Dost Launches AskDost to Give Finance Teams Their Own AI Agents

Dost, the Barcelona-based finance automation company that raised a £6 million Series A in November 2025, has launched AskDost, an AI assistant that connects to a company’s ERP, answers finance questions in plain language and runs workflows once a person approves them.

The launch matters to finance teams because it is the first Dost product that can be adopted without the rest of the platform. A controller can point AskDost at an existing ERP without moving invoice processing or approvals onto Dost, which lowers the cost of a trial. Teams can also run their own AI agents on their own data.

Dost AI funding now totals €8.9 million, about £7.8 million, which is small beside the money behind the ERP vendors it must work alongside. The launch tests whether a young company can sell an assistant that sits on top of ledgers it does not own.

What AskDost does for finance teams

AskDost is an AI business intelligence assistant for finance and operations teams. It reads data from the ERP and other financial sources, and a user asks questions in natural language instead of building a report or a query.

It can also act. Workflows run only after a person signs off, and the product keeps a full audit trail of what changed and who approved it.

That design addresses the first question a finance director asks of any agent: who is accountable when it writes to the ledger. The approval step puts a named person on every change. The audit trail gives internal and external auditors a record to test.

Teams that want to build their own agents can run them on their own data through the same connection. Dost has also published a page on connecting its platform to other AI tools using the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for linking AI systems to data sources.

Dost AI funding and the company behind the product

The Dost AI funding history is short. Octopus Ventures led the £6 million Series A announced on November 19, 2025, with TQ Ventures joining and existing investors Draper B1, Born Capital and Eoniq.fund following on.

The money funded a UK launch. Dost, founded in Spain in 2021, opened a London office with a seven-person team and said it served more than 150 enterprise customers in food, retail, manufacturing, logistics, automotive and construction. It has not named them.

“UK businesses face identical challenges, but the market is significantly larger and more receptive to proven innovation.” Adam Barbera, CEO and co-founder, Dost

Dost’s main platform automates the procure-to-pay cycle: document capture, three-way matching, configurable approval workflows and a supplier portal. Its website says it has processed more than 5 million accounting transactions and that it is ISO 27001 certified.

The company has not disclosed revenue. Dost AI funding of €8.9 million is also modest for a company that now competes in AI agents, a category where rivals have raised far larger rounds. Accrual, for example, launched with $75 million.

Which ERPs connect, and what is not yet public

Dost lists native connectors for SAP, SAP Business One, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage 200, Sage Intacct, Sage X3 and Oracle. Its funding announcement also names NetSuite. The company says it integrates in both directions with almost every ERP on the market, without ERP changes or IT projects.

Those connectors belong to the Dost platform. Dost has not published a separate list of ERPs supported by AskDost, so buyers should ask which systems the assistant reads from and writes to before a trial.

Several details that determine the product’s value are also unpublished. They include how user permissions in the ERP carry through to the assistant, which workflows it can execute and at what point in each one the approval step falls. Dost lists no pricing and directs buyers to a demo.

Those answers will decide whether AskDost passes a control review. A firm assessing it should map the assistant’s access to the same segregation of duties it applies to a human user, a process set out in Accountio’s guide to AI agent governance for finance teams.

How AskDost compares with ERP copilots

The competition comes from two directions. ERP vendors are building assistants into their own systems, and finance software specialists are shipping agents for individual workflows.

Oracle NetSuite has launched industry-specific AI agents inside its platform. Zip has introduced AI agents for complex accounting workflows. Xero has connected live ledger data to Google’s Gemini, in a Gemini integration for its customers.

The ERP-native copilots have an advantage in access, because they sit inside the system that holds the data and its permissions. An overlay such as AskDost has to earn the same access through connectors, and it must keep working when the ERP vendor changes its interfaces.

The overlay’s case rests on customers who run more than one system. A group with SAP in one subsidiary and Sage in another cannot use a copilot tied to a single ERP. An assistant that sits above both can answer a question across entities, which is the argument for AI-native ERP design too, reached from the other direction.

Finance teams comparing options can use Accountio’s vendor comparison pages to set features and pricing side by side.

What finance teams should ask Dost AI before a pilot

Four questions follow from the launch. Which ERPs does AskDost write to, as opposed to read from? Does it inherit each user’s ERP permissions? Where exactly does the approval step sit? Can the audit trail be exported to the firm’s own logging?

The answers matter more than the interface. An assistant that answers questions about the ledger carries limited risk. One that posts journals or changes supplier records needs the controls of a new member of the finance team.

Dost has built its reputation on invoice processing, where its Series A investors saw the opportunity. AskDost widens that reach to questions and actions across the finance function, and it does so without requiring a customer to move any process onto the Dost platform.

That choice carries commercial risk as well as appeal. A product that needs no migration is easy to try and easy to drop. Dost will need customers who start with AskDost to move on to its invoice and payment products if the launch is to justify the company’s funding.

The next evidence will be customer names and usage figures. Dost has not announced a further funding round, and its 150 enterprise customers remain the base from which AskDost must grow.