Catch cost problems early. In time to act.
Takum flags overcharges and overruns the moment they show up.
Every dollar traces back to something that happened.
Takum works out what the work should cost from what actually happened, then checks every charge against it. A vendor billing too much, or a job burning too many hours: same problem, same engine. No black box, every number shows its work.
held on one shipment receipt, before the invoice was paid. The vendor billed 320 pallets for a 240-pallet load and added an after-hours fee that didn't apply.
$4,800 held on one invoice. Run that across every vendor, site, and month.
One engine. Overcharges and overruns.
Same logic, two shapes of the same problem. A vendor bills more than the work supports, an overcharge, caught before payment. A job burns hours faster than the standard allows, an overrun, caught while there's still a run to fix. Both ask the same question (what should this cost?) and answer it early enough to act. One bill or one work order, the engine reasons the same way.
of overrun prevented on one open labor run. The burn crossed red on day 3 of a 320-hour job, and the flag went up while there was still a run to fix.
At the BLS average total compensation for construction ($50.93/hr, loaded), ~550 hours is ≈$28,000. Your own loaded rate gives the real figure.
Source: BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, construction, total compensation per hour worked, December 2025.
The burn rate crosses into red by day 3 against the 320-hour bid. Nobody sees it. The job climbs to roughly 960 hours, 3.0× what the bid supports, and it's still open, bleeding margin.
Identical through day 3. This time the flag is up: the superintendent walks the site and re-sequences the crew, and within a week the burn is back to green. The hours before day 3 are already spent, so it still finishes over bid, but it lands on the 1.25× margin line at roughly 410 hours instead of blowing to 3.0×.
The path after the flag is a projection, not a replay. Prevented, not recovered: the hours before day 3 are gone. Multiply ~550 hours by your loaded labor rate for the figure that matters to you.
Finance receives the invoice.
Operations owns the truth.
The job burns hours. The standard only finds out at close.
By the time a controller sees a bill, the work is long done, and the only record in the room is the vendor's own claim.
PO-matching tools reconcile claim against claim. Takum starts one step earlier, from operational truth, so the invoice is checked against what really happened.
What it should cost first. Then what's charged.
Most tools start at the claim and work backwards. Takum runs the chain the way the money actually works.
Capture what happened
Logs, station handoffs, and the events of each job stream in as the work happens. The ground truth a vendor can only claim.
Compute what it should cost
Truth meets the contract, or the bid standard, to produce the expected cost, before any claim is treated as the number.
Check what's charged against reality
Each line, an invoice line or a labor run, is compared to the expected cost. Every variance traces to the evidence and the gap.
Approve, hold, or dispute
A decision the controller can defend without anyone explaining it live, before the money leaves.
It comes down to when you find out.
Your reconciliation team and your AP tools already check invoices. They check documents against documents. Takum checks the invoice against what physically happened.
Takum sits under your finance stack, not in place of it.
We don't replace Coupa, your ERP, or the controller. PO and AP tools reconcile claim against claim; Takum supplies the missing input, operational truth, so the decision they support is grounded in what actually happened.
