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When fraud emerges...
The patterns are there. Most teams just aren't seeing them.
Procurement fraud doesn't hide because it's invisible—it hides because no one's looking systematically. Most teams only investigate when auditors flag it. By then, weeks of decisions are already locked in. SentinelQX surfaces the patterns before they become problems, so your team acts on data, not on panic.
When teams move from reactive auditing to proactive pattern-spotting, audit findings drop by 60%+. The difference isn't compliance effort—it's having visibility when it matters.
The law now requires you to prove it, not just claim it.
The Failure to Prevent Fraud offence carries personal criminal liability. Auditors won't accept a policy document. They want evidence that fraud controls were actually followed. The difference between 'we had the right framework' and 'we can prove the framework was executed' is no longer academic—it's the difference between cleared and liable.
For every senior leader signing off on procurement over £50k, this is personal exposure. Most housing associations of scale are already in scope. Policy without proof equals negligence. Proof without visibility into execution is impossible.
Evidence scattered across five systems isn't evidence at all.
Procurement controls exist everywhere—email approvals, spreadsheet notes, system logs, handshake agreements. But auditors don't ask for 'all your evidence.' They ask for a complete, connected decision record. When your evidence lives in five different places, you're defending your compliance from fragments. One missing approval, one email in the wrong folder, and your entire control framework looks broken.
Most housing associations can't produce a coherent compliance record for any contract over £50k in the time an auditor needs it. The controls are real. The evidence just isn't organized to prove it. Sentinel pulls it together in one place.
We're in early conversations with procurement teams across the sector.
If any of this resonates, we'd like to hear from you.
What changes
A new dawn, a new direction.
SentinelQX, cutting-edge AI, to combat fraud and risk
in UK Housing procurement.
Detection that gives you time to think.
Without preemptive detection, fraud passes through and surfaces later—uncaught on your watch. With SentinelQX, you flag it before the payment leaves your account. The difference: your leadership team caught it, not an auditor. You stopped the loss. You controlled the narrative. That's competence.
Anomalies become actionable intelligence.
When SentinelQX detects a potential fraud signal, it generates an automatic report—an organised, evident system that displays solid compliance. Your organisation's fraud and risk policy becomes an active working document.
Your data does not leave your walls.
SentinelQX runs on your own infrastructure. No shared cloud environment, no data leaving your jurisdiction. For housing associations with strict IT governance or data protection requirements, this is something we built for from the start, not a feature added later.
Your board can see it. Your regulator can too.
The question Audit & Risk Committees are now asking is not whether something went wrong — it is whether you can show the system you had in place. SentinelQX gives your board and your regulator a documented answer to that question before anyone has to ask.
Give us a call
Tell us about your organisation and what you are working through. We will come back to you within one working day to arrange a call.
We'd really appreciate hearing about your organisation and your experience with risk, fraud and the processes and frameworks you have in place.
Common questions
What does being on board with SentinelQX consist of?
It varies by organisation, but common findings include: duplicate or near-duplicate invoices submitted by the same supplier across different cost codes, bank mandate change requests that bypassed standard verification, patterns of PO splitting to stay below approval thresholds, and procurement decisions made outside framework agreements. In some cases, a single flag has identified six-figure risk exposure. In others, the result is a clean bill of health, which is equally useful as documented assurance for your board.
Why is this built for housing associations specifically?
HA procurement has patterns that generic fraud tools miss — high volumes of repairs and maintenance spend with a concentrated contractor base, direct labour arrangements, leaseholder service charge billing, and procurement thresholds set against Homes England and RSH expectations rather than standard public sector rules. Sentinel is trained on these patterns. It flags what matters to housing procurement teams, not general anomalies designed for a different sector.
How is this different from our existing spend analytics?
Most existing tools tell you what happened. Sentinel tells you what looks wrong before it becomes a problem. Spend analytics show you totals and trends. Sentinel cross-references supplier registration data, flags address overlaps between staff and vendors, detects near-identical tender pricing across bids, and identifies mandate fraud patterns — none of which appear in a standard spend dashboard.
Can procurement or finance run this without involving IT?
Yes, and most pilots are set up entirely by a procurement or finance lead. The pilot runs from a standard data export from your finance system (Integra, Unit4, Civica, or similar). There is no software to install, no API integration, and no infrastructure change. IT do not need to be involved unless your organisation requires sign-off on data exports.
What if the pilot finds nothing?
That is still a valuable outcome. A clean pilot report gives your board and executive team documented assurance that your procurement controls are working — something increasingly expected under the Procurement Act 2023 and by the RSH. The absence of findings is evidence, not a wasted exercise.
What is the commitment and what does it cost?
The pilot is a fixed fee with no variable costs and no lock-in. We will cover the exact figure on a call once we understand your organisation's scope — there is no standard pricing because housing associations vary significantly in size and transaction volume. Beyond the pilot, any ongoing arrangement is a separate conversation. Nothing rolls over automatically.
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