Performance, Fraud & Cost Recovery

We find the money
your business is leaving behind.

Most logistics, transport, and industrial operators lose $50K–$250K every year to hidden cost leaks they don't know exist. We find them. We recover them. You only pay when you save.

$127K
Average annual savings found per client
5 days
From data receipt to complete findings report
Zero risk
No savings found? You don't pay.

Most operators lose six figures a year without ever knowing it.

Not from bad decisions. From the gaps between systems, contracts, and departments that nobody is paid to close.

01

Carrier contracts go unaudited for years

Rate agreements from 2–3 years ago are never revisited. Market rates shift. Your invoices don't. That gap compounds silently, month after month.

02

Invoice errors fall below the radar

Duplicate payments and billing discrepancies under $5,000 are rarely caught. Multiply them across hundreds of invoices per month — the total is staggering.

03

Vendor pricing drifts unchecked

Vendors increase rates incrementally — small enough each time to avoid scrutiny, large enough across your supplier base to cost tens of thousands annually.

04

Nobody owns the gap

Your team runs operations. Your accountant handles compliance. Nobody is looking for the money that leaks out of the spaces in between. That's our job.

Simple. Fast. Risk-free.

We do the heavy lifting. You review the findings and tell us what to recover. It starts with a 30-minute conversation — no data, no preparation needed.

1

Free diagnostic call

30 minutes. We ask about your operations and cost structure. You get an honest assessment of your recovery potential before we ask for anything.

2

Simple data request

We send a focused list — carrier invoices, vendor contracts, payroll summaries. Typically 30–45 minutes of your team's time to pull together.

3

AI-powered analysis

Our platform benchmarks your data against thousands of similar operations. Complete findings report with specific dollar amounts delivered in 5 days.

4

You approve. We recover.

You decide what to pursue. We execute — renegotiations, corrections, process fixes. Our fee is a percentage of what we actually recover. Nothing else.

Five areas where money quietly disappears.

Every engagement covers all five categories. Most clients find meaningful leakage in at least three.

Most Recoverable

Carrier Contract Audit

We benchmark your freight rates against current market rates and identify every place carriers are charging above your contract terms.

  • Rate variance vs. market benchmarks
  • Accessorial charge review
  • Contract compliance verification
  • Renegotiation strategy included
Avg. recovery: $45K–$120K/year
High Frequency

Invoice Reconciliation

Systematic review of your accounts payable for duplicate payments, pricing errors, and unclaimed credits across all vendor relationships.

  • Duplicate payment detection
  • PO vs. invoice matching
  • Unclaimed credits recovery
Avg. recovery: $15K–$60K/year
Operations

Payroll Efficiency

Review of labor cost patterns, overtime ratios, and staffing agency markups against industry benchmarks for your operational profile.

  • Overtime pattern analysis
  • Agency markup benchmarking
  • Classification review
Avg. recovery: $20K–$80K/year
Vendor Management

Vendor Benchmarking

Compare your vendor pricing across all major spend categories against current market rates and identify where renegotiation yields the highest return.

  • Market rate comparison
  • Contract term optimization
  • Consolidation opportunities
Avg. recovery: $10K–$45K/year
Ongoing Partnership

Fractional COO

Monthly retainer for continuous operational optimization, vendor management, and profit protection. For operators who want a permanent partner, not a one-time audit.

  • Monthly operational review
  • Ongoing vendor renegotiation
  • Process improvement roadmap
$5,500/month retainer · 6-month minimum

Real companies. Real recoveries.

Every number below came from an actual IronLion360 engagement. Client names are withheld under NDA — we take confidentiality seriously.

$184,000
Carrier Audit

Logistics Operator — $12M Revenue. Carrier rate overcharges identified across 4 primary freight lanes. Contract renegotiation completed in 6 weeks. Savings locked in for a 3-year term.

$67,400
Invoice Reconciliation

Transport Company — $5M Revenue. Duplicate payments and vendor pricing variances uncovered across an 18-month AP history review. Credits fully recovered within 45 days.

$92,000
Payroll Efficiency

Industrial Services — $18M Revenue. Staffing agency markup above market rate identified across 3 agencies. Renegotiated contracts yielding $92K in annual savings plus improved service terms.

$218,000
Full Portfolio Audit

Warehousing / 3PL — $22M Revenue. Combined carrier, vendor, and payroll audit. 14-week recovery process. Client moved to Fractional COO retainer for ongoing protection.

Chris Luthy, COO of IronLion360

We're operators who got tired of watching businesses leave money on the table.

Chris Luthy · COO · Performance, Fraud & Cost Recovery

IronLion360 was built on a simple belief: every business deserves to keep what it earns. Too many operators — good people running solid businesses — are losing tens of thousands every year to inefficiencies that nobody is paid to find.

We built an AI-powered audit platform that does in 5 days what used to take months and a team of analysts. And we made it performance-based — because if we don't find your money, we don't deserve to get paid.

Every engagement runs through me personally. You're not handed off to a junior analyst. When we find something, I'm the one who calls you to talk it through.

— Chris

Performance-based — always

We don't charge retainers to look. We earn a percentage of what we actually recover. Our incentives are perfectly aligned with yours.

Honest before profitable

If we don't think a meaningful recovery exists, we'll tell you on the diagnostic call — before you spend a dollar. We'd rather lose a small engagement than damage a relationship.

Faith-driven values

We run a business the same way we think everyone should: with integrity, transparency, and genuine care for the people we serve.

Real numbers, anchored to real recoveries.

The Score isn't a generic calculator. It's tuned against actual IronLion360 engagements and our $127K average client recovery. Here's how typical scenarios land:

Scenario
Score Output
Calibration Anchor
$5.5M logistics, average risk
$92K – $141K
Anchored to our $127K average client recovery
$12M trucking, contracts never renegotiated
$273K – $418K
Case study: $184K recovered (~50–65% of total leakage)
$5M transport, average operations
$82K – $126K
Case study: $67K recovered
$18M industrial services, average
$196K – $300K
Case study: $92K recovered
$1.5M small lean operator
$14K – $22K
Believable lower bound for tight operations
$14M manufacturing, never audited
$302K – $464K
Aggressive but defensible — multiple risk factors
Why the Score is bigger than what gets recovered. The Score estimates total annual leakage — the full opportunity hidden in your operation. Actual recoveries typically run 50–65% of identified leakage, because not every dollar can be clawed back: some contracts are locked, some vendors won't budge, and some recoveries require trade-offs you may not want to make. The Score's job is to show you the size of the problem. The diagnostic call shows you what's realistically recoverable.

Find out what your business is actually leaking.

Take the free Profit Leak Score, or book a 30-minute diagnostic call directly. We'll look at your operation honestly — before you commit to anything.

No sales pitch. No commitment. Just your numbers, looked at honestly.