Every year, consumers lose billions to hidden fees buried in contracts, invoices, and bills. From contractor estimates with inflated material markups to medical bills with duplicate charges, the fine print is designed to be overlooked.
We built HiddenFeeAI to solve this — an AI financial advisor that automatically analyzes financial documents and flags pricing risks before they cost you money.
How It Works
Our system processes financial documents through a six-step pipeline:
- Document Ingestion — Accepts PDFs, images, Word docs, and text files
- Financial Data Extraction — Uses OCR and NLP to pull every charge, fee, and rate
- Fee Classification — Categorizes charges using a taxonomy from thousands of analyzed documents
- Risk Detection — Flags pricing exceeding market ranges, vague descriptions, duplicate items
- Savings Scoring — Each finding gets a severity score based on financial impact
- Action Recommendations — Plain-language report with specific charges and what to do about them
Key Technical Challenges
Document Variety: Financial documents come in every format imaginable. We built a preprocessing pipeline that normalizes PDFs, scanned images, and digital documents.
Entity Disambiguation: A "processing fee" in a contractor estimate means something different than in a medical bill. Our system uses contextual understanding across industries.
Try It Yourself
Upload any bill, contract, or invoice at detecthiddenfees.com and get a detailed report of hidden fees and pricing risks in minutes.
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