Commercial & Federal Payment Integrity
Pay the Rate You Contracted.
Continuous audit of carrier invoices against the tender, the delivery record and the contracted rate — before the payment goes out, not after.
Problem Statement
The Bottleneck
Every freight invoice is a set of claims: that this lane was run, that this weight moved, that this detention accrued. Each claim is checkable against records the carrier already sent — but at volume nobody checks them, so invoices are settled on trust and the exceptions are found months later, if at all. For federal agencies this is not a matter of diligence: 31 U.S.C. 3726 requires a prepayment audit of every transportation bill before it is paid, and GSA audits those payments afterwards regardless.
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The Sortie Solution
How it works.
Ingestion
Sortie takes carrier invoices, shipment status records and load tenders — over EDI in the formats already flowing between you and your carriers, from a TMS export, or by upload. No new format for anyone to adopt.
Three-Way Match
Each invoice is resolved to its load, its original tender and its proof of delivery, and the governing rate is identified for that lane, class and weight break — including the fuel surcharge recalculated from the index the contract actually specifies.
Discrepancy Feed
Rate variances, unsupported accessorials, detention billed beyond the recorded dwell, invoices dated before delivery, duplicates and carrier-initiated reweighs are flagged with the timestamp or contract term that produced the finding — awaiting your team’s authorisation to short-pay or dispute.
In The Field
Example Use Case
A carrier bills four hours of detention. The shipment status record it sent days earlier timestamps arrival and departure ninety minutes apart. That comparison needs no judgment and no negotiation — it is two numbers from the same carrier — and at any real volume it is never performed by hand.
Outcome
Benefits
- Satisfies the prepayment audit federal agencies are required to perform
- Every finding cites the record that produced it
- Audit only — we never take custody of your funds
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