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How Axia Energia Eliminated 90% of Manual Audit Work with Automation Anywhere AI

Axia Energia, a Brazilian energy company processing 65,000+ audit documents per year, deployed Automation Anywhere’s Automation 360, Document Automation, and AI Agents powered by Google Gemini on Vertex AI to automate its compliance and audit workflows. The result: 90% of manual effort eliminated, $265K in annual savings, and 10,000 hours reclaimed yearly.

Impact

90%

Manual effort eliminated in audit workflows

$265K

Annual cost savings

10,000 hours

Hours reclaimed annually

Challenge

Axia Energia’s compliance teams manually processed 65,000+ audit documents per year, creating bottlenecks, high error rates, and significant operational costs that limited the team’s capacity for higher-value regulatory work.

Solution

Automation Anywhere Automation 360, Document Automation, and AI Agents—powered by Google Gemini on Vertex AI—were deployed to extract, classify, and validate audit documents end-to-end, automating 90% of manual compliance processing and delivering $265K in annual savings.

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What Leaders Say

With Automation Anywhere, we transformed our audit document process—eliminating manual effort and freeing our team to focus on compliance and strategic work.

Vitor Paulo Correia, Manager, CoE for Hyperautomation, Axia Energia
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Axia Energia operates in Brazil’s tightly regulated energy sector, where compliance teams must process tens of thousands of audit and regulatory documents each year. Before automation, these workflows were largely manual—staff spent significant time extracting data, validating entries, and reconciling records across systems, leaving the organization exposed to compliance risk and operational inefficiency.

The core challenge was volume and accuracy. With 65,000+ audit documents processed annually, even small error rates compounded quickly into significant rework and financial exposure. Manual classification and data extraction were slow, inconsistent, and resource-intensive—limiting the team’s ability to focus on higher-value compliance activities.

Axia Energia deployed Automation Anywhere’s Automation 360 platform together with Document Automation and AI Agents powered by Google Gemini running on Vertex AI. Document Automation extracts and structures data from unstructured audit documents, while AI Agents orchestrate validation, classification, and routing workflows end-to-end. The combination allows compliance teams to handle document-heavy regulatory processes at scale without proportional headcount growth.

The business impact was substantial. Axia Energia eliminated 90% of manual effort across audit and compliance workflows, recovered $265K annually through faster processing and reduced error rates, and reclaimed 10,000 hours per year that staff previously spent on manual data handling. The automation also improved auditability and consistency across regulatory submissions.

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