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Overtrace vs. manual review: get your evenings back.
Most T&M packages are still audited by a senior person with a PDF, a spreadsheet and a long night. It works — when there’s time to check everything. Overtrace does the reading, the matching & the math on every line, and leaves the judgement to the person who should be making it.
Why teams choose Overtrace
Why teams stop auditing by hand.
Every line, not a sample
Overtrace reconciles every employee-day, machine, receipt & total in the package — thousands of pages — instead of the slice a person has time for.
Minutes, not weeks
A month’s package is read in minutes. The review that follows is sorted by dollars, so the biggest problems are decided first.
Every finding cited to its page
Billed line, supporting record and the deciding number boxed on the page image. The trade, the client and the auditor can all check it in seconds.
Write-up included
A contractor letter, an Excel workbook and an annotated, bookmarked PDF, generated from your decisions — no screenshots, no re-typing.
Side by side
Overtrace vs. manual review, side by side.
| Capability | Manual review | Overtrace |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Manual review: What one person has time to check; the rest is assumed | Overtrace: Every line of every page, every month |
| Handwritten timesheets | Manual review: Read and re-keyed by hand | Overtrace: Read by AI vision; names matched across spellings |
| Math | Manual review: Re-footed in Excel when something looks off | Overtrace: Every extension, daily total & summary row recomputed |
| Contract rates | Manual review: Checked from memory or a printed schedule | Overtrace: Extracted from the contract with quotes, checked on every line |
| Evidence | Manual review: Screenshots pasted into an email | Overtrace: Page-cited findings, highlighted on an annotated PDF |
| Consistency | Manual review: Depends on who reviewed it, and how late | Overtrace: The same rules on every package; precedent shown on every item |
| Bookmarking | Manual review: By hand, page by page | Overtrace: Automatic, by document & work date |
Getting started
Moving on from manual review is easy.
See it on a package like yours
A 30-minute demo on a real T&M billing package.
Send a past package
Share last month’s package — and its outside audit, if there was one — and see what Overtrace finds next to what was found by hand.
Prove it on live invoices
A 60-day pilot on your next two monthly invoices, with direct founder support, before you commit.
Questions
Common questions.
How long does a manual T&M audit take?
It depends on the package, but on large losses a monthly package from a single trade can run to hundreds or thousands of pages, and reviewers commonly spend days on it. Overtrace reads a package of that size in minutes and presents the exceptions sorted by dollars.
Will we lose control of the audit?
No. Overtrace raises and explains exceptions; your reviewer makes every decision, and every decision is attributed. You’re still the auditor — with the reading done for you.
Get started
Bring us your worst package.
See Overtrace audit a real T&M billing package in a 30-minute demo. Then prove it on your next two invoices in a 60-day pilot.