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Forensic IT & Telecom
Line-by-line audit of every circuit, line and contract. We recover refunds, lock in lower rates, and clean up a decade of carrier billing errors.
Learn more →Cities, counties, school districts, hospitals and the country's largest enterprises rely on AER & AUA to recover what's been overpaid — on telecom, fuel, energy and tax. Twenty-seven years. Zero risk. Pure contingency.
Every invoice your organization pays carries hidden errors — in rates, taxes, surcharges, and provisioning. We find them, recover them, and lock in lasting savings.
Line-by-line audit of every circuit, line and contract. We recover refunds, lock in lower rates, and clean up a decade of carrier billing errors.
Learn more →Up to $0.60 of every gallon is tax. We pursue federal, state and county refunds for fleets, off-road, PTO, refrigerated and exempt operations.
Learn more →Retail-to-wholesale graduation, benchmarking, and demand management for qualified electricity and natural gas accounts.
Learn more →Sales, use, surcharge and regulatory-fee audits. Most clients silently overpay 1–3% of invoiced spend — we recover it.
Learn more →Cities, counties, school districts, universities and state agencies trust AER & AUA to deliver utility, telecom, fuel and tax recovery audits on a 100% contingency basis — structured for procurement, designed for audit committees.
Documented SLAs, transparent dashboards, and continuous reporting at every stage — built for audit committees, city councils and finance leadership.
Document gathering, LOAs, location lists. 2 weeks.
Standardize every invoice into one auditable database. 3 weeks.
Forensic line-by-line review & refund filing. 4 weeks.
Execute orders, verify after-bills, lock in savings. 2–3 months.
Twenty-seven years of recovery data, every dollar tracked. We know exactly which spend categories return the most — and we go straight there.
27+ years of large-government and private-sector expense recovery. Substantial recoveries delivered across federal, state and local agencies, school districts, universities and Fortune 1000 enterprises.
Lead analyst for the energy practice and team procurement. Five years of public- and private-sector refund recovery work.
Decades of relationships in fuel, energy and government procurement. Brought AER more than twenty of the largest U.S. construction firms with significant first-year recoveries.
We'll tell you what we'd recover before you ever sign anything. Zero cost, zero risk, zero obligation.