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What A Shadow Audit Is.Your Exports In. The Brief Out.

The engagement starts with a Shadow Audit: our agents, the Shadows, observe your exports and change nothing; every finding with its evidence and the rupee figure its rule states, our audit, the owner's decision, the Company Brief. Nothing happens to your business along the way.

01The Four Steps

Four Steps.Two Of Them Human.

  1. 01

    We Read Your Exports

    Chat exports, invoice registers, job sheets, bookings, bank statements. One person at your company owns the exports from week one. We never ask for a password.

  2. 02

    The Shadows Find

    Each Shadow runs a diagnostic before it reads: what it can read today, and what would need an upgrade. Then rules go through every row, and every finding carries the rows behind it.

  3. 03

    We Audit

    A person checks the data, the finding and the risk, and records approve or reject under a name. Rejected in audit ends it.

  4. 04

    You Decide

    The owner agrees or declines, recorded under a name. Only then may anything be built.

Two Decisions, In Order

  1. FindingWith its rows
  2. Proposed FixOne line, one expected result
  3. Our AuditAwaiting audit → approved, or rejected in audit
  4. The Owner's YesAwaiting the owner → agreed, or declined
  5. ApprovedOnly now may anything be built

Our audit first, then yours. A rejection at either step ends it. Every decision carries a name and a time.

02What You Receive

The Company Brief.Audited Before You See It.

Written from each Shadow's findings by the Analysts and the Chief, by rules first. A summary, then:

  1. 1The processes read, with their volumes, handoffs and failure points
  2. 2Where time or money is being lost, with the rows behind each line
  3. 3What is ready to automate
  4. 4At most three things to fix first, and what each needs from you
  5. 5What we could not see

The Shape Of A Finding

Two Lines, Then The Rows

Every finding is shown in the same four parts. Nothing on it is a guess, and nothing on it names a person.

  1. 1The problem, in one line, as the rule found it.
  2. 2The rows behind it: record ids, dates and amounts from your own files, with names, numbers and emails replaced.
  3. 3What the rule says it is worth, or that it cannot put money on it.
  4. 4Where it stands: awaiting audit, awaiting the owner, approved.

03Your Data

Read-Only By Construction.Every Look On Record.

  1. Exports Only

    No Password, No Account

    Your files come in as the exports your tools already make. Adren holds no login to any system of yours.

  2. The Door

    Replaced Before It Is Stored

    Names, phone numbers and emails are replaced in your files before anything is stored. What does it is kept outside the database.

  3. The Build

    Tests Fail If A Reader Could Write

    No part of Adren that reads your data may write, run a program or reach your tools. The build itself refuses it.

  4. The Figures

    Rules First

    Every rupee figure on a finding comes from a rule run over your rows. Where a rule cannot put money on it, it says so.

  5. The Record

    Every Look Is Logged

    Each time one of us opens your evidence, a row is written with the person and the page.

  6. The Exits

    Nothing Leaves By The AI Door

    Our own AI tools can read counts and verdicts about your business, never your evidence. That stays on our server.

04The Shadows

A Shadow For Each Department.Each Diagnosed Before It Reads.

A Shadow is a read-only agent on one branch of the business. Before it reads anything it states what it can read today and what would need an upgrade. A Shadow that is not ready does not observe.

  1. Shadow-01 · Comms

    The Conversations

    Reads today
    The WhatsApp chat export, names and numbers replaced at the door
    Looks for
    Inquiries nobody answered in time
    Would need an upgrade
    Email

  2. Shadow-02 · Sales

    Quotes, Orders, Invoices

    Reads today
    The POS day book, an invoice register, and the quotes sent in the chats
    Looks for
    Slow quotes, and one item sold at several prices
    Would need an upgrade
    A CRM export

  3. Shadow-03 · Ops

    Jobs, Bookings, Deliveries

    Reads today
    The job sheet, the bookings or calendar export, and the POS for what was delivered
    Looks for
    Jobs typed twice, delivered and never invoiced, and bookings missed
    Would need an upgrade
    Nothing: it reads everything its branch uses

  4. Shadow-04 · Finance

    Payments, Receivables, Bills

    Reads today
    Bank and UPI statements, invoices, and the POS
    Looks for
    Receivables past due, a payee paid twice, a bill that keeps growing
    Would need an upgrade
    Nothing: it reads everything its branch uses

  5. Shadow-05 · Marketing

    Where Inquiries Come From

    Reads today
    The chats it shares with Comms
    Rules
    None of its own yet. It is diagnosed, and it says so
    Would need an upgrade
    Ads reports, reviews, social pages

  6. Shadow-06 · HR

    Staff Records

    Reads today
    Nothing this term. Attendance and payroll stay out until the terms of an engagement cover staff records
    Rules
    None of its own yet
    Would need an upgrade
    An attendance register, the payroll sheet, and the terms to read them

05Who It Is For

Logistics Firms.Manufacturers Who Sell On Quotes.

Companies in India whose work runs through chats, spreadsheets, registers and bank statements, and whose errors have a price per day.

Customs Brokers And Forwarders

One Shipment. Eight Re-Typings.

An import passes through eight systems that never talk to each other. The same invoice is keyed in by hand at every step.

  1. 01Invoice on WhatsApp
  2. 02Bill of Entry
  3. 03e-Sanchit
  4. 04GST return
  5. 05e-way bill
  6. 06Delivery order
  7. 07Depot slot
  8. 08Customer update
Bill of Entry filed late
₹5,000 a day for three days, then ₹10,000
A 40′ box held past its free days
₹10,500 a day and up, after four free days

Charges as published in India in October 2026: the late fee for filing a Bill of Entry, and the lowest detention rate on one carrier's tariff.

B2B Manufacturers

Enquiries In Chats. Quotes From Sheets.

The enquiry arrives on WhatsApp, the quote goes out from a spreadsheet, the ledger is in Tally, and follow-up depends on who remembers.

  1. SalesA quote that went out late, or never. One item billed at several prices with no discount recorded.
  2. OpsA job delivered and never invoiced. A job card typed twice.
  3. FinanceA credit invoice past due. A payee paid twice. A supplier's bill that keeps growing.
  4. CommsAn inquiry after hours that waited for the morning.

What the rules look for, in words. Every figure Adren shows you comes from your own rows.

06How To Start

One Email.Then A Shadow Audit.

  1. Step 1

    Tell Us About The Business

    Which tools you run, roughly how much goes through them, and who would own the exports.

  2. Step 2

    We Agree The Files

    The list of exports per tool, with the exact menu path for each. One person at your company produces them.

  3. Step 3

    The Audit Runs

    The Shadows are installed and diagnosed, the rules read every row, our team audits every finding, and we walk you through the Company Brief.

Your Next Step

Audit

Write to us about your business. We agree which files you export, the Shadows read them, our team audits every finding, and you receive the Company Brief.

alejandro.r@adren.ai