Proof and case studies
One operator. 10.2% found. Every number has a query.
These figures come from a single-site hospitality operator, read from a copy of production on 23 Oct 2026. We show what’s measured, what’s modelled and what this customer’s data can’t show yet.
Everything that came through the door.
Held for a reason, paid with evidence.
394 findings, each waiting for a person.
Distinct findings, counted once each, still waiting for the customer to act. The chart shows each class’s share of the money at stake. 14 supplier-behaviour findings carry no £ and aren’t charted.
415 findings already actioned by the customer, including VAT rate mismatches worth 4.0% of spend seen and a duplicate invoice.
Share of £ at stake, by class · 23 Oct 2026
96% hidden to 99% seen.
At day zero, 96% of this operator's spend was a total on a bill, or a total split only for VAT: no products, no category, nothing anyone could check. Today 99% of the spend OmniPATH reads sits in a line, in one of 115 categories. That's what makes price drift, VAT, duplicates and fraud visible in the first place.
- No lines
- Split for VAT only
- Undetermined
- Full detail
- 0%of spend records had a category
- 1.4%of spend had full line detail
- 62.9%of the year's ledger was a bill total with no lines
- 99.6%of lines read sit in a category
- 115categories in use, each mapped to a GL code
- 0.4%of lines still waiting for a category
Your accounting system still holds last year as totals. From go-live, every bill OmniPATH approves goes back to it coded. How the gate works
Different bases, both shown as they are: day zero is the profiled ledger spend over the 12 months to 10 Sep 2026; today is the line spend OmniPATH has read since. Hidden means a bill total, or lines split only by VAT rate. How we measured this
10.2% of spend seen came back as value found.
Measured against the sealed day-zero baseline. 7.6% comes straight from the records; the rest is time freed, modelled at the declared rates. What-ifs, VAT at stake and spend flagged for investigation are shown separately and never added in.
Declared assumptions: £24.63 an hour · 12 minutes per document handled manually · 25 minutes per exception · 12.5% late-payment penalty rate · 4.5% payment-timing rate
At stake, flagged or speculative. Never added in.
Three figures sit beside value found because a person has to act or decide before any of them is worth a pound.
of spend seen is VAT at stake on lines where the rate didn't match what was bought. Keyed as it stood, that's VAT paid and never reclaimed, or reclaimed and owed back to HMRC.
4.0% already actioned · 4.6% still openpayments the agents want a person to investigate: the same amount paid twice, a changed bank detail, an invoice raised out of hours. None of it counts until someone confirms it.
of spend seen, if every late supplier charged statutory interest and paying early cost 4.5% a year.
- Late-payment interest1.0%Statutory interest a supplier could charge on invoices paid late. Few ever do.
- Paying too early0.3%The cost of cash on invoices paid before they were due, at 4.5%.
What the books looked like before the gate.
Day zero is sealed from the accounting system before OmniPATH changes anything. This is what one year of ledger data looked like going in.
of profiled spend belonged to suppliers keyed under more than one name: one retailer four ways, a food supplier twice, another with a typo.
supplier contacts in the accounting system carried no spend in the sealed year. Every dormant record is a door left open.
of a year's ledger spend was a total on a bill. The largest supplier, nearly a third of profiled spend, had no lines at all.
of spend seen is VAT at stake on rate mismatches. The customer has already actioned 4.0%; 4.6% is still open.
of the year's bills carried a date still in the future when the baseline was sealed. Each one pulls spend into the wrong period.
of profiled spend went to supermarkets, outside any agreed price or catalogue.
From the sealed day-zero epoch of one live single-site hospitality operator (sealed 10 Sep 2026, covering the previous 12 months) and the findings read on 23 Oct 2026. Supplier groupings are our reading of the sealed spend records. How we measured this
This is invoice capture alone.
Several parts of the platform aren’t switched on for this customer yet. Each one would open up more of the 23 dimensions.
- OffBank payment matchingBank lines reconciled, and spend with no invoice found
- OffPurchase ordersThree-way match and maverick spend
- OffApproval rulesServed approval chains and straight-through approval
- OffDelivery schedulesThe Deliveries agent, cut-off and delivery reliability
- OffVAT reclaim dimensionActioned VAT findings (4.0% of spend seen) counted as value; the dimension failed on this read
The parts we won’t claim.
A claim we can’t defend on a live call doesn’t go on this page.
A year of bank lines is loaded but none are matched yet, so we don't claim reconciliation for this customer.
One goods receipt and no expected credits are recorded, so those agents have no results to report here.
Spend and savings forecasts are labelled as modelled and kept out of every total. Confidence on this series is too low to quote.
83 actioned supplier-risk findings covered invoices at risk. That's exposure, and it's never added to value.
33 possible duplicate or fraudulent payments are waiting for a person to investigate. They aren't counted anywhere until someone confirms them.
Read on 23 Oct 2026 from a same-day copy of the production database. The organisation is anonymised. Findings are counted once per fingerprint. Every figure has a named query, and the queries are available on request.
What the same rates would find for you.
We took the live operator’s value per pound of spend and applied it to your size. It’s a model, not a promise. It leaves out what-ifs, VAT at stake and spend flagged for investigation. It also leaves out multi-unit gains like comparing prices across units, because we haven’t measured them on a live customer yet. A unit is whatever you run: a site, a hotel, an office or a team.
- Units
- 30
- Annual spend
- £6.00m
- Invoices a year
- 20,928
- OverpaidPrice drift and price spikes against what was paid before£244.4k
- NegotiableVolume tiers and price swings worth renegotiating£209.1k
- Time freedKeying and fixing invoices, at £24.63 an hour£204.7k
Modelled from one live operator's rates per pound of spend seen (read 23 Oct 2026), scaled by spend and by that operator's invoice rate of about 3.5 invoices per £1,000 of spend. A unit is whatever you run: a site, a hotel, an office or a team. What-ifs (late-payment interest, paying early), VAT at stake and spend flagged for investigation are left out, and so are multi-unit gains such as comparing prices across units, which aren't measured on a live customer yet. Plan cost uses published monthly rates. See the live numbers
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