Blog
Notes from the build.
Why we made the choices we made — portal fatigue, draft-first review, and what it takes to read orders the way they actually arrive.
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Draft-first: why AI should never send an invoice on its own
Extraction is probabilistic. Invoices are not. Every order passes human review before anything reaches QuickBooks — by design, not as a setting you can turn off.
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Why we built Ordlie around email (not another portal)
Buyers keep ordering the way they always have. We meet them in the inbox instead of asking them to learn another app.