Axia Agro: When Growth Puts Pressure on Cash—and Treasury Delivers

Scaling fast is hard. Scaling with fewer people is even harder.

Axia Agro had been through an intense growth cycle—new business lines, multiple legal entities, dozens of bank accounts, and operations spread across regions.

Then came the other side of growth: a more challenging environment in agribusiness, rising defaults, and the need to streamline the organization.

Fewer people. Same complexity. More pressure on cash.

They needed more control—without growing the team.

Fragmented cash doesn’t scale

Before Datanomik, Axia Agro’s financial operations—like in many fast-growing companies—were highly decentralized:

• ~100 bank accounts
• ~9 legal entities
• Multiple banking partners (large banks, regional players, and cooperatives)

To understand their consolidated cash position, everything was manual—a weekly consolidation done by the finance team. The result?

• Delayed information
• Limited visibility for decision-making
• Significant time spent on operational tasks
• Difficulty identifying inconsistencies (such as incorrect fees)

Even with a previous tool in place, integration wasn’t reliable or robust enough to support their growth.

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The turning point: real-time visibility

With Datanomik, this changed in a matter of days. In about 2 days, nearly all accounts were fully integrated.

What was once fragmented became structured:

• Daily consolidated balances by entity and region
• Connectivity across virtually all banking partners
• Custom reporting for the CFO and CEO
• A solid foundation to evolve into cash flow forecasting and automated cash pooling

What used to take days became available in a single click.

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When efficiency becomes strategy

The gains were immediate—but the impact went far beyond operational efficiency.

Time saved

• +6 hours per week saved just on cash consolidation
• Up to ~12 hours per week with heavier usage

Stronger financial control

• Identification of ~R$2,000 in incorrect bank fees
• Greater leverage in bank negotiations

Scaling without adding headcount

• The team remained lean despite growing complexity
• Focus shifted from data gathering to decision-making

Better governance and speed

• Daily insights for leadership
• Faster responses in critical moments

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What this story shows

Axia Agro’s experience reinforces something every treasury leader has felt in practice:

As operations grow—and especially when they need to tighten—cash visibility stops being a luxury and becomes a necessity.

And beyond that:

• Bank connectivity isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about risk reduction
• Better data directly improves decision-making
• Automation frees up the team to think, not just execute

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What’s next

With a structured foundation in place, Axia Agro now has clear visibility into what comes next:

• Advancing into actual and forecasted cash flow
• Automating cash pooling with intelligent rules
• Continuing the shift from operations to strategy