why payshepherd

Manual workflows are draining your team's efficiency

PayShepherd helps capital and maintenance teams replace operational chaos with AI-driven automation. Eliminate admin burdens, catch hidden risks early, and protect your margins from planning through closeout.

HOW PAYSHEPHERD HELPS

The burden of outdated business processes

In capital and maintenance projects, success depends on tight coordination. Teams, vendors, and systems all need to stay aligned to keep work moving. But outdated business processes slow everything down. Whether it’s digging through a static database for lessons learned or validating contractor spend across spreadsheets, the result is the same: inefficiency. This inefficiency increases admin, risk, and ultimately, costs.

Mounting financial and operational pressure

Ignoring broken processes has a compounding impact on your time and bottom line. Every delay, error, or overlooked invoice adds a new problem.

When fragmented processes and siloed knowledge are left unaddressed, the impact compounds:

  • Cross-team misalignment leads to rework, delays, and contractor disputes
  • Repeatable inefficiencies and commercial leakage quietly erode schedule and cost performance
  • Process gaps increase legal exposure, schedule risk, and financial uncertainty
  • Teams stay reactive, constantly putting out fires instead of driving improvement

Replacing manual work with AI and automation

Shifting from manual work to AI-driven automation means less admin, lower risk, and better visibility. AI uncovers data-driven insights, flags risks early, and automates tedious tasks like invoice validation or retrieving lessons learned.

PayShepherd gives teams structure, clarity, and a path toward continuous improvement.

What makes PayShepherd different?

Effortless contractor onboarding

Automatically onboard vendors and contracts into the system. Our dedicated support team ensures high adoption and satisfaction rates for your contractors.

Accelerated implementation

Avoid a long drawn out deployment and start getting results quick. Most customers see ROI in under 4 months.

Cross-functional alignment

Break down silos between procurement, operations, maintenance, and finance. A single source of truth for contractor performance, cost, and compliance keeps everyone on the same page.

Built on a modern, open platform

Built to seamlessly integrate with your systems. Easily share data across your ERP, CMMS, finance, or other existing tools with modern APIs.

No site admin required

PayShepherd gives you control over what moves forward and what contractors must fix. Automate contractor processes without delays, errors, or admin overhead.

Purpose-built AI

Our AI is trained specifically for the complexities of capital projects, maintenance programs, and day-to-day operational work.

"We’ve been very impressed by the level of service—not just from my perspective, but from HR and other teams across the site as well. This implementation has really stood out in terms of the positive feedback it’s received."
Chad Cunningham
M&R Superintendent, K+S Potash Canada

Mercer Celgar’s Journey with PayShepherd

The challenge
Mercer Celgar depends on its contracted workforce of up to 1,000 workers onsite to uphold reliable production, preventative maintenance, reliability work, and capital projects.

They implemented PayShepherd to align on contractor expectations, monitor performance, and streamline processes from work validation to payment.
The wins
  • $1.2M in annual cost savings for a single plant
  • 73% reduction of unverified workers on site
  • Fully streamlined and digitized contractor management processes

“Our cost and contract compliance has improved with PayShepherd. We gained more cost transparency. We were able to use this information for future negotiations and process improvements. Our payment process, including the time to approve invoices, has significantly improved.”

Stefan Duda
VP Procurement at Mercer

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Enhanced productivity

Improving your processes doesn’t require massive upfront commitments. Take advantage of our free Contractor Management Maturity Assessment to pinpoint exactly where you can gain immediate efficiency. Or, quickly prove value through a low-risk pilot. Both paths deliver clear insights, quick wins, and set your team up for lasting success.

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Fix the workflows that are costing you time and efficiency.