Introducing NineAnts: data automation for treasury and finance

In teams that work in Excel, the work is painfully manual. Someone logs into five bank portals before 9 a.m., downloads statements, renames them, pastes them into a workbook, and hopes the formulas do not break. When the CFO asks, “Where is our cash right now?”, everyone drops what they are doing to patch together an answer. TMS are meant to fix this, but they often trade one kind of pain for another. Implementation takes months, sometimes stretching into a year. Data still needs checking. People still wait for numbers to refresh. And even once the TMS is live, teams still end up exporting data back into spreadsheets to answer questions the TMS wasn’t built for.

So, the pattern repeats. Smart people spend their time moving data instead of using it.

NineAnts stops that cycle.

It connects to the sources where your financial data lives, including banks, payment service providers (PSP), market data providers, and TMS. From there, it keeps those connections alive, fetching, cleaning, and enriching your data before sending it directly into the tools your team already knows such as Excel, Power BI, ERP, or TMS.

When your data moves automatically, something changes. The noise fades. The fire drills stop. You stop reacting and start seeing. Cash positions become clear, decisions can be made faster, and the team finally gets to focus on judgment instead of janitorial work.

There’s another reason data automation matters. AI only works when your data is ready. That means the data is organized, consistent, and up to date.

Start with the basics: connect your sources, clean the data, and keep it current. Once that foundation is in place, you can get real benefits with AI. Train a model on your use case or connect an LLM to your own data. Then you start seeing results in cash flow forecasting, anomaly detection, and day-to-day automation.

Rule of thumb for finance leaders: if a report still needs manual exports and fixes, the data is not AI-ready. Fix the data flow first; then work on AI usecases.

How NineAnts automates your data

NineAnts is built to make financial data move on its own. It automates every step, from collection to delivery, while keeping everything visible and verifiable.

1. Connect to your sources

We have worked with enough treasuries to know how messy data connections can be. Banks, payment providers, market feeds, ERPs, and local Excel files all speak their own language. NineAnts connects to them through APIs or SFTP and keeps the connections healthy. If a feed fails, it retries quietly and only calls for help when human judgment is needed.

2. Automate flows

In a flow you define how data should travel. You set it once, define how often to get the data, how to clean it, how to enrich it, and where to send it. Then you forget about it. Some teams use flows to feed dashboards or Excel reports. Others use them to refresh TMS data or to drop clean files into shared folders.

3. See and trace

All of your data is visible in NineAnts. Every number can be traced back to its source. If someone questions a figure, you can open the chain and see the original MT940, camt or CSV file. Auditors love this. So do analysts who have spent hours asking, “Where did this come from?”

4. Get notified at the right moment

NineAnts keeps watch and lets you know when something matters. A large transaction from a new counterparty. A subsidiary holding too much idle cash. A bank account that has gone into overdraft. A growing FX balance. You define the rule, and NineAnts delivers the alert while there is still time to act.

5. Enrich your data

Rules turn raw data into insight. Categorize transactions to see patterns, trends and seasonality. Analyze bank fees. Flag anomalies before they become problems. You think once about what matters, and NineAnts applies the data enrichment every day after.

6. Deliver data where people already work

NineAnts sends data to the places your team already uses: Excel, Power BI, ERP, TMS, or any system that can use an API or SFTP feed. The same information also lives in the NineAnts web platform for when you want to see the whole picture. No new systems you need to learn, no new logins. Just better data, always there.

Behind NineAnts is a small, focused team that builds differently

NineAnts was not built by a big software vendor. It is created by Automation Boutique, a team that has spent years in corporate treasury and in the trenches of automation.

At Automation Boutique we care about customers more than contracts. That means we build for results, price transparently, and stay honest about what our software can and cannot do. Our pricing is published on our website because we want to be as clear as possible on what you can expect.

We build with people and AI working together. Our engineers guide and supervise specialized AI agents that assist with coding, reviews, and documentation. The result is a workflow where humans stay in control, supported by AI speed and precision. This combination allows us to build faster, with higher quality, and to keep improving without losing stability.

The road ahead

The future of NineAnts is shaped directly by the teams that use it. Every new feature starts with a real business case.

Here are some of the things we are working on:

Excel two-way sync: Many companies have data locked in Excel files. Soon, the NineAnts add-in will sync those sheets automatically with the cloud so that data can be used in other systems and reports.

More advanced flows: We are extending flows to support dynamic reporting, scripts, and AI assistance. This gives treasury teams the flexibility to design more powerful automation exactly as they need it.

Digital assets and stablecoins: Digital assets and stablecoins are becoming part of corporate balance sheets. NineAnts will soon pull balances and transactions directly from blockchains, and making it available where you need it.

Faster onboarding: We are building a guided setup so that teams can connect their first source and flow within minutes.

Data visualization: NineAnts will soon ship with pre-built dashboards for Excel and Power BI, based on best practices refined with corporates.

Increased bank coverage: More banks are opening up premium APIs to encourage corporate usage. NineAnts makes it easy for companies to connect and start receiving their data through these APIs.

More usecases: NineAnts started with cash visibility, but that’s just the beginning. Its data automation engine is flexible enough to power other business flows where accuracy and speed matter. We’re already seeing new use cases emerge and we are planning to share more about them soon.

What’s with the “Nine 🐜Ants”?

Ants are among the strongest creatures on earth. One can carry up to fifty times its own body weight. Now imagine nine of them working together.

That image is what inspired the name NineAnts. It stands for quiet strength, precision, and teamwork. Many small, tireless workers accomplishing something big.

NineAnts is built with that same spirit. It does the heavy lifting for your data. Instead of spending hours collecting, cleaning, and moving information between systems, NineAnts handles it automatically.

Getting started

If your team still spends hours collecting data from different places and creating reports, something is wrong with your data flow.

Automation is not only about saving time. When data moves automatically, you see your position as it is right now, not as it was yesterday. You can make better decisions and stop wasting energy on the repetitive parts.

AI is changing how finance operates, but you are not going to get the optimal results without good data. Companies that fix their data foundations now will move faster, see further, and make better use of what comes next.

If you want to see what that looks like in practice, talk to us. Even a short conversation can show how much time and effort you can win back when financial data moves automatically.