Work & Business
Invoicing, records, audits, disputes and the job hunt — for people running something small or looking for the next thing.
Test squares, slope by slope, and the soft metals nobody photographs. The report is the claim.
Not a detection engine — a documented set of risk-based criteria, and the record of what you examined.
An Explanation of Benefits is not a bill. Comparing it to the itemised bill is where the errors show up.
Thirty applications in, nobody remembers which CV went where. One row per application fixes that — and turns a month that felt like nothing into a month you can count.
A contemporaneous note carries weight precisely because it was written before anyone knew which way the dispute would go. Here is what a row of it has to contain.
Most people compare two offers by comparing two salaries. Counting the bonus, the pension either way, the benefits, the fare and the hours can reverse the answer.
The classic first freelance rate is the old salary halved and divided by 220. The division is fine. The 220 is the mistake.
Chasing the invoice total leaves money on the table and makes a weaker ask. The interest arithmetic is simple — the day count and the part-payments are where it goes wrong.
De-duplicating is one click. Choosing the key is the whole job — and choosing it wrong deletes real records without a single error message.
Counting weekdays between two dates is exact arithmetic. Deciding which days are the weekend, and which holidays you observe, is not something any date can tell you.
The difference between two cities' clocks changes during the year, because daylight saving starts and ends on different dates in different places and runs the opposite way south of the equator.
What you want to earn and what you have to charge are separated by holiday, unbilled hours, premises, insurance and every job you quoted for and did not get. The gap is bigger than almost anyone guesses.