[00] · The Pre-Ledger Control Layer

Stop fixing your books.
Start trusting them.

Obsidia is the control layer that verifies every financial record on its way to your ledger — so what posts is already right.

Independent of your ERP. Works alongside your existing stack.

LIVE Obsidia · Pre-Ledger Control Layer
SOURCE SYSTEMS BANKS BILLING ×2 ! PAYROLL SUBLEDGERS RAW · UNVERIFIED Obsidia NORMALIZE VALIDATE MATCH DOCS RECONCILE FINANCIAL DATA FIREWALL GENERAL LEDGER / ERP LEDGER AUDIT TRAIL NETSUITE · QUICKBOOKS SAP · XERO
[01] · The wedge

Every close tool fixes bad data. None of them stop it.

Reconciliation and close automation all run after a record is already in your books. The error is found later — during close, audit, or diligence — when it's hardest to trace and costliest to unwind.

After the ledger

The record posts first. Someone catches the error downstream and works backward to correct it. The cost lives in the cleanup — and in the close it delays.

Before the ledger — Obsidia

A financial data firewall sits in front of your books. Each record clears its checks before it can post, so the errors that drive cleanup never make it in.

[02] · How it works

Five controls, run on every record.

This is the path each record takes inside the firewall, from raw source to posted entry. Scroll to walk it.

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Standardize

Records arrive from banks, billing, payroll, and subledgers and are mapped into one consistent shape, with the original evidence kept intact.

NORMALIZESCHEMA MAPEVIDENCE KEPT
02 / 05

Validate

Each one is tested against your business logic, controls, and policy — and matched to the source document that should back it up.

POLICYCONTROLSDOC MATCH
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Reconcile

Records are cross-checked between systems, so a figure that disagrees with its counterpart elsewhere is caught here.

CROSS-SYSTEMVARIANCEBANK ↔ BILLING
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Resolve

Failed records are held with a stated reason and routed to the right owner — never silently dropped or force-posted.

EXCEPTION QUEUEOWNER ROUTINGSTATED REASON
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Post

Cleared records flow into the ledger automatically, each one carrying the full record of how it got there.

DECISION TRAILAUTO-POSTREPLAYABLE
[03] · Value

Cleaner books now. Stronger position later.

Operations & audit
Run a tighter close.

Spend less time on rework

The hours your team loses tracing and unwinding errors largely disappear.

Migrate systems without the cleanup

Move to a new ERP without a months-long data remediation project after go-live.

Pass audits with less friction

Walk in with evidence already in order — fewer findings, fewer follow-ups.

Deals & growth
Walk into diligence ready.

Close deals faster

Diligence-ready numbers from day one shorten the path from review to financing or sale.

Hold your valuation

Fewer surprises in the data room means fewer price adjustments at the table.

Scale without scaling risk

Growing transaction volume stops meaning a growing pile of financial exposure.

[04] · The evidence

The case for control is already on the record.

Independent research shows what disciplined finance automation delivers — and why catching issues at the source matters most.

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of finance activities can be fully automated, with another 19% mostly automated.
McKinsey
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of total spend recovered as leakage by an AI invoice-to-contract check — value caught before it's lost.
McKinsey
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less time spent crunching data on finance teams that adopt automation (20–30%).
McKinsey
0%
expected record-to-report savings from automation at a global financial company.
McKinsey
0%+
procure-to-pay cost saved over three years at a global pharmaceutical company.
McKinsey
0%
of manual effort in cash application eliminated by agentic AI.
BCG

Figures reflect third-party research on finance automation broadly, not Obsidia results. Obsidia applies the same discipline deterministically — at the source, before records post.

[05] · Why Obsidia

What cleanup tools can't do.

Close and reconciliation tools work after the ledger. Six things only a layer in front of it can guarantee.

Bad records are blocked before they post — the cheapest error is the one that never enters the books.

BLOCK / BEFORE POST / CHEAPEST FIX

Banks, billing, payroll, subledgers — together. Single-source tools miss the errors that only show up when systems disagree.

BANKS / BILLING / PAYROLL / SUBLEDGERS

Same input, same outcome, every time. No model probabilities, no AI black box to defend to an auditor.

DETERMINISTIC / NO BLACK BOX / AUDITABLE

One control layer above NetSuite, QuickBooks, SAP, or Xero — not locked to a single platform.

NETSUITE / QUICKBOOKS / SAP / XERO

A resolved issue becomes a permanent rule, so the same break never reaches a human twice.

RULE CAPTURE / RESOLVE ONCE / NEVER TWICE

Each posted record carries a replayable trail back to its source, the rule applied, and who signed off.

REPLAYABLE / SOURCE / RULE / SIGN-OFF

See it run on your data.

Bring your own scenarios to a 30-minute walkthrough and watch what gets caught.