Errors slip into utility bills every month and get paid unnoticed. Relevant builds custom utility bill management software that centralizes all invoices and checks them against your contracts, so your utility spend becomes a number you can prove.
Bills land as PDFs, paper, EDI files, and logins to a dozen vendor portals, with no clean path into your systems. We build the capture layer that pulls in every bill automatically and turns it into a single, structured line-item record per account.
Structured bill data is worth far more than a payment record. We develop the analytics that turn it into a live view of spend and usage across the portfolio and surface anomalies as they occur.
Rate errors, tariff misapplications, and estimated reads slip through every cycle, and you pay them without noticing. Our engineers write the validation rules that check each bill against your contracts and flag the charges that do not match before the payment goes out.
Utility spend has to land in the right cost center, site, or tenant, and manual splits never reconcile. Our team engineers the allocation logic that distributes every charge by your own rules and ties it back to your general ledger.
Approvals stall in inboxes, and late fees follow. Our delivery team assembles the approval and payment workflow that moves validated bills into your AP system via the API integration with your ERP.
You sign off on a clear scope: the bills in play, where they live, and the spending, allocation, and reporting questions the software has to answer.
You get a blueprint for the layer on which everything depends, for how each bill is captured, modeled, and validated, with the lineage that lets you trust every figure downstream.
Capture, validation, allocation, and dashboards land every sprint, tested and documented, so your team works from the early pieces while the rest is still in build.
Every figure ties back to your source systems and survives the edge cases, tested at full bill volume. What reaches finance is a number that passes an audit.
A live system is handed over to your team, and pipelines are healthy and documented. Our engineers keep it tuned, add the questions your team raises in use, and scale it as accounts and sites grow.
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More than a decade of building software that handles high-volume billing and operational data for complex organizations.
92% senior-level talent, 96% employee retention. The same senior engineers build the ingestion, the validation rules, and the analytics, so nothing breaks at the handoff between them.
Validation, data lineage, and audit trails go into every pipeline from day one, aligned with ISO 27001:2022 and GDPR.
Senior engineers based in the EU, available across US and UK working hours. No handoff delays or timezone gaps.
Two-week sprints with working software at every checkpoint, a transparent backlog, and a budget that stays under control. 99% of engagements on time and on budget.
Our senior-led Relevant AI Delivery Framework accelerates discovery, architecture, build, and QA, delivering up to 50% faster cycles and up to 20% fewer bugs.
You start by getting a clear picture of what you are paying and where it comes from. Most teams hold bills in several places at once: vendor portals, emailed PDFs, paper, and the spreadsheets people build to track them. The first step is to catalog every provider, account, and bill format, then sort them by which ones carry the most spend and the most risk.
You do not need clean data before any of this begins. Pulling scattered sources together, fixing quality issues that arise along the way, and replacing manual exports with a reliable feed are part of the work.
Relevant runs this first step as a short discovery or audit. Sometimes it confirms that a custom build is worth it. Sometimes it shows that a smaller fix or a process change solves the problem, and that is a perfectly good outcome. The goal at this stage is a clear map of your bills and the decisions they drive, not a commitment to build anything.
Yes. The software is built to integrate with the tools you already use rather than replace them. It connects to your ERP and accounts payable systems, so validated bills flow into the workflows your finance team already uses. It feeds your existing BI tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker, so your team keeps the dashboards they know.
Integration work is scoped early, since the systems you run shape how the software is designed. For operators who need more than bill management, this often sits alongside wider utility software development across grid, metering, and customer systems.
The software checks every bill against the terms you actually agreed to before that bill reaches approval. It reads each bill down to the line item: the rate, the demand and capacity charges, the taxes, and the meter reads. Then it compares each of those against your contracts and tariffs.
When something does not match, the software flags it as an exception instead of paying it quietly. It catches overcharges, sudden spikes, duplicate bills, and estimated reads that should be actual reads. It also ties usage and totals back to your source systems, so a number that does not reconcile shows up as an alert rather than slipping through.
The strength of this depends on one thing: the validation rules reflect your real agreement. That is why the early work focuses on capturing your actual rates, contract terms, and approval policies. The checks are only as good as the rules behind them, so those rules get built around your specific situation.
Your billing data is sensitive, so it’s treated that way from the start. Relevant is ISO 27001:2022 certified and works within GDPR. Access controls, encryption, and reconciliation against source systems are standard parts of the build.
Every pipeline carries data lineage and audit trails from day one. For any figure on a dashboard, you can trace it back to the raw bill, the source system, and each step in between. That matters when an auditor or a regulator asks where a number came from.
Before any detailed discussion of your systems, an NDA protects your data and your IP. You stay in control of what you share and when.
You own the source code, the validation rules, the integrations, and the documentation handed over to your team in full. There is no per-account or per-site licensing that grows as your portfolio grows, and there is no lock-in that forces you to keep paying to keep using what you paid to build.
The roadmap stays yours, too. You can run the system, extend it, or move it to another team without depending on the original developer to keep it alive. The work is built for that handover from the first sprint.
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Demand charges, time-of-use rates, and capacity components make electricity the easiest bill to overpay and the hardest to check by hand. We model your tariffs in full, so the software validates every component rather than just the total, and overcharges the surface before approval.
Gas bills mix commodity, transportation, and balancing charges that shift with contracts and seasons. You get validation that holds each charge against the terms you actually agreed to, with the discrepancies flagged as exceptions rather than absorbed into the total.
Water and sewer bills hide leaks, meter faults, and sewer charges calculated on the wrong basis. The software baseline consumption per site flags readings that break the pattern, so a leak shows up as an alert rather than a quarter of overpayment.
Solar buyback, net metering, and PPA credits should offset what you owe, but they go untracked and unreconciled across sites. The software ties every credit back to the bill it belongs against, so the offset you are owed actually lands.
Waste contracts drift, with service levels and surcharges that rarely match the invoice. Our team builds checks that compare each bill to the contracted service and flag charges that exceed the agreement before they set your next budget.
