Recovering revenue you're owed has long carried a heavy price — a large slice of every dollar found. That price was set in an era of manual review. AI under governance has dismantled the cost base that justified it. Here's how we recover at scale, and why we think the pricing should fall.
Commercial recovery — finding the money your organisation is owed but never billed, or was over-charged by suppliers — has traditionally been delivered by recovery-audit and contingency-fee firms. Their model was simple: put analysts to work combing through contracts, pricing schedules and invoices by hand, find the leakage, and take a substantial share of whatever is recovered.
That share was rarely small. Contingency fees in recovery work have traditionally run to a double-digit percentage of every dollar returned — sometimes a large one. The justification was the labour: the work was slow, specialised and risky, so the firm carried the effort and the client paid a premium out of money that was, in truth, already theirs.
You were paying a premium for human hours. Those hours are exactly what AI has just made cheap.
The expensive part of recovery was never the insight — it was the grind. Reading millions of contract clauses and invoice lines to find the mismatches is precisely the kind of high-volume, repetitive work AI now does in a fraction of the time. The cost of the search has collapsed.
That doesn't make the work trivial, because a new bottleneck appears: trust. You cannot put a recovery claim in front of a customer or supplier on the say-so of an unsupervised model. Someone has to stand behind every figure. The firms that priced for manual labour have no answer to that — and the AI tools racing to automate it can't prove their work.
This is the problem we built for. Synalogic runs recovery through a governed pipeline: we ingest your contract, pricing and billing data; AI surfaces and quantifies the mismatches; a proprietary, human-in-the-loop method lets reviewers validate those findings at scale — holding rigour even as the population shifts with every pass; and every recovery is sealed with a traceable evidence trail and a documented sign-off.
The result is the speed of AI with a record that stands up. Whether the leakage is wide — hundreds of thousands of small under-charges, the "death by a thousand cuts" — or deep, across a handful of high-value contracts, the platform turns volume from an obstacle into an advantage. The bigger the data set, the sharper the return.
| Traditional recovery firm | Synalogic | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost base | Analyst headcount | Platform and governed review |
| Speed | Months of manual review | Weeks, often less |
| Pricing | Large share of recoveries | Flexible — far more stays with you |
| Defensibility | Workpapers, if you ask | Audit trail and sign-off, by design |
| Repeatable | A new engagement each time | A capability you can keep |
Because our cost base is software and governed review rather than an army of analysts, we can do the work faster and for far less — and we offer it the way that suits you: as a managed service with a modest success-based share, as a platform you license and run, or as a custom build. However you engage, the aim is the same: keep more of your own money in your hands.
We'll say plainly what the incumbents won't. When the labour that justified a large contingency fee has been automated, continuing to charge as though it hasn't is charging for work that no longer exists. The economics of recovery have changed. The pricing should change with them.
That's not a reason to stop recovering revenue — it's a reason to stop overpaying to do it. Big-four-grade rigour no longer has to come at big-four prices, and recovery no longer has to cost you a fortune in the money it finds.
FAQ
It is the process of finding and recovering revenue your organisation is owed but never billed, or was over-charged by suppliers, by reviewing large volumes of contract and billing data.
Traditional firms price around analyst headcount and take a large share of recoveries. Our cost base is software and governed review, so we can do the work faster and for far less, and leave more of the recovery with you.
Yes, when it is governed. AI does the matching, but a human validates and signs off every recovery, and the platform keeps a traceable evidence trail to the clause and charge behind each figure.
As a managed service with a modest success-based share, as a platform you license and run yourself, or as a custom build for your variant of the problem.
The bigger the better. The platform is built for high-volume work that is too slow and costly to review by hand, so volume works in your favour.
Tell us how your customers and suppliers are billed and where you suspect leakage. We'll show you how much is recoverable — and how little it should cost to recover it.
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