Padoflow

Three jobs we take off your desk.

Most small companies don’t need another dashboard. They need the inbox answered, the paperwork finished and the books closed on time. Padoflow’s agents do that work inside the mail, files and ERP you already have.

Inbox

Reads incoming mail, drafts replies in your tone, files what’s done.

Every run starts by counting what’s new. If nothing is, it stops there and the model isn’t called. New mail is read together with its thread, the new text is separated from the quoted history, and the original is kept exactly as it arrived.

Then comes one decision: reply needed, no reply needed, or not sure. Replies are drafted from a short style guide you can edit and saved to your Drafts folder. Padoflow never sends mail. When your reply shows up in Sent, the original moves to Done, and mail that needs no reply is filed a day after it has been read.

Fig. 1One inbox run. The questions are answered by the model; moving mail is left to a script.
New mailinbox and sent, since the last run
Anything new?
Stopthe model isn’t called
Read with its threadoriginal kept as it arrived
Reply needed?
Fileda day after it’s read
Draft in your tonesaved to Drafts, never sent
Left for youwhen it isn’t clear, with a note on why
You send it
Moved to Doneby a script, once your reply is in Sent
Inbox · review queue08:00 run · 9 in, 2 sent
  • Delivery date for order 4471Draft readySupplier · date checked against the order file
  • Quote for two items, 500 pcs eachDraft readyCustomer · prices from the last quote, 2 September
  • Complaint about a late shipmentNeeds youCustomer · a refund is your decision, so no draft
  • Statement for SeptemberFiledBank · Finance / Statements
  • Industry newsletter, week 41No reply neededFiled tomorrow
Fig. 2The review queue after the morning run. Example data.

Documents

Turns meeting notes, requests and spreadsheets into finished reports and forms.

Most reports are last month’s report with new facts. So the agent starts from your last version, not from a blank page. It keeps the layout, the title and the timeline, and rewrites only the parts that changed.

Numbers come from one place. A figure from the books is read from the close results, not worked out a second time. Every line keeps a pointer to where it came from: a meeting note, a mail thread, a row in a spreadsheet.

Weekly report · week 41Draft 1 · built from week 40
WorkThis week
Supplier set-upThree of five new suppliers are set up in the ERP. The last two are due 16 October.1
September closeClosed 6 October. Cost postings stayed open two days longer than the ledger.2
Packaging changeThe customer approved the new label on 8 October. Samples ship next week.3

Layout, title and timeline kept from week 40. 11 of 14 lines changed.

Sources

  1. Meeting notes, 7 October
  2. Close results, September
  3. Mail thread “Packaging change”, 4 mails
Fig. 3A weekly report built from last week’s. Red marks a deadline or a risk, blue something finished. Example data.

Month-end close

Checks ledgers for anomalies before closing, flags what accountants should look at first.

The agent reads the ledger; it does not post or change entries. Before the books are closed it compares the month with earlier ones: entries in unusual accounts, amounts far outside the normal range, possible duplicates, accruals that are usually there and aren’t, allocations that send costs nowhere.

It also checks the closing itself. For the month being closed, who can still post, and through which path? If the ledger is closed but cost postings are still open, that goes to the top of the list.

There is no green tick. An empty list means nothing unusual was found, not that the month is right.

September close · exceptionschecked 7 October, 08:40 · 4 found
  1. 1Cost postings still open for SeptemberClosing The ledger closed on 6 October. Cost postings are still open, so an allocation run today would land in a closed month.
    openclosing team onlyclosedopen after the ledger closed
  2. 2Possible duplicate invoiceDuplicatesSame supplier, same amount (4,180.00) and the same reference, posted on 12 and 14 September.
  3. 3Repairs booked to office suppliesAccounts3.2 times the usual monthly amount for this account.
  4. 4Rent accrual missingAccrualsAccrued every month this year. September has none yet.
Fig. 4The list an accountant opens first, with the dates the closing actually happened. Example data.