If you are the person who signs the audit opinion, you are also the person who owns the question: when an AI agent writes into our general ledger, our subledger, our vendor master, or our payroll — what stops it from writing whatever it wants?
Syntheka is built for that question. This page is the evaluation checklist we use with finance leadership. Honest on what we do, what we don't do, and where we are not yet ready for your environment.
A CFO who evaluates AI agent platforms is not asking about model size or prompt quality. The question is segregation of duties, audit trail integrity, and the specific control objectives you already attest to (SOX 404 for public; the equivalent for private; statutory audits for regulated industries).
Syntheka is an ontology-driven action platform. Agents propose typed actions on typed objects (vendor, contract, certificate, payment, settlement, refund, chargeback, etc.). Every action enters the approval DAG. Every approval is recorded. Every execution is reconciled.
The initiator cannot self-approve — enforced server-side, in code.
Multi-node approval with segregation of duties, configurable per workflow. The same engine that gates a payment run can gate an outbound email blast.
Append-only and hash-chained — retroactive edits are flagged, not silently absorbed.
Both transaction time and valid time are recorded. Replayable for the retention period.
A write is not done until the external system confirms the round-trip.
SAP, NetSuite, QuickBooks, vendor portals — platform intent ↔ system of record state ↔ field evidence.
Cross-entity writes require explicit operator override; the default is refuse.
Entity, company, and ledger are first-class fields on every action — an action against Entity A cannot accidentally write to Entity B's books.
Reversal is a compensating entry, not a deletion.
Every reversal itself enters the approval DAG and carries its own hash chain.
Your data and your keys stay in your perimeter.
Docker Compose, single-command full-stack bootstrap. Air-gapped capable.
If any of these are required for your evaluation, Syntheka is not the right vendor today. We will tell you, and refer you elsewhere if we can.
Use these against any vendor, including us. If a vendor cannot answer them clearly, treat that as the answer.
Syntheka's pricing is published, not quoted. There are no per-action variable surprises because there are no per-action variables in the price.
| Tier | Price | Fits |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $500 / month | One team, one workflow, one site |
| Professional | $2,000 / month | Multi-workflow, multi-site, multi-approver |
| Enterprise | Quote (custom) | Self-hosted, air-gapped, regulated environment |
A fixed-fee pilot is $1,500 for one site, 60 days, up to two workflows. The pilot pricing is honored for the first three customers.
For the e-commerce marketplace recovery template, outcome-aligned pricing (verified recovery per claim) is available as an option. We do not bill on assumed resolution; every claim is customer-verified before the invoice.
Most CFOs we work with run a 60-day pilot in parallel with their existing process — not a replacement. The pilot ends with a measurable comparison, not a swap.