AI agents for business finance: what they can and can't do
What AI agents can do in bookkeeping, close, collections and compliance today, where a person must stay in charge, and how to judge a product.
Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals and follows up. Nothing leaves your account without your approval.
Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She holds dollars, pounds, euros and Naira side by side, swaps at a locked rate, pays bills in any of them and sends anywhere, asking before anything moves.













We give you a limit to spend at the shops and services you already use — and an account that works on your month while you get on with it. Dollars, pounds and euros sit beside your Naira, and an assistant handles the running of it, asking you first every single time.
One global account for your money and business. Move across currencies, automate everyday operations and put AI agents to work — with you in control of every important decision.




Evayour assistant
DanielChief of Staff
BenFinance
BruceCareYour competitor down the road sells the same thing you sell. The difference is who walks in. We put money in people’s hands that can only be spent in businesses like yours — and then we point them at you.
You are not borrowing. You are selling to somebody who already has the money — and that money can only be spent with a business like yours.
₦100,000 from day one · agreement v2.1 · 12 Aug · View
Eva waits for your rate and asks before she moves anything.
No card, no OTP, nothing for the buyer to type in. They transfer from the bank app they already use, and the money lands in the same account your agents are running — already matched to the order, already in your books.
We give the buyer a one-time account number. They transfer to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in.
Get the account numberTo this account, from any bank app. We watch it, and the page updates itself.
₦26,767.50 from GTBank · John D., matched to order ORD‑1042.
Five agents come with the account. Each one has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — nothing leaves the account without your signature.
Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised — and keeps all three moving.
Booked a meeting with John Doe Foods for Thursday 11:00.Keeps the books as you trade and tells you the moment something does not add up.
Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.
Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the receipt already attached.
Recovered ₦410,000 across three overdue invoices.Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.
Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.Issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of your own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it. The same rails the Business Account runs on, with the licence behind them.
Dollars, pounds and euros beside a Naira account, on one ledger and one set of books. Five agents come with it and run the account — nothing leaves without your signature.
Five agents come with the account. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — they propose, you approve.
Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised, and keeps all three moving.
Booked the quarterly review with your auditor for Thursday.Keeps the books in every currency you hold and flags the moment something does not add up.
Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.
Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the invoice and the receipt already attached.
Recovered $12,400 across three overdue invoices.Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.
Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.The business has changed shape four times and never changed what it was rooted in. Each version was built out of what the last one could not do.
An online grocery store, built out of a faulty tab. Selling the food was the easy part — taking the money for it, and moving it, turned out to be the business.
A prepaid card. The first time the company issued rather than resold, and the first time it carried the obligations that come with holding somebody else’s money.
Solid Allianze acquired — an existing bank with an existing licence. The perimeter stopped being someone else’s to draw.
More than one currency on one balance, and the rebrand to Pryme. A Nigerian business could hold dollars without holding a second institution.
Accounts that do the work rather than only hold value. Five agents on the account, inside a policy you write — which is where the new mark starts.
Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives people and businesses in Nigeria one account that holds Naira alongside dollars, pounds and euros, and a set of agents that do the running of it — keeping the books, chasing what is owed, answering customers and paying bills. Nothing leaves an account without the owner’s approval.
Yes. A Pryme account holds Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros side by side on one ledger, each with its own account details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area. You can swap between them at a rate you set, and every currency has its own statement.
Spaces is available in Nigeria. It gives a shopper money to spend that can only be spent with a participating business. The business is paid into its Naira account whether or not the shopper repays, because Pryme carries the credit. For the business it is free to join, there is nothing monthly, and the customer’s identity is never shown — only a reference and what it is worth.
Five agents come with the account. The Chief of Staff runs the week and keeps what is stuck moving. Finance watches the money and keeps the books as you trade. Compliance keeps the filings on time and screens what moves. Sales chases what you are owed. Customer Support answers your customers and follows up. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set, and each one proposes rather than acts — nothing leaves the account without your signature.
Pryme Pay takes payments on your own site or on a checkout page you control. The buyer is given a one-time account number and transfers to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in. The money lands in the same account your agents are running, already matched to the order and already in your books.
Savings Boxes are separate pots inside a Pryme account, held in Naira. Flexible Boxes can be withdrawn at any time, Fixed Boxes hold to a date, Investment Boxes hold for longer, and Interest-free Boxes earn nothing by design. A business can use them to ring-fence payroll and the tax it withholds, so that money cannot be spent by accident.
Pryme is a financial technology company, not a bank. Accounts and deposits are provided by Solid Allianze Microfinance Bank Limited, which is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a member of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Yes. Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.
Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives you one account that holds US dollars, pounds sterling and euros beside Naira, with an assistant that runs the account for you and asks before anything moves. Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, and further markets open as each licence lands.
Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, subject to verification and approval. Foreign-currency balances are held and converted inside that account, so you can hold, receive and swap dollars, pounds and euros wherever you are.
Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros, side by side on one ledger. Each has its own details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area — and each has its own statement.
Swap at a rate you set rather than the rate of the day, then send to any Pryme username or to a Nigerian bank account. There is no fee to send to another Pryme account.
Eva is the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals, pays what is due and follows up what is owed to you — and asks you before anything moves.
Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.
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How the three-year cumulative inflation test works, what NBS figures to September 2026 imply for Nigeria, and what changes if it is met.
The test is cumulative inflation over three years of around 100% or more (IAS 29's benchmark; US practice under ASC 830 uses a similar three-year test). With NBS headline inflation at 20.98% for the year to September 2025 and 14.63% for the year to September 2026, two years compound to about 38.7%, so the year to September 2024 would need to exceed about 44% for the three-year total to reach 100%. Check the figures for your own reporting date.
If an economy is treated as hyperinflationary, a subsidiary's accounts are no longer simply translated at closing rates with differences in OCI. Under IFRS, IAS 29 requires the financial statements, including comparatives, to be expressed in units of the functional currency current at the end of the reporting period, restated using a general price index, with the gain or loss on the net monetary position in profit or loss. IAS 21 then requires all amounts to be translated at the closing rate (paras 42 and 43). Under US GAAP, ASC 830 has its own approach for highly inflationary economies; check it in the Codification or the KPMG ASC 830 handbook (June 2026), as we could not open the Codification text for this article.
IAS 29 lists characteristics of hyperinflation, such as prices, interest and wages linked to a price index, and gives the key benchmark as "cumulative inflation over three years of around 100 per cent or more". US practice under ASC 830 is commonly described as using a similar three-year cumulative measure; your auditor will tell you how its firm applies it at your reporting date.
Cumulative inflation is compounded, not added. Three years of 20%, 20% and 20% give 1.2 x 1.2 x 1.2 = 1.728, or 72.8%, not 60%.
NBS headline inflation, as reported by Voice of Nigeria on 16 October 2026, was 14.63% year-on-year in September 2026, with 20.98% for September 2025 as the year-ago comparison.
| Year to | Headline inflation | Index factor |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 20.98% | 1.2098 |
| September 2026 | 14.63% | 1.1463 |
| Two years compounded | 38.68% | 1.3868 |
| Year to September 2024 needed for 100% over three years | above about 44.2% | 2 / 1.3868 = 1.4422 |
So the answer for a September 2026 reporting date depends on one number: headline inflation for the year to September 2024. Take it from NBS's own CPI releases, and check that the index series is comparable across the whole period before you compound it; statistical agencies sometimes change baskets or base years, and a break in the series affects the calculation. For a December year-end, rerun the test with December figures.
The test is a rolling three-year window. As each month passes, an older year drops out and a newer one comes in. With 2026 inflation lower than 2025, each roll forward removes an older year and adds a lower one, so the cumulative figure falls unless inflation rises again. Keep a simple tracker: monthly NBS headline figure, the rolling 36-month compound, and the date your auditor last assessed Nigeria.
The Nigerian statutory accounts follow IFRS, so IAS 29 decides whether they are restated. The parent's consolidation follows US GAAP, so ASC 830 decides how the subsidiary is brought in. The two tests use similar thresholds, but the IFRS assessment also weighs qualitative characteristics, and firms can reach their conclusions at different dates. It is therefore possible, for a period, to have the local accountant and the US auditor applying different treatments to the same subsidiary. If that happens, the reporting package needs an extra set of adjustments and both teams should agree in writing which treatment applies from which date.
A highly inflationary conclusion changes the accounting, not the cash. Your naira still buys what it buys, and the tax rules in Nigeria and the US are separate. It also does not by itself change the subsidiary's functional currency analysis; see ASC 830 functional currency and consolidating naira accounts. For the local view of inflation and returns, our Nigeria library covers real returns in Nigeria.
Inflation accounting is a judgement for your auditors. What a Pryme Business Account can do is keep naira and dollar balances separate with statements for each, and the Finance agent can maintain the inflation tracker for review.
It depends on the three-year cumulative figure at your reporting date. NBS figures give 20.98% and 14.63% for the years to September 2025 and 2026, so the year to September 2024 would need to be above about 44% to reach 100%. Ask your auditor.
IAS 29 uses cumulative inflation over three years of around 100% or more, alongside qualitative signs. US practice uses a similar three-year measure under ASC 830.
Multiply the annual index factors and subtract one. For 20.98% and 14.63%: 1.2098 x 1.1463 = 1.3868, or 38.68% over two years.
Under IFRS, accounts are restated under IAS 29 and translated at the closing rate. Under US GAAP, ASC 830 applies its own method; confirm with your auditor.
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