Part of our Finance & Accounting agents
AI agents for finance teams in marketing agencies
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your agency finance team already uses, from re-keying ad spend into an invoice by hand to pass-through billing drafted with the markup applied.
Agency finance teams get back the hours lost to retainer billing, ad spend pass-through, and contractor payment matching.
AI Employees for Marketing Agency 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
- Retainer invoices go out exact and on timeBase fees, prorated mid-cycle changes, and out-of-scope extras land in every invoice without a manual recalculation.
- Ad spend billed through, markup includedActual media spend gets pulled and billed with the agreed markup, instead of re-keyed by hand from an ads dashboard.
- Overdue accounts chased before they ageEach overdue invoice gets an escalating reminder timed to how many days it has been outstanding, not one flat nudge.
- Contractor invoices matched before payoutFreelance time and deliverables get checked against the invoice before payment, catching a mismatch before it goes out.
- Month-end closes with real profit numbersEvery checklist item gets tracked and each account's true margin gets calculated, not estimated from memory.
- Built around how your agency billsThese are examples of what a finance agent can do. Build a custom agent for whatever your billing process looks like.
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 Marketing Agency Finance team's day.
Where the hours go
A client upgrades their retainer mid-month and someone has to work out the prorated fee by hand, then remember to reflect it correctly on the invoice three weeks later when the billing cycle actually runs.
An agent tracks every scope change the day it happens, calculates the correct proration against the effective date, and drafts the next invoice with the adjustment already applied and ready for approval.
Billing a client for their ad spend means downloading numbers from Google Ads and Meta separately, applying the agency's markup by hand, and hoping the total matches what was actually approved for that budget period.
An agent pulls actual spend from each ad platform, applies the client's agreed markup, and drafts the pass-through line item on the invoice, so the billed amount always matches what the platforms actually charged.
Overdue invoices all get the same generic reminder regardless of whether they are three days or thirty days late, so a genuinely at-risk account looks the same in the inbox as one that just missed a payment run.
An agent tracks how many days each invoice has been outstanding and escalates the tone and urgency of the chase as it ages, so a thirty-day account gets treated differently than a three-day one from the first message.
Paying a freelance designer or media buyer means someone manually checking their submitted hours or deliverables against what was actually agreed before approving the invoice, one freelancer at a time every month.
An agent checks each contractor invoice against their logged time or delivered work before it reaches an approval queue, flagging any mismatch so a bad invoice never slips through because nobody had time to check it.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Marketing Agency Finance agents
Some of the apps for your Marketing Agency Finance team
Some of the marketing agency 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
- Finance60 min / weekCalculating a mid-cycle retainer proration
Someone works out the prorated fee by hand when a client's scope changes mid-month, then has to remember the adjustment three weeks later when the invoice actually goes out.
Finance Agent0 minAgent calculates and applies the proration automaticallyAn agent tracks the scope change on the day it happens, calculates the correct proration against the effective date, and applies it to the next invoice without anyone having to remember.
- Finance120 min / weekBilling clients for their ad spend
Someone downloads spend numbers from Google Ads and Meta separately, applies the markup by hand, and hopes the total on the invoice matches what the platforms actually charged.
Finance Agent0 minAgent bills the exact spend with the markup appliedAn agent pulls actual spend from every connected ad platform, applies each client's agreed markup, and drafts the pass-through line item so the invoice always matches reality.
- Finance90 min / weekChasing overdue accounts
Every overdue invoice gets the same flat reminder regardless of how late it is, so a thirty-day account and a three-day account look identical in the inbox.
Finance Agent0 minAgent escalates the chase as an invoice agesAn agent tracks how many days each invoice is outstanding and escalates the tone and urgency of the reminder as it ages, queued for approval before it sends.
- Finance80 min / weekChecking freelancer invoices before payment
Someone manually compares a contractor's submitted invoice against their logged hours or delivered work, one freelancer at a time, before it is approved for payment.
Finance Agent0 minAgent matches the invoice against logged workAn agent checks each contractor invoice against their tracked time or deliverables and flags any mismatch, so a bad invoice never slips through unnoticed.
- Finance100 min / weekCalculating client account profitability
Someone pulls staff hours, pass-through costs, and retainer revenue from three different systems into a spreadsheet to work out which accounts actually make money.
Finance Agent0 minAgent assembles the profitability picture at month-endAn agent pulls staff time, retainer revenue, and pass-through costs into one profitability report per account, ready for the month-end review, not rebuilt from scratch.
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: ~6 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
An agent touching client invoices, ad spend, and contractor payments only earns trust if you stay in control. Actionist shows you every number it calculated and holds anything that reaches a client for your approval first.
Every retainer invoice, pass-through bill, and chase reminder is drafted and queued for your review before it reaches a client, unless you widen that autonomy yourself through Approval Modes.
A contractor invoice is matched and flagged, never approved for payment automatically. A person confirms every payout before it goes out.
Every proration, markup, and reconciliation the agent runs is logged with the numbers it used, so you can check the math on any invoice, any time.
Everything the agent reads and drafts, from an ad spend report to an invoice, is encrypted and never used to train any model. Self-host on a VPS if it all needs to stay on your infrastructure.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my agency's finance team need to be technical to use Actionist?
How do I get started with a finance agent for my agency?
How do I make customised AI agents for how our agency actually bills?
How quickly can I set up retainer invoicing and AR agents?
Where does our client billing and financial data live, and is it used to train AI models?
How does an agent pull ad spend or reconcile payments without an API for every platform?
Will the agent send an invoice or a payment reminder without me seeing it first?
What if the agent gets a client's markup or proration calculation wrong?
Can it handle billing for clients in different currencies?
See an agent bill through ad spend with the markup applied
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent pull actual ad spend from a connected platform, apply your agency's markup, and draft the pass-through invoice line, end to end.