Pyx Audit · for in-house counsel
Forensic invoice verification. Block-billed entries get decomposed. Each line evidence-matched. Pushback letter auto-drafts. Runs entirely on your hardware — no service-provider data access.
What you actually do as in-house counsel
The narrative is plausible. The dollar amount is plausible. The line items reference real matters. There is no independent way for you to verify any of it.
"Reviewed correspondence; conferred with co-counsel; revised draft; addressed open items." Six and a half hours. One opaque narrative. Five distinct activities you cannot price independently.
Pay in full. Spot-check the largest entries. Round-number write-down. None of them are defensible. None of them are data-backed. You're accountable for a number you can't defend.
Solution one · block billing, decomposed
Pyx parses each block-billed line, extracts the activities, and matches each activity against artifacts you already control: tracked-change timestamps, sent-email metadata, calendar entries. Where evidence exists, the activity is reconstructed. Where it doesn't, the activity routes to residual — the unsupported portion of the bill.
— Negotiation moves from narrative to math.
Solution two · live accrual tracks to the matter budget
As evidence flows in, Pyx maintains a live accrual against your matter budget. Verified spend, residual exposure, over-budget warnings, and remaining headroom — all visible in real time. Catch overruns in week three, not month six. Pushback letters auto-draft when residual or over-budget thresholds trip.
— Catch the bad matters early. Validate the good ones.
Solution three · the pushback letter, ready to send
When the audit completes, Pyx auto-drafts a pushback letter to outside counsel. Itemized findings, per-finding evidence chain, proposed write-down equal to the residual. The tone is procedural: senior auditor, not adversary. Defensible at the firm-side and at the partner-relationship-side.
— Math, not narrative. Procedural, not adversarial.
Of the $487,200 billed for the quarter, our reconstruction identifies $94,180 of activity for which we hold no corroborating evidence on our side.
Itemized findings and per-finding evidence chain are attached. We propose a write-down equal to that residual, with the remaining balance settled net 15.
For private-equity general counsel managing fund-formation document workflow, Pyx Flow tracks every matter, every clause, every minute in custody — one ledger across all your matters, all your firms, all your stakeholders.
What this costs
Bring a recent outside-counsel invoice. NDA in advance. We'll show you the block-billing decomposition, the budget tracker, and the pushback letter Pyx would draft from the evidence chain.
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