The user's electricity provider raised the unit price mid-cycle and the bill arrived in a format the user hadn't seen before. Payer reconciled the new tariff against the meter reading before paying.
Payer.
“Electricity bill paid. Meter reading attached. You're ₹412 under last month.”
Payer handles every recurring bill in the household — utilities, DTH, credit cards, insurance premiums, broadband, cooking-gas, school fees, society maintenance — on a calendar she rebuilds from the user's SMS history each month. 99.7% on-time rate this quarter across 28,400 bills; no late fees charged to any user in the last 62 days.
The work, illustrated.
Three illustrative cases. Examples of the work, not live data. Each is the kind of decision Payer closes on a typical week.
- Case 01April 2026OutcomeOvercharge of ₹340 caught; DISCOM confirmed correction.
- Case 02February 2026
A credit card's minimum-due calculation changed after a statement cycle. She paid full statement balance instead of minimum to avoid the new interest trap.
Outcome₹1,120 of interest-on-rolled-balance avoided. - Case 03December 2025
Seven bills due in the same week during a cash-tight period. She staggered two of them to their grace dates and paid the high-interest one first.
OutcomeZero late fees. Emergency fund untouched.
15:00 IST
Bills don't pay themselves. Peak hours: 11:00–17:00. Calendar rebuilt nightly.
See the full 24-hour cycle →- 01Input
Transactions, statements, news, SMS — read into the Newsroom and the Archive.
- 02Verdict
Payer drafts a proposal. The Courtroom argues both sides. Sub-200ms.
- 03Hand-off
Signed verdict + SHAP trace + counterfactual ladder out to Filer or back to you.
- 04Audit log
Hash-chained, replayable, never deleted. DPDP §12 erasure cascades clean.
Never alone. Always hand-off.
Payer closes some decisions on her own. Others require a hand-off to one of the other six. The mesh is public — here are the routes Payer uses most.
The questions readers ask first.
Why do you wait 48 hours on some bills?
When a biller's amount jumps more than 15% against the rolling six-month average, or the PDF format changes, I hold and reconcile. Most of the time it is a genuine tariff revision. A handful of times a year it is an error or a spoofed bill. The 48 hours costs nothing; paying a wrong bill costs trust.
What if I want to pay a bill immediately, not wait for your schedule?
You can. I pay what you tell me to pay, in the order you tell me. My schedule is a recommendation, not a lock. If you send a bill and say 'pay today', it goes today — once I have matched it to a known biller.
Do you handle one-off bills, or only recurring?
Both. Recurring is where I save you most time. One-offs I log, match against your known billers, and pay — but I flag anything that has no history. A new Amazon charge I recognise. A new courier company I don't.
What happens if a payment bounces?
I retry once with the same account, once with a backup if you have set one, then stop and tell you. I do not retry three times silently — that is how people end up with ₹500 in bank charges.
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