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TechScale Inc.
Technology · 1,200 employees · $28M annual AP spend

$340K in vendor overcharges recovered in 90 days

TechScale's finance team was processing 4,000+ invoices per quarter with no systematic way to check them against contract rates. RPLCBudget AI identified and recovered $340K in Q1 alone.

$340K
Recovered in Q1
First quarter live
$91K
Policy violations stopped
Pre-approval
38 hrs
AP hours saved / mo
From 40 → 2 hrs
3 days
Payback period
vs. annual plan cost

We recovered $340K in vendor overcharges in the first quarter alone. The policy enforcement module alone paid for itself in 3 weeks.

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Michael R.
CFO, TechScale Inc.

The Challenge

TechScale had grown from 400 to 1,200 employees in three years. AP volume tripled but the finance team grew by only one person. By Q4 2025, they were processing over 4,200 invoices per quarter — mostly approved on first pass because there simply wasn't time to verify each one against contract rates.

The CFO, Michael R., knew the error rate was growing. Duplicate invoices were caught occasionally by accident. A Salesforce billing error had gone undetected for eight months before a sharp-eyed AP coordinator noticed the overage. But without a systematic process, the team had no idea how much was slipping through.

"We suspected we had a problem. We just didn't know how big," Michael said. "When you're processing 4,000 invoices a quarter, you're triaging, not auditing."

The Solution

TechScale connected RPLCBudget AI to SAP Concur and their Ramp corporate card program in a single afternoon. The integration took four hours. By the next morning, the first audit report was in Michael's inbox.

The system flagged 47 transactions on day one. Three categories dominated:

  • ·Vendor overcharges vs. contract: 12 vendors had billed above the contracted rate at least once in the prior 90 days. The largest single discrepancy was a $28,000 overbilling from a cloud infrastructure vendor.
  • ·Duplicate invoices: 19 duplicate submissions, mostly from smaller vendors with manual invoicing processes. Combined: $42,000.
  • ·SaaS license overbilling: Four software vendors billing for seats past the agreed count. Combined: $67,000.

For each flagged item, RPLCBudget AI drafted the dispute documentation automatically — pulling the relevant contract clause, the invoice in question, and a line-by-line reconciliation. The AP team's job was to review and approve, not research and write.

The Outcome

By the end of Q1, TechScale had recovered $340,000 in vendor overcharges and stopped $91,000 in policy-violating expenses before they were approved. The AP team's time on recovery work dropped from 40 hours per month to 2 hours — the rest automated.

The ROI calculation was immediate. The annual cost of RPLCBudget AI at TechScale's scale was $15,600. The Q1 recovery alone was 22x that.

Michael presented the results to the board as a one-time recovery. The ongoing benefit — policy enforcement catching violations pre-approval — is now a permanent line item in the finance team's quarterly reporting.

"The thing that surprised me most wasn't the dollar amount," Michael said. "It was how quickly we became a vendor that invoices correctly. When vendors know you're checking, the error rate drops."

Time to first finding: 4 hours
From connection to first flagged transaction in the audit report.

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