Independent reconciliation of contract terms against invoices, in both directions: what you bill your customers, and what your vendors bill you. Every gap is valued, evidenced and given an owner.
| Term | Contract | Invoice | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year-one discountOrder form, sec. 3 | 20% off, months 1 to 12 | 20% off in month 19 | +$38,400/yr |
| Renewal upliftMSA, sec. 4.2 | +5% at each renewal | +0% at renewal | +$21,000/yr |
| Committed minimumOrder form, sec. 2 | 50 seats minimum | 38 seats billed | +$28,800/yr |
| Payment termsMSA, sec. 7 | Net 30 | Net 30 | Tied |
| Term | Contract | Invoice | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome definitionOrder form, sched. B | Resolved when confirmed, no reopen in 72h | Counted after 24h of silence | −$46,200/yr |
| Committed rateOrder form, sec. 5 | Contract rate for 24 months | List rate from month 7 | −$18,900/yr |
| Usage poolOrder form, sec. 6 | One pool across all teams | Overage charged per team | −$12,600/yr |
| Service creditSLA, sec. 2 | Credit for missed uptime | Applied the next month | Tied |
A term agreed in a contract has to survive every hand-off before it appears correctly on an invoice. Where it drops out, money leaks, quietly and every month.
They come up in conversation after conversation with finance, revenue and operations teams. None are exotic. Each one sits between two teams or two systems.
A year-one concession is typed in as a number, and billing never learns it was meant to expire.
The contract has an annual increase; the renewal goes out at last year’s rate.
Minimums, tiers and caps are reset when a renewal is rebuilt from scratch.
What matters sits in an order form or side letter, never in a field a system reads.
The deal closes in the CRM; the billing record is late, partial or set up differently.
With usage and outcome pricing, the party sending the bill decides what counted.
A negotiated rate applies for a few months, then quietly reverts.
Usage agreed as one pool is billed team by team, with overage before the commitment is used.
Service credits agreed after a dispute never reach the next invoice.
Per-conversation and per-outcome charges grow monthly, with no one tying them to what happened.
Why it persists
Usually in an audit, a migration or a dispute. There is no routine check.
Sales owns the deal, finance the invoice, operations the systems. The gap belongs to nobody.
On usage-priced bills, whoever benefits from the count is the one keeping it.
Some gaps sit on accounts or vendors everyone is proud of. An outside review makes them discussable.
Every review has a fixed scope agreed before work starts, uses exports you choose to share, and ends with findings your team can act on.
Your signed contracts, amendments and renewals reconciled against what you actually invoiced.
Usage-, credit- and outcome-priced charges, including AI agents, checked against what happened and what your contract defines.
The same checks every month on new contracts, amendments and bills, so the next gap is caught in weeks, not years.
For existing clients. Once your costs are verified, we can baseline what your AI spend returns, initiative by initiative, with each claim graded by the strength of its evidence.
Each finding carries its value, the evidence behind it, the cause, the fix and an owner, so it can go straight to the person who closes it.
The commitment as signed.
Fees increase by five percent at each renewal term.
Three renewals created without the uplift line.
Billed at the prior year’s rate on all three accounts.
Forward value at current volumes, and the amount missed to date, shown line by line.
Fictional figures for illustration. Every review uses your own contracts and invoices.
Your effort is a kickoff and a few short check-ins. Your systems stay untouched.
Thirty minutes on how a contract or a vendor bill travels through your business.
Under NDA, a few contracts or one month of bills, so you see a real finding first.
A fixed scope across the contracts or vendors that matter most, with check-ins as findings land.
Every finding with its value, evidence and owner, plus the routine that keeps it closed.
Optional. The same checks each month, so nothing new slips through.
Contracts and invoices are sensitive. These commitments are written into every engagement before any data changes hands.
Nothing is shared before a non-disclosure agreement and a data processing agreement are signed.
Account IDs instead of names, identities hashed, and every field you don’t need left out.
Checks can run where your data already lives, with only the results coming back to us.
Your data is never used to train any AI model, ours or anyone else’s.
Data is removed when the engagement closes, and we confirm the deletion in writing.
We never contact your customers or vendors. Everything we find comes back to you.
If you advise finance teams, you see these gaps before anyone else. Refer a client, or bring Skopos into an engagement you already run.
Anything else, ask in the first conversation.
No. We work from exports you choose to share, or run checks inside your environment if you prefer.
Not today. It is a hands-on review by people who know how contracts become invoices, supported by our own tooling.
Never. Everything comes back to you, and you decide what to correct, recover or dispute.
We give you the evidence and a dispute-ready pack. Your team raises it, and we support the conversation if you want us to.
Then you have evidence that your process works, and a routine to keep it that way.
A vendor can’t referee its own bill, and a billing platform works for the seller. We have no product to sell you on either side.
Tell us how a contract turns into an invoice in your business, on either side. We’ll tell you where we would look first. No cost and no obligation.