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[From Clay Tablets to Email Hell: The 5,000-Year History of Invoice Chaos](/content/did-you-know/from-clay-tablets-to-email-hell-the-5000-year-history-of-invoice-chaos/ "From Clay Tablets to Email Hell: The 5,000-Year History of Invoice Chaos"/index.html)

If you’ve ever received an invoice as a 47-line-item PDF attachment named “Invoice.pdf” and thought “there has to be a better way,” congratulations—you’re experiencing the same frustration merchants have felt for 5,000 years. Invoices are arguably the most important document in business. They’re how companies get paid. Yet somehow, in five millennia, humanity has managed...

[The Hilariously Chaotic History of Receipts](/content/did-you-know/history-of-receipts-and-how-ai-finally-fixed-them/ "The Hilariously Chaotic History of Receipts"/index.html)

If you’ve ever stood in a CVS checkout line watching a receipt print for what feels like an eternity, or tried to find last year’s warranty receipt only to discover it’s faded into a mysterious blank slip of thermal paper, you’re experiencing the culmination of 145 years of receipt chaos. The humble store receipt has...

[The “Dead Corporation Walking” Problem](/content/did-you-know/the-dead-corporation-walking-problem/ "The “Dead Corporation Walking” Problem"/index.html)

In the early days of interstate commerce in America (late 1800s/early 1900s), there was no standardized way to verify if a company was legitimate when doing business across state lines. This led to hilarious (and costly) situations where: The Ghost Company Scam Con artists would create companies, let them fall into bad standing or even...