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LionShieldAI

We work out where AI pays in your business, then build it.

Have you ever had a supplier's bank details change halfway through an email thread?

Most changes are real. One fake one is enough to hurt.

Who this is for

  • Your firm pays or receives large sums by bank transfer.
  • Payment instructions arrive by email: supplier invoices, client deposits, closing funds.
  • Your bookkeeper is busy, and invoices are due.

When we'd tell you not to bother

If your bank already calls to confirm every new payee, and your team never skips it, you're covered. If you rarely pay by transfer, there's little to guard.

Where it breaks

  1. Invoice arrives
  2. Thread continues
  3. New details sentNobody compares them with the old ones.
  4. Looks normal
  5. Paid

A supplier you've paid for years sends an invoice. A few emails later, their bank has changed.

The address looks right unless you look closely. The invoice is due, so it gets paid.

In construction, it's a subcontractor's draw. In property management, it's a vendor payment. In a law firm, it's the closing wire.

What we'd build: a payment-change check

It flags new bank details the moment they appear in a thread.

What changes

  • You hear about a change before anyone pays.
  • The note shows old details, new details and the sender's address.
  • Your team calls the number you already had, not the one in the email.
  • Then they pay.

What it's worth

Look at the largest single payment you'll make this month. That's what one changed account number puts at risk.

Each time the check fires, it costs one phone call.

Worth a look before paying

1 thread with changed bank details

BeforeAccount ending 4410, on three past invoices
TodayAccount ending 8823, in a new email
SenderOne letter differs from the address used before

Call the supplier on the number you already have.

How it runs

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What it watches

Threads with invoices, remittance details or payment instructions, in the mailboxes you choose.

The steps

  1. Notes the payment details each supplier or client has used before.
  2. Compares any new details in a thread with the old ones.
  3. Checks the sender's address against earlier emails.
  4. Sends any change to you and your payer at once, marked worth a look.
  5. Your team confirms by phone and marks it checked.

Who signs off

A person confirms the change by phone before any payment.

What it never does

It never blocks or makes a payment. It never replies to the sender. It never calls a change fraud. It only says check first.

What we'd need

Nothing to start. Forward one past change-of-details email, and we'll show the note it would raise. Later, read-only access to the invoice mailboxes, and who should get the note.

Goes well with

  • A client problem climbing toward your desk, seen early.
  • Decisions waiting on you, on one list.
  • A short morning list of what needs you today.

You become the owner who always checks before paying.

Your money only goes where you meant it to go.

Yours will differ. The first conversation is where we work out how.

Next: a first conversation.

One of our co-founders. About an hour. Free, and no access needed.

Ask for a first conversation

A person writes back, usually within one working day.