Without Canary
Contracts are signed and filed, and never read again.
Most operators are not losing money for lack of good agreements. They are losing it because nobody has time to re-read them. Charges the contract already covers get paid. Entitlements lapse. The tax line sails through unchecked.
Canary reads what you signed and holds every invoice to it, with no legal training required and no extra work for teams already running lean.
Why this happens
Three teams work around one document. None of them has read it.
The agreement is negotiated by procurement, the work is managed by operations or maintenance, and the invoice lands with accounts payable. Nobody in that chain is looking at the same document, so charges the contract already covers get paid without a second look.
Vendors bill differently when someone is checking. Not out of dishonesty: their billing systems default to the standard rate card, the callout minimum and the usual tax treatment, and every unchecked invoice teaches them that the defaults get paid. It is an information gap, not bad faith. Canary is the check.
Procurement
Negotiates and signs it.
Never sees an invoice.
Operations
Schedules the work under it.
Never sees the rates.
Accounts payable
Pays the invoices against it.
Never sees the contract.
Canary
Reads all of it, for all three.
- 62%
- of business leaders struggle to find contracts their company has already approved
- Source: Deloitte with Docusign, 2024
- 15+
- internal handoffs before negotiation even begins
- Source: Deloitte with Docusign, 2024
- $7.20
- back for every $1 US defence auditors spent checking contractor costs
- Source: US Defense Contract Audit Agency, FY2024
The Team
Who we are.
Built by people who have shipped AI and data systems for manufacturers and banks.
Tennyson Brown-Wolf
Co-Founder
Tennyson spent five years equipping traditional industry with digital tools, most recently as Director of AI Solutions for a startup serving the world's leading manufacturers, and before that as a technology consultant at BCG. He studied economics at the University of St Andrews and is a Schwarzman Scholar.
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Ryan Trusler
Co-Founder
Ryan was a Vice President of Applied AI and Machine Learning at J.P. Morgan Chase, building machine learning systems for large-scale financial data. He is from Johannesburg, South Africa, and studied at the University of St Andrews and MIT.
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