Methodology
Forty-five checks run over every batch, grouped by what each one needs to see. Findings come from arithmetic against your own documents, not from estimation or pattern-spotting.
These need your carrier contract. They are the highest-value checks, because a rate error repeats on every consignment until someone catches it.
These need bills of lading or proofs of delivery. They catch the difference between what was billed and what actually happened.
These need nothing but the invoice, so they run even on a first look before you have sent contracts or delivery records.
Some errors are only visible when the month is viewed together rather than invoice by invoice.
Accessorials that cannot both be true on one shipment — residential delivery alongside dock-level delivery, hand unload alongside forklift.
Accessorials with no underlying freight charge to attach to, and shipments appearing on an invoice with no delivery record anywhere in the batch.
Fuel that is an unreasonable share of the shipment cost, where no fuel terms are on file to measure it against.
Every recoverable finding names the charge line, the clause or record it contradicts, and the arithmetic between them. A carrier's billing team can check it in minutes, which is exactly the point — a claim that can be verified is a claim that gets paid.
Where the evidence is not conclusive, nothing goes in the report. The system is deliberately biased toward missing money rather than inventing it, because a claim that cannot be proven is worse than no claim at all.
Underneath sits the unglamorous work that makes any of it possible: unit conversion across kg, lb and tonnes, cubic and volumetric weight by mode, multiple currencies, differing date and number formats, carriers trading under several names, and the fact that every carrier labels their invoice columns differently.
Proven overcharges only
Every finding is quantified and evidenced from your own documents, with the charge line, the contract clause and the delivery record behind it.
Plus what caused them
Where an error traces back to something fixable — a wrong rate on a carrier's table, a surcharge applied by default — you get that too, so it stops recurring.
Anything we cannot prove is not your problem to sort out. It never reaches you as a number.
Every check above runs on the first batch you send. Questions about any of them are welcome before you send anything.