Deployment story
In a bistro, every minute the chef or manager spends is money. Meanwhile, booking invoices from suppliers — shrimp, seafood, alcohol, packaging — is something a guest will never thank you for. It is the "operational tax" that eats margin and pulls the team away from what actually matters: service quality and the plate.
We built an AI agent that simply takes that work off the owner's desk. They have two options: forward the invoice to a dedicated email (if the supplier sent a PDF) or snap a photo on their phone into a Telegram bot (if it is a paper invoice). The rest — OCR, product recognition, matching against the stock database, updating quantities and cost of sales — runs automatically, in 20 seconds, 24/7.
Under the hood, Google Cloud Vision reads the scan, Claude recognises items and vendors, Google Sheets acts as the stock database. Make orchestrates everything in a single scenario that handles both input channels with the same business-logic code. Adding a third channel (e.g. WhatsApp) is a half-day job, not a new project.