Amex's New AI Agent for Expenses
THE SO WHAT
Expense management is becoming an always-on agent layer, not a quarterly clean-up ritual—Amex wiring agentic tools directly into corporate cards is a distribution play as much as an efficiency story. If you sell into finance or T&E, assume your workflows will be competing with embedded card-native agents inside 6–12 months.
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