Use case · 4 of 5

Back-office finance & procurement.

Invoicing, expense approvals, vendor onboarding, and a Stripe integration for outbound charges. The capsule that lets a small ops team run the back half of the business without three different SaaS subscriptions.

  • Imagined example
  • Capsule: BackOffice
The prompt

One sentence in chat starts the build.

You →

“Build me a back-office capsule: invoices, expense approvals, vendor onboarding, Stripe for outbound.”

Inscendo IQ →

Plan: 1 capsule (BackOffice), 4 widgets (InvoiceList, ExpenseApprovalQueue, VendorList, VendorOnboarding), 2 automations (ChargeViaStripe when an invoice is ready, NudgePastDueInvoice on weekday mornings), 1 integration (Stripe). Four record types.

Inscendo IQ will ask you to set up a confirmation gate before ChargeViaStripe is allowed to actually charge cards in production: this is destructive, irreversible, and lives in the AI Code of Conduct's enumerated list of gated operations.

Data model

What this capsule keeps track of.

Inscendo IQ designs the data model for you and keeps it tidy as your needs change. You never write a query or design a table; you just describe what your business needs to remember.

Records this capsule manages

  • Invoices

    Invoice number, customer, amount, status (draft, sent, paid, void), due date, and payment details.

  • Expenses

    Who submitted it, category, amount, description, receipt, and where it sits in approval.

  • Vendors

    Legal name, contact, W-9, and onboarding status.

  • Vendor payments

    What you paid each vendor, when, and a memo.

Widgets

The screens Inscendo IQ builds and ships.

  1. Widget

    InvoiceList

    All invoices grouped by status with overdue chips, click-to-send, click-to-charge (gated).

  2. Widget

    ExpenseApprovalQueue

    Pending-expense queue with receipt preview, one-click approve / reject, automatic notification to submitter.

  3. Widget

    VendorList

    Active vendors with their W-9, payment history, and onboarding-status indicator.

  4. Widget

    VendorOnboarding

    Step-by-step form: legal name, W-9 upload, ACH details. Saves draft as you go.

Automations

The work that happens without you.

  • Automation

    ChargeViaStripe

    When an invoice is ready, charge the customer's saved payment method via Stripe. Requires a confirmation gate in production.

    When an invoice is marked ready
  • Automation

    NudgePastDueInvoice

    Each weekday morning, find invoices past their due date, send a configurable reminder email, and log the nudge.

    Weekday mornings
Integrations

What this capsule connects to.

  • Stripe
  • Optional: email (SendGrid)

Credentials live in your tenant's own secure vault. Paste-a-key providers (Stripe, SendGrid, Twilio) connect in seconds; bring-your-own-app providers (such as Salesforce, HubSpot, GoHighLevel, or RingCentral) are set up step by step with Inscendo IQ, with optional hands-on help via the Companion.

Build this one for your team.

Describe it in a sentence and Inscendo IQ ships it into a tenant you own, then operates it day after day. To be clear about what you just read: this is a reference example of what the platform can build and operate today, not a case study of shipped customer work.