Client Success Story

RAG NL-to-SQL: Natural Language Queries for Accounts Payable

Screenshot of the RAG-Powered Natural Language to SQL for Accounts Payable Automation project interface

Project Overview

Democratizing Financial Data with Secure NL-to-SQL

A proof of concept using RAG architecture to enable non-technical users to interact with accounting data through natural language queries translated into secure SQL.

Industry:

Accounts Payable Automation

Location:

Australia

Duration:

3 months

Budget:

$15K

Strategy & Execution

How We Built Secure Natural Language SQL with RAG & Azure OpenAI

We approached this engagement as a RAG-driven AI data access project, rather than a generic NL-to-SQL experiment.

Our focus was on: Designing a secure AI interface between natural language input and a financial SQL database.

Implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to ground AI output in database schema, metadata, and query rules.

Prioritizing accuracy, safety, and auditability, critical for finance and accounting workflows.

Delivering a fast PoC while maintaining a clear path to production readiness.

Instead of relying on raw LLM output, we structured the system so the model reasons over retrieved schema context before generating SQL, significantly reducing errors and risk.

The Data Access Barrier in Modern Accounting

For financial SaaS platforms, enabling easy data access introduces several challenges: Business users need insights but lack SQL expertise.

Direct AI-to-database interaction can lead to unsafe or incorrect queries.

Accounting data demands strict control, validation, and traceability.

Any AI solution must integrate cleanly with existing cloud infrastructure.

The core challenge was proving that AI could generate accurate, secure SQL queries from natural language without compromising data integrity.

Interface screenshot demonstrating RAG-Based NL-to-SQL PoC features

RAG-Based NL-to-SQL PoC

We delivered a working PoC and after MVP with the following capabilities:

KEY FEATURES IMPLEMENTED:

  • 01

    RAG-Based Natural Language to SQL

    A retrieval layer supplies the LLM with database schema and table relationships, column definitions and constraints, and predefined query boundaries. This context-driven approach enabled consistent, reliable SQL generation.

  • 02

    Secure Cloud Integration

    The solution integrated AWS RDS (SQL) as the data source and Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o) for language understanding and generation. Strict access controls ensured safe execution of generated queries.

  • 03

    API & Interface Layer

    We built a simple interface that accepts natural language questions, generates validated SQL statements, and returns structured results for downstream use.

  • 04

    Production-Aware Architecture

    Although delivered as a PoC, the system was designed with clear separation between AI, data, and execution layers, scalability and governance in mind, and readiness for future role-based access and logging.

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