Dext, a bookkeeping automation platform, has launched a new AI agent called AI Assist, designed to help accountants, bookkeepers and finance teams automate routine decision-making while retaining professional oversight.
The platform, which has already processed over 350 million documents, aims to go beyond conventional data capture by learning from users’ individual working habits — such as how transactions are categorised, how description fields are populated and how data is structured for reporting. AI Assist then applies those patterns consistently across future workflows, reducing the need for repeated manual intervention on routine tasks.
The tool is intended to help firms and finance teams scale their bookkeeping operations without having to overhaul existing processes. Rather than applying fixed, rule-based logic, the system adapts to each organisation’s specific way of working. Every suggestion it surfaces remains reviewable, keeping human judgement at the centre of the process.
In January 2026 alone, Dext processed 31.4 million receipts and invoices globally. Based on an estimate of three to four minutes to manually handle each document, the company calculates that its platform reduced processing time by more than 90%, cutting what would have been over 2 million hours of administrative work down to approximately 206,000 hours.
Dext CEO Sabby Gill said, “Dext has already helped remove millions of hours of manual data entry from bookkeeping by automating document capture and processing at scale. With AI Assist, we’re taking the next step; helping firms and finance teams apply their own judgement and way of working more consistently across every transaction.
“Every organisation, whether a firm or a finance team, has its own approach to categorising transactions, structuring data and managing workflows. AI Assist learns how you work and helps ally those decisions automatically, while keeping you fully in control. This frees up teams to focus on higher-value work like insight, advisory and strategic decision-making.”
Dext chief product & technology officer Stephen Edginton said, “We designed Dext AI Assist to work alongside users, not replace them. The platform already processes financial data at scale with high accuracy; AI Assist builds on that by learning how each team works and applying those decisions consistently. Human judgement remains central to the process, while AI helps reduce the manual effort that slows teams down.”
AI Assist is now rolling out across the Dext platform and will be available as a free trial until 23rd April.
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