Rostered hours, contracted hours, invoiced hours — three numbers that should match.
Finch is built for operations-heavy South African SMEs, and a guarding business is one. It reads your rosters, client contracts and supplier invoices, and flags where the hours you pay for and the hours you bill diverge.
Read this first.
This is an experimental vertical. Finch was built for South African food and produce operations, and everything on this page is the same machinery pointed at a guarding business: reading documents, watching prices, reconciling one record against another. We have not run an audit in a security company yet, so there is no case study here and nothing on this page is a measured result. If the description fits your operation, the audit is how we both find out.
Start where information keeps falling through.
These are the repeated breakdowns behind most of what Finch finds in a security company. The audit confirms which of them are actually present before an agent is switched on.
Rostered hours and billed hours drift apart
A site covered above its contracted hours costs wages immediately and shows up on an invoice weeks later, if at all.
Site profitability is a monthly guess
Wages, vehicles, equipment and the contract value sit in different places, so nobody can say which sites actually make money.
Incident reports arrive as photographs
Paperwork written at a gate at night reaches the office as an image, and the pattern across a client's sites is never assembled.
Fleet and equipment costs creep
Servicing, fuel, uniforms and radios each move a little, and none of the increases is big enough on its own to trigger a conversation.
What Finch watches in a security company.
The same agents, in a guarding vocabulary. None of this has been run against a real security business yet — it is what the audit would go looking for.
- DOC-UIncident reports, guard registers and supplier invoices — including the ones photographed on a phone at three in the morning — read into a reviewable record.LIVE
- RECONRostered hours against contracted hours against invoiced hours, per client site, so paid-but-unbilled time surfaces in the month it happened.FROM YOUR AUDIT ROADMAP
- PRICE WATCHVehicle, fuel, uniform and equipment costs line by line, against six months of the same supplier's prices.ROLLING OUT
- DEBTORSClient accounts drifting past terms — in a contract business, the ones that drift tend to keep drifting.FROM YOUR AUDIT ROADMAP
- THE BRIEFMonday morning on WhatsApp: which sites cost more than they billed last week, ranked.FROM YOUR AUDIT ROADMAP
Document intelligence (Doc-U) is live today; agents are activated in priority order from your audit roadmap.
The machinery the agents read from.
The modules a guarding business would most likely start from. They were built for food and produce operations, so the audit is where we establish what genuinely transfers and what does not.
How the audit runs for a security company.
- 01
We take a month of rosters, client contracts, issued invoices and supplier invoices, in whatever form they exist.
- 02
We reconcile rostered against contracted against invoiced hours per site, and check fleet and equipment costs against the previous three months.
- 03
You get the gaps in rand per site — and an honest answer about whether Finch is the right tool for a guarding business at all.
What this connects to.
The problems a security company usually recognises, the reading behind them, and the other operations we work with.
Problems Finch fixes.
Fit before implementation.
- Has Finch been implemented in a security company?
- No. Finch's live work is with South African food and produce operations, and Turn 'n Slice is the only client we quote. This page describes what the same agents would watch in a guarding business, not something we have measured in one.
- What would Finch actually read?
- Rosters, client contracts, issued invoices, supplier and fleet invoices, and incident reports — including photographed ones. Document intelligence is the part of Finch that is live today; the reconciliation agents are activated from your audit roadmap.
- Does Finch handle PSIRA compliance?
- No, and we would not claim otherwise. Finch is an operations layer that watches hours, costs and documents. Registration, grading and statutory compliance stay with the systems and people that already handle them.
- How would we find out whether it fits?
- The one-week Operations Audit, R2,000, credited to your first month. Because this vertical is experimental, the audit's first job is to tell you honestly whether Finch is the right tool — and we will say so if it is not.
Start with a one-week Operations Audit.
R2,000, credited to your first month. We tell you where the money is leaking — whether you sign or not.