Part of our Finance & Accounting agents
AI agents for course creator finance teams
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the finance apps your course creator business already uses, from matching payouts to enrolments to a VAT pack ready for your accountant.
Course creator finance teams get back the hours lost to payout matching, instalment tracking, and quarter-end tax scrambles.
AI Employees for Course Creators Finance in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
A course business collects money in five places at once: Stripe, PayPal, a merchant of record such as Paddle, a checkout tool, and the course platform itself. Every launch leaves a pile of payouts, plans, refunds, and tax lines to untangle.
Actionist builds AI agents for course creator finance teams that do the matching and preparation, so you review a clean pack instead of building it from exports.
- Every payout matched to enrolmentsStripe, PayPal, and Paddle payouts are checked against sales, with fees and exchange differences shown.
- Payment plans tracked to the instalmentYou see what was scheduled, what was collected, and which plans have fallen behind.
- Refunds and chargebacks booked correctlyEach one is posted against its original sale, and affiliate commission on it is flagged.
- Tax pack ready before the deadlineUK VAT, EU OSS, and US state sales tax totals arrive by country in the format your accountant asks for.
- Partners and suppliers paid on scheduleRevenue-share payouts and ad and software bills are prepared as a batch for your approval.
- Built around your booksThese are examples. Build a custom agent for any finance job your course business repeats.
And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..
An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Course Creators Finance team's day.
Where the hours go
After every cart closes, Stripe, PayPal, and Paddle each send their own payout on their own schedule, in different currencies, with fees taken in different places, and someone spends days matching each lump sum back to the enrolments behind it.
An agent matches every payout to the sales inside it on schedule, records the fees and exchange differences, and shows only the lines that do not reconcile, so you investigate exceptions instead of everything.
Payment plans turn one sale into six instalments across half a year, and nobody has a single view of what was scheduled, what was collected, and which plans have quietly fallen behind until the year-end receivables number is needed.
An agent keeps a live instalment ledger, ages the overdue balances into 30, 60, and 90 day buckets, and proposes write-offs for plans stuck at the final retry. You decide what is written off.
Quarter-end brings a scramble to split digital course sales by buyer country for UK VAT, the EU OSS return, and US state thresholds, while a merchant of record has already handled the tax on part of the sales and makes the totals confusing.
An agent groups sales by country, separates merchant-of-record sales from direct ones, and assembles the VAT pack for your accountant. Tax treatment and filing decisions stay with your accountant.
A refund wipes out a sale but the affiliate commission paid on it stays in the payout sheet, and a launch looks profitable until someone subtracts refunds, ads, platform fees, and commissions by hand weeks later.
The agent posts each refund against its sale, flags the commission to claw back, and assembles the launch profit and loss, so you see what the launch actually made. Payouts only move when you approve.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Course Creators Finance agents
Some of the apps for your Course Creators Finance team
Some of the finance apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens
Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Finance240 min / weekMatching payouts after a launch
Someone opens Stripe, PayPal, and the Paddle statement side by side after a cart closes and ticks each lump sum back to enrolments, across currencies, over several evenings.
Finance Agent0 minAgent matches payouts and lists mismatchesAn agent matches each payout to its sales on schedule, records fees and exchange differences, and shows only the lines that do not reconcile.
- Finance150 min / weekFollowing payment plans to the last instalment
The receivables number is a guess until someone exports Stripe and works out which of the six-month plans have fallen behind and by how much.
Finance Agent0 minAgent keeps a live instalment ledgerAn agent logs each instalment as it succeeds or fails, ages the balances into 30, 60, and 90 day buckets, and proposes write-offs for you to decide.
- Finance120 min / weekBooking refunds and chargebacks
Refunds are entered when someone remembers, so revenue looks higher than it is, and the affiliate commission on the refunded sale stays in the payout sheet.
Finance Agent0 minAgent posts each one and flags the clawbackAn agent posts each refund and chargeback against its sale, records the dispute fee, and lists commission to claw back for your decision.
- Finance180 min / weekPreparing the VAT and OSS pack
At quarter end someone splits sales by buyer country by hand, works out which sales the merchant of record already taxed, and re-checks against the accountant's list.
Finance Agent0 minAgent assembles the country tableAn agent groups sales by country, separates merchant-of-record sales, and puts the pack in your accountant's folder for review. Filing stays with your accountant.
- Finance200 min / weekWorking out what a launch really made
Weeks after a launch someone totals revenue, ad spend, platform fees, commissions, and refunds from five tabs and still debates the answer.
Finance Agent0 minAgent builds the launch profit and lossAn agent sets revenue against ad spend, fees, commissions, and refunds for each launch, shows its assumptions, and updates the figures as payouts settle.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
Enter your website URL for a personalised demo
See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
A finance agent sees your revenue, your plans, and your partners' payment details, so you stay in control of every figure that is posted and every payment that moves. Actionist reconciles and prepares; you and your accountant decide.
Entries in QuickBooks or Xero are prepared as drafts, and payout batches wait for your release. The agent never moves money, files a return, or changes a balance on its own.
The agent assembles totals and worksheets, and shows its working. Which rate applies, how revenue is recognised, and what is written off are decisions for you and your accountant.
Each line in a reconciliation, ledger, or pack links to the payout, order, or invoice it came from, with a timestamp, so you can check any number in a click and reverse any change.
Payouts, plans, and partner details are encrypted and never used to train any model. Where everything must stay on your own infrastructure, you can self-host on a VPS.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my finance team need to be technical to use Actionist?
How do I get started with a finance agent for my course business?
How do I make customised AI agents for the way my course business handles money?
How quickly can I set an agent up before my next quarter end or launch?
Is my revenue, student, and partner payment data private, and is it used to train AI?
We use Stripe, PayPal, and Paddle, plus a course platform that connects to none of them. Can Actionist still reconcile across them?
Can the agent file my VAT return or pay my affiliates?
What if it posts a refund or a payout to the wrong place in the books?
Will it keep up after a big launch when payouts, refunds, and plans all arrive at once?
See an agent reconcile a Stripe payout to your enrolments
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent match a payout to the sales behind it, flag the lines that do not add up, and prepare the draft entries, end to end.