Use cases / Operations
Overdue invoices chased, disputes left alone.
Capstan lists what's overdue, reads each customer's last emails, skips anyone with an open dispute and drafts the reminder. Finance approves the batch in one go.
Overdue invoice follow-up
run #96 · daily 08:00
Waiting for approvalDone: Listed invoices more than 14 days overdue in QuickBooks
quickbooks.invoices.query · 9 rows · 1.6 s
Done: Read each customer's last emails to skip disputes in progress
gmail.threads.search · 9 threads · 2.2 s
Done: Drafted 7 reminders; held back 2 accounts with an open dispute
model · 3,880 tokens · $0.007
Waiting for approval: Send 7 reminders from billing@
Hi Tom, invoice INV-2291 for $1,840.00 was due on October 21. You can pay it from the link below, or reply if something's wrong with it.
Asked Lena Hoffmann
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FIG 1 — daily 08:00
Overdue invoice follow-up
- Step: List overdue invoices
- Step: Skip open disputes
- Step: Draft the reminders
- Asks first: Send from billing@
QuickBooksGmailFIG 2 — daily 06:00
Payout reconciliation
- Step: Read yesterday's Stripe payouts
- Step: Match them to bank lines
- Step: List what doesn't match
- Asks first: Post exceptions to #finance
StripeQuickBooksFIG 3 — last working day
Month-end checklist
- Step: Check every recurring invoice went out
- Step: Flag accruals missing
- Step: Draft the close notes
- Asks first: File the notes in Drive
QuickBooksGoogle Drive
Results (sample)
“It never emails a customer who's already disputing. That was the line we needed before turning it on, and it has held every single day.”
- faster to get paid on overdue invoices
- 9 days
- to close the month, down from 5
- 2 days
- of reminders approved before sending
- 100%