AI-native ERP · Built for the mid-market
Built for your world today.
Ready for whatever comes next.
ERPx puts AI at the heart of your ERP: it understands your world, keeps you in control, and grows smarter every year. Your people spend less time on admin and more on the work that matters.
Our foundation
One intelligent core
ERPx gives organizations that run on people, in public sector, nonprofits, education and professional services, back the time, insight and confidence to do their best work. At its center is one intelligent core that understands what your data means, not just where it sits.
The depth beneath
Most ERPs store your data. ERPx understands what it means.
Most AI is layered onto systems that see data as rows and fields. ERPx is different. It understands what that data represents, with timesheets as revenue, grants as commitments, and resources as delivery risk, built on a business context layer shaped by decades of real-world use.
- Your industry's concepts are built in, not bolted on, so they are part of how ERPx thinks rather than fields you wire up yourself
- It reasons rather than pattern-matches, flagging grant underspend or margin leakage the way an expert would, not by scanning rows of data
- Every action traces back to meaning, so you can see and govern why it acted, not just what it did
Meet Ava
ERPx is the depth beneath. Ava is how you reach it.
ERPx is where the system reasons, where context is understood, where judgment is applied and the language of your work is fluently spoken.
Ava is Unit4's advanced virtual agent, embedded into everyday tools like Microsoft Teams. It carries that reasoning into the flow of your day, so the system's intelligence arrives the moment it's needed. Tasks come to you. Guidance finds you. Insight surfaces alongside the work.
Where Unit4's AI is different
Four principles, explored in depth
One intelligent core, continuously getting better. Fluent in your language, governed by your rules, sharper every year, and ready for whatever comes next.
01 Designed for your world
Built for the complexity that defines your world.
Generic systems don't understand your world, so your teams end up forcing meaning into custom fields and spreadsheets that never quite fit. ERPx speaks the language of your industry, with the precision that comes from forty years of domain knowledge built into the architecture. A timesheet entry is revenue recognition. A grant is a legal commitment. A resource allocation is delivery risk.
- You start ahead, not from a blank slate, with pre-configured vertical workflows and industry-ready data models
- You get judgment, not just processing, as ERPx reasons about your business
- It works like a trusted team member, applying judgment in your context
ERPx arrives already knowing your sector.
02 You stay in control
More time saved. Sharper insights. Right actions taken. All of it, safely.
AI you can't see or govern is a risk you can't take, especially with auditors, councils and regulators watching. So with ERPx, governance is built into the architecture, not bolted on afterward. Every AI action is bounded by your policies, attributable to a named human, and fully reconstructible.
- Every action stays inside your rules, enforced by a policy, threshold and delegation engine
- Audits become painless, with a log that stands up to council, donor, auditor or regulator
- Your data stays yours: tenant isolation, data residency, no public-LLM training
Control is the value, not a constraint.
03 It gets smarter over time
Year five knows more than year one.
And it never starts over.
When experienced people leave, their knowledge walks out with them, and most systems never get any smarter. ERPx gets sharper the more it's involved in the work. Every cycle (engagement, grant, term, payroll) feeds the model of your operation, per-tenant and in-jurisdiction, never a public model.
- Problems surface early, with vertical pattern recognition for margin leakage, grant underspend and payroll anomalies
- One coordinated view, as Ava orchestrates agents across finance, projects and people
- Knowledge stays when people leave, because institutional memory lives in the system
The system in year five is sharper than in year one.
04 It's built for what's next
Built for your today. Ready for your tomorrow.
No one wants to bet on AI that's obsolete in a year, or face a costly rebuild every time the technology shifts. AI will keep changing fast, and ERPx is built for it. The semantic data layer sits apart from any single model, so new capabilities plug in instead of forcing a rebuild, while the control plane absorbs new regulators and governance frameworks.
- Never locked in, with an open, model-agnostic core ready for whatever comes next
- Change with confidence, swapping the model or region while the audit trail never breaks
- New power with no extra projects, as capabilities arrive in the standard update cycle
You commit to ERPx. Unit4 keeps building it underneath you.
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