A consultancy that has done the work it automates.
Corvus Intelligence designs finance back-office workflows for the businesses that buy, move, and sell goods. It is a company of one, run close to the work.
The practice
Corvus exists for one problem: the finance back office of a goods-buying business runs on manual work that quietly eats the week. Invoices keyed by hand. Approvals chased over email. Payments reconciled across spreadsheets that only one person understands. The lead offer is procure-to-pay and accounts-payable automation, with financial modelling and business intelligence alongside it when the numbers need to be trusted.
The work is deliberately narrow. Corvus serves importers, distributors, manufacturers, and trades, the businesses where purchasing and payables are the operational core rather than a side function.
The founder
Corvus is led by Nico Dagus. Before starting the practice, Nico spent years inside finance and procurement operations and managed over $16.6M in purchasing. That is the edge the practice is built on: the workflows are designed by someone who has sat on the operator's side of the desk, approved the invoices, and felt where the process breaks.
Corvus is based in Toronto and works with clients remotely.
What "automation with judgement" means
Automation is easy to oversell. The interesting question is never whether a task can be automated, but whether it should be, and where a person still needs to decide. Corvus automates the repeatable and keeps people on the judgement calls: the exception, the unusual invoice, the payment that looks wrong. The goal is a system your team owns and understands, not a black box that removes them from their own process.
How to work together
It starts with a problem, described in a few lines. You get back a one-page read on where the leverage is and where to start, before any proposal. If it is a fit, the work runs in three moves: diagnose the workflow, model the decision, ship it into daily use.