The Vendor Data Trap: Why Bad Inputs Break AI Before It Ever Runs

AI is only as good as the data it consumes. Data quality is a top-3 concern for finance leaders adopting AI. Every automation in your AP pipeline inherits the flaws of your onboarding process. The critical vulnerability in most AP automation sits at the very beginning of the vendor lifecycle: manual, error-prone onboarding. When unchecked vendor data enters your workflow, it compromises downstream systems, triggering AI hallucinations, failing payment routing, and violating tax compliance. This is the "Vendor Data Trap."

In this webinar, we will explore why resolving the "garbage in, garbage out" dilemma is the ultimate prerequisite for successful AP automation. We'll examine how validating tax and banking details at the point of entry stops bad data in its tracks before errors can ever compound. Join us to learn how to build a clean, audit-ready foundation that your AI, your board, and your auditors can fully trust. 

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 30 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Cory Teller
Principal, UHY Consulting Technology

Cory Teller is a Principal in UHY Consulting’s Technology Innovation practice, where he advises finance leaders on process optimization, enterprise technology, automation, and AI readiness. His work focuses on modernizing the Office of the CFO by strengthening operating models, data quality, controls, and governance, creating the trusted foundation required for automation and AI to deliver meaningful results.

Terri Harper
AP Manager, Chomps

Chomps is America's fastest-growing snack brand, with over half a billion dollars in sales. The company has a very small team, with fewer than 200 employees, even with over half a billion dollars in sales. The accounting team handles accounts payable tasks, including invoice processing, payments, expenses, and corporate card management, as well as month-end close. Chomps processes about 2,000 invoices per month.

Edwin Dewez
Manager of Strategic Accounts, Tipalti

Edwin is part of our Tipalti office in London where he leads the EMEA account management team as well as a team of account managers in Toronto, more focused on the North American market. In this role, he often advises existing Tipalti clients on how to best onboard suppliers, manage payment flows and generally automate AP processes.