AI accounts payable for electrical contractors: 99% of invoices entered automatically, no new AP hires
Inglett & Stubbs
What they did with AI
Inglett & Stubbs, an employee-owned commercial electrical contractor in Mableton, GA (founded 1954; projects include Mercedes-Benz Stadium), had a three-person AP team hand-keying 3,500–4,000 supplier invoices a month, six to seven hours a day, and was adding staff just for data entry. Senior accounting manager Abby Everage first tried ChatGPT on batched vendor PDFs, but says it needed the same prompt every time, gave inconsistent results and didn't know their vendor codes. After evaluating five platforms, the team moved to Canals Accounts Payable, which reads incoming invoices, learns vendor-specific formatting and submits them into their accounting system, with exceptions flagged for review. Canals reports that 99% of invoices now flow through it, the team handles roughly double the daily invoice volume (about 130 to 280 a day between January and August 2026) without adding AP headcount, and about 6–7 hours a day of manual keying went to backlogged work like statements, certificates of insurance and vendor emails. The purchasing team also uses Canals for line-item purchase orders so AP can match invoices against them. Figures are vendor-published and not independently audited.
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