APAC · SINGAPORE · INDIA · AUSTRALIA · INDONESIA · JAPAN

The finance team is the bottleneck.
Not anymore.

Across APAC, marketing agencies run campaigns across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously — India, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, Japan. Each with its own payment rail, tax requirement, and data regulation. The finance team reconciles all of it manually. Cognitiva links every approval to every payment to every accounting entry — automatically, before anyone opens a spreadsheet.

1.5 FTEs
Finance-team labor recovered per cycle at 100 campaigns/month.
0 days
Delay between deliverable approval and invoice clearance. Not 3–5.
6+ markets
Singapore, India, Indonesia, Australia, Japan, Korea — one execution ledger.
100%
Of billed campaigns auditable on demand. No retroactive document hunts.

WHAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH

Multi-market APAC execution. No single execution record that holds up under audit.

Today, without Cognitiva

  • Finance team manually reconciles approvals, platform payments, and ERP entries across 30+ tools and 6+ markets. 16–24 hours per cycle.
  • 3–5 day delay between deliverable approval and invoice clearance. Working capital locked across multi-currency portfolios.
  • Tax metadata (GST Australia, GST India, PPN Indonesia, JCT Japan, GST Singapore) reconstructed retroactively per market. Audit risk.
  • Disputes about whether an approval happened resolve on screenshots across WhatsApp, LINE, KakaoTalk, WeChat. No evidentiary record.
  • Data privacy: PDPA (Singapore/Thailand), PDPA (India), Privacy Act (Australia) — consent not documented at source.

With Cognitiva

  • Every approval — WhatsApp, LINE, KakaoTalk, email, Slack — captured as a signed, time-stamped evidentiary event.
  • Reconciliation approaches zero. Finance team redirected to higher-value work. Cash flow freed the same day.
  • Tax metadata captured per payment event per market. Year-end reporting becomes a query, not a multi-market fire drill.
  • Disputes resolve in minutes. The execution record is cryptographically signed and shared between agency and brand.
  • PDPA/Privacy Act consent documented at brief acceptance. DPO can respond to a data request in hours.

SIX MARKETS · ONE LEDGER

Every market you operate in. Already covered.

SG

Singapore

PDPA

Personal Data Protection Act. Consent documented at brief acceptance. DPO-ready by design.

GST

9% GST on marketing services. Metadata captured per payment event. IRAS-compliant records auto-generated.

IMDA

Info-communications Media Development Authority guidelines for digital advertising and influencer disclosure.

PAYMENT RAIL

Stripe SGD · FAST instant payment network

IN

India

DPDP Act 2023

Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Consent at data collection. Data Principal rights (access, correction, erasure) supported.

GST / TDS

18% GST on agency services. TDS deducted at source on creator payments. Form 26Q metadata captured per event.

ASCI

Advertising Standards Council of India. Disclosure requirements for sponsored content — #ad, #sponsored per post.

PAYMENT RAIL

Stripe INR · UPI instant rails

AU

Australia

Privacy Act 1988

APPs (Australian Privacy Principles). Consent documented. Breach notification within 30 days under NDB scheme.

GST

10% GST. BAS (Business Activity Statement) metadata captured per transaction. ATO-compliant records.

AANA / ASB

Australian Association of National Advertisers & Ad Standards Board. Influencer disclosure requirements enforced.

PAYMENT RAIL

Stripe AUD · NPP (New Payments Platform) instant

ID

Indonesia

PDP Law 2022

Personal Data Protection Law. Data subject consent at collection. Kominfo oversight.

PPN (VAT)

11% PPN on services. e-Faktur (electronic tax invoice) required for B2B transactions. Metadata captured per payment event.

KPI / BRTI

Advertising content compliance. Disclosure of commercial relationships in influencer content.

PAYMENT RAIL

Stripe IDR · GoPay · OVO instant rails

JP

Japan

APPI

Act on the Protection of Personal Information. Explicit consent required. Third-party disclosure rules. PPC oversight.

JCT

10% Japanese Consumption Tax. Invoice System (October 2023) requires registered number on all invoices. Metadata captured per event.

JARO / JAA

Japan Advertising Review Organization. Clear labeling of PR content — #PR, #広告 per post per platform.

PAYMENT RAIL

Stripe JPY · instant bank transfer

KR

Korea

PIPA

Personal Information Protection Act. One of Asia's strictest. Consent granularity required. PIPC oversight.

VAT 10%

VAT on marketing services. Tax invoice issuance via Hometax system. Metadata captured per payment event.

KFTC / IAB Korea

Korea Fair Trade Commission. Disclosure requirements for sponsored content — commercial relationship must be clearly identified.

PAYMENT RAIL

Stripe KRW · Kakao Pay instant

YOUR RECONCILIATION COST

We run the numbers on the call. Here is the model.

LINE ITEMWITHOUT COGNITIVAWITH COGNITIVASAVING
Finance team hours per cycle16–24 hrs< 2 hrs~20 hrs recovered
Days approval → invoice cleared3–5 daysSame dayCash flow freed
Multi-market tax prep per year6–8 weeksOne query~120 hrs recovered
Dispute resolution timeDays–weeksMinutesEvidentiary record
Audit response time (per jurisdiction)Days< 1 hourPre-built dossier
FTE cost @ $85K/year1.5–2.0 FTE~0.2 FTE$108K–$144K/yr

Numbers modelled against your actual campaign volume and market mix on the proof call. Your portfolio, your CFO, your number.

YOUR STACK. UNCHANGED.

We read from the tools your teams already use across APAC.

Asana, Slack, WhatsApp, LINE, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero. Cognitiva sits beneath every tool and links the events your finance team connects manually today — across every market you operate in.

Project & Approval

Asana
Monday
ClickUp
Notion
Trello
Linear

Communication

Slack
WhatsApp
LINE
KakaoTalk
WeChat
Email

Payment & Finance

Stripe
QuickBooks
Xero
NetSuite
FreshBooks

Signing & CRM

DocuSign
HubSpot
Salesforce
Adobe Sign

WHAT YOUR BRAND CLIENTS NOW GET

Every campaign you bill — auditable before the invoice arrives.

Brand procurement and finance teams across APAC increasingly require documentary proof that agency-delivered work happened as commissioned. Cognitiva gives your clients cryptographic proof — and makes your agency the one they can't replace.

01

The approval record.

Who approved the deliverable, when, via which tool, against which version of the brief. Cryptographically signed. Neither party can amend it after the fact. Disputes resolve at the record, not in a LINE group chat.

02

The payment trail.

Every Stripe payment linked to the specific approval that authorised it. Tax metadata (GST/PPN/JCT/VAT) per event per jurisdiction. Your CFO and your client's CFO see the same object. No reconciliation gap across markets.

03

The compliance dossier.

PDPA/Privacy Act consent, advertising disclosure status (#ad, #PR, #广告) per post per platform, tax invoice metadata — assembled automatically as the campaign runs. Available on demand. One-click export per jurisdiction.

04

The competitive moat.

Agencies that deliver auditable execution records across multiple APAC jurisdictions simultaneously become the agencies that win enterprise procurement qualification. Your record is your retention tool.

THE PROOF CALL

45 minutes. We model your number.

We run the reconciliation saving calculation against your actual campaign volume and market mix on the call. No deck. No general ROI claim. Your APAC portfolio, your CFO, your number. You leave with a signed model in your inbox before the call ends.

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NO DECK · NO NDA · JUST YOUR STACK ON SCREEN

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