Ask any finance team how much time they spend in ‘clean-up mode’ and they’ll tell you it’s too much. In most companies, finance teams waste hour upon hour following up on out-of-policy travel bookings and expense claims.
By the time the booking or expense report lands on their desk, it’s too late. The money’s been spent, the trip taken, and all that’s left to do is unpick the paper trail and remind them (again!) about the company policy, or set up another training session in the hope it sticks this time.
Not any more.
Introducing Perk Control Center. It’s an entirely new approach to compliance that uses AI to embed control throughout the entire workflow.
Proactive controls that work in the background
The guiding principle behind the Control Center is simple. It takes your company’s travel and spend policies and enforces them at every stage in the process, automatically.
It filters search results, so employees only see in-policy options for their next trip.
It automatically matches receipts to live data from card issuers, so you have a verifiable record of genuine expenses.
It understands your policies and then proactively surfaces the right information at the right time. Like giving approvers context about a trip or providing real-time guidance in the platform to keep your people on the right side of policy.And like everything in Perk, it runs automatically, in the background, without getting in the way of your teams.
Automated, scalable compliance for travel and spend
Policy, enforced in real time
Most companies have a travel and spend policy. Few have a way to enforce it without relying on employees to remember it. Control Center changes that.
Define your policy once and let Perk handle the rest. Our AI understands the policy and then automatically embeds everything into your processes from travel restrictions, to spend limits and everything in between.
When booking travel, employees see in-policy options and approved corporate rates during the booking process, before any money is spent. There's no ambiguity, no need to cross-reference a PDF, and no finding out after the fact that a booking didn't comply.
Employees get an in-context summary while they book, so they always know what's covered before they confirm a booking.
With Perk's dynamic budgets, you can set flexible ranges, too. A flat $160-per-night cap might work in some cities, but in New York or San Francisco it rules out almost every reasonable option. Dynamic budgets mean your policy adapts to the market, rather than leaving it up to your people to bend the rules when they don’t feel proportionate.
Control built around your rules
We know a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t cut it in modern finance. Which is why Control Center is fully customizable.
You can set in-policy trips and expenses to approve automatically. That’s how On Running does it, and today 90% of all approvals go through Perk without human intervention.
But that’s not for everyone.
You can decide to run everything by an approver, or choose which types of claims get auto-approved and which ones need a person to review them.
Plus, you can now add two-stage approvals for those claims that need an extra pair of eyes.
It’s up to you.
You tell Perk how you want it to work, and our AI does the rest. It automatically executes the right approval flow based on the rules you set. And whether it’s auto-approval, human review, two-step approvals, or a combination of all three, everything happens automatically.
When a request does need human review, approvers receive an AI-generated summary with all the context they need to decide quickly. No digging for information. No back-and-forth. Just a clear decision, made fast.
HR integrations with Workday, ADP, and more sync your org chart directly into the platform, so approver routing is always aligned with your actual team structure. When someone's role changes, their approval permissions update automatically. When someone joins or leaves, the platform reflects it in real time. No manual configuration required.
Compliance handled before it becomes a problem
In our recent study into expense fraud, 1 in 5 employees said they regularly misrepresented expenses, whether by submitting AI-generated or duplicate receipts, claiming non-work expenses, or simply making genuine errors due to misunderstanding company policy.
Most compliance tools on the market today aren’t up to the job of tackling it. Many are using outdated technology like OCR and combining it with manual review, while others have bolted verification tools on to the end of the process to check receipts.
Control Center changes that. Rather than bolting verification on to the end of the process, when money’s already left the account, we’ve embedded it everywhere to prevent problems happening in the first place.
If you’re using Perk Cards, your policies are automatically applied there, too. Everything from item limits to spend caps are enforced at the point of transaction. So if it’s not in policy, the money doesn’t move, and the transaction doesn’t go through.
What’s more, live transaction data flows into the Control Center from card issuers. So when employees upload a receipt it’s automatically matched to the right transaction and cross-checked to make sure it’s both genuine and in policy.
Every receipt goes through our AI which runs more than 200,000 checks every week. It extracts the data from every receipt, identifies duplicates, and flags any suspicious transactions.
And if a problem is flagged, Perk alerts the right people quickly, with all the context they need. There’s no hours wasted going through the paper trail to get to the bottom of it — it’s all there, in an AI-generated summary so your finance team can fix it and move on, fast.
Policy enforced. Approvals routed. Compliance automated.
Most compliance tools are built around the assumption that the job of the software is to catch errors. At Perk, we think its job is to prevent them from happening in the first place.That’s the foundation for the Control Center.
When control is built into every workflow, the impact is measurable. Breitling saved more than $230,000 on company travel in a single year by ensuring out-of-policy trips never happen. The knock-on effect on the finance team was just as significant, with an increase in efficiency of 180%.
That's what it means to have compliance rebuilt around AI, rather than AI bolted onto compliance. Control that's always running, always current, and available today in Perk.
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