📅 2025-10-28 — Session: Automated triage and validation for accounting documents

🕒 05:20–06:00
🏷️ Labels: Automation, Validation, Schema, Python, Accounting
📂 Project: Accounting

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance automation processes for managing accounting documents, focusing on triage, validation, and file management.

Key Activities

  • Developed a structured triage agent for handling accounting inboxes, focusing on extracting and validating statement-related information using a strict schema.
  • Conducted a review of annotation practices, proposing validation rules and schema improvements to enhance data processing consistency and accuracy.
  • Implemented an enhanced Python function to generate filenames for payment and statement documents, ensuring prioritization of essential fields and graceful handling of fallbacks.
  • Applied a patch to the move_triage_files.py script, improving validation for different document roles and error handling during file moving.
  • Created a validation checklist for statement records, addressing date issues and ensuring schema compliance.

Achievements

  • Successfully outlined a structured approach for triage and validation in accounting documents.
  • Improved annotation practices and schema consistency.
  • Enhanced file management with a robust filename builder and improved validation processes.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing and integration of the new validation rules and filename builder into existing systems.
  • Continuous monitoring and adjustment of schema improvements as needed.