Vendors self-report.
The company sending the invoice is the company counting the work. Nobody audits the meter.
The verification & settlement layer for the robot economy
Your robots did the work.
Prove it. Get paid on it.
Cadence independently verifies what every robot actually did — every pick, pallet, acre, and square foot — then invoices, collects, and pays out on the numbers both sides trust. Per-outcome pricing, with the money handled end to end.
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System of record
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01 — The problem
The robot economy runs on self-graded homework
Flat fees block adoption.
$2,000/robot/month locks out every operator too small to saturate a robot. The mid-market wants to pay per pick — no one can offer it credibly.
Disputes burn trust.
One contested invoice becomes a 45-minute phone fight with no shared evidence. Multiply by every robot, every month.
02 — How it works
Two feeds. One truth. Zero arguments.
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Connect
Read-only connectors to the robot fleet API and the operator's system of record — WMS, route logs, job tickets. No write access, ever. Nothing about operations changes.
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Reconcile
Cadence matches every claimed event against the independent record. Matched events are billable. Unmatched events are flagged with evidence both parties see.
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Settle
Cadence generates the invoice from the Verified Work Statement, collects from the operator, holds funds neutrally, and pays out the vendor. Matched events flow on schedule; disputed events are carved out and held until resolved. Money moves only on numbers both sides have already accepted.
03 — Who it's for
Who Cadence is for
For robotics vendors
Close the deals your pricing model is blocking
- Offer per-pick, per-pallet, per-acre pricing with a neutral referee behind every number.
- Get paid automatically: Cadence invoices, collects, and pays out on verified counts — no billing ops team required.
- Unlock the mid-market tier that flat RaaS prices out.
- Cut disputes and days-sales-outstanding — collections stop being conversations.
- A third-party stamp that shortens enterprise procurement.
For operators
Stop paying on the vendor's word
- An independent count of what every robot actually did — and payment releases only against it.
- Pay for outcomes, not idle machines — per pick, per pallet, per square foot.
- Disputed events are automatically withheld from payment until resolved — no more paying first and arguing later.
- The first true, verified ROI picture of your automation.
04 — Settlement
Money moves on verified work
Payer
Operator
Funds held neutrally
Cadence
releases on matched events only
Payee
Vendor
disputed events — held until resolved
Verified invoicing
Invoices generated line-by-line from the Verified Work Statement — every line item traces to evidence.
Neutral settlement
Cadence holds funds and releases on the agreed schedule. Neither side chases the other.
Dispute-safe by design
Contested events are carved out of the payout automatically — a 2% disagreement never blocks 98% of the money.
Subscriptions made robots affordable. Verified settlement makes them billable by the unit.
Units Cadence makes billable
- $0.05 / verified pick
- $0.95 / pallet move
- $48 / trailer unloaded
- $36 / acre mowed
- $0.04 / sq ft cleaned
- $0.02 / location scanned
If a machine can do it, Cadence can meter it, verify it, and settle it.
05 — Neutrality
Built to be nobody's side
Verification only works if the referee has no skin in the game. Neutrality isn't our policy — it's the product.
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Read-only, always
Our connectors can see your systems. They can never touch them. No write access exists in the product.
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Identical evidence
Vendor and operator see the same matched events, the same flags, the same records. There is no privileged view.
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Built to SOC 2 standards
Security and audit controls designed to SOC 2 standards from day one — encryption in transit and at rest, full access logging.
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Regulated money movement
Funds are handled through regulated banking and payments partners — held neutrally, released only on verified counts.
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Never a party to the deal
Cadence is never the vendor and never the buyer. We are the referee holding the money — and we only get paid to count correctly.
06 — Design partners
We're onboarding 10 design partners for 2026.
Design partners get Cadence Verify and Settle free for 12 months — verification, invoicing, and settlement, end to end — plus a dedicated integration engineer. In exchange: two hours a month and a read-only data feed. That's it.
Run robots and want verified invoices?
07 — FAQ
Questions we get
Do you replace my billing system?
For robot revenue, yes — Cadence meters, verifies, invoices, collects, and pays out end to end. If you'd rather keep your own invoicing, you can run verification-only and bill against our statements; most partners start there and switch settlement on within a quarter.
What integrations exist?
Robot fleet APIs on one side, and the major WMS platforms on the other — Manhattan, Blue Yonder, SAP EWM, and NetSuite — plus job-ticket systems for field robotics. New connectors are prioritized by design-partner demand.
Is my data shared with the other party?
Only matched and flagged billing events, with their evidence. Raw operational data — routes, inventory, telemetry beyond the billable event — never crosses to the other side.
What does it cost after the design-partner year?
Verification: a flat per-robot-per-year fee. Settlement: a small percentage of settled volume — think payments-processor economics, not a revenue share. Exact rates are set with design partners.
We already trust our vendor / customer. Why bother?
Great — keep that relationship. Verification makes the trust portable: to procurement teams who don't know your vendor, to new customers who don't know you, and to lenders who need numbers, not vibes.