CrewBlast has unveiled an upgraded version of its CrewBlast Wallet platform with AI and optical character recognition (OCR) technologies to enhance billing and expensing processes for aviation contractors. The platform, launched in 2021, connects operators with crewmembers and helps contract pilots and flight attendants with financial management.

The app’s new features include AI-powered receipt and invoice review, which ensures data accuracy by automatically matching receipts with invoices. Additionally, users can now email receipts directly to CrewBlast and AI processes the information and uploads it. Improved receipt image quality ensures that receipts are clear for Accounts Payable teams, while international currency conversion simplifies billing for global travelers.

“With the enhanced CrewBlast Wallet, we’re not just streamlining invoicing and expensing processes—we’re redefining them,” said CrewBlast founder and CEO Timothy Griffin. “These upgrades are a testament to our commitment to solving real-world challenges faced by corporate flight departments.” Griffin noted that the app’s crewing response time in 2024 was 96 seconds.

The app works on both Android and iOS, and its platform is available as a SaaS model for flight departments to use internally. CrewBlast started with contract flight crew staffing services and in 2023 added expensing and invoicing capabilities and partnered with Clear and IdRamp to offer enhanced security processes. In July, the platform began offering full-time staffing solutions in addition to connecting operators with contract crew.