Your month-end rebate close shouldn’t be a fire drill.
Aurgus keeps your rebate ledger continuously reconciled — every accrual tied to contract, sales, claims, payments, and the GL — built so you close the books in hours, not days, with nothing leaking and every number traceable to its source. The first question is always “what’s the number” — and the one that decides your close is the second: “show me how it was calculated.”
Or take the free Off-Invoice Control Index — a 3-minute rebate control assessment scored against published benchmarks.
Three systems. Three different numbers. Every quarter.
Below is the exact disagreement we hear in every discovery call with a $500M–$5B manufacturer running rebates, billbacks, and incentive programs. The numbers are synthetic; the story is universal.
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Quarter-end is a two-week reconciliation pass.
Controllers compare four spreadsheets to defend one accrual number. Calc paths aren’t replayable; corrections come from re-running batches, not from understanding what changed.
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Auditors want lineage; you have screenshots.
Defending a rebate accrual means reconstructing the calc from PDFs, condition-record exports, and the analyst’s memory. PCAOB-inspected firms increasingly won’t accept that.
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Every pricing exception becomes a margin question.
One-off discounts, retroactive tier moves, mid-quarter cohort tweaks — each one re-prices history in your ERP and erases the original numbers. Nobody can tell you what was originally owed.
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New programs take 6–14 weeks to launch.
Configuring access sequences, condition tables, and condition types by hand for every new agreement type means commercial velocity is bottlenecked by IT.
Rebate leakage is rarely one big mistake.
It’s small ambiguity compounding across agreements, exceptions, spreadsheets, and settlements. The five places it shows up on a $500M–$5B manufacturer’s P&L, even when nobody can name a single error:
The GL may have the number. Aurgus shows how the number happened.
Not a feature list — a mechanism. Aurgus inserts one governed layer between commercial intent and financial execution, and that layer earns the right to be trusted by Finance, Commercial, Audit, and SAP/IT at the same time.
Compose commercial agreements
Operators describe a rebate or incentive program in plain English or upload the contract; Aurgus parses it into structured agreement primitives the engine can execute.
Calculate deterministically
Every accrual is the output of a transparent computation. Same inputs, same number, every time. No batch reruns, no “the spreadsheet got corrupted.”
Route approvals with human control
Every consequential action — approve, settle, supersede, post — flows through an explicit operator gate with confidence scores and source-cited reasoning. No autonomous writes to your financials.
Trace every number to its source
Settlement → accrual → POS row → condition record → rule → agreement clause → the operator who approved it. The chain is the data model, not a screenshot.
Query commercial logic in plain language
Ask “which agreements crossed their tier threshold in Q2?” Aurgus interprets, shows what it understood, and answers from the event log — with lineage attached.
Export audit-ready evidence
Lineage exports and event extracts in machine-readable form. Hand auditors the chain, not a binder.
Works alongside your ERP — without replacing the GL
Your SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Oracle, NetSuite, or Microsoft Dynamics keeps posting journal entries per its own configuration. Aurgus emits a shell credit-memo iDoc payload; your ERP’s Condition Technique resolves the GL. Intake today is file-based — CSV extracts, iDoc for SAP.
Answer the commercial questions your CFO and CCO actually ask.
Customer profitability after rebates. Program ROI by segment. Tier-qualification proximity. The questions Finance and Commercial have always wanted answered — now resolvable from a single governed substrate, not five reconciled spreadsheets.
Four surfaces. One source of truth.
Representative surfaces from our design-partner build, shown on synthetic data. Each one solves a moment in the daily commercial-finance workflow.
Plain English in. A working agreement out.
No 47-field form. No mapping wizard. Operators describe a rebate or incentive program in plain language, or upload the contract PDF. Aurgus parses it into structured agreement primitives — buckets, eligibility, condition records, tier scales — that a human reviews before submission.
- ·Natural-language intake. Describe the program in your own words; the agent composes it.
- ·PDF / term-sheet upload. Drop the actual contract — PDF, TXT, MD — and the agent extracts the primitives.
- ·Human-editable before approval. AI composes; you keep judgment.
The calculation engine is deterministic. The model summarizes — it doesn’t compute the number.
AI proposes with a confidence score. A human decides.
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 saw — and you approve, reject, or revise.
- ·Confidence score on every recommendation. “Confidence: 62%” is shown explicitly — when judgment is needed, you’re told.
- ·Assumption surfacing. Calendar vs. fiscal quarter, retroactive vs. prospective — flagged, not buried.
- ·Source citations. Every reasoning step links back to the rule or data it came from.
Every number queryable to its source. No pre-built dashboards to maintain.
Reports aren’t dashboards you build — they’re queries into the calculation event log. Ask a question in plain language; the engine answers from the events it already wrote, with lineage to the source row, the matched condition record, and the rule.
- ·Queries, not dashboards. No chart-builder, nothing to maintain.
- ·Source-traced answers. Every figure resolves to the events that produced it.
- ·Audit-grade export. Lineage CSVs as first-class outputs — for the auditor, on first ask.
What needs your attention this quarter.
The single pane the channel-finance team works from. Open accruals, leakage flagged for review, anomalies, period-close readiness, deductions awaiting reconciliation — organized by workflow, not by table. Each tab opens to a queryable surface that reads from the event log.
- ·Workflow tabs. Period close · Leakage queue · Anomalies · Deductions · Agreement portfolio.
- ·Reads from the event log. The cockpit doesn’t own state; every number traces to its source.
- ·Aurgus Intelligence docked. Plain-language Q&A on every page, source-cited and human-gated.
Off-invoice control is becoming its own discipline.
Aurgus is not another tool you already tried.
Spreadsheets, BI dashboards, ERP modules, partner portals, and generic AI platforms all make rebate programs more visible. Visibility was never the problem. When the second question arrives — “show me how this number was calculated” — dashboards point at each other. A number everyone can see is not yet a number you can defend. That difference is the product.
- A BI / analytics tool. BI explains what already happened. Aurgus calculates why.
- Spreadsheet automation. Excel is flexible but ungoverned. Aurgus is governed by construction.
- An LLM wrapper. The calculation engine is deterministic. The model summarizes — it doesn’t compute the number.
- Autonomous AI making uncontrolled financial decisions. Every consequential action is human-approved.
- Another disconnected rebate calculator. Aurgus integrates with your ERP and does not duplicate your GL.
- A replacement for your ERP or your rebate suite. It sits between commercial intent and financial execution.
- A deterministic commercial calculation engine for rebates, billbacks, sales incentives, pricing agreements, and trade programs.
- An audit-ready lineage layer — every number traces to its formula, the source row, the rule, and the operator approval.
- An AI-assisted explanation surface — source-cited, human-gated, never the calculator.
- A human-governed decision-support system for the moments Finance and Commercial actually have to decide.
- An ERP-complementary system of record for commercial economics — calculates the math, lets your ERP post the GL.
Same calculation core. Different reasons to trust it.
CFO, Controller, Commercial Leader, SAP/IT — each carries a different version of the same problem. Each gets a different proof point.
Know which commercial programs are creating profit — and which are quietly eroding it.
- Accrual confidence: every reported number is defensible end-to-end.
- Margin leakage made visible per program, per customer, per segment.
- Working capital freed as accruals stop drifting from settlement reality.
- Executive trust restored when Sales, Finance, and SAP align on one source of truth.
Every accrual should be explainable before audit asks.
- Close cycles shortened by removing the spreadsheet reconciliation pass.
- Audit-ready evidence generated as a side-effect of normal operation.
- Variance investigation: see the events that produced any delta, not just the delta itself.
- Restatement risk reduced because corrections are supersession events, not overwrites.
Launch programs faster without losing control of margin.
- Plain-language agreement composition: designed to take a new tier mechanic from weeks to hours.
- Per-customer profitability after rebates, billbacks, and incentives — on demand.
- Tier-cap proximity surfaced before customers cross the line you didn’t price for.
- Faster approvals with AI-assisted recommendations and full audit trail.
Extend SAP without turning Excel into your commercial subledger.
- Integrates via standard interfaces (iDoc, REST) within engagement scope.
- Stops at the calculation boundary — no double-modeled GL, no duplicate master data.
- Read-only on SAP master data; never modifies your Condition Technique.
- Tenant isolation by construction; no cross-tenant data exposure.
Where do your commercial numbers break today?
Pick the one that hurts most this quarter. We’ll show you how Aurgus handles it specifically — not in the abstract.
Rebates
Volume, tiered, retroactive, growth. The numbers Finance, Sales, and SAP can’t agree on.
See how →Billbacks
Distributor-side credits where the contract, the claim, and the GL never line up.
See how →Trade promotion accruals
Estimates that drift from settlement. ASC 606 variable consideration on the balance sheet.
See how →The ERP-migration window
Your rebate suite is the largest single ABAP block on your migration scope. What the native path gives you — and where a governed layer takes over.
See how →Native module or a layer?
The native module modernized configuration but kept the batch-era calculation pattern. Why the accrual is still a guess.
See how →ASC 606 compliance
Variable consideration on rebates, billbacks, and incentives. The reproducible lineage PCAOB asks for.
See how →Audit defense
Auditors want lineage; you have screenshots. The chain in machine-readable form, by construction.
See how →Deduction validation
Every deduction has a dispute window. Manual validation loses to the clock; pre-written evidence doesn’t.
See how →From agreement to accrual to settlement — every number stays traceable.
One commercial program, eight states. Each state is an event; each event carries its lineage. This is what audit defensibility looks like as a sequence, not a slogan.
Not a replacement. Rebate, billback & incentive governance.
Aurgus is not trying to replace your ERP, your BI, your spreadsheets, or your team. It earns its slot by solving the one problem none of them solves on its own: making commercial calculation governed, explainable, and defensible.
It starts with pain.
Rebates, incentives, billbacks. Numbers that disagree. Accruals that drift. Audits that drag.
The risk is margin and audit.
Leakage compounds quietly. Restatements arrive loudly. Both trace back to commercial calculation nobody can defend.
Aurgus is the calculation and lineage engine.
Deterministic. Event-sourced. Replayable. The substance underneath every reported number.
On top of it: a grounded explanation layer.
Source-cited, human-gated, never autonomous. The agent proposes; the operator decides; the engine executes.
Together they are rebate, billback & incentive governance — complete.
The governed layer between commercial intent and financial execution. Finance, Commercial, Audit, and SAP/IT meet on one source of truth — the substrate where off-invoice economics live, governed and explainable.
Off-invoice control is becoming its own discipline. Here’s how to plug in.
Three ways to sharpen how you govern the money that moves after the invoice — the research, the essays, and a self-scored index. No pitch attached to any of them.
Follow the research
New teardowns and off-invoice-control research as they publish. Follow the company page on LinkedIn — the fastest way to get each piece the day it ships.
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Footnoted, independent research on the accounting and calculation infrastructure underneath channel programs. Written for the people who sign the accrual.
Read the notebook →Score yourself
The Off-Invoice Control Index: eight questions, one composite, about three minutes. See where your calculation infrastructure is defensible — and where it isn’t.
Take the Index →See where your margin is actually leaking.
Thirty minutes. No pitch. A discovery conversation about your commercial calculation process — what’s computed where, how the numbers drift today, and whether Aurgus is the right architectural fit.