Accounts Payable Automation

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      "upvotes": 0
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      "upvotes": 0
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    {
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        "lowest_monthly_usd": null,
        "monthly_usd": null,
        "headline": "No public price found",
        "summary": "No public price found on the vendor site."
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      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
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        "observed": false,
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        "headline": "No public price found",
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      "evidence_quality": "medium",
      "upvotes": 0
    },
    {
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        "billing": "usage",
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      "upvotes": 0
    },
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        "monthly_usd": 50,
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        "summary": "Free tier, then from $50/mo. Beam AI publicly lists a free tier, a $50/month Pro plan, a $3990/month Scale plan, custom enterprise pricing, and invoice-processing rates of $0.60 per invoice with AI versus $12 manually."
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      "upvotes": 0
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        "billing": "freemium",
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      "home_niche": "erp-automation",
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      "short_summary": "Coordinates teams of AI agents to handle ERP functions including finance, supply chain, procurement, human resources and customer engagement, conducting ERP op…",
      "price": {
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}