Skip to content
Guide · AI in mid-sized companies

Use AI, but where?
This is how we find out.

Many companies want to use AI and do not know where it really pays off. This guide shows typical use cases, real project examples and the path from potential analysis to pilot. The principle throughout: AI prepares, your staff decide. Delivery through our process automation and AI service.

Where does AI pay off for you?

Seven places
where AI works in daily business.

AI pays off where many similar cases with unstructured content arrive: documents, emails, receipts, free text. If you recognise yourself in one of these fields, that is the process we start with in the potential analysis.

01
Inbox & documents

Sorting post, emails and attachments

Sound familiar?Letters, emails and attachments are reviewed by hand, assigned to a case and filed. What matters is decided by whoever has time.

AI takes over
Recognises sender, document type and key data, assigns the document to the right case and files it with metadata.
You keep
The decision when recognition is uncertain and in special cases. Every correction feeds back into the rules.
02
Invoices & accounting

Incoming invoices through to posting

Sound familiar?Invoices are printed, checked, coded, signed off and then entered in the accounting software. Discount deadlines pass unnoticed.

AI takes over
Reads invoice data, matches it against orders and delivery notes, pre-codes it and prepares the approval by amount and project.
You keep
The approval, the exceptions and the responsibility for the close with accounting and your tax advisor.
03
Customer requests & service

Preparing standard requests

Sound familiar?Requests arrive by email, phone and portal. Standard cases tie up as much capacity as complex ones because the answer is gathered from several systems.

AI takes over
Creates the case, fetches the necessary data from your business systems and drafts the reply. Every action is logged.
You keep
Every reply that goes out and every data change. Nothing leaves the company without approval.
04
Settlements & reports

Producing recurring settlements

Sound familiar?Annual settlements, monthly reports or statements are compiled by hand from receipts, contracts and spreadsheets, every time from scratch.

AI takes over
Captures receipts uniformly, checks periods, duplicates and deviations from the previous year, flags anything unclear and compiles the settlement.
You keep
Checking the flagged items and the approval. Every item remains traceable to its source document.
05
Knowledge search

Answers from your own documents

Sound familiar?Anyone looking for a template, a contract clause or an earlier decision asks around or clicks through drives and mailboxes.

AI takes over
Answers questions from your documents and cites the source, for example with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams, SharePoint and Outlook.
You keep
Judging the answer. Beforehand we align the permissions, because AI only sees what the user is allowed to see.
06
Quotes & minutes

Drafting text instead of typing it

Sound familiar?Quotes, meeting minutes, findings and reports are produced from templates, notes and dictation, with a lot of typing and copying.

AI takes over
Produces the draft from template, notes, meeting recording or speech capture, in your structure and your wording.
You keep
Content, prices and commitments. You review, sign and send.
07
Quality checks & control

Checking every case, not just samples

Sound familiar?Completeness checks, comparisons with the previous year and the four-eyes principle happen on a sample basis because there is no time for more.

AI takes over
Checks every case against rules and reference values, detects duplicates, missing information and deviations and flags them.
You keep
Handling the flagged exceptions. The standard case runs through, the control stays complete.
How we delivered it

Four projects
where AI is working today.

Anonymised examples from our work, each with starting point, solution and outcome. All examples in full, with approach and technologies used, are on the project examples page.

Property management company with residential and commercial buildings

AI service charge settlement

Starting point
The annual service charge settlement was compiled manually from invoices, contracts and meter readings. Receipts came in different formats. Assigning them to buildings, cost types and allocation keys tied up considerable capacity and was error-prone.
Solution
Receipts are captured and checked by AI and assigned to buildings and allocation keys. The settlement is generated traceably from the verified data.
Outcome
The settlement is generated from verified, uniformly captured receipts. Every item is traceable to its source document, tenant queries can be answered with reference to the receipt. Case workers focus on the flagged exceptions.
Go to project example
Insurance brokerage with office and field staff

AI agents in customer service

Starting point
Customer requests reached the company by e-mail, phone and portal. Entry in the portfolio system, requests for documents and the reply were handled manually across several systems. Standard requests tied up as much capacity as complex cases.
Solution
AI agents receive customer requests, create cases, retrieve information from the core systems and prepare replies for approval.
Outcome
Standard requests are fully prepared, employees check and approve. Every step of an agent is logged and traceable. Complex cases receive more attention because routine work no longer applies.
Go to project example
Construction and trades company with several trades

Automated accounting

Starting point
Invoices arrived by post and e-mail, were printed, checked, coded, signed off and then entered in the accounting software. The approval path via site management and executive management was paper-based, discount deadlines were not monitored systematically.
Solution
Incoming invoices, delivery notes and remittance advices are captured, checked, assigned and handed over to financial accounting automatically.
Outcome
Invoices are processed from intake to posting without media breaks. Approvals take place regardless of location, deadlines are visible, every document is linked to project and cost centre. Accounting handles the exceptions, not the standard case.
Go to project example
Service company with several specialist departments

AI-supported work processes

Starting point
Requests, contracts and receipts arrived by e-mail, post and portal and were reviewed, filed and forwarded manually. Responsibilities were tied to individuals, the processing status was not visible centrally.
Solution
Incoming documents are recognised and classified by AI and handed to the right process. Approvals run in the workflow.
Outcome
Documents are assigned to the right case without manual pre-sorting. The processing status is visible at any time, approvals are logged and traceable. Employees make the professional decision, the system handles distribution.
Go to project example

All project examples

The path in four steps

From potential analysis
to live operation.

We do not start with a tool, we start with your processes. One process as a pilot, then expansion following the same pattern.

  1. Step 1

    Potential analysis

    We review your processes together with the people who run them: effort, volume, data situation and the systems involved. The result is a list of the places where AI pays off and the places where a rule or a form is enough.

  2. Step 2

    Pilot

    One process, one department, live operation with real cases. Approval points are defined, every action is logged, feedback flows straight back in. We tell you the effort after the potential analysis.

  3. Step 3

    Operation and integration

    The pilot is connected to your business systems: Microsoft 365, ERP, DMS, accounting or CRM. Rules and model are updated from the corrections your staff make, results are reviewed regularly.

  4. Step 4

    Expansion

    Further processes, document types and sites following the same pattern, with the lessons from the pilot and key figures from live operation.

Data protection and GDPR

Before every deployment we clarify which data is processed, where it resides, who may access it and which legal basis applies. Data processing agreements are in place before any service sees data. Without that clarification we do not start.

AI prepares, people decide

AI steps recognise, check and prepare. Anything that goes out or changes data is approved by a person. Every action is logged, every correction feeds back into the rules.

Technology in one paragraph

What we work with.

We work with what is already in place in your environment and add only what is missing. In the Microsoft world that is Microsoft 365 with Copilot, Power Automate, Power Apps and SharePoint, plus Microsoft Azure for services that should run in your own tenant. On top of that come AI document and receipt recognition, our own AI agents with clearly limited rights and logging, interfaces to ERP, DMS, DATEV and CRM, and custom software from our own development where standard building blocks are not enough. Which models and services fit in a given case is decided by data protection, the data situation and your process, not by the vendor.

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Power Automate
  • Power Apps
  • SharePoint
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AI document recognition
  • AI agents
  • Interfaces
  • Custom software
Frequently asked questions

What companies
want to know before they start.

Where do we start?

With the process that ties up the most time today and has many similar cases, such as incoming mail, incoming invoices or standard requests. In the potential analysis we review your processes with the people who run them and define the first pilot. Whatever can be described as a rule becomes a rule; AI is added where rules are not enough.

Do we need our own data or our own AI model?

You usually do not need your own model. Recognition of documents, receipts and requests runs on existing models that we tune to your cases through rules, examples from your business and the corrections your staff make. What you do need is a clarified data situation: where the documents are, who may see them, which systems are involved.

What does a pilot cost?

That depends on the process, the systems involved and the interfaces. That is why we do not quote a flat price but proceed like this: the potential analysis defines the scope of the first process, and from that we produce a quote with a fixed scope for the pilot. After the pilot you decide whether and how to continue.

What happens to our data?

Before every deployment we clarify which data is processed, where it resides, who may access it and which legal basis applies. Where possible, services run in your own Microsoft environment; data processing agreements are put in place. AI only sees what the respective user is allowed to see, so we check permissions before the start.

Does AI replace our staff?

In our projects AI takes over the preparation: recognising, assigning, checking, drafting. The professional decision, the approval and the contact with the outside world stay with your staff. In practice, work shifts from routine to exceptions and complex cases.

How long until AI is running for us?

That depends on complexity and interfaces, so we do not promise a duration. We deliberately keep the first process manageable so that the pilot runs in live operation early, and we give you the time frame after the potential analysis.

Do we have to use Microsoft 365 for this?

No. Microsoft 365 is often the simplest basis because Copilot, Power Automate and SharePoint are already licensed. We also deliver AI document recognition, AI agents and interfaces with other systems, for example with your property management or accounting software and our own custom software.

Where does AI pay off for you? Let us find out.

The potential analysis starts with a conversation about the processes that tie up the most time today.