Less red tape · Portugal
More business.
Less red tape.
Better decisions.
An artificial intelligence application that handles your company’s paperwork — it reduces errors, speeds up document processing and makes the business easier to run. For accounting firms: take on more clients with the same staff.
Fewer errors
Nothing is typed, so nothing is mistyped. And the same invoice does not go in twice.
Faster paperwork
Documents stop being typed and start being reviewed. And every month there is less to review.
More time to decide
Whoever runs the company stops dealing with paper and starts looking at numbers that are up to date.
What DocBridge is
A business does not live off handling paper. It lives off what it does while it is not handling it.
Every month, the same thing: invoices scattered across three inboxes, receipts in the glovebox, delivery notes that arrive before the invoices, payslips, Social Security payment slips, IVA (Portuguese VAT) deadlines. Someone has to gather it all, type it all and send it all to the accountant — and while they do, that person is not growing the business.
DocBridge automates that work from start to finish. Documents come in on their own, the AI reads them and works out what each one is, you confirm in seconds, and they go on to the accountant. The archive stays organised and searchable, and deadlines stay in view.
It does not replace the accountant. It takes away — from them and from you — the work neither of you should be doing.
Who it is for
Two different promises, the same engine.
Businesses
Run the business instead of running paperwork.
You stop chasing invoices, typing, and asking the team where the receipt is. At the end of the month everything is handled and filed — and you know how much you spent, and on what, without waiting for the month-end close.
- Fewer administrative hours every month
- Fewer errors and no invoice posted twice
- Tax and payroll deadlines in view, not in someone’s head
Accounting firms
More clients, with the same team.
A firm’s capacity is tied to the number of hours its team can spend typing. By automating the bureaucratic part — collection, reading and classification — the same team can handle a larger client portfolio.
- The junior reviews instead of typing
- Each supplier is learnt once, not every month
- All the portfolio’s companies in a single portal
How
Four steps. After that, it runs on its own.
01
Connect
Your inbox and, if you work with Centralgest, the accounting. A setup wizard guides each step.
02
Arrive
Documents come in on their own — by email, through the connected inbox or photographed in the app.
03
Confirm
The AI reads and classifies. You confirm what needs confirming.
04
Deliver
They go on to the accountant and stay filed and searchable.
And it learns from you
The red tape that remains keeps shrinking on its own.
Every document you approve teaches the system to read that supplier. Confidence in each reading rises as the supplier, the lines and the prices repeat — and, if you switch on automatic approval, that confidence is what decides what goes through without anyone touching it.
This is why DocBridge is worth more in the sixth month than in the first.
Confidence rises in steps
- +3when the supplier is already known
- +7when the invoice lines are already known
- up to +12when the prices match the history
Your sector
Your business’s expense plan comes ready-made.
Most software gives you an empty chart of accounts and the job of filling it in. Here it is the other way round: the company starts with the CAE shown on its company registration certificate, and that business’s expense categories are created, each with its SNC account. 21 activity models, more than a thousand expense labels.
Restaurants and catering
Goods and raw materials, front and back of house, delivery and card-terminal commissions, music licences and outdoor seating fees.
Construction
Building materials, subcontracting and equipment hire, permits, design and safety, fleet and machinery.
Transport and logistics
Diesel, tolls and fleet maintenance, tachograph, IUC (vehicle tax) and inspections, warehouse and loading.
Retail and trade
Goods and imports, shop and warehouse, marketplace and card-terminal commissions, e-commerce.
Car repair workshops
Parts for resale and parts fitted, oils, tyres, diagnostics, subcontracting and hazardous waste.
Short-term rentals (alojamento local)
Linen and amenities, condominium fees and maintenance, platform commissions, tourist tax and AL licence.
Agriculture
Agricultural inputs, packaging and post-harvest, certifications, agricultural diesel and temporary labour. Five models.
See all sectors →
And what comes ready-made in each one.
You can change the expense categories whenever you like. The model is a starting point, not an imposition.
The mobile app
The invoice photographed at the supplier’s door is already in.
The fuel-pump receipt and the lorry’s delivery note are photographed on the spot, by whoever has them in hand. The app is one more way in: the document follows the same path as all the others — in eight languages, with AT QR code reading.
The assistant
Ask, instead of searching.
Maksim is DocBridge’s assistant. You type the question the way you would say it — ‘where is the tractor invoice?’, ‘how much did we spend on fuel last quarter?’ — and the answer comes from your documents, with the document in front of you.
It does not make up numbers: every figure has a line behind it, and you can check it in the original document. It also explains how to use the application and helps you set it up — it changes simple settings with a confirmation button in the chat, and for the complicated ones it takes you to the right screen.
Included in every plan →Maksim · example
Which invoices from this supplier are unpaid?
FT 2026/1184 · FT 2026/1201 · FT 2026/1233 — open
…and when it doesn’t know, it says it doesn’t know.
What about the team?
AI does the tedious work. The decision stays with the people who know.
DocBridge does not replace anyone. It takes away the part of the bookkeeper’s job that does not need their skills — copying numbers from a PDF into a screen, hunting for a piece of paper, matching a bank statement against a folder — and gives them back the part that does: understanding, checking, deciding.
Nothing reaches the books without being approved. Automatic approval exists, but it is the company that decides whether to switch it on and how far it goes. And some documents — Social Security payment slips, DMR, IRC, withholding tax, IES — are never approved automatically, by design.
In practice: the same person handles far more, with fewer mistakes and without staying late on the 10th. For an accounting firm, that is what makes it possible to take on more clients without hiring.
Built for Portugal
Made for Portugal, not translated for Portugal.
You can translate a screen; you cannot translate IVA, SAF-T, the ATCUD or a Portuguese delivery note. That is what sets DocBridge apart from international software that arrives with another country’s accounting.
AT QR code
Reads the Tax Authority QR code and checks it against what it extracted.
SNC and IVA
SNC chart of accounts, IVA codes and regions — Mainland, Azores and Madeira.
Centralgest
Posts directly to Centralgest Cloud via API, and reads back what is already there.
CAE-Rev.4
The full activity classification, the same as on your company registration certificate.
It knows Portuguese document types — invoice-receipt, delivery and transport notes, credit note, payslip, Social Security payment slip, DMR, IES — and the deadlines of the Tax Authority and Social Security.
It talks to the accounting
Posts directly to Centralgest Cloud via API, and reads back what the accountant posted by hand. With other software, documents reach the accountant already read and organised.
See how posting works →Your documents are yours
Archive isolated per company and stored on servers in the European Union. A deleted document is kept for 30 days before being erased.
Read the privacy policy →Straight questions
The essentials, plainly put.
What exactly is DocBridge?
An application that receives a company’s documents, reads them with artificial intelligence, classifies them and delivers them to the accountant. It is there to reduce the administrative work of managing paperwork.
Does it replace my accountant?
No. It takes away the work of collecting and typing documents, so they can do what they are qualified to do. Nothing reaches the books without being approved. See the page for accounting firms →
Does it work with the accounting software I already use?
It posts directly to Centralgest Cloud, via API. With other software, documents reach the accountant already read, classified and filed. See how posting works →
How long does it take to get started?
There is nothing to install. You create the account, a setup wizard guides the configuration step by step, and you connect your inbox.
Send 10 invoices. See the result.
We show you DocBridge working with your real documents, before any commitment.