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.
Notes on money that does the work: what we are building, what the regulation actually says, and how we think about letting software act on money. Read the Ledger
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NAFDAC certifies regulated products leaving Nigeria: food, cosmetics, drugs and devices. Which certificate applies, the documents and the timeline.
Products NAFDAC regulates (food, drinks, cosmetics, drugs, medical devices, agrochemicals and animal feed) need a NAFDAC export certificate before they leave Nigeria commercially. NAFDAC's export guideline names four documents: a Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product for drugs, a Combined Certificate of Manufacture and Free Sale for registered products, a Health Certificate for processed or semi-processed food, and an Export Certificate for ECOWAS land-border trade. The guideline puts the full process at about 28 working days.
NAFDAC's role at export follows its role at home: if the product is one it regulates in Nigeria, it wants to see it before it is shipped as trade. Its export guideline (reference NAFDAC/PID/EXP/FCMD/2018) is run by the Ports Inspection Directorate and covers food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, agrochemicals and animal feed. Most diaspora buyers meet it through packaged foodstuff (garri, flours, spices, drinks), cosmetics (shea butter creams, black soap, hair products) and herbal products.
Two things the guideline makes plain matter most. First, NAFDAC does not issue certificates for products that have already left Nigeria, so the paperwork has to start before the cargo moves. Second, the certificate is about the product, not the buyer: a buyer abroad cannot get one, the Nigerian exporter applies.
| Certificate | What it is for (per NAFDAC guideline) |
|---|---|
| Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product (COPP) | Drugs |
| Combined Certificate of Manufacture and Free Sale (CCMFS) | NAFDAC-registered food, cosmetics, medical devices, agrochemicals and feed |
| Health Certificate | Processed and semi-processed food |
| Export Certificate | Exports through ECOWAS land borders |
The CCMFS route assumes the product already carries a NAFDAC registration number. A cosmetic or packaged food made by a small producer without registration will usually stall here, so ask the maker for their registration certificate before you place an order. The registration process itself is covered in NAFDAC product registration: steps, documents and timelines.
Raw plant produce (unprocessed beans, seeds, nuts) is also checked by the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service, which issues the phytosanitary certificate. NAFDAC's guideline asks for a photocopy of the NAQS certificate in food applications, so the two run side by side; see NAQS phytosanitary certificates for food exports.
The guideline lists what goes with the application letter, addressed to the Director General for the attention of the Ports Inspection Directorate:
NEPC registration is the exporter's, not the product's. NEPC's e-registration page lists the fee for a new certificate as ₦13,500 (renewal of an expired certificate ₦7,500, late renewal ₦12,500), excluding Remita and bank charges, as at October 2026; the certificate is valid for 24 months at first. The CBN replaced the paper NXP with an electronic form in 2019, with a fixed ₦5,000 processing fee at the time (Mondaq/Deloitte, November 2019); check the current fee with the exporter's bank. Both steps are explained in How to register as an exporter with NEPC.
NAFDAC samples the consignment and runs tests that depend on the product. The guideline names mycotoxin screening, pesticide residues and, for garri, cyanogenic glycosides. These tests overlap with what buyers' regulators check at the other end, which is why the importing country's specifications are on the document list.
| Stage | Time stated in the guideline |
|---|---|
| Document vetting | 1 day |
| Response to inspection request | 48 hours |
| Warehouse inspection | 5 days |
| Laboratory analysis | 2 weeks |
| Whole process | 28 working days |
The guideline says fees follow NAFDAC's tariff but does not print amounts. Ask the Ports Inspection Directorate (ports@nafdac.gov.ng, as given in the guideline) for the current charge, and build the 28 working days into your shipping date before you book air or sea space.
A separate NAFDAC guideline (PID-GDL-008-00, effective 1 June 2018) covers regulated products carried for personal use: up to 10 kg of a single product or 30 kg combined. The application is a letter to the Director General through the Ports Inspection Directorate, it is processed in 48 hours and it is free, per that guideline. It is not a route for stock you intend to sell: anything for resale is a commercial export and needs the full process.
If you buy from Nigerian makers from abroad, a Pryme Business Account holds NGN, USD, GBP and EUR, so you can pay a supplier in naira from the same account that receives your sales. The rate and the fee are shown before you approve each conversion with Swap, and a verifiable receipt from VerifyDoc.ai (receipts) gives your supplier and your bank a record they can check. See the business account.
If the food is processed or semi-processed and leaves as trade, yes: NAFDAC's export guideline requires a Health Certificate, or a CCMFS for registered products. Personal quantities follow a separate, free procedure.
NAFDAC's guideline puts the whole process at 28 working days, including two weeks of laboratory analysis.
No. The guideline says NAFDAC does not issue certificates for products that have already left Nigeria.
NAFDAC's personal-use guideline allows 10 kg of a single product or 30 kg combined, approved in 48 hours at no charge.
This article is general information, not financial, legal or tax advice. Products described are provided under the terms on this site and are subject to regulation and eligibility.
How a manufacturer outside Nigeria registers products with NAFDAC: local applicant, power of attorney, certificates, dossier and inspection.
Which products need NAFDAC registration before sale in Nigeria, who can hold the registration for a seller abroad, and how that choice affects you.
Plant exports from Nigeria need a NAQS certificate issued after inspection and before shipment, now electronic. When it applies and how to get one.
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