Live Webinar Series

BEST PRACTICES FOR AP PROCESSING

The AI Advantage in AP: From Touchless Processing to Strategic Profitability

Wednesday, July 30th 2025 | 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET
Join Ottimate’s CTO & CMO to see how purpose-built AI outperforms generic models—powering touchless AP, smart payments, and strategic finance gains.

Speakers

  • Krishna Janakiraman headshot
    Krishna Janakiraman
    CTO
  • Mike Waldron headshot
    Mike Waldron
    CMO

Join us as we explore the revolutionary capabilities of our Accounts Payable (AP) automation platform, refined through over a decade of real-world use and powered by multimodal LLMs.
Krishna Janakiraman, CTO at Ottimate, and Mike Waldron, CMO, will explore how this unique AI architecture goes beyond traditional automation, redefining your AP processes with human-like intelligence and unparalleled accuracy to drive profitability and enable smart payments.

In this session, we will explore

  • The Ottimate AI difference: Learn how our state-of-the-art, deep learning AI goes beyond simple data capture to identify discrepancies, maximize profitability, and continuously learn from your invoices.
  • Superior performance for a profitable future: Learn why purpose-built AI consistently outperforms other frontier LLM models for critical AP tasks, ensuring the accuracy and precision you need for touchless processing and enhanced financial insights.
  • Empowering your business with touchless processing & smart payments: Discover how the ability to trust the accuracy of your AI enables you to automate the expected, focus on anomalies, and leverage smart payment capabilities to save time, optimize your bottom line, and empower strategic decision-making.

Webinar speakers

Krishna Janakiraman headshot
Krishna Janakiraman
CTO
Krishna Janakiraman is the Chief Technology Officer at Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ), a leading company in AI powered Accounts Payable and Payments automation. As a founding member at Ottimate, Krishna played a pivotal role in developing the Deep Learning stack that powers the company’s industry-leading Invoice and AP Automation platform. Krishna has 20+ years of experience in Software Engineering and Machine Learning. He has published research papers in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning in leading academic conferences and won best paper awards for his research. He holds a Master’s degree from the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with a specialization in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval.
Mike Waldron headshot
Mike Waldron
CMO
Michael Waldron is an enterprise software CMO who is obsessed with leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to drive efficiencies across all aspects of his business. As CMO at Ottimate, Michael is pushing clients to rethink their perspective of AI and how it can significantly improve profitability and productivity, while being cautious that not all AI is built equally. Before joining Ottimate, Michael’s 25 years of experience in B2B SaaS Marketing included senior mMarketing positions at Tenovos, Uberflip, NewStore, and Black Duck Software. Michael has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business (with honors) from De Montfort University in England and now resides in Boston, Mass.