Welcome to Extropy on Air — the official podcast of Extropy Advisors, where finance transformation meets real-world possibility.
Join us for candid conversations with CFOs, AP leaders, shared services executives, and technology innovators who are redefining how finance teams operate in the digital age.
Each episode explores the topics that matter most to modern finance leaders:
AI in finance operations — practical use cases, not hype
Accounts payable automation and procure-to-pay transformation
Shared services optimization and center-of-excellence strategy
Finance digital transformation — from strategy to implementation
Change management for finance teams adopting new technology
Whether you're a CFO building a digital finance roadmap, an AP Director evaluating automation platforms, or a finance transformation leader navigating organizational change — this show was made for you.
Extropy Advisors is a Basware Partner of the Year and a leading North American consulting firm specializing in AP automation and finance process transformation.
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Stop Logging Into 14 Portals a Day: Inside SmartFetch
Somewhere right now, someone in finance is logging into their 14th vendor portal of the day, copying passwords out of a spreadsheet, downloading invoices one by one, and racing a shutoff deadline they can't see coming.
In this episode, Ravit Gutman and Mike Jasper dig into SmartFetch, the AI agent built after watching a healthcare client's team manually download hundreds of invoices a month across just one utility portal. Mike explains how SmartFetch logs into vendor portals, telecom accounts, and shipping platforms, grabs invoices the moment they post, and delivers them straight to your payment system, fully tagged with account number, amount, and bill date.
Ravit then puts Mike through a myth vs. fact round covering the questions every AP team asks before automating this kind of work: Does it store your passwords somewhere risky? Will it get your accounts locked out? Can it really pull from hundreds of portals with a single login?
And will you actually know if something goes wrong?
Along the way, they share how one client scaled invoice volume by 40%+ without adding a single AP hire, and why this problem is bigger than AP alone.
If someone on your team is still running the portal marathon every morning, send them this one.
14 Jul 2026
Halfway Through 2026: What Actually Happened to AI in Finance
Extropy CEO Ravit Gutman and VP Mike Jasper hit pause at the midpoint of 2026 to grade what they got right (and wrong) back in January. Agents went from trade show demos to running quietly in the background of everyday finance work.
Anthropic and OpenAI both launched enterprise deployment arms within 72 hours of each other. And new data shows 78% of organizations have deployed AI in at least one business function, with finance teams among the most active adopters.
But the execution gap hasn't closed. 81% of finance departments have tried AI in some form, only 14% call it a successful transformation.
Ravit and Mike break down what's driving that gap, what the EU AI Act's August 2 deadline and France's e-invoicing mandate mean for finance leaders, and make their predictions for the back half of the year, including one bold call about AI and a material financial error.
Tune in for a clear-eyed midyear check-in, no hype, just what's real.
28 May 2026
The Execution Gap: Why Great Strategies Fall Apart Before They Begin
Most strategies don't fail because they're wrong. They fail because organizations can't execute them.
In this episode, Mike Jasper sits down with Extropy Project Manager Cecile Brown-Smith to unpack the systematic forces behind that gap. They explore why entropy quietly erodes even the best-laid plans, how ambiguity stalls teams and kills momentum, and why the people closest to the work are often left out of the rooms where decisions get made.
From tribal knowledge to missing legal sign-off, the execution gap is rarely dramatic. It's dozens of small breakdowns that pile up until the project is already off course.
Tune in for a practical conversation on what it actually takes to convert strategic intent into daily behavior, and why structure, clarity, and the right people in the room make all the difference.
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