A methodology forty years in the refining. Built by auditors who chose craft over scale — and never compromised.
The industry has spent the last two decades racing to the bottom. Larger firms compete on volume — onboarding hundreds of clients, deploying generalist auditors across standardized scripts, offshoring correspondence to reduce cost. The work is shallow by design. Depth is not what they sell.
We chose the other path in 1984 and have never left it. Small teams. American-based experts. Custom tooling for every engagement. Long relationships with clients who value this.
Every decision we make is filtered through a single question: does this make the work better, or only cheaper? If the answer is only cheaper, we have never been interested.
Forty years in, our methodologies have shaped recovery audit practice across the industry — many standards we pioneered are now imitated, never matched.
A comprehensive recovery audit has three progressively deeper tiers of error detection. Each tier requires its own tools, its own expertise, and its own discipline. Most competitors execute well on the first tier and bill out. We believe genuine recovery only begins at the second.
Duplicate payments, straightforward overpayments, missed discounts and allowances. Captured through basic reporting techniques — three-way match, standard duplicates reports, queries, and data-mining analytics. This is table stakes. Every firm does this tier.
Pricing errors. Under-deductions. Promotions and allowances. Freight and logistics anomalies. Non-monetized adjustments. Captured only by client-specific audit routines, tailored exception reporting, and algorithm-driven proprietary software that understands your business.
Cultural practices. ERP and EDI synchronization issues. Software and system failures. Unique transaction patterns that no script would ever recognize. Captured through intensive post-audit review by highly trained experts fluent in your supply chain, systems, and processes.
Our structured approach focuses resources across every tier, with the discipline to know where each engagement’s largest recoveries actually hide. Our goal is to identify and eliminate exposures across all stages of the continuum — never just the easy ones.
Contingency-based. One to two hours per week of your time. We handle the rest.
We work with the data you have — in any format, from any system, from whatever system you run on. Our developers build custom ingestion pipelines tailored to your environment. Data dictionary review to confirm understanding of each field. No discovery fees. No setup charges.
The first wave of findings begins flowing to your team weekly. Executive standard reports and queries isolate specific claim types. In parallel, our developers architect engagement-specific software for the deeper claim types. You start seeing recoveries within the first sixty days.
Our specialized tools come online. The deeper costing and discount work begins — cost-and-pricing alignment, vendor-terms compliance, promotional behavior, drop-ship margin integrity, and beyond. The recoveries that require bespoke software begin submitting to your team. Tier Two and Tier Three findings flow in.
Vendor correspondence is led by an expert with deep recovery audit experience and intimate knowledge of every claim’s content — a senior practitioner, not a delegated rep. Primarily same-day responses. 72-hour commitment on inquiries. Every interaction protects the vendor relationship.
We deliver a comprehensive report: findings summary, analytics, and — often most valuable — the systemic patterns we identified in your AP process that should be addressed to prevent future leakage. Recommendations for internal controls, continuous monitoring, and industry best practices.
Under Tim Mehlman’s leadership, we have built the most sophisticated technology stack in the recovery audit industry — every tool developed in-house, customized for every engagement, grounded in forty-plus years of practice.
Specialized tooling for the claims where the real money hides. The costing and discount work most firms avoid because it requires deep retail-operating knowledge to detect and substantiate.
Our proprietary Vendor Terms & Costing Database — built over four decades of practice and referenced on every engagement. The institutional memory clients inherit, not build.
Takes any data source, any format, any schema — and understands it. Our ingestion layer reads what you have in whatever shape it arrives, maps it against your environment, and normalizes it for the analysis engine downstream. No discovery fees. No setup charges. Your data, however it arrives.
The core of our testing. Flags every potential recovery across more than a hundred claim types, which our experts then carefully review. Configurable to client specifications, tailored to exact scope, claim-type set, and assumptions. The most thorough analysis device in the industry. Period.
Built for long-horizon audits. Handles review windows of seven-plus years of transactional data while maintaining claim precision. For engagements where volume would overwhelm generic tooling.
Our multi-pass duplicate-detection framework. Five distinct dimensions, each designed to catch a category of payment error missed by single-dimension industry-standard scripts.
Paperless claim management, built in-house. Clients access every claim, supporting documentation, vendor correspondence, and status in real time. Approve, deny, hold, or reverse from a single interface.
Proven with our longest-standing retail client and adaptable to any AP system. Enables near-instant processing of our claim output — weeks of manual entry compressed into a single bulk operation.
Zero material security incidents in forty-plus years of operation. We work with major ERPs and an equal share of homegrown systems, and our data-handling practices meet the standards expected by Fortune 1000 and beyond clients with sensitive financial information.
Client data resides on SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001–certified enterprise infrastructure, with strict access controls, encryption at rest and in transit, and end-to-end audit discipline applied to every engagement.
Client data is encrypted — at rest on our systems and in transit between parties. Enterprise-grade standards applied to every file, every transfer, every engagement.
Enterprise-grade protections against malware, phishing, and other threats. Inbound files pass through active threat defenses before they reach our team.
Access to client data is tightly scoped — limited to the team on your engagement, only for the work at hand. Every access is authenticated and logged.
We have ingested data from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDE, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, and dozens of homegrown platforms. Many clients run multiple ERPs across business units — we blend and normalize across systems.
We make your data work — in any format, from any system. One to two hours per week of client involvement is typical. Weekly progress reports keep you informed without consuming your time.
Every engagement is contingency-based. If we do not recover, you do not pay. Our incentive aligns perfectly with yours.
Rates are calibrated to each engagement. While we may not always carry the lowest rate, our clients consistently net the highest post-commission dollar recovery because our recoveries — deeper and more thorough than competitors — outpace the rate difference many times over.
Our commitment: deliver the maximum post-commission bottom-line profit recovery in the industry. We have been operating on this principle for forty years — reflected in industry-leading client retention and satisfaction.
Every rate is a conversation. Every relationship is a partnership.