Beyond the Hype: Trusted AI for the Office of the CFO
How VerityTM AI delivers the accuracy, control, and intelligence to make you unstoppable.
Table of Contents
- Artificial Intelligence: Strategic Advantage or Future Regret?
- Introducing BlackLine Verity: Purpose-Built AI for Finance & Accounting
- The BlackLine Advantage: An AI You Can Finally Trust
- Meet Your Team’s New Digital Assistant
- Stop Driving with the Rear-View Mirror
- End the Manual Search for "Why"
- Raise the Bar for Automation
- Craft the Story Behind Your Numbers
- A New Era of Unstoppable Finance
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Artificial Intelligence: Strategic Advantage or Future Regret?
For the Office of the CFO, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize financial operations. But this promise is also a high-stakes choice. Get your AI strategy right, and you unlock a powerful competitive advantage. Get it wrong, and you're embracing a future of risk and regret.
Generic AI models simply don't understand the nuances of finance and accounting (F&A)—and in a world where 95% accuracy means 100% failure, the dangers of a "black box AI" are too severe to ignore.
Finance and accounting teams cannot compromise on accuracy, transparency, or auditability. You need AI that is purpose-built for your world—an AI that understands your data, your processes, and your non-negotiable standards for security and auditability. With BlackLine's connected platform, you can finally move beyond the hype and build your AI strategy on a foundation of accuracy.
For F&A professionals, there is no room for error. 95% accuracy is 100% failure.
Introducing Verity: Purpose-Built AI for Finance & Accounting
Generic AI doesn't understand the complexities of a multi-entity close or the nuances of regulatory compliance. BlackLine does.
That’s why we created Verity. Named from the Latin word for truth, Verity is the unifying intelligence layer woven throughout the BlackLine platform. It’s our commitment to trusted AI, designed to solve the challenges facing the Office of the CFO and turn the promise of AI into a secure, auditable, and strategic reality.
Verity is the engine, and Vera is the interface. As the leader of BlackLine’s agentic experience, Vera translates your strategic goals into automated action. Using simple, natural language, you can delegate complex tasks, direct workflows, and put the full power of trusted, auditable AI in your control.
“We do not aim to be the smartest AI model. Instead, we aim to be the most trusted platform for the Office of the CFO by delivering future-ready financial operations through agentic AI that goes beyond automation to empower our customers to anticipate, decide, and act faster.”
The BlackLine Advantage: An AI You Can Finally Trust
Verity AI is different by design, built on a foundation of security, control, and deep accounting expertise. We provide a solution that delivers on the promise of AI with the security, control, and accuracy you require.
Purpose-Built for Finance: Our solutions are the direct result of our singular focus on the Office of the CFO. We embed decades of deep accounting and process knowledge into our AI, creating practical tools that solve the real-world challenges your team faces every day.
Connected Data Platform: Artificial intelligence is only as reliable as the data it uses. BlackLine’s connected platform eliminates data silos and prevents the "garbage in, garbage out" problem. We integrate directly with source systems to create the clean, secure, and auditable data that powerful AI requires.
Rock Solid Security: Trust is non-negotiable. Our solutions are backed by world-class security certifications, providing the governance and peace of mind that F&A requires for its most sensitive financial data.
Transparency, Control, and Auditability: Unlike an AI "black box," our platform delivers the essential application layer of control that finance requires. We provide complete transparency and a full audit trail for every action, ensuring all AI-driven work is explainable and you always have final authority.
More Strategy, Less Routine: BlackLine believes AI's true power lies in augmenting human expertise, not replacing it. Verity empowers F&A professionals to evolve from executors of routine tasks into strategic advisors who can tackle more complex challenges and drive business value.
Meet Your Team’s New Digital Assistant
Move fast and break things doesn’t work in finance and accounting. Verity goes beyond simple automation by deploying AI agents that can manage complex, end-to-end workflows, acting as a new digital workforce for your team.
Verity Prepare will accelerate the financial close by automating the entire account reconciliation process. It will:
- Analyze new accounts, identify high-risk items, and retrieve supporting documentation.
- Draft explanations for discrepancies and prepare the full reconciliation for an accountant's final review and approval.
Verity Collect will improve AR efficiency by autonomously managing customer outreach. It will:
- Place and transcribe calls for outstanding invoices.
- Identify action items, log promise-to-pay data, and draft tailored follow-up emails.
These agents are designed with the essential application layer of control that F&A requires. Unlike an AI “black box,” our platform ensures every action is transparent, auditable, and under your ultimate control.
Move Fast. Stay Accurate.
Stop Driving with the Rear-View Mirror
In today’s dynamic environment, stale reporting on what’s already happened won't just slow you down—it will leave you behind. To be a true strategic partner, you must anticipate risks and opportunities, not just react to them. Verity transforms your raw financial data into strategic, actionable intelligence, allowing your team to become more forward-looking.
Verity Flag mitigates risk and prevents surprises at the close.
- Proactively analyze transactional data to predict where intercompany issues, journal entry risks, or variance anomalies are likely to occur.
- Give your team the ability to resolve issues before they escalate.
Verity Forecast improves cash management and strategic planning.
- Analyze customer payment behaviors and historical trends.
- Generate highly accurate cash flow and payment predictions that finance leaders can trust.
The result? You can shift from being reactive to acting proactively, giving you and your stakeholders greater confidence in your financial data.
End the Manual Search for "Why"
How much time does your team waste trying to understand the story behind the numbers? Verity eliminates the tedious, manual investigations that slow you down, so you can focus on the insights that drive the business forward.
Verity Insights empowers your team to perform on-demand analysis.
- Explore your data by asking complex analytical questions in plain English.
- Investigate trends and diagnose variances to drive smarter, forward-looking decisions.
Verity Flux ends the manual search for why balances changed.
- Automatically generate detailed, transaction-level explanations for account variances.
- Provide drill-down capabilities, turning hours of investigation into seconds of insight.
Verity Assist puts on-demand support right in your workflow.
- Instantly check the status of reconciliations.
- Provide help with invoice-to-cash tasks, removing friction from your daily work.
Raise the Bar for Automation
Verity breaks through the limits of basic, rules-based automation to deliver an exponential impact. It masters high-volume, complex processes with greater speed and accuracy, enhancing BlackLine’s core solutions with a new layer of intelligence.
Verity Match significantly increases match rates and reduces manual intervention. It will:
- Move beyond traditional rules to handle more complex transaction matching scenarios.
- Continuously learn from user feedback to suggest new, more effective pass rules.
Verity Remit automates remittance work, using payment data to improve its accuracy over time.
- Eliminate manual setup by automating new supplier record creation and capturing more detail from remittances to improve matching.
- Set confidence levels to automatically process high-volume matches, so your team can focus on exceptions.
The impact? You can raise the bar for what requires human review, letting your team focus their expertise on the highest-value exceptions.
Craft the Story Behind Your Numbers
After the books are closed and analysis is done, someone has to communicate what it all means. Verity automates the creation and summarization of financial narratives, eliminating hours of manual work and accelerating your reporting cycle.
Verity Narrate helps you craft the story behind your numbers with greater speed and precision.
- Automatically transform raw financial data into clear, professionally written narrative summaries.
- Accelerate the creation of commentary for financial statements and footnotes.
Verity Summarize delivers instant clarity from complex documents and communications.
- Create concise summaries of uploaded supporting documents, including PDFs and spreadsheets.
- Summarize long email threads to support your global operations.
“BlackLine believes AI's true power lies in augmenting human expertise, not replacing it. We deliver trusted AI that empowers finance and accounting professionals to shift their focus from routine tasks to strategic impact.”
A New Era of Unstoppable Finance
Verity marks a pivotal step forward in financial operations. By embedding trusted, purpose-built AI into the core of our platform, we are empowering finance and accounting teams to move beyond manual, repetitive work and embrace a more strategic role.
With Verity, you can build a future of accuracy, efficiency, and intelligence—one where your team is equipped with the insights to guide the business forward and the confidence that comes from absolute control and auditable processes.