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Ask, check, approve, act, record. Every time.

Follow one purchase bill at Kolam Components, an illustrative fasteners distributor in Coimbatore, from a WhatsApp message to the books. About 5 minutes, no sign-up.

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Illustrative. Kolam Components is a fictional company.

A manager's hands approve a request on a tablet at a stone counter in a high-rise office

The walkthrough

One purchase bill, from draft to record.

Step through at your own pace. At step 3 you are the finance head: approve the bill at the right rate, or refuse it.

Step 1 of 5 · Ask

The agent drafts the bill.

A supplier's bill arrives on WhatsApp. elan1 Decide reads it and answers 3 questions: which supplier, whether it matches the order, and whether the tax looks right.

2 answers are sure. The tax answer is not. elan1 Act drafts the bill in the ERP, on a copy, and proposes it. Nothing has touched the books.

On this step

  • elan1 Decide
  • elan1 Act

Choose approve or refuse in the request to continue.

elan1 console

Kolam Components · illustrative

Incoming · WhatsApp

From Annapoorna Wire Products, Tiruppur

Sir, bill for PO-2026-0417 attached. Material dispatched yesterday. Kindly process.

AWP/2026-27/1184.pdf

elan1 Decide · reading the bill

  • Which supplier?

    Annapoorna Wire Products, Tiruppur. On the approved list.

    Confidence 0.99Sure

  • Does it match the order?

    PO-2026-0417: items, quantities and rates match.

    Confidence 0.97Sure

  • Does the tax look right?

    Bill charges 12% GST on HSN 7318.

    Confidence 0.41Not sure

Step 1 of 5 · ask

Proposed

Draft, on a copy

ap-agent-02Agent · elan1 Act · on behalf of Finance · 09:31:40 IST

elan1 Act · draft purchase bill

Draft purchase bill AWP/2026-27/1184, as billed at 12% GST
ItemQtyAmount
Hex bolt M10 × 50, zinc plated4,000₹74,000
Nylock nut M104,000₹25,000
Spring washer M104,000₹7,000
Taxable value₹1,06,000
CGST 6% + SGST 6%₹12,720
Total₹1,18,720
Product screen, step 1 of 5: Ask. Illustrative data; Kolam Components is a fictional company.

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The walkthrough, step by step.

The same five steps as plain text, for screen readers, print and anyone who prefers to read.

  1. 01 Ask: The agent drafts the bill.

    A supplier's bill arrives on WhatsApp. elan1 Decide reads it and answers 3 questions: which supplier, whether it matches the order, and whether the tax looks right.

    2 answers are sure. The tax answer is not. elan1 Act drafts the bill in the ERP, on a copy, and proposes it. Nothing has touched the books.

  2. 02 Check: Your rules run first, and a GST rate doesn't match.

    Before anything runs, elan1 Govern checks the proposal against your rules and the checks built from your own books.

    6 checks pass. One fails: the bill charges 12% GST on fasteners that carry 18%. Govern doesn't allow it and doesn't refuse it. It asks a person.

    6 of 7 checks pass. The bill from Annapoorna Wire Products charges 12% GST (₹1,18,720); HSN 7318 carries 18% (₹1,25,080).

  3. 03 Approve: The finance head decides.

    The request reaches the finance head in the console and on her phone, with the reason it was held. Unanswered requests expire after 24 hours and are refused.

    You are the finance head. Read the request and decide.

  4. 04 Act: Only what she approved is posted.

    Only what was decided runs, with credentials the agent never sees.

    The agent cannot widen what was approved: not a different amount, not a different supplier, not another bill.

    If the finance head approves at 18%, the bill is posted for ₹1,25,080. If she refuses, nothing is posted and the supplier is asked for a revised bill.

    A finance head calmly sets a document aside into a dark tray on a pale desk in a quiet office

  5. 05 Record: What happened, and who said yes.

    Every outcome, allowed, approved or refused, ends in a signed record. Your auditor can check it offline, without asking us.

    All of it ran in India, on Kolam's own cloud account, with the cost of each step booked to the finance team.

What you just saw

1 supplier bill, 4 products.

Each product did one job. Only one of them could let the bill reach the books.

  1. 01

    elan1 Decide reads it.

    Decision intelligence

    Which supplier, whether it matches the order, and whether the tax looks right. Each answer says how sure it is.

    Explore elan1 Decide

  2. 02

    elan1 Act prepares it.

    Agentic ERP

    The bill is drafted on a copy of the ERP, and the books are checked before anything goes live.

    Explore elan1 Act

  3. 03

    elan1 Govern decides.

    AI governance

    Allow, ask a person, or refuse. The mismatch went to the finance head, and only her decision ran.

    Explore elan1 Govern

  4. 04

    elan1 Run carries it.

    Agentic AI runtime

    In India, on Kolam's own cloud account, with the cost of each step booked to the finance team.

    Explore elan1 Run
How the platform fits

Start with one process.

A working session with the people who build the platform, on a process you choose.

Book a demoTake the readiness check
  • Allowed · Approved by Asha R.
  • Held for CFO
  • Refused · rule 4.2
Illustrative data.

Questions

The walkthrough, answered.

In elan1 it has five steps: ask, check, approve, act, record. The agent asks to act, elan1 Govern checks the request against your signed rules, a risky action waits for a named person, only the approved action runs, and a signed, hash-chained receipt records the outcome, refusals included. If nobody answers within 24 hours, the action is refused.

One AI agent action from proposal to record, with a named person deciding. An agent drafts a supplier's bill, elan1 Govern checks it against your rules, a GST mismatch holds it for the finance head, and only what she approves is posted, with a signed record of who decided.

No. Kolam Components is a fictional fasteners distributor in Coimbatore, and every figure in the walkthrough is illustrative, as are the people named. The screens are the product's own, rebuilt for the web, so what you click through is how elan1 Govern holds, asks and records a real action. Bring one process of your own to a demo to see it on your data.

Nothing is posted. The draft on the copy is discarded and the supplier is asked for a revised bill, so the books never see the wrong GST rate. A refusal goes through the same checks and leaves the same record as an action that goes through: a signed, hash-chained receipt naming the agent, the rule, the finance head and the time.

Actions stop; they do not slip through. If elan1 Govern cannot decide, nothing is allowed by default: an error refuses, and the refusal is recorded like any other outcome. A request that nobody answers within 24 hours is refused too. The rule is the same everywhere in elan1: fail toward a human, never toward an action.

A named person your rules choose for that kind of action, here the finance head for a supplier bill that does not match. elan1 Govern sends the request to the console, a signed email link, Slack or WhatsApp, showing the action, the rule that held it and the evidence. The approver approves or refuses, and only that decision runs.

A receipt for every outcome, refusals included. elan1 Govern records what was asked, what was checked, who decided and what happened: the agent, the rules and their versions, the named approver and their answer, the time and the result from the system of record. Receipts are signed and hash-chained, and anyone can verify them offline.

Start with one process.

Add the next when it holds.

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Approvals · Kolam ComponentsIllustrative
  • Allowed · Approved by Asha R.
  • Held for CFO
  • Refused · rule 4.2
RCPT-0042 · signed · chained
A product view with three decisions: allowed and approved by Asha R., held for the CFO, and refused under rule 4.2. Illustrative data.