Date: 08.12.2025 (2025-12-08)
Nicole Bender (08.12.2025) Context: • https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-bender-21374947/ • CFO Bender Group (1k+ people), Advisory Board • Bender is one of the world's leading providers of solutions that make electrical systems, smart, safer, and more sustainable. • Frankfurt • My message: • Ich bin auf Ihr Profil gestossen, da ich einen Ihrer Posts auf LinkedIn über KI gesehen habe. • Wir entwickeln proprietäre KI-Modelle für Controlling & Accounting, die auch für komplexe Fälle trainiert sind - etwa mehrere Purchase Orders auf einer Rechnung, Price-Variance-Tolerances bei Lieferanten etc. • Ziel ist eine ~80% Automatisierung in AP/AR und auch 50% weniger Aufwand beim Closing & Reporting - direkt integriert in bestehende Systeme und angepasst an aktuelle Prozesse. • Reply: • Hallo Herr Brandstätter, das ist interessant. Senden Sie mir Ihre Kontaktdaten. Ich suche dann einen Termin. VG NB
Notes: • Notes: • She was CFO of a Brustimplantant Company • She was DentsplySirona -> a lot of workshops with Siemens Healthineers experts to discuss application of AI -> she knows how relevant it is for doctors • She was in St Gallen • Rechnungseingang ist es relevant? • Data cleaning tool -> 3k EUR einmalig for cleaning the database -> Procurement benchmarking (Patrick Eschler Yukoi: AP incl Forecasting and risk Erkennung Supplier creation expenses assignment etc.) • Warum sagen wir KI und nicht Digitalisierung • She is responsible for accounting but she is not close to it • Automation: • AP: • She does not know it in detail -> in connection with SAP • Buchhaltung: • Everything is done by her assistant • They have an app • Heavily within SAP • Biggest objections / challenges in his daily life? • They use CoPilot now -> they had training how to use it incl. education of employees • Analytics: • Standardanalysen of Bilanz and P&L • She has standard reports: P&L, Bilanz, Umsatz -> all filtered by segments -> that works well already • She wants someone to show what is possible • They want to have someone to build an agent inhouse -> • She leaves Bender -> she would have done it • She joins a new company -> she wants to have that people work with AI -> give them a guidance -> she wants to have people who built agents -> then teach people how to use it • She wants to enable her team to build AI agents • She already uses ChatGPT and Copilot for negotiations -> check if everything is correct • Was there Betrug of the company in the past (always the same prompts) • She needs people who are intelligent enough to ask the correct questions • Negotiation: • DD over supplier himself -> Betrug, Insolvenz, background checks von Personen, compliance • Vertragsentwurf • I could pitch to her that we do the workshop • Contact her in FEB (in JAN she is on vacation) • She is very interested in AI • Efficiency and effectiveness • She has kids that use ChatGPT as well • Practical examples are important -> with AP automation one of many • • Most valuable flows for him? • • Context: team setup? internal and external? • • Which tasks are the biggest pain? With magic wand -> what would he solve? • • Which tasks would he focus on? • • Do they already have automations? Which ones? How well do they work? • • Which companies would he target? • • General feedback to pitch? •