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Revenue Leak Detective

Revenue leakage review

Where could completed work be missing from billing?

Compare synthetic completed-work and invoice records to find jobs that may be unbilled, underbilled, or awaiting review.

A complete finance workflow

The spreadsheet has the numbers. The missing context is usually in someone's head.

Teams usually compare completed work with invoices by hand, ask operations what happened, and reconstruct missing context across spreadsheets, email, and meetings.

  1. 1

    Read completed-work and invoice records

  2. 2

    Find completed jobs with no invoice or an unexplained amount difference

  3. 3

    Draft the billing questions that operations and finance need to answer

  4. 4

    Organize the evidence, explanation, owner, and next review step

  5. 5

    Export resolved explanations into a review history that the finance team maintains

What a maintained review history makes easier to see

  • Which job types repeatedly miss billing
  • Where approval or handoff delays occur
  • Which customers require unusual billing treatment
  • Who owns each unresolved billing question

Inputs

  • Completed work
  • Invoice records
  • Job identifiers

Outputs

  • Unbilled candidates
  • Amount differences
  • Review queue

Checks performed

  • Completed job without invoice
  • Job-to-invoice amount gap
  • Missing job identifier

Guided synthetic example

See the check from input to decision

A completed service job has signed completion evidence but no matching invoice.

This is the operating model we use at Level. The percentages are estimated shares of the work in a typical review. Actual effort varies with data quality, complexity, and the issue found.

1

Start with the source records

About 15% of work
JobStatusCompletedQuoted valueInvoice
JOB-1208CompleteJul 19$6,400None
JOB-1211CompleteJul 20$3,250INV-804
2

Run the deterministic check

About 20% of work

For each completed job, require a matching invoice identifier and compare job value with billed value.

3

Surface the flagged result

About 10% of work

Needs review

JOB-1208 may contain $6,400 of unbilled completed work.

4

Use recorded finance judgment to analyze possible reasons

About 25% of work

At Level, we record the review logic, known explanations, and questions our finance professionals use in this situation. AI applies that documented human judgment to organize the most plausible reasons, without pretending it knows which reason is true.

Possible reasons to investigate

The missing invoice may indicate leakage, but warranty work, a bundled agreement, or delayed billing could explain it.

5

Make the final human judgment

About 20% of work

A Level finance professional validates the source evidence, challenges the AI-assisted analysis, and decides which explanation is supported.

Was this work covered by a service agreement?
Is customer approval complete?
Who owns the billing follow-up?
6

Make the operating decision

About 10% of work

Confirm the billing obligation and either issue the invoice or document why no invoice is required.

Use this system

Start with the example, then inspect the structure

  1. Download the invented input and expected output.
  2. Replace one field at a time with a safe test value.
  3. Compare the result with the expected structure.
  4. Have a finance professional review every exception before acting.

MCP preview

run_synthetic_example {"slug":"revenue-leakage-review"}

Human review is part of the system

This check organizes evidence and surfaces exceptions. A person with finance domain expertise still needs to interpret the result, validate the source records, and discuss the operating decision.

Open source does not mean open client data. We publish reusable finance tools, checks, templates, and playbooks. Client records, workpapers, credentials, communications, and private configurations remain confidential.