Carrier invoice audit

Pay what you agreed to.

Every carrier invoice, checked line by line against your contracted rates before it's paid.

Detention · 3 hrs · $225.00
Contract: 2 hrs free, then $75/hr · Expected $75.00 · Sent for review

Monday. The invoices are in.

Someone keys the detention, liftgate and fuel lines into a spreadsheet, because that's the job. Nobody has time to check each one against the contract, so the carrier's number becomes your number.

Invoice 48817 · Carrier 07
Invoice 2291-A · Carrier 12
Statement, week 41 · Carrier 03
Demo

Ninety seconds. One invoice.

An invoice arrives by email. Watch each charge get checked against the contract, and the ones that don't match go to a person.

Invoice 48817 · Carrier 07
Sample dataPlay · 1:30
LineBilledContractStatus
Line haul, Ontario CA to Phoenix AZ$1,840.00$1,840.00Matches
Fuel surcharge31.0%28.5% at this week's indexSent for review
Detention, 3 hrs$225.00$75.00Sent for review
Liftgate$95.00$95.00Matches
2 of 4 lines don't match contract · Difference $196.00
Approve disputeMark as correct
How it works

Read. Match. Decide.

Built on our rate-card engine and set up for your carriers and your contracts.

01

Read

We read invoice emails and attachments straight from your Outlook inbox. Each charge becomes its own line, and the model scores how sure it is of every field.

Fuel surcharge · 31.0% · confidence: high
02

Match

Plain code, not AI, compares each charge to the contracted rate for that carrier, lane and date. Same invoice, same answer, every time.

Fuel surcharge · 31.0%
Carrier 07 · Fuel table rev. 2026-03 · 28.5%
03

Decide

Anything that doesn't match, and anything the model isn't sure of, goes to your team. A person approves every dispute before a carrier sees it.

Detention · 3 hrs · $225.00Review
Expected $75.00Approved by J.M. · 10:42
Reporting

Your dashboard shows the numbers.
This makes sure they're right.

Checked line items flow into the reporting you already run. No new dashboard to learn.

Invoice→
Checked line items→
Your reporting
Engagement

Start small. Read-only.

Discovery

2 to 3 weeks, paid

We map how invoices arrive, who touches them and where each contract lives. Then we check a sample of your paid invoices against those contracts and size what's slipping through.

Pilot

one carrier or one DC

Accessorials only, with read-only access. A person on your team approves every dispute.

Expand

all carriers

Fuel surcharges join accessorials, every carrier is covered, and audited results feed your reporting on their own.

Discovery ends with one number, from your own invoices: what unchecked charges cost you over the sample period.

Each phase is scoped and priced before it starts.

Security

Your data. Your code.

  • Read-only access to start.
  • Nothing goes to a carrier until a person approves it.
  • Your invoices are never used to train AI models.
  • You own 100% of the code.
Proof

The engine already runs. Beta

The matching comes from Roed, a freight quoting product we built, now in beta with a domestic forwarder. It reads freight emails, scores its own confidence and prices loads from contracted rate cards in code, with a person approving what goes out.

See Roed →
The Roed quote review screen, where a person approves a freight quote before it is sent.
About
Portrait of Eddie Valdez, founder of Barael.
Eddie Valdez
Cupertino, CA

One builder. No handoffs.

Barael is Eddie Valdez, a product manager for ten years, building from Cupertino, California. The person on your first call is the person who writes the code.

Barael. The contract sets the price.

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