Pathfinder Sustainability

Pathfinder Sustainability

Pathfinder Sustainability is building a platform that takes an organization's waste and recycling vendor invoices, extracts and validates them, flags the invoices that are missing or wrong, and reports the results back to that organization.

Status: planned. Pathfinder is at design and specification stage. Nothing is live yet.

Illustration: A survey map. Streams of small paper marks drift out from behind a row of building footprints, cross the contour lines and settle into the ruled lines of one ledger. Lichen nodes mark lines that have been checked. It is a metaphor for many invoices becoming one checked record. It shows no real data.

One platform for the invoices

Pathfinder Sustainability is building Pathfinder, a platform for waste and recycling invoices. A client sends in the invoices it receives from its waste and recycling vendors. The platform is designed to extract each invoice, validate it, and report the results back to the client.

It is also designed to compare each delivery of invoices with the services the client expects at each of its properties, so an invoice that should have arrived and did not is listed as missing. A missing or problem invoice is designed to become an exception with an owner and a reason, not a silent gap.

Illustration: Many thin lines enter from the left, each a different length and angle, like invoices from different vendors. They bend toward one route line and run on together in step. The drawing is a metaphor for intake and checking. It shows no real data.

What is different, by design

  • It looks for what did not arrive. Not only at what did. Each delivery is designed to be compared with the services expected at each property.
  • A problem is a record. A missing or problem invoice is designed to become an exception with an owner and a reason.
  • Each client is configuration. Its properties, the services expected at each one, the way its invoices arrive and the scope of its reports.
Illustration: A map legend with three marks. A line for the route an invoice takes. A filled node for a line that has been checked. A flag for something that needs a person. The legend is the key to every drawing on this site.

Follow one delivery through it

How one delivery is designed to flow, from the invoices arriving to the report going back.

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