Why we're building Rex

Why we're building Rex

From the founders

Manifesto

Rex is the AI operating system for enterprise finance. Starting with AR.


Somewhere right now, a finance team is copying data from a portal into a spreadsheet into an ERP.


This is the reality of operational finance work in most enterprises. People operating across different systems, email chains, portals, spreadsheets, stitching together context that lives in different places. The work requires judgment every time and most of the knowledge lives in someone’s head.

This is why people have been the only way to scale as volume increases.


So why have existing automation tools and ERPs not solved it? We know this firsthand. We spent four years building order to cash and AR software and working with hundreds of finance teams.


Rule-based automation can't handle the exceptions, the judgment calls, the context hunting. Systems of record don't hold enough context beyond their own perimeter.


Why open individual apps and use disconnected AI tools with limited context when you can delegate the work to agents that operate across all of them?


Rex is the agentic finance platform that connects to your existing stack and executes work end to end – collections, reconciliation, portal uploads and more – no migration required. Finance teams using Rex become process architects and managers of agents. With Rex, teams can delegate work that requires context from different system to a suite of competent finance agents.


Agents are designed to augment finance teams, route sensitive cases for approval, and operate within an auditable governance layer enterprise finance requires. Finance teams define their processes once and let agents execute them continuously, across all systems, at scale.


The repetitive execution and context switching that consume finance teams today will get absorbed by AI. What remains is initiating strategic work and approving outcomes. The reason most finance people enter the profession in the first place.


If you're a CFO rethinking what your finance function could be, let's talk.


Merlin Kafka & Lewis Blackwood

Founders, Rex

rex.inc