Real estate

Real Estate Invoice Review Agent

There is no benchmark for the hourly rate. It gets checked anyway, by gut feeling and usually twice.

Checks contractor invoices for verifiability, not for gut-feel reasonableness.

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Public administration

Four processes that take up the most time today

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU or on-premises

Delivered together with

STACKIT Sovereign hosting in Germany, single-tenant from the first user.
Rödl Legal, tax and compliance expertise for legally sound deployment.
4P Consulting Advisory and implementation for the public sector, starting with the AI readiness assessment.

What is missing is not a comparison price but a verifiable invoice.

The invoice arrives from the contractor as a PDF and refers to the order, the quotation and the timesheets. Whoever checks it starts by gathering the mandatory details, then the proof of work, then the order total. Only then does the question of the hourly rate come up, and without a reliable comparison it stays open.

1final invoiceAn invoice from the electrical contractor arrives in the incoming invoice workflow.
7mandatory detailsUnder § 14(4) UStG (German VAT Act) these are invoice number, issue date, date of supply, type and quantity, net amount, tax rate with tax amount, and tax number.
3verifiability documentsQuotation, order and timesheets are what make the invoice verifiable under § 14 VOB/B, and they sit in three different places.
2review roundsIf a detail is missing, the invoice goes back and is checked again in full once it has been corrected.

Here, 50% less review effort means no second review round, because the missing service period is already recorded in the note at the first screening.

The 50% reduction in checking effort is this agent's headline figure. The three documents behind the invoice and the two review rounds per case describe the usual routine for incoming invoices, not figures from any statistics.

Three steps through the process.

The agent checks verifiability and mandatory details; it explicitly says nothing about whether an hourly rate is reasonable, because it has no reliable comparison for that.

Check the invoice's mandatory details

The agent reads the invoice and ticks off the seven mandatory details under § 14(4) UStG one by one. It records every missing detail with its line item and page number.

Invoice RE-30845, 6 of 7 mandatory details under § 14(4) UStG present, service period missing

Check line items against the order

The agent compares the invoice quantities and unit prices with the items in the order, quotation and timesheets, the documents that make it verifiable under § 14 VOB/B. It flags each discrepancy with both values.

3 differing line items, item 4.2 billed at 18 instead of 12 hours

Write a review note that states the limit

The agent summarises gaps, discrepancies and document references in a review note and records that it has no comparison for the hourly rate. Real estate controlling decides on payment or objection.

pruefvermerk_RE-30845.pdf, 3 objections with document references

What the agent does not do.

It does not approve payments.

It presents the review note with the objections. Real estate controlling signs the payment approval.

It does not give a comparison price for the hourly rate.

It has no reliable public comparison for tradespeople's charge-out rates, and it writes this limit into the note. *The facility manager makes the assessment, if necessary by obtaining a comparison quotation.*

Variations agreed on site only reach it once they are filed as documents.

It checks against the order, quotation and timesheets filed there. Until the variation is filed, it lists the additional quantity as a discrepancy in the note.

Connected systems

  • Incoming invoice workflow
  • order management
  • financial accounting

Operations

  • Deployment modelEU cloud or private cloud
  • Data processingGDPR-compliant, no model training on your data
  • Responsible teamsCommercial property management, invoice verification

The questions that come up before the first meeting.

How quickly is the Real Estate Invoice Review Agent ready to use?

A pilot typically runs on your own data within 4 to 6 weeks. The agent connects to your existing systems rather than running as a separate, parallel environment.

Where is the data processed?

EU cloud or private cloud. Processing is GDPR-compliant and models are never trained on your data. Details in the Trust Center.

Where does the figure “50% less review effort” come from?

It is based on experience from comparable projects and process benchmarks, not a commitment. We work out the realistic effect for your organisation during the assessment before the pilot.

Related agents.

Intake review, case 2026/04711

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