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Leadership

The team building the AP Intelligence Platform. $1T+ in payments reviewed. $1B+ in errors caught.

FlexTrap is the AP Intelligence Platform from FlexTecs, co-founded in 2011 by Tom Cook and his father John Cook — founder of recovery audit pioneer PRGX Global (NASDAQ: PRGX). 600+ employees across three continents build the intelligence layer that surfaces real-time AP decisions for Fortune 500 finance teams. Cohere Capital is the new institutional backer.

Executive team

The operators building the AP Intelligence Layer

Decades in recovery audit. The intelligence layer built on top of it.

Tom Cook

Tom Cook

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CEO of FlexTecs. Co-founded the company in 2011 with his father John Cook (founder of PRGX Global, NASDAQ-listed) to bring technology to recovery audit. Today he leads the AP Intelligence Platform — the shift from reactive recovery to real-time AP insight, across Fortune 500 finance teams in retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy.

Anthony Massanelli

Anthony Massanelli

COO

Operations leader for FlexTecs' global footprint across Atlanta, Manchester, and Lalitpur. Anthony scaled the team from startup to 600+ employees and built the delivery model that consistently outperforms industry recovery benchmarks.

John Kidd

John Kidd

CTO

Architect of the FlexTrap platform and FlexTecs’ technology strategy. Leads the engineering team behind the AP Intelligence Layer and the 300+ checks running across SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, D365, and 80+ ERPs.

Craig Lawrence

Craig Lawrence

EVP, Global Client Services

Leads global client relationships and delivery. Owns the cross-ERP payment accuracy program that has recovered and prevented $1B+ in errors for FlexTecs clients.

Senior leaders

The specialists behind the intelligence layer

Engineering, operations, growth, and client delivery — careers spent in payment accuracy and recovery audit.

Our story

From recovery audit pioneers to the AP Intelligence Layer

FlexTrap was built on three decades of finding the payment errors that cost enterprises millions. See how the Cook family’s recovery audit heritage — and $1T+ in analyzed transactions — became the AI platform that stops errors before money leaves.

Read our full story

Backed by Cohere Capital

Strategic investment behind the AP Intelligence Platform

FlexTecs was founded with technology at its core and that has created tremendous differentiation in the market.
Daniel Gedney · Co-Founder and Partner, Cohere Capital

Cohere Capital's investment (announced January 2026) is funding the FlexTrap AP Intelligence Platform roadmap across SaaS scale, geographic expansion, and AI engineering depth.

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$1B+

Errors Recovered & Prevented

$1T+

Transactions Reviewed

600+

FlexTecs Employees