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Trucking & Logistics

$2M a Year, Caught Before It's Paid

Driver payments were calculated using information scattered across multiple operational systems. Billers had no simple way to cross-check every payment, allowing approximately $2M in potential annual overpayments to go undetected. We built an agentic AI product that reviewed the underlying data, identified suspicious payments, and explained each discrepancy before the biller released the payment.

Users

Billers & operations teams

Before

fragmented records, limited review

→

After

flagged before payment

The problem

The information needed to verify a driver's payment lived across different operational data sources. Reviewing every record by hand was impractical, so discrepancies could pass through the payment process without being caught, sometimes not until after the driver had already been paid.

The problem wasn't missing data. It was connecting the data early enough to act on it.

The product

Before payments were released, the product analyzed the relevant records across the company's data sources and compared them for inconsistencies. Instead of asking billers to investigate every payment, it generated a focused report: which payments looked suspicious, the estimated overpayment amount, what created the discrepancy, which records supported the finding, and what the biller should check before approving payment. The biller stayed responsible for confirming the issue and deciding whether to adjust it.

01

Connect the records

Collect the operational and payment data associated with each driver payment.

02

Cross-check the payment

Specialized agents compare the records and evaluate whether the payment matches the underlying activity.

03

Identify exceptions

Potential duplicates, mismatches, or unsupported amounts are separated from normal payments.

04

Explain the discrepancy

Each flagged payment includes the suspected issue, estimated amount, and supporting evidence.

05

Review before payment

The biller confirms, dismisses, or corrects the exception before releasing the payment.

Key product decisions

01

Review exceptions, not every payment

The product prioritized potentially incorrect payments so billers could focus their attention where it mattered most.

02

Explain every flag

A dollar amount alone wasn't actionable. Each exception showed why it was flagged and which records supported the finding.

03

Intervene before the payment

The workflow surfaced discrepancies before money went out, while billers could still investigate and correct them.

What I owned

  • Mapped the driver-payment review workflow with billing and operations stakeholders
  • Defined the exception-review experience and reporting requirements
  • Translated overpayment scenarios into agent workflows and business rules
  • Designed the human-review step before payment approval
  • Partnered with engineering to develop and test the solution

The opportunity

  • Targeted approximately $2M in potential annual driver overpayments
  • Created a pre-payment control instead of relying only on retrospective auditing
  • Consolidated evidence from multiple data sources into one review experience
  • Gave billers a prioritized, explainable list of payment exceptions