On Friday 17 July 2026 Mastranet AI was a guest of Pillole di Intelligenza Artificiale (“AI Pills”), the webinar series run by the Digital Innovation Hub Bergamo of Confindustria Bergamo. An invitation we were especially glad to accept: not to talk about AI in the abstract, but to bring a real, already-in-production case study in front of the region's manufacturers.
The invitation from Confindustria Bergamo
Mastranet AI was represented by our Co-CEOs and co-founders Luca Rillosi and Emanuele Rota, invited to explain how artificial intelligence is genuinely making its way into the administrative processes of manufacturing companies. For a company born and raised in the Bergamo area - and hosted at the Bergamo Sviluppo Business Incubator at the Point in Dalmine - being asked by Confindustria Bergamo to share our experience means twice as much.
The “AI Pills” series
Pillole di Intelligenza Artificiale is the series through which Digital Innovation Hub Bergamo supports companies in adopting AI concretely inside their business processes. Each session tackles a key area of the value chain by combining two ingredients: a methodological framing by the University of Bergamo and the Intellimech Consortium, and a first-hand account from someone who has taken those technologies into production.
The 2026 programme ran across three sessions:
28 April 2026 - From company knowledge to new products: when data drives R&D, featuring the Brembo Solutions case study.
8 June 2026 - From technical review to compliance: how AI supports industrial design, featuring the COES case study.
17 July 2026 - From purchase order to invoice control: AI supporting the accounts payable cycle, with a joint account from NTE Process and Mastranet AI.
Session three: AI for the accounts payable cycle
The 17 July webinar - from 4:30 to 6:00 pm - started from a very concrete question: how can companies use artificial intelligence to make accounts payable activities more efficient, cutting handling time, manual work and the scope for error?
The payables cycle may well be the most underestimated corner of a manufacturing business: purchase orders, order confirmations, delivery notes, certifications, supplier invoices. Documents that arrive in different formats, from different suppliers, through different channels - and that someone has to read, interpret and reconcile by hand, every single day.
After the DIH Bergamo introduction, Cristiana Cattaneo of the University of Bergamo gave an overview of what AI contributes to administrative processes and of the opportunities these technologies open up in managing and controlling document flows. Then it was time for the field.
The NTE Process case study
The core of the session was a joint account from NTE Process - with Erasmo Ennio Labarile, Digital Transformation Manager - and Mastranet AI: a real case study on automating repetitive, time-consuming activities across the whole payables cycle.
Specifically:
matching technical documentation to jobs and orders, from CE certifications to datasheets and declarations of conformity;
reconciling delivery notes against purchase orders, including partial deliveries and quantity discrepancies;
supplier invoice control, up to automated two-way and three-way matching.
This is exactly the ground TypeLens works on: extracting, interpreting and reconciling the information held in emails, attachments, orders, delivery notes and invoices, so that people are left in charge of the exceptions rather than the typing. Not “AI replacing the purchasing department”, but a flow where the mechanical work disappears and the work that takes judgement remains.
Watch the recording
The full recording of the session is available on the Confindustria Bergamo YouTube channel (you'll find it above too), while the slides can be downloaded from the Rivedi gli appuntamenti section of the Confindustria Bergamo website, together with those of the other two sessions in the series.
What we took away
The questions that came up during the Q&A confirmed what we see in companies every week: interest in AI is no longer a matter of technological curiosity. Companies want to know how much time they get back, how it integrates with their ERP and where their data ends up. Those are the right questions, and a sign that the market is moving from the demo stage to actual production deployments.
Thanks to Confindustria Bergamo and Digital Innovation Hub Bergamo for the invitation, to the University of Bergamo for the framing, and to the NTE Process team for telling the story alongside us. We'll keep doing what we enjoy most: bringing AI into everyday work. 🚀