Payment fraud prevention for small and mid-sized businesses
Sheepdog watches your incoming email and invoices, checks every sender, vendor, and bank detail against the records you’ve verified, and walks your team through what to do before any money is sent.
The ordinary danger
It doesn’t arrive as a threat. It arrives as an email from a vendor you’ve paid for years, with the right name, the right signature, and a polite request: we’ve updated our bank details, please send this week’s payment to the new account.
Nothing about it feels wrong. The only difference is a letter out of place, and a bank account that was never theirs.
From Renata Voss · Allied Millwork · ap@aIIiedmillwork.example
Updated banking details — please use for this week’s payment
Hi, we have updated our bank details. Please send this week’s payment to the new account on the attached invoice.
Thank you — looking forward to another smooth week.
Renata Voss
Accounts receivable
How it works
Sheepdog does the checking nobody has time for, then hands the decision to a person with everything they need to make it.
The product
No score to interpret. Sheepdog puts what the message says next to what you verified, names the difference, and tells you what to do next.
Lookalike domain
A capital I where a lowercase l belongs. In most fonts you can’t tell them apart. Sheepdog can, and it says so in a sentence anyone on the team can act on.
What this message says
acmesuppIy.com
What we verified
acmesupply.com
Changed bank details
The invoice looks right and the sender checks out. The account doesn’t. Sheepdog reads the bank details on every invoice and compares them to the verified account.
What this message says
Account ending 7781
What we verified
Account ending 4419
Every case ends with a person
Each case spells out what is wrong, why it matters, and what to do next. “Do not pay. Call the number on file.”
Stop the money while you check.
Record that you called the number on file and confirmed.
Bring in the person who should decide.
Close it with a reason, kept on the record.
The film
You build something. Day after day. People depend on it. Then an email arrives. It looks right. Every detail.
Who it’s for
Sheepdog is built for companies with many vendors and a lot of payment activity, and for the people who already keep that money moving. It doesn’t replace their judgment. It gives it the facts.
You built the business one invoice at a time. Sheepdog checks every one, so a single convincing email doesn’t get to decide where a month of work goes.
You know your vendors better than anyone. Sheepdog does the letter-by-letter checking and lays the evidence out, so your call is the informed one.
You keep a hundred things moving. Sheepdog gathers what needs you in one place and says the next step in plain language.
Know before you pay.
Sheepdog is opening to a small group of businesses first. Tell us who you are and where you work.
