Evaluate the proposed work and team
Request named delivery roles, relevant experience, availability and evidence supporting any professional claims. Confirm whether subcontractors are involved and how independence or conflicts are managed. This website makes no unverified certification or accreditation claim.
Payment integrity needs more than a successful API call. We distinguish a changed draft, an accepted approval and a denied release, and record the controls that remain effective.
Make the proposal specific
- Objectives, systems, roles, scenarios and explicit exclusions.
- Operating windows, safety controls, test data and supplier permissions.
- Named responsibilities for incident escalation and stop decisions.
- Secure evidence transfer, retention, confidentiality and data processing.
- Reporting, remediation discussions, included retests and change control.
Review a sample for substance
Look for actual observations and verifiable acceptance criteria. A scan finding without validation or an attack narrative without scope limits is hard to use. Compare the sample’s technical detail with what the proposal commits to deliver.
Our Megabank AG sample is clearly fictional and available for this evaluation.
Understand the basis for duration and fees
Systems, roles, business logic, third parties and operational windows determine the work. There is no public fixed-price package or guaranteed completion time. The agreed statement of work should show assumptions, inclusions, retest allowance and how changes affect the schedule.
Confirm the operational plan
Use seeded payments and synthetic customers with settlement disabled. Agree independent stop authority, transaction reconciliation, named system owners and permission for third-party services. Separate demonstrated draft changes from unperformed fund transfers.
