Effective controls over channel incentive arrangements. By construction.
The calculation engine for ASC 606 variable consideration in enterprise channel rebate programs. Every accrual on an event log. Every approval queryable. Lineage from input transaction to balance-sheet figure — at any point in time.
The four things channel-rebate accruals can't survive.
The architectural failures that surface as restatement risk. Each one a load-bearing constraint Aurgus is designed around.
Mid-quarter program redesign without trail
Pricing committee changes a tier or a cohort definition in March. The calc has to re-derive every accrual from January — from the original terms and the new ones. Spreadsheet history can't carry that.
Spreadsheet handoffs at the audit boundary
Operator exports to Excel for reconciliation; auditors see the export but can't re-derive it from source. Lineage breaks where the file crossed systems — and that's where the audit conversation gets expensive.
Retroactive tier reprice that overwrites history
Customer crosses a tier threshold in Q3; the batch reprices Q1 accruals in place. Original posted values are lost. Audit-defensibility on variable consideration lives or dies on whether you kept the prior states.
Posted numbers that can't be re-derived from inputs
The GL has the number. The agreement terms, transaction stream, and calculation path that produced it are scattered across systems — or no longer recoverable. The number exists; the lineage doesn't.
Real product. Real screenshots. Show, don't tell.
These aren't mockups. Below: actual surfaces from the deployed product. Each one demonstrates a specific value hook.
Drop a contract. Or describe it. Aurgus composes the primitives.
No 47-field form. No mapping wizard. Describe a rebate program in plain English, or upload the actual term sheet PDF. Aurgus Intelligence parses it into structured agreement primitives you can edit before submitting for approval.
- 1Plain-language input. Describe the rebate program in your own words; the agent composes it.
- 2PDF / term-sheet upload. Drop the actual contract — PDF, TXT, MD — and the agent extracts the primitives.
- 3Human-editable before approval. Composed primitives are shown for review and edit. AI composes; you keep judgment.
AI proposes with a confidence score. A human approves.
Every recommendation comes with the platform's confidence, the dollar impact, the specific assumptions that need a human eye, and the source-cited reasoning. You see what Aurgus Intelligence saw — and decide.
- 1Confidence score on every recommendation. "Confidence: 68%" is shown explicitly — the platform tells you when it's certain vs when judgment is needed.
- 2Assumption surfaces. "Calendar vs fiscal quarters" — the agent flags ambiguities that humans need to resolve, not buries them.
- 3Composed primitives in plain view. Eligibility, measurement window, threshold, reward rate — each in plain language with the structured value beside it.
No pre-built dashboards. Ask anything.
The "no pre-built reports" pattern. Tell Aurgus Intelligence what you want to see — lookup, comparison, anomaly, ranking, trend, risk, or gap — and the platform interprets, shows you what it understood, and generates the report against live data.
- 1Seven prompt categories. LOOKUP, COMPARISON, ANOMALY, RANKING, TREND, RISK, GAP — the analytical lens shapes the report shape.
- 2Interprets first, then generates. The agent shows you what it understood before running — you confirm, then it executes against live data.
- 3Forward-looking risk surfacing. "Which agreements are approaching their tier caps" — not just historical reporting; predictive operational reads.
The platform license is the smallest line. Five other costs add up to more.
If you run channel-distribution between $500M and $5B in revenue, the operational damage is sitting in places most CFOs aren't tracking.
Six product surfaces. One calculation core.
From CSV ingest to audit-defensible output. Each surface is purpose-built; all share the same event-sourced calculation engine.
Cockpit
Operator overview — accrual state across agreements, calc-event awareness, exception surface. The single pane the channel-finance team works from.
Compose
Natural-language agreement creation. Operator describes the program; Aurgus Intelligence parses it into structured agreement primitives — buckets, rules, conditions.
Approve
Recommendation surface with source citations. Aurgus Intelligence proposes; human approves. Source-cited, never opinion, stops at the calculation boundary.
Reports
Board-grade output, audit-trail CSV export, lineage exports. Every number is queryable to source — no reconstructions, no screenshots, no memory work.
Aurgus Intelligence
Plain-English Q&A on your numbers, grounded in your tenant's data. Domain-expert RAG over a curated rebate corpus. Source-cited; never opinion.
Read the lineage spec →Data & CSV ingest
Canonical 7-column POS format. Line-numbered validation errors. No mapping wizard, no IT ticket — upload and start computing.
Different seats. Same calculation core.
Channel-finance, controllership, sales operations, and SAP / IT each see what they need — grounded in the same event log.
Defensible by construction
ASC 606 variable-consideration estimates with native lineage. Restatement risk modeled, not assumed.
Quarter-close reproducibility
Every accrual replayable to source. Audit answers in seconds, not three-day reconciliation effort.
Program velocity
New tier mechanic from days to days. Composer parses natural-language program design.
Stop at the boundary
Aurgus calculates; your ERP posts. Shell settlement documents; no double-modeled GL state.
Three surfaces. One substance.
Research, archaeology, and definitional clarity — for buyers who want to understand the category, not just the product.
Aurgus Labs
Methodology releases, quarterly trackers of channel-rebate-economic 8-K signals, and architectural-pattern papers. Independent of vendor relationships.
Notebook
Long-form observational essays on how channel rebate programs actually break — ASC 606 estimation, audit-defensibility, SEC 8-K trigger reads.
Glossary
Definitional and position-taking entries on the terminology that recurs across audit-defensible rebate calculation infrastructure.
Where Aurgus isn't a fit.
We'd rather flag mismatch upfront than take a conversation that won't land. Four situations where we'll say so directly.
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Below $500M in channel revenue. Engagement model is built for $1B+ scale; smaller shops are better served by mid-market specialists.
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Already event-sourced. If your calculation infrastructure is already queryable to the source transaction, you don't need us.
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Want procurement to make the architectural call. Channel-rebate calculation infrastructure is a controllership decision, not a procurement one. If the eval is delegated, it'll miss what matters.
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Need the category mature before evaluating. Calculation-native rebate infrastructure is being defined now. Mature vendor categories trail real architectural shifts by 3–5 years — we're in the lead, not the follow.
See it on your program. Twenty minutes.
A discovery conversation about your channel-rebate architecture — what's calculated where, how audit-defensibility breaks today, whether Aurgus is the right fit. Expert-led. No pitch.