Innovation Coming to Verity AI at BeyondTheBlack London 2026

• Introducing Agentic Financial Operations (AFO): We've launched a new operating model for the Office of the CFO that unites humans and AI in a single, cohesive team. By embedding a dedicated trust and orchestration layer at the heart of the finance stack, Agentic Financial Operations ensures that as you scale AI, you also scale accuracy, control, and compliance.

• Powering AFO with Key Innovations: This new model is powered by tangible innovations across our platform. Studio360 enhances data and workflow orchestration with new connectors for Workday and Snowflake and advanced dashboards. At the same time, Verity AI expands its capabilities with agentic digital workers for preparing reconciliations, advanced AI-powered matching, and automated collections.

• Delivering a Trusted AI Strategy with Tangible Business Impact: These advancements provide a clear path for CFOs to adopt AI safely and effectively. The result is a significant reduction in manual work, accelerated financial closes, stronger controls, and a finance function that is empowered to drive strategic insights and real-time visibility quickly and accurately.

While CFOs are being asked to guide strategy at market speed, their teams are struggling to keep up. Controllers and their staff are often bogged down by rising transaction volumes, inconsistent processes, and the sheer friction of manual work.

The promise of AI is clear, but a critical question remains: how can enterprises adopt its power without sacrificing accuracy, control, and compliance?

At our recent BeyondTheBlack EMEA conference in London, we answered that question with the launch of Agentic Financial Operations (AFO), a new operating model for the Office of the CFO. This model is built on a simple yet powerful idea: the more AI finance deploys, the more trust it needs. As enterprises deploy more artificial intelligence, they require more trust, transparency, and compliance.

This is not just a theoretical concept; it's a tangible reality powered by innovations across our platform.

Agentic Financial Operations represents a new path forward: a model where humans and AI work as one cohesive team. It moves beyond simple automation to create a truly intelligent and trustworthy finance function. This is achieved through a unique architecture built on four foundational pillars:

• United Data Foundation: At its core, AFO is powered by The Studio360 Platform, which creates a single, unified data foundation for the Office of the CFO. It seamlessly unifies data and workflow orchestration across all your systems—from ERPs like Workday to data warehouses like Snowflake—ensuring your intelligence layer is operating with the right data at the right time.

• Auditable Trust and Governance Layer: AFO places a dedicated trust and orchestration layer at the heart of the finance stack. This embeds crucial controls, enforces the separation of duties, and ensures that every automated action is fully transparent and traceable. The result is an unbreakable, "show-your-work" audit trail that gives you the confidence to scale AI safely.

• Event-Driven Orchestration Layer: Our platform acts as an event-driven orchestration layer, managing and monitoring processes both before and after any automated activity occurs. This ensures that workflows are initiated based on real-time business events, creating a responsive and continuously managed operational environment.

• Agentic Intelligence Layer: Within this governed framework, Verity AI provides the agentic intelligence. Its workflows are guided by a living library of auditor-validated accounting decisions from thousands of complex enterprises. This ensures that automated actions follow proven accounting logic rather than probabilistic guesswork, delivering outcomes you can trust every time.

Together, these pillars create a continuous and reliable way to scale automation safely. The business impact is clear: reduced manual work, accelerated financial closes, and a finance function that is empowered to drive strategic insights.

The foundation of Agentic Financial Operations is Studio360, our platform that provides the central trust and orchestration layer. We’re excited to announce key enhancements that strengthen this foundation:

• New Connectors for Workday and Snowflake: These new connectors streamline data movement across your core finance systems and operations, laying a robust foundation for agentic operations and ensuring your AI has access to the right data at the right time.

• Enhanced Visualizations: We’ve introduced new, intuitive dashboards and reporting capabilities. These enhanced visualizations turn complex financial data into quick, actionable insights for accountants, controllers, and executives alike.

Verity is our comprehensive suite of embedded, auditable AI capabilities that provides finance and accounting with a new digital workforce. We are thrilled to expand its power with three key innovations:

• Verity Prepare: Acting as an agentic AI digital worker, Prepare automates the entire end-to-end reconciliation process. It ingests unstructured documents like bank statements and vendor invoices, extracts and analyzes key financial data to auto-populate reconciliations, and automatically attaches source documentation with perfect traceability.

• Verity Match: This introduces advanced AI to analyze historical patterns and recommend actions that significantly lift match rates in complex, high-volume reconciliations. It moves beyond the limitations of traditional rules-based methods to handle even the most challenging matching scenarios.

• Verity Collect: We’re automating routine collections with an agentic AI voice agent that can hold natural conversations and record payment commitments. The agent also handles inbound customer emails by automatically classifying and prioritizing messages based on urgency and sentiment, allowing your teams to focus on the highest-priority issues first.

These product innovations are not just features; they are the building blocks of the broader vision from BlackLine. By embedding a trusted AI layer into daily operations, we directly address the friction of manual accounting. This allows organizations to move faster and with greater agility, while still being able to "show their work" to auditors and the board.

As Violet Gergis, Executive Director of Controllership Strategic Initiatives at Bristol Myers Squibb, shared with us, the future of finance depends on this level of trust: “If you look at where finance is heading over the next few years, it’s very clear that AI will fundamentally reshape how organizations operate. But it has to be AI built on strong accounting, logic, and compliance. We’ll be adopting more AI capabilities embedded within the BlackLine solution to reduce manual intervention, increase accuracy, and deliver more proactive insight into the close process.” This is precisely the principle guiding our innovation.

Our leaders are committed to building this future. As our CEO, Owen Ryan, explains, “Today, CFOs are being asked to guide corporate strategy at the speed of the market, yet their teams are still overwhelmed... Agentic Financial Operations is that path. Strategically, it puts a trusted AI layer as the answer to that friction. The business impact is tangible too—quicker closes, stronger controls, and improved cash positions all flow from a model where intelligence and trust advance together.”

Our Chief Technology Officer, Jeremy Ung, adds, “Studio360 and Verity bring trusted data, workflow orchestration, and AI together in a way that fits how finance teams actually work. Every action an agent takes is governed, traceable, and evidenced. This is the architecture CFOs, controllers, and auditors are asking for as organizations scale AI through their financial operations.”

The combination of Studio360’s data orchestration and Verity AI’s agentic workflows creates a governed, highly accurate, and efficient environment for modern accounting teams. Agentic Financial Operations is not just about automation; it’s about scaling artificial intelligence safely to deliver the real-time data visibility and strategic value that your business demands.

Ready to bring the future of finance to your organization? We invite you to explore the BlackLine platform and see how Agentic Financial Operations can power your digital finance transformation.