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The Invoice Teardown.

if I find nothing, you pay nothing — my own store's first line-by-line audit found $2,042

Send me one month of your distributor invoices — phone photos or PDFs, any vendor. I run every line through the same scanning pipeline I built for my own store, read the results myself, and send you a written teardown within 3 business days: overcharge candidates, substitutions, short-ship exposure — itemized in dollars — plus the top three recoverable items and exactly what to say to your vendor.

$295

FLAT · 3 BUSINESS DAYS
FINDS LESS THAN $295? IT'S FREE
CREDITS TOWARD THE AUDIT (60 DAYS)

Start a teardown No payment now — intake first, invoice after

What you send

DEAD SIMPLE — PHOTOS COUNT

01One month of invoices. Sysco, US Foods, produce, dairy, bread, chemicals — whatever vendors bill you. All of them is best; your biggest vendor alone still works.

02In whatever shape they're in. Phone photos of the paper stack, PDF downloads from a vendor portal, or both. Crumpled, coffee-stained, out of order — all normal.

03Nothing else. No spreadsheets to fill in, no logins to share, no setup call. If I need your contract price on a flagged item, I'll ask for that one number.

Privacy, plainly: your invoices are seen by me only, never shared with anyone, and deleted on request the moment we're done.

the whole intake is one email with attachments — if you can photograph a delivery slip at the back door, you're already qualified

What you get back

A WRITTEN TEARDOWN — EVERY LINE, IN DOLLARS

Sample teardown · format preview

Celery 4/5 lb · #1230001billed $87.57/cs · contract $41.74~2× contract · 4 weeks runningrecoverable — credit request drafted

Banana Slice IQF · #4882694ordered 4 cs · received 3 csshort ship · signed cleanexposure quantified — dispute language included

Strawberry IQF · #7059961$46.51/csmatches last-paid + patternclean — no action

House Granolasubstituted SKU, +$4.60/cs vs ordered itemsubstitution driftavoidable — order-guide fix suggested

TOP THREE RECOVERABLES, TOTALED$ itemized in your teardown

plus: what to say to the vendor, word for word, for each flagged line

Item numbers and prices above are representative demo values, not any store's contract terms — those stay between you and your vendor. Your teardown carries your real lines and your real dollars.

Why $295 with a straight face

THE HONEST ECONOMICS

Reason 01

The scanner already exists.

I built an AI invoice-scanning pipeline for my own store and it runs daily. Your month of invoices is about thirty minutes of machine work — I'm not billing you for building the machine.

Reason 02

The read is the product.

The machine flags; an operator decides what's actually recoverable — which flags are worth a vendor call, which are noise, and what the ask should sound like. That's the part you're paying for.

Reason 03

It's the first rung, priced like one.

$295 is deliberately small: it's the fastest, cheapest way to find out what your invoices are hiding — and it credits toward the audit if you want the full walkthrough after.

The guarantee, in writing: if the teardown doesn't identify at least $295 in recoverable or avoidable money, you don't pay. I can offer that because line-level reading almost always beats the summary line — the first time I did this on my own store's invoices, one celery line returned $2,042.

Where it leads

THE FIRST RUNG — NOTHING ABOVE IT IS REQUIRED

3.0 · START

The Teardown answers one month.

You learn what your invoices are hiding, in dollars, with the vendor scripts to go get it. For a lot of operators this is enough — take the credits and run.

3.1 · IF IT FINDS MONEY

The Audit answers the whole operation.

The $2,500 AI Operations Audit walks everything — ordering, labor, reporting, vendors — and prices every fix by payback. Your $295 applies as credit if you book within 60 days.

CONTINUOUS

The software catches the next one.

A teardown reads last month; it can't watch next week's truck. OpsBrain is the tool that runs this same check continuously, at the back door, on every delivery — built at my store, mentioned here because it's the honest answer to "how do I keep catching this?"

Teardown FAQ

BEFORE YOU SEND

What invoices qualify for the teardown?

One month of distributor invoices from any vendor — Sysco, US Foods, produce, dairy, bread, chemicals. Phone photos of paper invoices work; so do PDF downloads from a vendor portal. They don't need to be organized, complete, or legible-everywhere — messy is normal. If a page is unreadable, it gets flagged rather than guessed at. Invoices are seen by me only, never shared, and deleted on request.

What happens if the teardown finds nothing?

Then it's free — that's the guarantee. If the written teardown doesn't identify at least $295 in recoverable or avoidable money across overcharges, substitutions, and short-ship exposure, you don't pay. The guarantee exists because line-level invoice reading almost always surfaces something a summary line hides; the first line-by-line audit at my own store recovered $2,042 from a single item.

Is the Invoice Teardown the same as OpsBrain?

No. The teardown is a one-time, human-read audit: I run your month of invoices through the scanning pipeline and personally read the results, then write up what's recoverable and what to say to the vendor. OpsBrain is continuous software that runs the same style of check on every delivery, every week, at the back door. The teardown is the fastest way to learn what your invoices are hiding; the software is how you keep catching it.

Start a teardown

INTAKE FIRST — I INVOICE AFTER

One month of invoices. Three days. In dollars.

Tell me who your vendors are and roughly how many invoices a month you get — that's all I need to say yes. I'll reply within 24 hours with the intake email address, and the $295 invoice comes after your teardown does.

no checkout, no card form — this starts as a conversation, like everything else here