A smarter way to audit expenses

What you once knew as SpendController has grown into something more powerful. SpendController has evolved into Control Automation, bringing expanded automation, deeper policy enforcement, and a more seamless controlling experience.

Control Automation is designed to review expenses the way a controller would, but faster, consistently, and at scale. It checks every transaction against your company’s policies, using AI receipt scanning and rule-based logic to understand what’s compliant and what isn’t.

Compliant reports move through the process automatically. Only exceptions reach a controller’s desk.

This shift is powerful. Teams using Control Automation have already seen manual controlling workload drop by up to 50%* in the first month, without changing their internal policies or approval flow. It’s not about replacing human judgement, it’s about removing the unnecessary work that gets in the way.

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Control Automation gives controllers and accountants time back by removing the need to review every report manually. Instead, it highlights the handful of cases that genuinely need attention—those that fall outside policy, look suspicious, or contain missing or mismatched information.

It also strengthens compliance:

• Every policy is applied consistently, across every report
• Compliant expenses are approved instantly
• Suspicious or irregular patterns are surfaced early

For enterprise organisations dealing with thousands of reports each month, this means higher accuracy, reduced workload, and a level of control that simply isn’t achievable through manual checks alone.

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Control Automation works behind the scenes as part of your normal expense process. When an employee submits a report, the system immediately begins its checks: 

• AI Receipt Scanning extracts key data such as amount, VAT, merchant, and date, ensuring the information matches what was entered.
• Control Dices, our visual control grid, compares receipt data with the transaction and flags anything out of line: mismatches, missing attachments, or unusual details.
• Control & Audit Rules interpret your policies. Spend limits, duplicates, forbidden keywords, or custom company rules are all enforced automatically.
• Sampling Logic filters out compliant expenses and directs only exceptions to controllers, cutting manual effort at scale.

Controllers still have full oversight. Any flagged report can be reviewed, corrected, overridden, or commented on. Nothing replaces your judgement—Control Automation simply gets the unnecessary noise out of the way.

It’s built for large organisations with multi-entity setups and varying local rules, and it scales effortlessly as volumes grow.

Discover how much time your team could save.

Get in touch with your Account Manager for a quick demo and find out what Control Automation could do for your controlling process.