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
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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
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.
How multi-currency business accounts work: local details vs SWIFT, payment rails, the real cost of FX, safeguarding vs deposit protection, and hedging.
How UK, US, Canadian and European firms pay Nigerian suppliers and get paid by Nigerian clients: FX, Form A and M, tax, compliance and payout routes.
What it really costs to send money to Nigeria from the UK, US, Canada and Europe: fees, exchange-rate margins, CBN naira rules, BVN, speed and scams.
What AI can and cannot do in day-to-day bookkeeping, how much time it saves on real numbers, and which jobs must stay with you or your accountant.
Form NXP is the Nigerian seller's export declaration. How it and the export proceeds rules affect how an Irish buyer should pay.
Form NXP is the Central Bank of Nigeria's electronic export declaration, which the Nigerian supplier files through its bank so that payment from abroad can be matched to the goods. Nigerian exporters must repatriate proceeds into their domiciliary account within 90 days for non-oil exports under the CBN's 2026 FX Manual, effective 1 June 2026. As an Irish buyer, pay the supplier's own business account, quote its invoice reference and agree terms that fit that deadline.
If your Irish business buys shea butter, sesame, cashews, fabric or any other goods from a Nigerian supplier, the supplier has paperwork of its own to complete before the goods leave. The main one is Form NXP. You do not file it, but it shapes how you pay, what the supplier asks you for, and why a Nigerian exporter may insist on payment into a particular account.
Form NXP is the Central Bank of Nigeria's export declaration for commercial exports. A Mondaq note by Deloitte (14 November 2019) records the CBN circular of 28 October 2019 that replaced the paper NXP with an electronic e-Form NXP from 31 October 2019, completed on the Trade Monitoring System at tradesystem.gov.ng. The same note says a valid Tax Identification Number is a condition and that a processing fee of ₦5,000 applied, separate from bank charges, as at 2019. The portal and fee today may differ; your supplier's bank will know the current position.
The form is processed through the exporter's bank, which uses it to match the money that later arrives from abroad with the goods that left. That matching is the whole point: Nigeria wants export earnings to come back into the Nigerian banking system.
Nigerian exporters must bring the proceeds of each export home within a set period. Under the CBN Foreign Exchange Manual 2026, effective 1 June 2026, that period is 90 days for non-oil exports and 180 days for oil and gas, with proceeds credited to the exporter's domiciliary account (Pavestones on Mondaq, 24 June 2026). The manual replaced a CBN circular of 8 January 2025, explained by Stren & Blan on Mondaq (7 February 2025), that had suspended extensions and set 180 days for non-oil exports and 90 days for oil exports.
What this means for you: a supplier that ships on 60-day open account terms may be cutting close to its own deadline. Many will prefer payment in advance, a letter of credit, or a bill for collection, all of which bring the money in on a traceable route.
Because the exporter's bank must tie your payment to a particular NXP, the supplier will usually ask you to:
A request to pay a different company, a personal account or an account outside Nigeria is a warning sign. It may be legitimate, but it does not fit how the NXP system works, and it is a common pattern in invoice fraud. Our guide on checking a Nigerian supplier is real covers the checks.
| Document | Who issues it | When it matters to you |
|---|---|---|
| Form NXP | Exporter files, its bank processes | Every commercial export; links your payment to the goods |
| NAFDAC export certificate or health certificate | NAFDAC | Food, cosmetics, medicines; NAFDAC's 2018 export guideline lists the certificates and an indicative 28 working days |
| Phytosanitary certificate | Nigeria's plant quarantine service | Plant food products; NAFDAC's export guideline asks for a copy with food files |
| Bill of lading or air waybill | Carrier | Starts the repatriation clock |
Some goods cannot leave Nigeria at all. The Nigeria Customs Service export prohibition list includes maize, rough or sawn timber, raw hides and skins, scrap metal, unprocessed rubber latex, artefacts and antiquities, and endangered wildlife. Do not order from that list.
Example only: a Dublin shop orders €8,000 of packaged foodstuffs from a Lagos exporter, shipped by sea. The bill of lading is dated 1 March. Under the 90-day non-oil window, the euros must reach the exporter's domiciliary account by about 30 May. If you agreed to pay 30 days after arrival and the voyage plus clearance in Dublin takes six weeks, your payment would land around mid-May, inside the window but with little room for delay. Paying 30% in advance and the balance against shipping documents removes most of that pressure.
For the supplier's side in full, see the Ledger's Form NXP and export proceeds rules.
With a Pryme Business Account you can hold euros and dollars side by side and send to a Nigerian supplier's account from the app with Send; the app shows the rate and the fee before you approve, and a verifiable receipt can be generated for the supplier's bank. Outside Nigeria, Pryme's services are provided through regulated partners.
No. The Nigerian exporter files it through its bank. You may be asked to quote its reference when you pay.
90 days for non-oil exports under the CBN FX Manual 2026, effective 1 June 2026. The 180 days set by a 2025 CBN circular no longer applies. Ask the supplier to confirm the date with its bank.
Export proceeds are expected to be credited to the exporter's domiciliary account so the bank can match them to the NXP.
It does not fit the NXP process and is a common fraud pattern. Pay the business account and confirm the details by phone.
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.
Paying a Lagos supplier from Ireland: naira or foreign currency, what the transfer really costs, and the records Revenue and customs will expect.
What an Irish exporter's proforma invoice must show for a Nigerian Form M: 90-day validity, HS codes, Incoterm, RC number and TIN.
Shea butter sold for skin is a cosmetic in Ireland: it needs an EU responsible person, a safety report, a product file, CPNP notification and a label.
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