Sage, a leader in accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has acquired Doyen AI, a company founded in 2024 focused on using AI to make customer onboarding and implementation faster, simpler and more accurate for finance teams. The acquisition strengthens Sage’s AI and innovation strategy by expanding its ability to deliver AI-powered implementations. This helps customers go live faster and realise value sooner, whilst maintaining accuracy, auditability and control required for mission-critical finance and accounting workflows. AI-powered implementations that reduce effort and accelerate time-to-value One of the biggest pain points in the customer onboarding journey is the manual process of extracting, mapping and validating financial data during migrations. This stage can take weeks and is often one of the main causes of implementation delays. Doyen AI adds applied AI capabilities that simplify and accelerate these complex workflows, including: financial data migration and validation intelligent mapping of charts of accounts, dimensions and account groupings configuration support aligned to customer-specific requirements natural-language interaction that enables implementors to adapt quickly to each business By automating and streamlining these steps, Doyen AI helps make migrations faster and more accurate, reducing effort for customers and partners alike. The team has shown it can make the slowest parts of customer migrations more efficient, turning weeks of effort into just a few days. By reducing the effort required to manage, map and verify data, Sage expects this capability to significantly accelerate implementations, support faster adoption of new capabilities and enable customers to realise the full value of their Sage solutions sooner. Dan Miller, EVP, Financials & ERP Division, Sage, said: “This is a great strategic fit for Sage. For many businesses, the complexity of migration and implementation is one of the biggest barriers to choosing a new finance system. Doyen AI strengthens our ability to remove that barrier with AI-powered migration and implementation capabilities, helping new and existing customers move to Sage faster, go live sooner and realise value more quickly. Alex Holub, CEO, Doyen AI, said: “We built Doyen AI to remove friction from one of the hardest parts of finance transformation - implementation. Joining Sage allows us to scale that mission for far more customers and partners. Together, we can accelerate time-to-value by simplifying data migration, mapping and configuration, while keeping validation and human control at the centre of every step.” Expanding Sage’s AI-powered implementation capabilities Doyen AI was founded by an experienced team with deep AI expertise, combining advanced AI/ML research backgrounds with a proven track record of building and scaling enterprise AI solutions. The acquisition adds new AI capabilities to Sage, helping improve customer outcomes, giving partners better implementation tools and supporting faster innovation, while further enhancing Sage’s AI domain expertise. NoYesInfrastructure29 Apr, 2026