Every business has known pain points - cash-flow surprises, weird invoice patterns, compliance headaches. The bigger opportunity is usually the hidden daily bits: the process that only one person understands, the access that quietly concentrated in one pair of hands, the workaround built years ago that still looks fine. The Quick-Scan Bundle is built to find those fast.
What it surfaces
Fictitious invoices, number patterns that don't occur naturally, approval conflicts, and workarounds that route around your controls.
The processes, knowledge, and access that live in one person - the continuity risk that only shows up when they're gone.
Where one person can initiate, approve, and record the same transaction - the shape of both fraud risk and unauditable process.
Usually not dramatic: better documentation, a compensating control, a light governance framework. Findings you can act on.
The three components
Number-pattern analysis
Benford's Law and related tests on your transaction data. A quick statistical scan of invoices, expenses, and vendor activity to flag anomalies a busy owner would never catch by eye - the kind of pattern that points to a fictitious vendor or a manual number that shouldn't be there.
Segregation-of-duties review
A map of who can do what - operational and IT access together. Where the same person can set up a vendor, approve a payment, and touch the record of it, nobody is positioned to notice if something goes wrong. This review finds those chains and the risky workarounds that built up over time.
Communications review
A forensic read of how communication actually flows. Two things at once: signs that people who should be at arm's length are steering around a control, and signs that too much runs through one person - the tribal-knowledge dependency that quietly becomes a single point of failure.
How it works - done with controls, not dumped into an AI tool
This matters, and it's the whole point. Plenty of "AI-powered" analysis works by throwing a client's sensitive data at a public tool. That is exactly the shadow-AI risk a governance practice should be warning you about - not doing to you.
- 1We scope it together. A short conversation to pick the pain that matters and agree what data is relevant - a transaction export, an access list, a defined set of communications.
- 2Monte runs the analysis for you. The number-pattern and duties reviews are deterministic work done in controlled tools; the communications read is a manual forensic review. Your data stays inside the engagement.
- 3You get findings you can use. Pain points and blindspots, ranked, with practical fixes - and, where automation genuinely helps, a plan that keeps the audit trail and the controls intact.
Automating a bad process is the perfect description of what happens when technology gets implemented without business context. The Quick-Scan identifies the real need first - grounded in real fraud-examination experience and business judgment, not a policy binder.
Not sure where your biggest risk is?
Start with the free Continuity & Blindspot Check - a 60-second score that shows how much of your business is riding on one person. It's the surface; the Quick-Scan is the deeper look.
Take the free check first Contact Monte for scope
Decades in corporate finance, fraud examination, and governance - formerly GRC & assurance at a major global energy company. Fisher Governance is the independent, lean alternative to institutional consulting: one credentialed person who finds the risk nobody's watching.
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No package price, no big scoping exercise - a short conversation to find the pain that matters and agree what the scan should cover.
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