Network finance

Financial infrastructure, built on the network.

Bflows builds the system-level tools that read finance as a network — map it, simulate it with digital twins, optimize the flows — for companies and public institutions, and for the districts and supply chains that connect them.

Applied research

Finance is not a ledger of isolated transactions. It is a network of open relationships — and that changes everything the data can tell you.

Our research begins with a single shift in perspective: from the dyadic view, where each transaction is a private matter between two parties, to the network view, where markets, credit and companies are read as a mesh of open relationships.

A datum means little on its own. The same invoice, read as one edge in a network of thousands, reveals the liquidity, the risk and the opportunity no balance sheet can show. Value lives in the relations, not in the node.

A financial system built on the study of those relations surfaces collaborative dynamics more efficient than competitive ones — more stability, more resilience, less systemic risk. We build the instruments that turn that systemic view into something you can operate.

Network finance — a systemic, network approach to free up trade receivables, optimize short-term credit allocation, and sharpen the models that measure risk.

The technology
One system, two engines.
Most finance AI is a language model with a database bolted on. Ours isn't. A deterministic engine that knows the real topology of money, and a generative engine that reasons on top of it — never apart from it.
Deterministic

The network graph — Bft

Companies are nodes, invoices are edges. Balanced Flows Technology finds the self-sustaining cycles and chains hidden in the graph, nets them multilaterally, and settles them. No model guesses here — the math is exact.

Generative

The reasoning layer — LoRA + RAG

A language model that reads the graph, simulates with synthetic twins, and explains in plain language. Shared knowledge in the adapter, your data segregated in retrieval. It speaks finance, not boilerplate.

The result

Generative AI, grounded in your financial network.

Every answer is anchored to the real flow graph. The model can't hallucinate a payment that the network doesn't allow — because the network, not the model, is the source of truth.

Generative AI for finance
Ask your network anything.
Not a chatbot reciting definitions. A reasoning layer sitting directly on your live flow graph - so you can interrogate liquidity, test scenarios, and act, in the language you actually speak.

Try asking

Illustrative responses. In production, every answer is computed against your own network in real time.

Where is liquidity trapped in my network right now?Ask
reading flow graph - 1,240 nodes - 8,910 open invoices

Three clusters hold 71% of your idle cash. The largest is a closed loop of 9 suppliers around your top distributor - 2.1M circling without ever netting out. Bft can net

Principles
Three principles, one system
The network is the subject - not the single node. Everything we build follows from that.
01

The network is the subject

A late invoice isn't a private matter between two firms. We model the whole graph of flows, so liquidity is read where it actually lives - in the relationships, not the balance sheet.

02

Grounded, not made up

The generative layer never reasons away from the data. The flow graph constrains every answer, so the AI sharpens judgment instead of inventing it.

03

Composable by API

API-first infrastructure. Take one module or wire the whole network into the systems you already run. It grows with the business, not against it.

Customer stories

In production, with partners that matter.

From a digital twin of the Umbria regional economy to the cash-flow layer inside Infocert — Bflows already runs where the flows are real.

Read the customer stories →
Regione UmbriaGepafinInfocertPolitecnico di Milano
The ecosystem
Built on a stack. Wired to a network.
At the center, an engine made of graph and generative technology. Around it, the payment rails, identity and finance partners your business already runs on. The value isn't the node - it's everything it's connected to.
Bflows
Bft
Graph DB
Digital Twin
LoRA + RAG
Network analysis
CTGAN
Open Banking
Poincaré

In production with partners across the ecosystem

mangopay
ey
politecnico
accenture
sviluppumbria
cis
infocert
ultipa
flowpay
gepafin
mangopay
ey
politecnico
accenture
sviluppumbria
cis
infocert
ultipa
flowpay
gepafin
mangopay
ey
politecnico
accenture
sviluppumbria
cis
infocert
ultipa
flowpay
gepafin
mangopay
ey
politecnico
accenture
sviluppumbria
cis
infocert
ultipa
flowpay
gepafin
The briefing

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