Waste & Environmental Services01

AI for waste and environmental services companies.

Brokers and haulers run on thousands of vendor invoices a month — hauler price creep, pass-through charges, bills with no POs. We encode the rules your AP team carries in their heads, so the leaks close before the money leaves.

  • AI implementation services
  • PE-backed roll-ups to regional haulers
  • Built inside your existing ERP

Official services partner of the platforms defining AI

NVIDIAAnthropic
Peter Enestrom, founder of Zaigo

Every engagement is led personally by Peter Enestrom and the Zaigo AI & engineering team

YaleColumbia UniversityMicrosoft
The pain map01

Margins leak one invoice line at a time.

From operators running AP inside waste brokers and haulers — national footprints, thousands of vendors, tens of thousands of bills a month.

  • Hauler price creep

    Rates drift up a few dollars a pull, hidden inside fuel surcharges and environmental fees. Haulers react to invoice totals, so micro-variances at line level stay invisible — until someone reads every line.

  • Pass-through charges you eat

    Fuel surcharges, environmental fees, and customer-driven fees go largely unapplied — billed through to no one, absorbed by you. Operators describe eating nearly all of them; the leak runs to millions.

  • Bills with no PO behind them

    Legacy sites and acquired routes send invoices with no purchase order at all. The first job is just classifying and routing them — before any matching can happen.

  • Two AP processes after every acquisition

    Every roll-up inherits another ERP and another AP flow. The consolidation debate runs for quarters; the bills arrive daily and need routing now.

  • Payment files that fail

    Payment runs fail two to four times a week, and the haulers feel it. The AP team spends Fridays apologizing instead of auditing.

Where AI pays02

The workflows worth encoding first.

Each card is a workflow or capability built on the same pattern: your rules, encoded — running inside the systems you already have.

In production
97–98%Field-level accuracy on emailed hauler invoices, against a 40–50% OCR baseline
500Bills flagged for human review out of every 5,000 processed
15 minFrom matched invoice to ERP posting
We were eating nearly all pass-through charges. Now the surcharge shows up on the customer’s bill instead of our P&L.
VP Operations, national waste-services broker (PE-backed)
Peter Enestrom, founder of Zaigo
Who builds it

Led by Peter Enestrom.

Founder — leads AI & Engineering

Pete Enestrom

Every engagement is led personally by Pete, working with the Zaigo AI & engineering team from the two-week audit through the production handover. The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it.

Education
Yale & ColumbiaGraduate
Background
Microsoft & IntelFormer
Experience
Exited FounderVenture-Backed

Background

Questions03

Asked inside waste businesses.

The straight answers, before you book anything.

Both — the pain is the same shape: thousands of vendor invoices, contract rates nobody re-checks, and pass-through charges that never get billed on. The buyer is usually a controller, CFO, or operating partner at a PE-backed platform.

No. The rule layer sits above the ERPs: bills get classified, matched, and audited against your contracts, then posted to whichever system is of record — including the messy in-between state of a post-merger consolidation.

Software ships generic rules and a new system to adopt. We encode your exceptions — hauler rate sheets, fuel surcharge tables, pass-through clauses — inside the flow your team already runs. You keep a review queue, not another login.

Two weeks inside your AP flow, fixed fee: we map the rules, quantify the leak in your own numbers, and hand you a ranked opportunity map. The audit fee credits toward the first build if you continue; the map is yours if you do not.

We work inside your environment and your vendor relationships, under your agreements. Engagements are anonymized in everything we publish — problem, buyer, and scale only, never names.

Start with one workflow.

Tell us where your team loses hours. We will come back with a straight answer on whether AI can help, what it would take, and what it would pay.