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It finds the fraud, policy violations, and quiet waste in there - and tells you what to do about each one. On the ERP you already have.

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live · Finding · FB-2241 Critical

Receipt mismatch

Marlow Grill · EXP-1184 $2,700.00

The receipt reads $214.60. The claim reads $514.60. One digit changed - and it has happened nine times this year.

Confidence 96% Status Investigating Open

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Pay for coverage, not conclusions

If nothing gets flagged, you still got the audit. No seats, no hidden fees.

No setup fees

A read-only connection takes minutes. The audit starts right away.

When nobody audits, everybody pays for it.

Take one $80 expense. Doing it right means opening the policy, pulling the receipt, checking the vendor, and seeing whether this person does it every month. Fifteen minutes to defend $80.

So nobody does it. Not out of negligence - out of math. Fraud knows that math: it stays small, looks ordinary, and repeats.

When checking was expensive
You approve 100 expenses a month and look at 10.
Review the big ones, sample a few, trust the rest.
Each charge judged alone, no memory of last month.
The audit waits for someone's spare afternoon.
Now that it costs pennies
All 100 get read. Every month.
No sampling. Coverage is finally free.
Each charge read against your whole history.
Runs 24/7, with nobody in the loop.

Connect your ERP. Bard starts reading.

No implementation project, no rules to write. You connect it once; the audit runs itself.

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Connect in minutes

Link NetSuite or QuickBooks through a read-only connector, or upload a CSV. Nothing in your workflow changes.

You do this once
02

Bard investigates everything

Every transaction, this month and the months before, read against your policy, the vendor, and the submitter's own history.

First findings within hours
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No dashboard to babysit

Findings arrive with context, severity, exposure, and a recommended action. Clean ones get logged too - proof of process, not just exceptions.

No triage required
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Ask it anything

“What else should I know about this vendor?” Plain language in, a straight answer out, evidence attached.

Signal over noise

One transaction. As many questions as it takes.

Not a checklist running top to bottom. Each answer decides what's worth asking next.

  1. Transaction enters

    $4,820 · Vertex Travel Group

    Bard reads every charge that posts - no batch window, no waiting for month-end.

  2. Checked against baseline

    Policy · vendor history · behavior across months

    Compared to what's normal for this employee, vendor, and category.

  3. It starts asking
    • Does this match the policy?
    • Has this vendor changed?
    • Is this normal for this person?
    • What else does it touch?
    • …and whatever that turns up

    No fixed set. It stops when there's nothing left to ask.

  4. Reasoning + confidence
    FLAGFare class outside travel policy
    BASE3.1× this traveler's own average
    SCOREConfidence 86%
  5. The result
    Surfaced

    An explained finding - evidence, reasoning, recommended action.

There's no list of things it looks for.

A rule engine needs one. Bard reads each transaction the way a sharp auditor would and follows whatever looks wrong. These are things it has found, not a feature list.

The same invoice, paid twice

Two vendor records, six days apart, one bank account. Neither payment looks wrong until you see the other.

Three charges under one $500 limit

Nothing here breaks a rule. Read together, they're a rule being worked around.

A vendor at an employee's address

Six weeks old, already a top payee, no history behind it. Fake receipts and personal spend dressed as business surface the same way.

Receipts that always land on the last day

One month it's a coincidence. Across six it's a habit - and a habit is invisible to a spot-check.

A manager who never says no

Every request from their own reports, approved, unread. The approval is the finding.

A dinner in a city nobody flew to

Spend that contradicts your own records. Only visible to something that read all of them.

And whatever else you ask for

Upload your expense policy and Bard takes its thresholds from yours. Add concerns in plain English - “flag travel not booked through our agency,” “watch anyone over $10K a month” - and it carries them into every run after. No fields to configure, because there's no schema to fit into.

Not just findings. Stories.

When signals converge on one person or vendor, Bard builds an Investigation: evidence across months, severity ranked, next step named.

Each line looks ordinary on its own. Bard is the first thing in your company reading all of them together.

Near-Identical Vendors

Apex Logistics and Apex Logistic LLC share a bank account.

Medium
Threshold Gaming

14 payments, each $150-300 under the approval limit.

Medium
Single Approver

All 14 of 14 approved by the same manager.

Medium
correlated · Investigation · INV-0094 High

Apex Logistics · Accounts payable

Three signals, one vendor relationship. Each is Medium alone; together Bard rates them High.

CORRELATE3 signals, the same two vendor records
ELEVATEMedium × 3 → High - the pattern is the risk
ACTFreeze both records before the next payment run
Combined exposure $38,400 Confidence 91%

Ask in plain language. Get reasoning, not a report.

Anything you'd ask an auditor, you can ask here - and the evidence comes attached.

BARD
⌘K
RANKRanked 41 open findings by impact × confidence
TOPApex Logistics - 3 signals on one vendor
MUTEAuto-deprioritized 38 low-signal items
Start with Apex Logistics. Two vendor records, 14 payments, $38,400 exposure - and the next payment run is Thursday. Everything else can wait; that's the point.
Evidence
Apex Logistics
V-0291
$19,600.00
Apex Logistic LLC
V-0292
$18,800.00
Shared bank account
ACH-4471
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Built for companies that don't have an internal audit team. Yet.

For Controllers and Finance Ops leads doing this by hand right now - if at all. The first real audit your spend has ever had.

It does the work. It doesn't assist with it.

Nothing queues up waiting for you. Your team stops hunting and starts deciding.

All of it, not a sample

Sampling existed because attention was expensive. That constraint is gone.

The story, not just the flag

A flag tells you something happened. Bard tells you what's been happening, and for how long.

No platform switch

Other tools make you move your spend to get controls. Bard reads the ERP you already run.

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