A payment landed for exactly half an invoice's value. The payer's email matched the customer on file. The reference generated by Paystack — the Stripe-equivalent payment processor across Africa — didn't match anything at all.
Qwen looked at it and came back with 30% confidence and no invoice named.
I built Recona for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud, deadline July 20, 2026 — an agent that reconciles Paystack payments against open invoices and chases the overdue ones, with no human involved on the easy cases. That transaction wasn't supposed to be the interesting part of the demo. It became the whole point.
What Recona does
If you freelance or run a small business taking payments in Nigeria, money lands with a reference like PMT final tunde, and you spend the evening figuring out which invoice it settles — and which client you forgot to chase. Recona automates both halves. It matches incoming payments against open invoices using Qwen, and it runs a daily collections sweep that drafts and sends increasingly firm reminders as invoices age.
