Utility bill audit that checks every bill before it’s paid.

The same handful of error types, repeatedly: the wrong rate schedule or tariff applied to a site, meter and multiplier mistakes, estimated reads that never true-up, duplicate bills across portals, and tenant bill-back allocations that have drifted from the lease. A continuous audit checks each of these on every bill, before payment runs.

Published error rates vary widely and are easy to inflate, so we do not quote them. What audits consistently find are the same categories: wrong rate schedules, meter and multiplier errors, and bill-back allocations that drifted from the lease. The two-week audit puts a measured figure on your portfolio before anything gets built.

Each tenant’s lease defines how utility costs get allocated — by square footage, by meter, or by a negotiated clause. Someone reads the utility bills, applies the allocation rules, and invoices the tenants. Recovery leaks when the allocation drifts from the lease or the underlying bill was wrong to begin with, so the audit checks both the bill and the allocation.

A one-time audit reviews a past period — usually twelve months of paid bills — and charges a percentage of what it recovers. Continuous auditing checks every bill against your encoded rate schedules and allocation rules before payment runs, so the error is not paid in the first place. One finds last year’s money; the other stops this year’s leak.

The same utility feeds the audit reads — bills, meter data, rate schedules — carry everything the reports need. Because the data is already captured and checked, Energy Star benchmarking and utility compliance reports get generated from it instead of being assembled by hand each reporting period.