warn me when more than $5,000 is on hold before Friday.

Pulse: $6,132.40 on hold, over the $5,000 line set for Friday’s run.

Replay

Every step in that run is a tool you can use on its own. Here’s each one.

Invoice checks

Stop paying for what you did not agree to.

ALK reads each supplier invoice with its purchase order and receiving slip. At Leavenhill Bakery, the company we use to show ALK at work, Birchmoor Dairy billed butter at $4.85 a pound against an agreed $4.35. ALK caught it and shows the exact line it came from.

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Supplier Payment Run | Leavenhill Bakery

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Invoice BD-77310 Birchmoor Dairy.pdf

Supplier

Birchmoor Dairy

Invoice number

BD-77310

Invoice total

1242.00

PO number

LH-PO-1145

Due date

2026-10-02

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Ask supplier

AI Reasoning

The invoice charges $4.85 per unit for unsalted butter, while the purchase order lists the agreed unit price as $4.35. This is a unit price above the agreed PO price, so the invoice requires a supplier credit note and is classified as Ask supplier.

Source Quote

"$4.85 $698.40"

Main20

Ready to pay

Ask supplier2

Hold3

Approved for Friday15

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Payment run

Every invoice in its place before Friday.

Twenty invoices checked in one run: 15 ready to pay, 2 to query with the supplier and 3 on hold. Nothing moves into Friday's run until a person approves it.

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Supplier Payment Run | Leavenhill Bakery

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	Document	Supplier	Invoice total	Due date	Check Payment Status result

Main20

Ready to pay

Ask supplier2

Hold3

Approved for Friday15

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View run

Click a stage

Spend by supplier

See where Friday's money goes.

Ask in plain words and get a sheet and a chart back. Stonecrest Mills is the biggest bill this week at $5,412.60, and $2,069.40 of it is on hold.

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How much do we owe each supplier by Friday, split by ready to pay, ask supplier and hold? Chart it.

	A	B	C	D
1	Supplier	Ask supplier	Hold	Ready to pay
2	Birchmoor Dairy	1242	0	717.8
3	Ferro Packaging Supply	0	0	2046
4	Hollowtree Egg Farm	1523.4	0	1246
5	Marrow Lane Farms	0	0	1918.5
6	Northgate Produce	0	0	883
7	Oxbow Bend Coffee Roasters	0	2403	1404
8	Pellam Baking Supply	0	0	2695.4
9	Rosslyn Cleaning Supply	0	0	1392.4
10	STONECREST MILLS	0	2069.4	3343.2
11	Tidewell Refrigeration	0	1660	0
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Owed by supplier and status, due Friday Oct 2

Every figure traces back to its invoice rows

Payment watch

Know before a hold holds up the run.

Set your line once: warn me when more than $5,000 is on hold. The run's totals stay live, and ALK tells you when the line is crossed, as it was here at $6,132.40.

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Friday payment run | Leavenhill Bakery

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Payment Status Breakdown

Ask supplier
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Ready to pay

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Friday Payment Run Summary

Ready to Pay

$15,646.30

Sum of Invoice total for 15 invoices with status 'Ready to pay'

On Hold

$6,132.40

Sum of Invoice total for 3 invoices with status 'Hold'; exceeds $5,000 threshold

Pending Supplier Response

$2,765.40

Sum of Invoice total for 2 invoices with status 'Ask supplier'

Total Invoices

Count of all invoice rows across 10 suppliers

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1 source

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FAQ

Questions from small and medium businesses

Is our data used to train AI models?

Never. ALK does not train models on customer data. Files are encrypted in transit and at rest, and only the people you invite can see them.

How do we know the checks are right?

Every flag links back to the exact page and line it came from, so anyone on the team can open the source and confirm it before acting.

What does it cost?

Start on the Free plan with no credit card, 2 seats and 150 credits a month. Growth starts at $49 a month billed yearly ($59 billed monthly) and scales with credits, so quiet months cost less.

Can the whole team use it?

Yes. The Free plan includes 2 seats, and Growth includes unlimited seats. Choose who can view, edit or approve, and route work to the right person automatically.