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Your Money.
Certified.

Every month, restaurants are overcharged on delivery fees and card processing. Certification is how you prove it — with evidence that holds up in any dispute, arbitration, or legal proceeding.

Not a collections agency Not a debt collector Your money. Your recovery. We provide the proof

The Core Distinction

We certify. You recover.

FohBoh doesn't collect money on your behalf. We build and deliver the certified evidence that makes your claim irrefutable. You use it to recover funds that were always yours. It's your money. Go get it!

Not a collections agency Not a debt collector Your money. Your recovery. We provide the proof

The Basics

What, Why, and How

Three questions every operator asks before their first certification run.

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What It Is
A mathematically proven record of overcharge
Certification means comparing what you were actually charged against what your signed contract says you should have been charged — row by row, rule by rule. The result is a sealed, tamper-proof record of every discrepancy.
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Why It Matters
An allegation goes nowhere. Evidence recovers money.
Most operators know they're being overcharged. But knowing isn't enough. A formal dispute, arbitration, or legal demand requires evidence that can withstand scrutiny. Certification turns a suspicion into provable fact.
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How It Works
Upload your data. We certify the variance.
You upload your settlement files and contract. Our engine compares them deterministically — no AI, no estimation. Every variance is calculated, attributed to a specific rule, and sealed with a SHA-256 hash. The output is your certified evidence package.

The Process

Four Steps to Certified Evidence

The entire certification cycle runs monthly. From raw files to court-ready evidence in 24 hours.

STEP 01
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Upload Your Data
Upload your DSP settlement CSVs, card processor statement, and signed agreements. Files are SHA-256 hashed on intake — untouched, unchained from that moment forward.
STEP 02
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Contract vs. Actual
The MGE reads your signed contract rates and compares them to every row in your settlement files. What should have been charged versus what was charged — calculated precisely.
STEP 03
Variances Certified
Every overcharge is attributed to a specific rule violation, quantified in dollars, and locked in a tamper-proof record. This is your certified overcharge ledger.
STEP 04
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Evidence Delivered
You receive a CAAR — a Court-Admissible Analysis Report — plus a full 9-artifact evidence pack. Hand it to your legal counsel or use it directly in a formal dispute.

What Makes This Different

Not AI. Not Guesswork. Not a Percentage.

Most fee audit services estimate overcharges using AI models trained on industry averages. FohBoh certifies overcharges against your specific, signed contract.

The Old Way
AI estimates and industry benchmarks
Typical audit tools compare your fees to what "restaurants like yours" pay — industry averages derived from aggregated, unverified data. The result is a probabilistic estimate, not a certified fact. Unusable in a formal dispute.
The FohBoh Way
Your contract. Your data. Deterministic result.
We certify against your specific signed agreement — the exact rates, the exact commission base field, the exact fee schedule you agreed to. The math is reproducible. Any accountant, attorney, or arbitrator can verify every figure independently.
Revenue share models
"We take 30% of what we recover for you"
Recovery-share auditors clip a percentage of the money they help recover. Over 12 months across 10 locations, that fee often exceeds $50,000 — on money that was always yours. You're paying someone to return your own wallet.
Flat monthly fee
$199/location/month. You keep 100%.
You keep 100% of what you recover. We earn a 10% certification fee only when your Trust Score is 85 or above — not on what you recover. Flat monthly subscription. The certification infrastructure is the product. Recovery is yours.

What You Receive

Three Deliverables. One Purpose: Recovery.

Every certification cycle produces three things — the evidence, the chain of custody, and the tools to act on it.

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CAAR — Court-Admissible Analysis Report
FRE 803(6) · 902(11) · 1002
A sealed, SHA-256 signed report containing every certified violation, the applicable contract rule, the calculated variance, and a full chain of custody. Self-authenticating under Federal Rules of Evidence — no FohBoh witness required in any proceeding.
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ExportPack — 9-Artifact Evidence Bundle
SHA-256 Integrity Manifest
Nine bundled artifacts: the CAAR, certified variance CSV, signed contract, bank statement, evidence manifest, audit trail, rule citations, and SHA-256 integrity manifest. Everything your legal team needs in a single download.
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Immutable Audit Trail
Chain of Custody · Tamper-Proof
Every action — every upload, every schema seal, every certification run — is logged with a timestamp, user ID, and SHA-256 anchor. The trail proves the evidence wasn't created after the fact or altered between collection and submission.
FRE 803(6)
Business Records Exception
The CAAR qualifies as a regularly-kept business record produced in the ordinary course of the certification workflow. No foundation witness required to admit it as evidence.
FRE 902(11)
Self-Authentication
The SHA-256 integrity manifest and chain-of-custody log satisfy the self-authentication standard for certified domestic records. The hash is the witness.
FRE 1002
Best Evidence Rule
The sealed schema, hashed source files, and complete audit trail satisfy the original document requirement. The ExportPack is the original — not a copy.

ExportPack · 9 Artifacts Bundled

01CAAR PDF — narrative + findings
02Truth Source CSV — Shadow Record
03Claim Source CSV — certified variances
04Signed Contract — source agreement
05Bank Statement — reconciliation anchor
06Evidence Manifest — metadata log
07Audit Trail — immutable activity log
08Rule Citations — rule-to-violation map
09SHA-256 Integrity Manifest

Core Architectural Principle

Zero AI. Zero Guessing.
Every Variance Is Mathematically Proved.

Sentry uses no machine learning, no probabilistic inference, and no language models. Every certified figure is computed by a deterministic rule engine against a sealed contract record. The math is the proof. If you can read the formula, you can verify the result.

Deterministic Engine No ML / No LLM Reproducible Results 100% Auditable Rule-Based Certification Court-Admissible Output

Deterministic Use Cases

Operational Recovery Cases.

Quantifiable outcomes driven by the MGE Governance Logic. Click any card to expand.

Use Case 01 Merchant Fee Recovery
0.2% – 0.8% of card volume
Narrative Trace

"Recovered $32k annually after exposing hidden interchange padding in processor statements."

What It Is

A forensic audit layer that scans Shift4 and other processor statements for hidden interchange markups, downgrades, and non-compliant overrides.

Why It Matters

Most operators never validate processor math. A single "Interchange Padding" line item can quietly drain an average of 0.5% or up to $32k+ annually without triggering any alert in the POS.

Use Case 02 Delivery Fee Recovery
3% – 10% of delivery sales
Narrative Trace

"Detected a 6% commission drift caused by unmapped aggregator marketing fee line items."

What It Is

Commission logic validation across DoorDash, Uber Eats, and first-party delivery channels to detect fee drift and unmapped marketing line items.

Why It Matters

Aggregators frequently update fee structures without notifying merchants. An average of 6% or up to $100k metric drift is invisible in P&L summaries but erodes margin on every single order.

Use Case 03 Prime Cost Governance
4% Margin Gain
Narrative Trace

"Flagged inventory reclassifications where premium proteins were moved into non-COGS categories."

What It Is

A control mechanism that flags inventory reclassifications, recipe manipulation, and "meal transfers" used to artificially deflate reported cost of goods sold.

Why It Matters

When a store manager reclasses 40lbs. of ribeye as a "marketing meal," food cost improves on paper — but real cash left the building. This closes the fiction gap.

Use Case 04 Revenue Recovery
2% Gross Recovery
Narrative Trace

"Flagged a server-level reopen/delete pattern linked to abnormal void and comp behavior."

What It Is

POS transaction-logic auditing that detects void/delete patterns, server-driven comps, and unauthorized discount stacking at the employee ID level.

Why It Matters

A 15% void rate from a single server ID is not hospitality — it is either theft or process failure. Flagging the "re-open and delete" pattern stops the bleed at the source.

Use Case 05 Labor Productivity
10% Efficiency Gain
Narrative Trace

"Identified shift overlap during low-traffic windows and reduced labor waste by 12%."

What It Is

Intraday scheduling logic that compares actual employee clock-ins against interval-level sales forecasts and historical utilization curves.

Why It Matters

Overlapping shifts during 9–11 AM dead zones create labor waste that P&L summaries smooth over. 12% reduction is achieved not by cutting heads, but by aligning bodies to traffic.

Use Case 06 Shrinkage Detection
15% Waste Reduction
Narrative Trace

"Found 9% steak variance tied to prep-yield loss that never hit formal waste logs."

What It Is

Yield-driven waste tracking that reconciles raw ingredient purchases against finished good sales, flagging variance not logged as formal spoilage or trim.

Why It Matters

If 9% of steaks disappear before they hit the guest check, the problem is not theft — it is prep execution. Capturing yield loss at the table level converts waste into training ROI.