The reliable spine
The reliable spine is deterministic: the clean vendor and rate-agreement record and the match of each incoming invoice against agreed scope and rate, flagging duplicates, over-billing and off-contract charges before payment.
Professional Services (CA, Law, Consulting)
The firm's own AP and vendor-invoice check
The firm checks its clients' invoices forensically and never checks its own. Vendor, sub-consultant and counsel invoices are paid against engagements nobody matched to the agreed scope and rate, so duplicate payments, over-billing, off-contract rates and quantity differences slip through, and the leak surfaces, if ever, at audit.
Who has it
Law firms and advisory and consulting firms most, on counsel, sub-consultant and vendor spend, and any firm paying a meaningful volume of vendor and sub-contractor invoices. A firm is itself a finance operation, and it leaks on its own buying.
What we build
A clean vendor and rate-agreement record and a deterministic match of the firm's own incoming invoices against the agreed scope and rate, flagging duplicate payments, over-billing and off-contract charges before payment. AI reads the varied vendor and counsel invoices into structured rows the match runs on, with non-AI validation wrapped around every read. The pay-approval itself is always a named partner's.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
Where AI helps
AI reads the varied vendor and counsel invoices into structured rows the match runs on, with non-AI validation wrapped around every read; it never owns the number, the approval, the promise or the decision.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
The firm catches its own over-billing and duplicate payments before they go out, not at audit; clean invoices flow through for one-click approval; only genuine exceptions reach a partner.
Illustrative outcome
Duplicate-payment and over-billing leakage on the firm's own spend caught and recovered each cycle.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
How this one gets built.
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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