Straight answers, no rounding.

It's the payable-side discipline of matching every carrier, co-loader, trucker and agent invoice against what your job files say you agreed to pay — buy rates and accruals, line by line — before money leaves. It's the mirror image of the 'freight audit' your customers run on your invoices, pointed at the invoices you receive.

FAP is the shipper-side industry — firms auditing transport invoices on behalf of cargo owners, sometimes auditing yours. Reconciler AI sits on your side of the table: it audits what carriers and partners bill you, against your own job economics. Your customers audit you; this desk audits your vendors.

In forwarding, the classic invoice–PO–receipt match becomes invoice ↔ job-file buy rate/accrual ↔ shipment evidence. The job file is the contract; the tracking events and documents are the receipt. The desk runs that match automatically on every line.

Yes — agent SOA settlement is built in: statement lines matched to jobs and accruals, net positions computed across currencies, and out-of-place lines flagged before the settlement wire goes out.

Captured and checked: GST treatment, RCM flags and vendor GSTIN for Indian input-credit claims; VAT and TRN validity for the UAE. Tax-defective invoices get flagged as compliance issues, not just cost issues — because a bad tax line costs you twice.

The desk watches for costs that arrive after the customer was invoiced — late accessorials, amendment fees, D&D pass-throughs — and flags them for re-billing instead of silent absorption. It's the single most direct margin-protection feature on the desk, and it works because reconciliation and billing share one platform.

Variances become disputes with evidence attached — the rate source, the duplicate's twin, the tracking history behind a D&D challenge. The desk tracks each dispute to its credit note, and chases politely until the credit actually lands. A won dispute without a credit note is just a nice conversation.

Yes — alongside CargoWise, Logi-Sys, Kale, Shipsy, Magaya, and posting into your accounting stack (Tally included). Matched invoices post with their job references; nothing gets ripped out.