Audit and Finance Enter the AI Era: DataSnipper Reports $1.4B in 2025 Productivity Gains
Audit and finance teams shifted gears in 2025. DataSnipper closed the year with more than $1.4 billion in productivity savings, fueled by new AI capabilities built with Microsoft and rapid adoption across internal audit and corporate finance.
"Together, we're helping audit and finance teams embed AI into everyday workflows, supporting greater efficiency, transparency, and confidence while keeping professionals firmly in control," said Ben Rohling, Enterprise Partner Leader Netherlands at Microsoft.
What launched in 2025
- AI Agents inside Excel: Excel Agents deliver prompt-driven analysis and decisioning directly in Excel, reducing back-and-forth between tools.
- Disclosure Agents for IFRS and GAAP: Guides disclosure checklist reviews and accelerates technical accounting workflows.
- AI Extractions: Converts high volumes of multilingual, unstructured documents into validated, analysis-ready data inside Excel.
- DocuMine: AI document intelligence that surfaces the exact information you need from lengthy files. DocuMine was named to TIME's Best Inventions list in the AI category.
Adoption signals you shouldn't ignore
- Corporate customer growth nearly doubled year over year across banking, insurance, and manufacturing.
- DocuMine active usage increased by more than 1,100% as teams moved document review into AI-assisted flows.
- UpLink Data Centers expanded across the U.S., EU, and Australia to meet data residency and compliance needs.
Why it matters for finance leaders
AI is moving beyond experiments. It's now embedded where work actually happens-Excel, disclosure checks, and PBC requests-while maintaining control and auditability.
The takeaway: standardize a few high-volume, document-heavy procedures with clear guardrails. Measure time saved, error rates, and review quality. Then scale.
Compliance and control at scale
UpLink-an AI-powered PBC solution-supported integrated request-to-test workflows with regional data residency. In 2025, more than 2 million data points from client documents were pre-validated and prepared for audit documentation, cutting cycle time from hours to minutes.
Measured outcomes
- $1.4B+ in productivity gains from reducing repetitive manual work and refocusing staff on judgment, analysis, and decisions.
- Independent validation: Referenced in a UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee hearing on the National Audit Office's Annual Report, citing reported efficiency savings of £400,000 and routine audit work completed up to three times faster. Source
- Industry recognition: Named to Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech 2025 in Workplace and Productivity.
Ecosystem momentum
Partner-led business more than tripled as consulting and advisory firms rolled out AI-enabled audit and finance workflows. New and expanded relationships with Protiviti, KPMG Netherlands, Genpact, Armanino, and Carahsoft extended reach across enterprise, public sector, and regulated environments.
Customer perspective
"At Celsius, DataSnipper is embedded in how our audit and finance teams manage and review evidence. Centralizing documentation in Excel improves transparency across teams and helps streamline workflows from preparation through review as our use of AI continues to expand," said Drew Pfeifer, SVP of Audit, M&A, and AI, Celsius.
How to pilot this quarter
- Run a one-cycle pilot with Excel Agents for revenue or AP testing. Compare prep and review time versus your current baseline.
- Apply Disclosure Agents to your latest IFRS/GAAP filings. Track findings rate, review comments, and rework.
- Use AI Extractions on a backlog (invoices, bank statements, contracts). Monitor exceptions and validation accuracy.
- Stand up an UpLink request-to-test flow for a sensitive region to meet data residency and audit trail requirements.
- Define reviewer checkpoints and sign-offs. Keep humans in control, AI on repeatable tasks.
Looking to 2026
"2025 showed how quickly AI can reshape the way audit and finance teams operate when it is designed to be transparent, responsible, and embedded directly into daily workflows," said Vidya Peters, CEO of DataSnipper. The focus now: scale automation, strengthen platform controls, and help teams work with more accuracy, efficiency, and confidence.
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