AgentHQ gives finance teams one place to deploy, manage and control specialist AI agents across on-demand tasks and repeatable financial work

NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zone & Co, a leading ERP-native, AI-powered financial operations platform, today introduced Zone AgentHQ, bringing its first ready-to-run AI agents that can take approved write actions directly in NetSuite. Launching with more than 10 specialist agents for accounts payable and close, AgentHQ gives finance teams one place to deploy and manage multiple agents across on-demand tasks and repeatable background work, while controlling what each agent can do, when it runs and what requires human approval.

As AI moves from reasoning and answering questions to taking intelligent autonomous action, finance teams need more than visibility into what an agent finds. They need a way to manage agents operating across financial work without giving them broad or unchecked access to the system of record. Zone believes AI agents for finance require a higher standard: agents capable of taking action inside the ERP, but only within clearly defined boundaries, with controls and monitoring built into how they operate. AgentHQ gives agents the tools and permissions required for the job, while giving finance teams the authority to configure, monitor and stop them, whether an agent is completing a task on demand or continuously working in the background to surface issues and opportunities.

AgentHQ sits within the broader Zone Control Center, the intelligent cockpit for Zone’s financial operations, providing unified oversight of financial processes like quote to cash, procure to pay, record to report, and treasury with the ERP – with AI Agents surfacing insights, exceptions, and answers across each. Now, a specialized headquarters for the growing number of tasks those agents can perform, giving finance teams one place to see what agents are working on, schedule repeatable work, initiate tasks as needed, monitor activity, approve actions and audit what has been done.

AgentHQ will launch with more than 10 specialist agents, focused on 3 stages: bill matching, bill payment, and period close. AP Catch & Correct matches mismatched invoices to the right purchase order or coding, flags stale purchase orders before they distort GRNI, and learns from corrections to reduce recurring errors. Smart Payment Lifecycle identifies early-payment discounts before the window closes, builds payment batches from approved bills, screens batches for fraud and risk before release, and investigates failed payments. Period-End Intelligence drafts journal entries for unreconciled items using historical patterns and prepares recurring accruals from prior-period actuals, so close work doesn’t start from a blank page each month.

“Giving an AI agent a job is only half the equation. The bigger shift comes when finance has multiple agents working across different tasks, on different schedules and with different levels of authority,” said Billie Miric, Global Head of Product at Zone & Co. “AgentHQ gives teams one place to manage that activity while maintaining control over what every agent can do. As agents take on more responsibility, containment, monitoring and control have to become part of the infrastructure, not something added after the fact.”

AgentHQ is the latest step in an AI roadmap Zone has been building throughout 2026. Across Zone’s platform, Subscription Intelligence and Anomaly Detection in ZoneBilling investigate billing activity, surface unusual patterns and take on work that can consume a billing analyst’s time, giving teams more capacity for judgment and strategy. ZoneProcure, formerly Sudozi, extends AI into procurement with Vendor Intake Intelligence, making the ERP’s front door smarter. AP Intelligence within ZoneCapture brings highly intelligent investigation to procure-to-pay, while ZoneLiquidity applies AI to scenario planning and cash forecasting. AgentHQ marks the next step in that progression, moving Zone’s AI from individual interactions that investigate and reason over financial activity to multiple agents taking controlled action across financial work inside the ERP.

To learn more about Zone and its vision for intelligent finance, visit www.zoneandco.com.

About Zone & Co

Zone & Co is the intelligent finance orchestration platform trusted by 4,500 customers worldwide, including Salesloft, Figma and Avalara. Built on an ERP-native architecture, Zone orchestrates and automates core finance workflows, including AP automation, billing, reconciliation, reporting and payroll, from inside the ERP, so finance teams can act on their data instead of just reacting to it. Purpose-built by finance leaders and powered by Zoe AI Agents, Zone turns financial insight into action, giving finance teams greater agency to reduce manual work, maintain control and scale without adding systems, integrations or risk, advancing a vision of finance as a System of Agency™.

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