# OpEx Agent

> OpEx Agent audits four operating costs of a physical business (packaging, pallets, freight and waste hauling). It reads invoices and contracts and returns written findings, each with the invoice line or clause behind it, a confidence and an action. Status: early access; the first audits are run by hand while the agent is built. U.S.-focused. Contact: info@opexagent.com.

Disclosure: audit requests are passed to Repackify, a sibling packaging supply and recycling business that can quote on some packaging and pallet findings.

## Audit
- [How it works](https://opexagent.com/how-it-works): collect, read, check, benchmark with sources, report, you decide
- [Fees and conflicts](https://opexagent.com/how-we-charge): free to request; terms set in writing before documents are sent; Repackify disclosure
- [Sample report](https://opexagent.com/sample-report): format of findings, on a fictional company
- [Request an audit](https://opexagent.com/audit): early access

## Categories
- [Waste hauling](https://opexagent.com/categories/waste-hauling): fees added as a percentage; container rental on top of service; rate escalators; paying for air; extra pickups, overages and contamination; evergreen auto-renewal; recyclables hauled as trash
- [Freight](https://opexagent.com/categories/freight): fuel surcharge above the table; accessorials; reweighs and re-class; dimensional weight; discounts not applied; duplicates and redeliveries
- [Packaging](https://opexagent.com/categories/packaging): spec heavier than the job; too many sizes, or the wrong ones; price escalation that only goes up; stretch film over-applied; minimums and inventory
- [Pallets](https://opexagent.com/categories/pallets): new where recycled would do; heat treatment you may not need; pallets thrown in the trash; non-standard sizes; no returns program

## Free tools
- [Savings estimator](https://opexagent.com/estimator): planning ranges, not quotes. Levers: rebid or re-spec boxes and film; right-size one box to cut dimensional weight; buy recycled grade instead of new; sell used pallets back instead of throwing them out; fuel surcharge billed above the carrier’s own table; accessorials you can dispute or stop triggering; rebid base rates or discounts; fewer pickups for containers that leave half full; fuel, environmental and admin fees; price increase above inflation; container rental billed on top of service. Assumptions: only the user’s numbers plus published rules (carrier dimensional divisor 139 for UPS/FedEx daily rates; EIA weekly diesel price; BLS CPI). No savings percentage is assumed; where no public benchmark exists the user enters a low and high.
- [Invoice red-flag check](https://opexagent.com/invoice-check): paste lines from one waste-hauling or freight invoice; flags fees, rent, fuel, accessorials, reweighs, duplicates and writes the question to ask. No uploads, no refund amounts, U.S.-centric rules, runs in the browser.
- [Renewal clock](https://opexagent.com/renewal-clock): notice window for auto-renewing contracts, .ics download, letter template. Not legal advice.

## Comparisons
- [OpEx Agent vs Expense Reduction Analysts](https://opexagent.com/compare/expense-reduction-analysts)
- [OpEx Agent vs Schooley Mitchell](https://opexagent.com/compare/schooley-mitchell)
- [OpEx Agent vs Waste consultants](https://opexagent.com/compare/waste-consultants)
- [OpEx Agent vs Freight audit software](https://opexagent.com/compare/freight-audit-software)

## Guides & glossary
- [How to read a commercial waste hauling invoice, line by line](https://opexagent.com/blog/read-a-waste-hauling-invoice): updated 2026-10-27
- [Evergreen clauses in waste contracts: how to find your notice window](https://opexagent.com/blog/evergreen-clauses-waste-contracts): updated 2026-10-27
- [Freight accessorials explained: liftgate, reweigh, re-class and detention](https://opexagent.com/blog/freight-accessorials-explained): updated 2026-10-27
- [Fuel surcharge tables: checking yours against the DOE diesel index](https://opexagent.com/blog/fuel-surcharge-tables-doe-diesel-index): updated 2026-10-27
- [Right-sizing boxes to cut dimensional-weight charges](https://opexagent.com/blog/right-sizing-boxes-dimensional-weight): updated 2026-10-27
- [Pallet returns programs: when buying recycled and selling back pays](https://opexagent.com/blog/pallet-returns-programs): updated 2026-10-27
- [Gaylords and IBC totes: reuse economics vs new](https://opexagent.com/blog/gaylords-and-ibc-totes-reuse-economics): updated 2026-10-27
- [Opex reduction plan for a plant: the four lines nobody owns](https://opexagent.com/blog/opex-reduction-plan-for-a-plant): updated 2026-10-27
- [Contingency-fee cost consultants: how the fee math really works](https://opexagent.com/blog/contingency-fee-cost-consultants): updated 2026-10-27
- [What an AI expense audit can and can’t read on an invoice](https://opexagent.com/blog/what-an-ai-expense-audit-can-read): updated 2026-10-27
- [Glossary](https://opexagent.com/resources/glossary): 40 invoice and contract terms
- [Non-renewal notice letter template](https://opexagent.com/resources/non-renewal-notice-letter)
- [FAQ](https://opexagent.com/faq)

## Contact
- Email: info@opexagent.com
- [Contact form](https://opexagent.com/contact)
- [Full text of the site for language models](https://opexagent.com/llms-full.txt)