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07 · Anomaly detection

Catch what slips past the eye.

Autessa watches every transaction for duplicates, out-of-pattern payments, and quiet vendor creep — surfacing the handful worth a second look.

Duplicate & fraud signals

The problem

A wrong transaction rarely looks wrong on its own.

Duplicate invoices, off-hours payments to a new payee, a vendor whose prices have crept up 14% — these rarely look wrong on any single line. They only stand out across thousands of transactions, which no one has time to eyeball.

Why it happens

A duplicate invoice, an off-hours payment to a new payee, a vendor whose prices crept up 14% — each one is unremarkable on its single line. The signal only exists across thousands of transactions, where no person scrolls.

Where it lands

The duplicate gets paid twice. The unusual payment clears before anyone asks about it. The price creep compounds quietly month after month, and you find it in a year-end review instead of the week it started.

What it is

The hard part is not defining one rule. It is watching every transaction at once, knowing each vendor and account well enough to tell a genuine outlier from a normal swing, and surfacing only the few that warrant a look.

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The solution

Every transaction watched. Only the few that matter raised.

Autessa watches every transaction for duplicates, out-of-pattern payments, and quiet vendor creep — surfacing the handful worth a second look instead of burying you in alerts. You see the few that matter, not noise.

Watch

Across every transaction

Autessa scans every payment and invoice for duplicates, out-of-pattern payments, and quiet vendor price drift — the patterns that only stand out across thousands of lines, not on any single one.

4,812 transactions scanned · 3 flagged
Surface

The handful worth a look

Instead of an alert on everything, you get the few that genuinely warrant a second look, each with the reason it stood out, while the rest are marked clean.

Possible duplicate Inv #44021 · $9,200 · Review
The point is not more alerts. Autessa does the watching no one has time to do — every transaction, every vendor pattern — and hands you the short list that is actually worth your judgment, so the signal is not buried under noise or missed entirely.
Duplicate & fraud signals

How it fits

Monitoring that runs without anyone watching it.

Autessa reads transactions as they post, compares each against its normal pattern, and raises only the outliers. There is no batch to schedule and no thresholds to hand-tune every month.

1Transactions are read from your systems as they post
2Each is checked for duplicates, out-of-pattern payments, and vendor price drift
3The few that deviate are flagged with the reason they stood out
4The rest are marked clean so the signal is not lost in noise
5Review the short list — and act before the duplicate clears

The judgment stays with you. Autessa raises the flag and the reason; your team decides whether it is a genuine error or an expected change.

Because it watches continuously, an off-hours payment to a new payee surfaces in the moment, not in a quarterly review after it has cleared.

This is one of several finance workflows Autessa runs. Start here; the rest is there when you want it. See all →

Questions finance teams ask

Straight answers before you book.

Will I be buried in alerts?+

No. Autessa surfaces only the handful of transactions worth a second look — a possible duplicate, an off-hours payment to a new payee, a vendor whose prices drifted — and marks the rest clean, so the signal is not lost in noise.

What kinds of anomalies does it catch?+

Duplicates, out-of-pattern payments, and quiet vendor price creep across every transaction, the kind of thing that only stands out across thousands of lines rather than on any single one.

How does it tell a real anomaly from a normal swing?+

It learns each vendor and account's own pattern, so a payment that is large but normal for that vendor is left alone, while a duplicate invoice, an off-hours payment to a new payee, or a 14% price drift is flagged. The judgment of what is genuinely out of character is the point.

Does it catch duplicate invoices before they are paid?+

Yes. A likely duplicate — say invoice #44021 for $9,200 appearing twice — is surfaced for review while the payment is still being prepared, so you catch it before the check goes out rather than clawing it back later.

Can it watch for new vendors and changed bank details?+

Yes. An off-hours payment to a new payee, or a vendor whose details have shifted, is exactly the kind of out-of-pattern signal Autessa raises, so the changes that often precede fraud get a second look before money moves.

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See what slips past the eye.

Thirty minutes on a transaction feed like yours — the duplicates, the out-of-pattern payments, and the quiet vendor creep, surfaced as a short list. Then prove it on your own ledgers.

Live in two weeks. Run it on your own data for 30 days. If it doesn't do what we showed you, walk away owing nothing.

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