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News, perspective, and ideas from our team and guest voices.
AR aging reports reveal which invoices are slipping toward uncollectible status — this guide shows how to read them properly, avoid common blind spots, and use automation to act before collection windows close.
From receipt to posting, remittance processing affects your entire cash cycle — discover how automation eliminates bottlenecks.
Most late invoices aren’t customers avoiding payment — learn how automated dunning recovers revenue with systematic, well-timed follow-ups.
Real results from teams running AR on Fazeshift.
Manual cash-application work down about 75%, AR meetings from weekly to monthly, and DSO stabilized at the lowest the company has seen.
800+ invoices a month tracked by hand on a Kanban-style board, now tracked automatically on the same logic — plus every outbound collections email across finance and sales. AR capacity per person more than tripled, and 20% more AR came in on time.
Talks and conversations on AR, finance, and what’s next.

Fix a past-due collections email and turn your aging report into a self-running cadence, built live in ChatGPT.
Caitlin Leksana joins Brett Stapper on BUILDERS, from The Front Lines.
Caitlin Leksana joins Peter Day on Founders Uncensored, from super{set}.
Practical, ground-level guidance for the people running AR.
Subject lines, personalization, timing, and message anatomy: what gets customers to reply, and what scales.
Why AR and cash application are usually the highest-yield first AI workflow in finance, and how to prove it inside 90 days.
Announcements, product news, and coverage of what we’re building.
Bring a batch of your real AR — invoices, payments, whatever’s messiest — and we’ll show you exactly how the agents would read, match, and post it back against your own records.