Sidetrade Launches Aimie: The World’s First Autonomous AI Cash Collection Agent

Sidetrade, the global leader in AI-powered Order-to-Cash (O2C) applications, today announced a groundbreaking innovation: Aimie, the world’s first-ever AI Cash Collection Agent operating live and autonomously. Unveiled at the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference, Aimie marks a transformative leap from automation to agentic AI, empowering finance teams with speed, precision, and scalable decision-making capabilities.

Why Aimie is a Game-Changer for Finance Leaders

Traditional finance systems and rule-based automation are hitting limits in speed and effectiveness.
CFOs, Global Business Services, and Shared Services leaders face pressure to accelerate cash flow, reduce costs, and scale operations.
Aimie operates autonomously, making decisions without waiting for instructions, trained on $7.2 trillion in payment data from 40 million buyers worldwide.

How Aimie Works: Features and Capabilities

Executes outbound calling: first contact, follow-ups, voicemail messages with personalized dialogue.
Automatically qualifies outcomes and updates cases, escalating material risks for human review.
Learns continuously, refining outreach based on live outcomes and predictive signals from Sidetrade’s Data Lake.
Supports 29 languages and makes up to 1,000 calls daily, operating 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Real-World Impact and Customer Feedback

Stephen Dyer, VP Credit & Collections at OpenText, highlights Aimie’s consistency and ability to deliver precise, repeatable execution across global teams.
Enables finance teams to move beyond manual, low-value tasks and focus on strategic, value-adding activities.
Helps build a modern, data-driven customer 360 experience, personalized and scalable.

Powered by Sidetrade’s Data Lake and Agentic AI

Sidetrade’s Data Lake processes 10 payment events per second and covers over 1 billion transactions, creating the largest real-time O2C behavioral dataset.
Unlike generic AI, Aimie’s intelligence is deeply contextual and domain-specific, trained with over a decade of finance data and generative AI since 2024.
Part of a broader rollout of agentic AI agents handling email auto-response, portal data extraction, and cash application exceptions.
Functions as an orchestrator coordinating multiple domain-specific AI agents for autonomous end-to-end O2C execution.

Strategic Considerations for Finance Teams

Companies must determine their preferred autonomy level for AI agents and define human oversight roles.
Forward-thinking leaders use agentic AI to augment operational efficiency and reposition talent toward higher-value, strategic work.
Embracing agentic AI creates opportunities for faster cash flow, lower overheads, and scalable finance operations.

Sidetrade’s Aimie redefines the future of Order-to-Cash management by delivering autonomous, intelligent cash collection that goes beyond traditional automation. As finance teams navigate increasingly complex economic and regulatory landscapes, Aimie offers a powerful new tool to drive efficiency, consistency, and strategic growth at scale. With this agentic AI innovation, Sidetrade leads the charge in transforming enterprise finance into a data-driven, adaptive, and human-augmented discipline.