Pycas Design Innovations · Glenview, Illinois

Stop retyping documents. Start trusting the data.

We build and run the software that moves information between your documents and your systems: AI reads it, your business rules check it, people see only the exceptions. Then we deploy it, integrate it, and keep it running.

  • AWS-certified engineering
  • Production SaaS we operate ourselves
  • Fixed prices, no open-ended projects
  • Chicago North Shore
app.pycasdesign.com/queue
Pycas Document Processing queue showing approved invoices and three held for review: an arithmetic mismatch, a duplicate invoice, and a missing purchase order

The actual Pycas pipeline running on sample invoices. Every flag is a rule you can read.

66%

of accounts-payable teams still key invoices into their accounting system by hand.

IFOL, AP Automation Trends 2025
$9.40

average fully-loaded cost to process one invoice manually, before correcting errors.

Spendflo invoice-processing benchmark, 2026
44%

of businesses that buy accounting automation end up disappointed; 28% say it was too basic or too complex for them.

Capterra buyer survey, 2026
25

of your own documents processed free, so you see real results before you spend anything.

Request an assessment →
What we do

Four offers. One path: Build → Deploy → Operate.

Each has a defined scope and a price you can see before the first call. Start with the one that hurts most; they connect.

Lead offer 01 · BUILD

AI Document Processing

Invoices, POs, freight bills, pay applications, permits, forms. Extracted by AI, validated by your rules, reviewed by people only when something fails.

Pilot $2,900 · plans from $39/moDetails
02 · DEPLOY

Cloud Deployment & Modernization

Move an application off an aging server or a manual deploy into a secure, monitored AWS environment with backups, CI/CD and a runbook.

Fixed price from $4,500Details
03 · BUILD

AI Integration

One targeted AI capability inside software you already use: document Q&A, email triage, classification, search. We say so when a problem doesn't need AI.

Fixed scope from $6,500Details
04 · OPERATE

Application Care Plans

Monitoring, backups, patches, dependency upgrades and budgeted engineering hours every month, from the team that built the system.

$400 – $1,900 /moDetails
How the lead offer works

AI reads. Rules decide. People handle exceptions.

Capture apps stop at reading the document. We add the two layers that make the data safe to post: deterministic validation (do the line items sum? is the vendor approved? is this a duplicate?) and a review screen that shows a person exactly why something was held.

The result lands in QuickBooks, Xero, your database or your ERP with a complete audit trail: every field, the page it came from, the rules it passed, and who approved it.

01 · DOCUMENT → EXTRACT

AI reads any layout

PDFs, scans, photos and email attachments. Fields, tables and line items, from any sender, no templates.

02 · VALIDATE

Your rules, written down

Arithmetic, required fields, date plausibility, approved vendors, PO matching, duplicates. Never AI; always explainable.

03 · REVIEW → EXPORT

People see only what failed

Approve or correct in one screen. Clean documents flow straight to your system with an audit record.

Where it pays off first

Built for the documents capture apps can't handle

If a document has line items, needs matching against something, or arrives from hundreds of different senders, off-the-shelf capture breaks down. That is where we start.

Distribution & wholesale

Vendor invoices with PO matching

Three-way match against purchase orders and receipts; short-ships and price variances flagged before payment.

Construction & trades

Pay applications and sub invoices

Schedule-of-values math, retainage, lien-waiver presence and duplicate billing checked on every pay app.

Logistics

Freight bills and BOLs

Carrier invoices matched to shipments and rate agreements; accessorial charges you never agreed to get held.

Property management

Vendor bills across properties

Bills coded to the right property and unit, recurring vendors recognized, out-of-pattern amounts routed for review.

Accounting & bookkeeping firms

Client AP at volume

One review queue across clients, exceptions handled by your staff or by us, exports per client file.

Insurance & legal

Applications, claims, intake forms

Required-field and consistency checks on forms before they enter case or policy systems.

Public agencies

Permits, applications, submissions

Structured intake with an audit trail for every automated decision. Government →

Anything else

Paper that feeds a system

If someone reads a document and types it into software, the pattern applies. Send us 25 and we'll show you.

Why a small firm, not a platform

You get the engineer, not a ticket queue.

Platforms sell you a login and wish you luck with setup. We set up the workflow on your documents, write your rules, connect your accounting system, and stay on as the team that keeps it running. When something is held for review at 4:55 on a Friday, you know who to call.

Everything is priced up front and delivered in small steps you approve with results in hand.

  • Results before money. A free 25-document assessment on your documents, not a canned demo.
  • Fixed prices. Pilot $2,900. Plans from $39 a month. Care plans from $400. No hourly surprises.
  • Integration included. QuickBooks Online, Xero, CSV/Excel, or your database and API, set up by us.
  • Explainable by design. Validation is arithmetic and lookups, never a model's opinion. Every hold has a reason.
  • Your data stays yours. Runs in Pycas's AWS environment or deployed into your own account; retention you set.
Start here

Send us 25 documents. We'll show you what happens to them.

Tell us which document your team keys in by hand and roughly how many arrive each month. Within one business day you'll have a secure way to send samples; within a week, results you can look at.