Joint partnership

Trusted AI for government finance starts with trusted ERP data.

ThirdLine and Madison AI are bringing clean, classified, permission-aware ERP data into a secure AI workspace so governments and schools can ask better questions, get faster answers, and trust the evidence behind every response.

✓ Built for local governments & schools ✓ ERP → ThirdLine → Madison AI ✓ Clean. Classify. Control. Then AI.
Finance AI Workspace
General Fund$82.4Mclean
AP Risk91review
Contracts124tagged
“What is driving the variance in professional services this quarter?”
Answer grounded in prepared ERP data, budget classifications, source records, permissions, and audit-ready evidence.
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The problem

AI is powerful. Messy ERP data is still messy ERP data.

Government finance, accounting, procurement, payroll, audit, and reporting teams live inside ERP data every day. But AI should not be connected directly to duplicated vendors, misclassified accounts, stale permissions, scattered audit support, or inconsistent reporting categories.

What finance teams know

Your ERP data has context AI does not automatically understand.

  • ✓Budget data needs fund, department, program, object, and reporting context.
  • ✓Vendor data may include duplicates, related entities, inactive vendors, and risk indicators.
  • ✓Procurement data needs contracts, thresholds, requisitions, purchase orders, and policy rules connected.
  • ✓Audit evidence needs source records, review history, refresh logs, and human signoff.
Direct-to-AI risk
  • ✕ AI summarizes bad classifications
  • ✕ Users may see data they should not see
  • ✕ Answers lack audit evidence
  • ✕ Exceptions become narratives instead of controls
Prepared-data advantage
  • ✓ Data is cleaned and classified first
  • ✓ AI respects roles and permissions
  • ✓ Answers are source-grounded
  • ✓ Finance gets faster insight with better control
The joint solution

Madison AI is where your team asks. ThirdLine makes the ERP data trustworthy enough to answer from.

Madison AI brings a secure, purpose-built AI workspace for local government knowledge work. ThirdLine acts as the ERP AI Control Layer: cleaning, classifying, tagging, permissioning, risk-scoring, monitoring, and evidencing the ERP data before AI uses it.

1. ERP Data

Budget, general ledger, AP, vendors, procurement, contracts, payroll, roles, reports, and school finance data.

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2. ThirdLine

Clean up. Classify. Control. Provision. Risk-score. Monitor. Create evidence behind the AI answer.

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3. Madison AI

Ask plain-English questions, search trusted knowledge, draft reports, prepare memos, and support faster government work.

Built for finance, accounting, procurement, audit, and schools

Use AI to solve the work governments actually struggle with.

Start with one high-value ERP domain, then expand as your data becomes cleaner, classified, governed, and ready for more AI agents.

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Budget-to-Actual

Ask what changed, why it changed, which departments are driving variance, and what needs attention before month-end or council review.

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ACFR & Financial Reporting

Connect year-end reporting, indicators, supporting schedules, and narratives to the source data behind them.

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Audit Readiness

Organize support, source references, review history, exception status, and evidence packages before auditors ask.

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AP & Vendor Risk

Surface duplicate payments, vendor risk, high-risk invoices, stale vendor records, and policy exceptions before AI explains spend.

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Procurement & Contracts

Map spend to contracts, monitor thresholds, flag expiring terms, and answer procurement questions with data and policy context.

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Roles, Permissions & AI Access

Translate ERP roles, funds, departments, accounts, and permissions into safer AI boundaries for each user group.

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Monthly Close

Track close items, unusual balances, reconciliations, journal entries, and outstanding work across accounting teams.

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School District Finance

Support fund accounting, grants, payroll-sensitive questions, procurement, budget narratives, and board-ready reporting.

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Future AI Agents

Forecasting, budget book, grant compliance, payroll controls, policy monitoring, continuous audit, FOIA, and more.

Your AI is only as trustworthy as the ERP data behind it.

What each partner brings

A better AI stack for local government.

Layer
What it does
Why it matters
Madison AI
Secure AI workspace, government knowledge assistant, staff reports, memos, research, summarization, and workflows.
Teams can ask better questions, search institutional knowledge, and draft government work faster.
ThirdLine
ERP data readiness, classification, access control, risk scoring, analytics, monitoring, dashboards, and audit evidence.
AI answers are grounded in cleaner ERP data, stronger controls, source references, and permission-aware boundaries.
Together
ERP → ThirdLine → Madison AI: prepared finance data delivered through an AI workspace built for government users.
Governments and schools get the speed of AI without skipping the controls finance and audit teams require.
Land-and-expand path

Start where the pain is obvious. Expand where the value compounds.

Many governments can begin with a focused pilot around budget-to-actual, AP/vendor risk, procurement/contracts, ACFR support, or audit readiness. As the ERP data layer matures, new Madison AI agents can be powered by the same clean, classified, permission-aware foundation.

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Readiness review

Identify data quality gaps, sensitive fields, classification needs, and permission boundaries before AI expands.

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Focused pilot

Activate one high-value model such as Budget-to-Actual, Procurement & Contracts, AP/Vendor Risk, or Audit Readiness.

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Scale the AI model catalog

Add agents across budget book, forecasting, ACFR, close, grants, procurement, contracts, payroll controls, and audit.

See what your ERP data can say when it is clean, classified, and AI-ready.

Schedule a joint Madison AI + ThirdLine conversation to explore your first government finance AI use case.

Suggested first pilots: Budget-to-Actual, AP & Vendor Risk, Procurement & Contracts, ACFR support, Audit Readiness, and AI Access Controls.

FAQ

Questions government finance teams usually ask first.

What if our ERP data is not ready for AI?

That is the point. ThirdLine prepares the ERP data first by cleaning, classifying, tagging, permissioning, and documenting it. Madison AI then uses that prepared data inside a secure AI workspace, so your government can start with trusted use cases without waiting for a perfect ERP cleanup project.

Do we need perfect ERP data to start?

No. The starting point is identifying what needs to be cleaned, classified, tagged, permissioned, and monitored before AI relies on it.

Can we start below a full enterprise rollout?

Yes. Start with a focused pilot in one ERP domain, then expand to additional agents as value is proven.

Why does finance need a control layer?

Because ERP answers often involve sensitive data, audit evidence, budget classifications, fund/account restrictions, policy logic, and role-based access decisions.