SableAlpha builds Augustine: every payment in your run checked against your books, on the record.
We started SableAlpha in 2026, two cofounders with one question: who checks a payment before it goes, now that software and AI draft so many of them? Today we build Augustine. It reads a company’s own books, checks every proposed payment against written rules, and waits for a person to approve. We are recruiting our first design partners; no company’s real books have run through it yet.
Cofounders William Yi and Roshan Ramakrishnan. Selected for ASU DevSpace, Fall 2026.
Bill-pay software is adding AI that drafts payment runs. A company with one bookkeeper cannot staff a compliance team to check them. What it needs is an independent check, quick to set up, with a record an auditor accepts. That is the job: give every company the payment controls only large ones can afford.
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Every payment, checkedyour books · written rules · an authorized approver · on the recordThe AI is good at drafting and bad at being sure. So the work is split: the model drafts, rules written in plain words check the draft against your own books, and an authorized person makes the call. Nothing is written to QuickBooks or the bank. Find what you lost. Stop the next one. Show your auditor how.
We claim only what runs today. A check that could not run says so, and it never counts as passed. Practice data is labelled as practice data.
Augustine drafts and checks; it never approves. An authorized person decides every payment and every fix, and nothing is written to your books or your bank.
Every finding points to the bills and payments behind it. When we test the AI with and without the checks, we publish where it still fails: down by two thirds, not to zero.
A look-back file is read in your browser and never uploaded. We keep the run’s totals and the status of each finding, so you can pick up where you left off.
Fit all three? Then a demo is the next step. You fit. Book a demo and bring last year’s export of bills and payments.
Augustine’s outputs, including its findings and payment checks, are provided for informational purposes only, and your organization retains sole responsibility for its decisions, payments and postings.
