BlackLine, which makes finance software, issued a press release on 9 November 2026 about an AI roadmap it is carrying out with SAP. The roadmap covers the record-to-report process: the accounting chain from recording business transactions to financial reporting.

BlackLine plans to integrate its Verity AI agents with SAP’s Joule and run them on SAP Business AI Platform, the release said. An AI agent is a program that carries out tasks using an AI model. This is a plan. The release gives neither a launch date nor a price for the agents. The descriptions of what the agents do are the company’s own.

The first phase is due to bring three agents to period-end close, when the books are reconciled and finalised before reporting:

• Verity Prepare analyses subledger activity, compiles supporting documentation and drafts balance sheet reconciliations.
• Verity Match matches large volumes of transactions in environments with several enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
• Verity Accruals reviews data from ERP systems and other sources, calculates period-end accruals and proposes journal entries for them. The entries are approved in BlackLine, from which they could be posted to several ERP systems.

BlackLine said Verity Accruals complements SAP’s own Accruals Agent, part of SAP Financial Closing Assistant. BlackLine’s agent is intended for complex journal entries, for example those that draw on data from several SAP and third-party sources or are posted to several ERP systems.

Jeremy Ung, BlackLine’s chief technology officer, explained the partnership by saying that the built-in AI of ERP systems automates transaction-level tasks within the system. Period-end close, however, requires data integrity across the entire accounting chain, Ung said. In the release, Catharina Riedl, global head of sales at SAP Finance, called the collaboration the next milestone in the partnership.

BlackLine is an SAP platinum partner and part of the SAP Solution Extensions programme. The company said its solutions in the programme have passed the programme’s quality assessment and SAP support services are available for them.

BlackLine promises more information at blackline.com/sap. BlackLine and SAP will hold a webinar on 3 December 2026 on SAP Autonomous Finance and agentic financial operations.