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La Nouvelle Garde: how a Parisian brasserie group rebuilt its finance ops with AI. Before Phacet: - 70% of finance time lost between Gmail and Pennylane. - Supplier inbox = 2 full days of work per week for one person. - Margin control done only by sampling. ➡️ Hiring more accountants seemed the only way. Théo R., La Nouvelle Garde's CFO, made another choice: 👉 “Hiring should only come after we’ve automated.” With Phacet, two AI agents went live: 1️⃣ Automatic processing of supplier emails into Pennylane. 2️⃣ Systematic 3-way match: delivery notes ↔ invoices ↔ Yokitup → Pennylane. Impact in the first weeks: - No backlog: after 3 weeks’ vacation, 1,794 supplier emails were already processed. - Systematic checks = fewer errors, tighter margin control. - Time shifted to useful tasks: supplier talks, restaurant management, stock. - Hiring delayed: growth without adding accountants. 'Phacet is like a team member, operating 24/7. In one word: efficiency.' For Théo, AI is not about rushing: ⚡ “I don’t expect us to work faster thanks to AI, but to work better.” Next steps on their roadmap: - Anomaly dashboard to flag risky suppliers. - Multi-source reporting in Notion (finance, margin, HR). - Treasury intelligence to predict cash needs. This is what finance teams are starting to do: Automate what slows them down, and focus on decisions that count. Finance is the next software team. 👉 find more about LNG AI transformation on our website.