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[Confidential Client] × Dawn Again
AR Collections Automation[redacted] week buildNo system replacement
Proposal summary

Keep cash current as you scale.

[Confidential Client] has a healthy collections book running on the operating team, and you are growing faster than the team can keep up. You need a collections operating system that scales the chase with the business, catches what fails silently, and puts the few real decisions in front of the right person.

[redacted] · The situation

You are outgrowing the manual desk.

This is not a broken collections operation. The customers who pay, pay on time, and your collection effectiveness is around [redacted]. The build is justified by capacity: a small-team desk cannot keep pace with a business growing this fast, and the receivables are starting to compound faster than a spreadsheet can work them.

[redacted]
DSO, a healthy book
Median invoice pays in [redacted]. The customers who pay, pay on time. This is not a crisis.
[redacted] over [period withheld]
Open AR doubled
[redacted] to [redacted] in [period withheld], while monthly invoicing rose from [redacted] to a [redacted] peak over the [period withheld].
[redacted]
automatic payment failing silently
[Redacted share] of the [redacted] on automatic payment terms is past due. Already-authorized money nobody is chasing.
[redacted]
Avoidable delay
The chase-able gap on [redacted] of past due. Narrow, but it widens as volume grows.

AR is doubling as volume climbs

Open receivables nearly doubled in [period withheld], from [redacted] to [redacted], with the past-due slice (gold) growing alongside. Monthly invoicing climbed from [redacted] in [period withheld] to a [redacted] peak by [period withheld]. The operating desk carried the workload.

Client chart data redacted

The tail is the problem, not the average

[Redacted share] of invoices clear before approved terms even hits. The risk lives in the long tail, the chronic-slow accounts that run past [redacted] and fall through the cracks when the operating team is stretched thin.

Client chart data redacted
[redacted] · Operating cadence

Every account gets touched on schedule.

Recurring invoices follow the clock a leader described. The workflow stops when financial system shows paid, routes exceptions instead of burying them in notes, and saves human judgment for decisions with consequences.

[redacted]
Invoice issued
Recurring invoices go out for next month of service.
[redacted]
First reminder
Email and one-way text reminders run through the channels they already use.
[redacted]
Second reminder
Follow-up continues without the operator rebuilding history from financial system and workflow platform.
[redacted]
Voice follow-up
An approved agent calls, has a real conversation, offers to pay or split, and logs the outcome.
[redacted]+
Decision surface
The right person sees the packet: collect, payment plan, service review, dispute route, or relationship owner.
[redacted] · What the client gets

A collections command center, not a spreadsheet.

This build keeps financial system, workflow platform, and communications platform in place. Dawn Again connects the missing workflow layer around them.

Dashboard

One prioritized work-list

the operator sees current, [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted]-plus aging without exporting and sorting Excel.

  • Invoices, last contact, reminder history, and account notes in one view
  • Priority by dollars, days, relationship, or rules you confirm
  • Manual note/date/who-reached-out columns become automatic
Automation

Vertical-aware reminders, texts, and calls

The system runs the follow-up the operating team cannot maintain across [redacted] invoices a year, and it routes by how each account actually pays.

  • Enterprise accounts and national accounts route through supplier portal and client detail withheld; direct-pay customers and local pay direct
  • Stops the moment financial system shows paid
  • Handles recurring invoices separately from the client’s distinct billing paths
  • Messages read like the client wrote them, with customer-specific invoices
Exceptions

Checks, promises, disputes

“The check is in the mail” becomes a tracked status with a [redacted] clock, not a free-text note.

  • Check number, sent date, promise-to-pay, refusal, and dispute statuses
  • supplier portal status reviewed as part of the build
  • Disputed service-related disputes route differently than plain non-payment
Escalation

Human decisions stay human

Leadership’s desired decision surface: the system gathers the history, a manager chooses the path.

  • Balance, aging, contact attempts, responses, disputes, and account owner
  • Actions: send to collections, keep calling, payment plan, or service review
  • Special-handling account accounts are blocked from careless service-review
automatic payment

Failed automatic payment gets caught

[redacted] of the [redacted] on automatic payment terms is past due, [redacted share] of it failing silently. It is the highest-confidence recovery because the customer already authorized payment.

  • Failure signal identified at the source
  • Re-trigger or flag immediately
  • No silent leakage on accounts that should be easy
Fit

No rip-and-replace

The proposal is intentionally built around tools the client already pays for.

  • financial system remains the financial source of truth
  • workflow platform remains the CRM/process layer where useful
  • communications platform supports call and text delivery
[redacted] · What changes day to day

The part you feel, not just the part you see.

The dashboard and automation are the how. This is what running collections actually feels like once the system is doing the work, instead of your team holding it together by hand.

No single point of failure

The process stops living in an individual

Right now collections runs on the operator, her memory, and her spreadsheet. If she is out, the follow-up stops. The system keeps the cadence running no matter who is at the desk, so the business does not depend on the operating team remembering.

Nothing slips quietly

You stop wondering what got missed

Today nobody can say for sure that every overdue account got chased. The system touches every one on schedule and shows you the status, so you are working from what is actually true instead of hoping nothing fell through.

The desk scales without a additional hire

Absorb the next jump in volume

Monthly invoicing climbed from [redacted] to a [redacted] peak over the [period withheld] and the desk is still the operating team. The cadence takes on the growth without a additional seat that has to be hired, trained, and retained, and without the key-person risk of an individual holding all the history.

Relationships stay intact

Fewer awkward calls, and the right ones

Steady, on-time follow-up means a customer rarely gets a surprise call after [redacted interval]. Disputed accounts get handled like disputes, not deadbeats, and shared-service accounts cannot get shut off by accident. You collect without burning the relationship.

Leadership stays informed

The cash picture is always there

leadership and ownership can see where the money is without anyone stopping to build a report. The aging story, the recovered cash, and the accounts that need a decision are visible in real time, so the conversation is about what to do next, not what happened.

[redacted] · Timeline & rollout

Shipped in phases, cash first.

Not one big reveal at the end. Each phase puts something working in your hands, sequenced so the fastest cash and the command center land first, and the hardest pieces build on a foundation that is already proven.

[redacted]
Timing withheld

See your book, recover the easy cash

  • Collections dashboard live, replaces the Excel aging workflow
  • automatic payment-failure recovery running

Visible cash and a working command center in the [period withheld]. This de-risks everything after it.

[redacted]
Timing withheld

The cadence runs itself

  • Email reminder sequence on the [redacted] billing cycle
  • Text (SMS) reminders with two-way replies

The routine chase across [redacted] invoices a year, the part the operating desk cannot maintain, now runs on schedule.

[redacted]
Timing withheld

Intelligence and judgment

  • Voice follow-up calling past-due accounts
  • Exceptions tracking: checks, promises-to-pay, disputes
  • Escalation packet for human decisions

The hardest pieces, built last on a foundation that already works.

Timing withheld · [redacted]

Tune and measure on your book

The full system runs against your live accounts. We tune cadence timing, messaging, and the approved scripts, handle edge cases, and capture a baseline-versus-after on DSO and recovery, so you can see it working on your own numbers.

End of timing withheld

Retainer begins

The [redacted] managed service starts only here, once the system is built, tuned, and proven on your book. Nothing recurring until then.

[redacted] · Investment

It pays for itself before it scales.

The return is not a one-time DSO squeeze, your book is already healthy. It is durable operating improvements: the money failing silently on automatic payment, the additional hire you do not have to make, and holding your DSO steady as volume grows.

[redacted]
automatic payment recovery, recurring
[Redacted share] of automatic payment is failing silently. Recovering most of it is already-authorized cash and well beyond the build cost on its own.
[redacted]
The hire you do not make
A additional operating seat costs this loaded, takes months to ramp, owns tribal knowledge, and can walk. The system scales to the next jump in volume without it.
~[redacted]
Per [redacted] of DSO, at [redacted]
The value is defending your [redacted] DSO against the drift growth would otherwise cause, not promising an unrealistic compression.
[redacted]–[redacted]
Build fee, plus [redacted] in managed services for hosting, monitoring, and support. Call and text usage passed through at cost. The retainer does not start until the system is built, tuned, and proven on your book at the the implementation period. the identified recovery opportunity more than covers the build; everything past that is upside.

[redacted] upon project start, [redacted] upon completion. Managed services ([redacted]) begin only after the implementation tuning window.

Scope driverBase pathHeavier pathAdds
workflow platform cadenceConfigure built-in automationBuild cadence engine ourselves[redacted]
VoiceVoice follow-up, natural conversationBranching negotiation (split offers, dispute capture)[redacted]
TextingOne-way remindersTwo-way customer reply thread[redacted]
supplier portalRead supplier portal statusInvestigate direct connectionIncluded
Recommended next step

Sign, and we start building.

Once we are go, Dawn Again gets into workflow platform and financial system and Phase begins. Anything we need to confirm along the way, priority rules, escalation ownership, special-handling accounts, we work out together as we build. The target is simple: automate the tail, surface the exceptions, and move cash back into the client’s hands.

Prepared from the Dawn Again proposal for [Confidential Client]
Contact: Tam Nguyen · [contact withheld]
Web: dawnagain.ai

Confidential · [period withheld]