I’m Karl Andersson, and I’ve spent my whole career at the intersection of finance and technology, long before that was a fashionable place to be.
It started with my degree: Accounting and Computer Science. I’m old enough that when I picked that combination, most people couldn’t figure out why anyone would put those two things together. Turns out they went together just fine, and that pairing has shaped everything I’ve done since.
I began at Coopers & Lybrand (one of the legacy firms that became PwC) as a financial auditor, where I earned my CPA. Before long I moved into the firm’s IT auditing practice and earned my CISA: finance and technology, side by side, right from the start.
I wanted to understand how companies actually run day to day, so I joined Dexter through their Management Development Program. It was an incredible opportunity to put both sides of my background to work, and I spent roughly 80% of my time on the road, all over Europe and Asia, on a huge range of projects. I eventually became Manager of Business Process Re-engineering as Dexter replaced its antiquated systems with SAP. I learned the FI and MM modules inside and out, and got a firsthand education in how a big ERP implementation really works.
From there I went back to the big firms, joining Ernst & Young for SAP controls consulting. I trained more than 100 people how to audit SAP environments and led reviews across the US and Europe.
In 1999, I founded Technology Insight. Over the next two decades I grew it into a Purchase-to-Pay analytics company with offices in Massachusetts, Chicago, Europe, and Pune, India, and built the DataShark platform that gave AP, internal audit, and supply-chain teams 100% visibility into their spend. In 2021, Technology Insight was acquired by Glantus.
I wasn’t done building. I co-founded Sourcing Insights, a supply-chain consulting and analytics company, and continue to lead analytics ventures including Mako Insight.
And then I started playing with AI tools. I was hooked immediately. I could see exactly what was possible: twenty-five years of AP and supply-chain experience, combined with the ability to build things that would have taken a team of engineers years to develop. I knew I could leverage everything I’d learned about how money moves through an organization and use AI to find what was hiding in plain sight. That energy is what became AP Impact. In January 2025, I founded it to bring together everything I’ve learned about AP, audit, ERP, and analytics, with AI at the center of how we do it.
Across all of it, I’ve worked with multinational companies of every size and industry, in dozens of countries. That’s the well I draw from when I write here: real projects, real messes, and the lessons that only show up once you’ve seen enough of them.
Thanks for reading, and if any of it resonates, I’d love to connect.