Dost Unveils AskDost: The AI Agent Built to Transform Finance Team Workflows

Dost has launched AskDost, an AI-powered business intelligence assistant designed to bridge the gap between financial data silos and actionable insights. By integrating directly with ERP systems, the tool allows finance teams to query data in natural language and execute complex workflows, addressing the persistent challenge of manual data reconciliation in modern operations.

What was announced

AskDost functions as a conversational interface for finance and operations teams, connecting to a company’s ERP and various financial data sources. The tool is available as a standalone product or integrated within the existing Dost platform. Beyond simply answering queries, the assistant can prepare workflows across invoices, approvals, payments, and reconciliation. Crucially, these actions are only executed following human approval, maintaining a full audit trail of changes and authorizations.

The system provides a unified view across finance leadership, procurement, accounts payable (AP), and accounts receivable (AR). This allows a finance leader to drill down from a single P&L line to specific invoice details within one conversation, eliminating the need for manual spreadsheet exports or controller intervention. The assistant also allows for the updating of GL coding rules using plain language.

The launch addresses a specific gap in the market; a Deloitte UK CFO survey recently found that 67% of CFOs believe their organisations are only a quarter of the way through their expected AI transformation. Furthermore, while a CFO Connect survey indicated two-thirds of European finance teams use some form of AI, no specialist tool had reached more than 1% usage.

A key component of the launch is Dost Studio, which enables teams to build and deploy their own hyper-personalised apps and agents. The platform currently integrates natively with major ERPs including SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage, and Oracle. To date, Dost has processed over 5 million accounting transactions with 95% data extraction accuracy for customers including HomeServe, Honest Greens, Housfy, and Primaprix.

"I’ve sat across from hundreds of finance leaders. Every one of them has the data they need somewhere but reaching the explanation takes days and three different people. Ask something simple, like whether we’re paying above contract or where cash will be in eight weeks, and the answer will be spread across three systems and someone’s spreadsheet. We built AskDost to overcome this. We know every team runs finance differently, so we wanted teams to be able to shape it themselves, with their own agents and apps on their own data. Nobody should have to rebuild their finance function around a piece of software."

Adam Barbera, CEO and co-founder, Dost

The companies involved

Dost is a native-AI finance automation platform that focuses on streamlining the intersection of accounts payable and accounts receivable. The company’s core proposition involves automating the entire lifecycle of a transaction—from initial invoice capture and data extraction through to matching, approvals, and final bank reconciliation. By connecting natively to major enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, Dost aims to eliminate the friction typically found in manual financial data entry and reconciliation.

The firm operates in the competitive fintech space of AI-driven back-office automation, positioning itself as a tool that adapts to existing finance workflows rather than forcing teams to adopt new, rigid software structures. Its market presence is built on high-accuracy data extraction and the ability to handle large volumes of accounting transactions for diverse clients across Europe. The company, which has processed millions of transactions for clients like Housfy and Primaprix, focuses on providing a single view across finance leadership and procurement. CEO and co-founder Adam Barbera leads the organisation, which emphasises the creation of a full audit trail for all AI-assisted financial actions.

What FF News has reported before

FF News previously covered the company’s significant market entry in late 2025. In the report AI Fintech Dost Officially Launches in UK with £6M Series A Led by Octopus Ventures, it was noted that the startup secured £6 million in Series A funding. This investment round, led by Octopus Ventures, was intended to support the company’s official launch and expansion within the UK market. This earlier coverage highlighted Dost’s ambition to leverage artificial intelligence to transform traditional accounting processes, setting the stage for the subsequent release of specialised tools like AskDost.

What this means

The launch of AskDost highlights a shift in the fintech sector from general-purpose AI to specialised, "hyper-personalised" agents. While many finance teams have experimented with generic LLMs, the lack of audit trails and ERP integration has limited their utility in regulated environments. By combining conversational AI with direct execution capabilities and strict human-in-the-loop approvals, Dost is addressing the trust gap that has slowed AI adoption in the back office. This move puts pressure on traditional ERP providers to improve their own native AI interfaces or risk being relegated to mere data repositories for more agile, third-party intelligence layers.