Notes on automation systems, n8n workflows, AI agents, integrations, content pipelines, and the logic behind making messy processes work reliably.
May 24, 2026
Power Query for one report. Then SharePoint. Then Power BI. Then APIs. The accounting automation journey rarely starts where people think it ends.
May 23, 2026
Manual invoice entry isn't just slow — it accumulates errors that cost more time to find than the entry ever saved. The mental fatigue point is underrated.
May 22, 2026
After testing AI tools for invoice processing, categorization, and anomaly detection, the conclusion is the same: it's the combination, not the model.
May 21, 2026
At 5-10 minutes per invoice, 300 invoices a month is 25-50 hours of manual entry. The part most people skip is building the GL mapping table.
May 20, 2026
Switching from e-Boekhouden to Moneybird isn't just a UX preference. It's a choice about what you can automate later, and what stays manual forever.
May 19, 2026
A bookkeeper's advice for Dutch starters: do your own admin, use the bank connection, and bring in a professional for a quarterly review.
May 18, 2026
A student built an n8n invoice controller where a cheap model as the first filter turned out to be the most valuable node in the workflow.
May 17, 2026
Most automation fails not from bad code, but because the builder started too early — the discovery work is the hard part.
May 16, 2026
An accountant who automated his way through PwC, Python, and ChatGPT — and the question it left: why did I spend years studying to end up doing this?
May 15, 2026
The most useful accounting automation isn't AI or agents. It's removing the data-moving and format-cleaning so accountants can do actual accounting.