Elton AI
Client
Elton
Services
UI Design Visual Design
Industries
Finance
Date
January 2020
Millions of people travel every day for work. They end up with a big pile of receipts from their travel expenses that they have to manually upload to an application in order to have that money reimbursed to them. This brings two problems for companies: from the employee side, they have to remember to do this or they'll end up losing money. From the employer side, they have no accurate way to know how much an employee is spending. It's a lose-lose situation.
Our strategy was to simplify the busy work so employees can focus on their task at hand. The technology behind the app is a OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system linked to a machine learning engine. This engine uses different sources, like your calendar, your camera and your credit card info to predict with a growing confidence rate if the user has valid receipts and submits them for approval.
The receipt is basically a form with different fields, some of which will be completed automatically and some that are optional for the proper submission. The most critical one was the value on the receipt, because it involved the OCR. If the value wasn't correct, it required the user's input. The final product is an app that allows people on the road to connect different data sources so they can keep up to date with their receipts and allows employees to keep track of their employees expenses.