Emburse, a company specializing in AI-powered travel and spend orchestration, has launched Emburse Assurance, a new AI-powered expense compliance solution designed to mitigate audit noise by addressing policy issues before submission and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse after submission.
Traditional expense compliance processes have often been reactive, with errors, missing information, and policy violations typically flagged only after an expense has been submitted. This reactive approach triggers an inefficient back-and-forth between employees and managers, increasing the workload for approvers and auditors. The result is a cumbersome approval loop that consumes time and resources, while also diminishing morale and adding administrative burden to finance teams. This friction impacts high-volume departments like Sales and Marketing, hindering productivity and limiting the ability to automate spend, enhance visibility, and make faster, more informed business decisions. Business travelers are also affected by manual corrections, delayed reimbursements, and inconsistent policy enforcement.
Emburse Assurance aims to change this dynamic. Powered by Emburse AI, which has been trained on billions of expense transactions, the solution performs a series of automated checks on every receipt both before and after submission. Prior to submission, the AI analyzes receipt details to identify issues such as non-itemized receipts or missing tax or payment information, prompting employees to correct errors instantly. This reduces subsequent back-and-forth during the review process.
After submission, Emburse Assurance introduces an intelligence layer that surpasses the capabilities of manual review. It analyzes patterns and context across transactions, receipts, and expense reports, and can translate receipts from any language into 32 supported languages. This capability allows it to identify risks that human auditors would be unlikely to catch at scale, including duplicate expenses, AI-generated or altered receipts, unusually high spend for specific situations, and out-of-policy items hidden within foreign-language receipts. This empowers approvers to focus on critical matters and provides finance leaders with confidence in the accuracy, compliance, and control of corporate spend.
Paul Nagy, Chief Product Officer of Emburse, stated, “Employee expenses generate an enormous amount of clerical noise. The constant back-and-forth between employees and approvers doesn’t just waste time and money; it creates blind spots for finance that allow real risk and fraud to slip through. Emburse Assurance changes that equation by bringing intelligence earlier on in the process, before expenses are even submitted. We’re not simply automating audits after the fact— we’re intelligently guiding employees in real-time, removing unnecessary friction, and giving organizations clearer spend signals across every transaction type and business size.”
While some expense platforms offer limited checks linked to corporate card transactions, Emburse Assurance delivers comprehensive, AI-powered compliance across both corporate card transactions and reimbursements. Organizations can configure which checks are implemented pre-submission, alerting employees to correct errors, and which are performed post-submission. In the post-submission phase, Emburse Assurance assigns an overall risk score to each expense, helping organizations prioritize the most critical claims for additional human review.
Emburse Assurance also includes analytics, enabling finance teams to measure the impact and time saved through pre-submission flags, and to quantify the risk mitigated by AI-driven checks. These insights allow teams to continuously optimize their expense programs and reinforce policy compliance by identifying frequently violated rules. Early adopter customers have provided over 90% positive feedback regarding Emburse Assurance’s proactive pre-submission checks.
Emburse Assurance is currently available as an add-on to Emburse Expense Enterprise. It will become available for Emburse Professional, Emburse Spend, and Emburse Captio on March 31, 2026.
Emburse serves more than 12 million finance leaders, travel managers, and professionals, and over 20,000 organizations in 200 countries and territories, including Global 2000 enterprises, SMBs, public sector agencies, and nonprofits. Emburse Expense Intelligence, powered by Emburse AI, orchestrates corporate spend across travel booking, reimbursements, accounts payable, and payments. It embeds dynamic policy controls and predictive insights directly into workflows, enabling organizations to adapt quickly, reduce risk, and guide spend before funds leave the business. This framework aims to transform reactive expense management into infrastructure for strategic growth, reshaping finance teams’ roles from administrators to strategic drivers.
