How Stryve Foods recovered +$25K and saved 35+ hours/week by month 1
The challenge
Stryve Foods had 6,000+ annual deductions across distributors and retailers. Two FTEs spent dozens of hours every week manually logging into portals, sifting for relevant proof documents, and reconciling each deduction individually.
"We had a deductions analyst, but too much of her time was spent cataloging remittance and reconciling PDFs and spreadsheets… only to find that it was valid. We needed a scalable way to find the invalid ones."
The Solution
Stryve implemented Pascal to connect their customer portals, ERP, trade calendar, and fulfillment systems. Pascal automated data extraction to normalize it into a unified, searchable dataset. Then Pascal applied validation logic against "ground-truth" documents, surfacing only deductions worth disputing. For the first time, Stryve could see the full picture: which deductions were valid, which were invalid, and how much was recoverable.
"When Pascal pulled the exact proof documents together and then showed us which deductions were invalid… that was when it clicked for us. Our team of 2 wouldn't have been able to do that."
The Results
By the first month, Pascal recovered an additional +$25K in invalid deductions compared to before Pascal. The team also saved 35+ hours per week and continues to work with Pascal for further deductions-related automation. The Deductions team was able to focus on other finance tasks.
"We recovered multiples of Pascal's cost back in the first month and the team can focus on other Finance tasks. The ROI was clear."