Affinda unveils no-code AI agent for document integration

Affinda has launched an Integration Agent for its document processing platform, adding a no-code option for connecting AI-extracted document data with business software.

The product is part of Affinda Platform, which uses AI for intelligent document processing. The Integration Agent targets a step that often slows deployments: moving extracted data into systems of record, such as finance and customer applications.

Organisations describe the integration they need in plain language. The agent then generates the integration and writes and tests the code as part of the process. Affinda says this can reduce the time needed to build custom integrations.

The agent can connect the platform with more than 2,800 systems. Affinda says the breadth helps teams fit document workflows into existing technology stacks, rather than relying on a limited set of pre-built connectors.

Integration bottleneck

Intelligent document processing is now common in back-office operations. Many organisations already use AI extraction to capture data from invoices, forms, contracts and identity checks. The remaining work often involves validating that data and routing it into line-of-business systems.

That final step can require API work, data mapping and custom logic that varies by organisation. It may also demand developer time and testing resources, particularly in environments with strict controls around finance, personal data and audit trails. Vendors have responded with pre-configured connectors, but these can be too rigid when a customer needs a different workflow.

Affinda is pitching the Integration Agent at both ends of the market. It says teams without dedicated technical staff can build integrations directly, while in-house developers can use it to assemble proofs of concept faster before committing to larger integration work.

Andrew Bird, Affinda's Head of AI, linked the launch to regulated sectors and higher-risk workflows.

"This is an exciting milestone for Affinda and our ambition to make it easy for organisations in regulated industries to automate their high-stakes document workflows," said Andrew Bird, Head of AI, Affinda.

Natural language setup

Bird said the agent supports exports to a wide range of business systems, including finance and customer tools.

"Affinda's new Integration Agent allows organisations to automate data export to virtually any system - whether it's ERP, CRM, or other databases - using just natural language instructions, rather than needing a full API integration build," he said.

Affinda's General Manager, Charlie Bellingham, described the product as a way to reduce the upfront effort required to roll out an end-to-end document processing project.

"We saw an opportunity to develop a flexible and customisable tool that lowers the investment required to get an end-to-end document processing solution off the ground and help more complex organisations prove concepts faster - the Integration Agent does just that," said Charlie Bellingham, General Manager, Affinda.

Bellingham also pointed to smaller organisations with limited IT capacity, where integration work can keep automation projects stuck in pilot.

"Alongside that, smaller organisations often don't have access to developers, so integration is often a barrier to document automation, plus they're looking for a low implementation effort to get something in place," he said.

"If you think of a specialised lending firm, adopting an automated system for document and record automation has likely been out of reach. With our Integration Agent, the set-up time is drastically reduced from days or weeks - to something that can be done in 15 minutes," he said.

Customer example

Affinda cited Lockerbie Estate, a property developer and home building company, as an early user of the Integration Agent. It reported reducing invoice processing time by more than 50% and automating three document types without developer resources, including an integration with Xero, the accounting platform widely used by small and mid-sized businesses.

Louis Wright, Finance Manager at Lockerbie Estate, described the manual workload before deployment.

"We were spending more than half our working week getting supplier invoices and sales quotes into Xero. That kind of manual overhead doesn't scale and it was taking our focus away from financial planning and job costing that ensures we're delivering quality homes on time and on budget," said Louis Wright, Finance Manager, Lockerbie Estate.

Wright said the company deployed an integration without waiting for an internal IT plan to reach the top of the queue.

"With Affinda Platform's AI Integration Agent, we had a working integration in days without waiting on a costly, time-consuming IT roadmap. It's been a real game changer. Now, accurate financial data flows from invoices into Xero automatically. We can focus on the higher-value work and have better visibility across our projects and more confidence in the numbers we're working with," he said.

Affinda has been expanding its use of AI agents in document processing, including earlier work on persistent model memory for configuring document workflows. It expects the Integration Agent to become a standard way customers connect document data to operational systems across finance, operations and customer processes.