POVA Internal Fraud Investigator - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

POVA is an AI investigator for internal fraud at grocery, hypermarket, pharmacy, and convenience chains. It looks at employees and at the suppliers who work with them.

These chains run on slim margins. Loss from spoilage or theft, inside the company or with a partner, comes straight out of profit. Money recovered goes back to profit. The chains do not keep an analytics team on the files. They need the exports they already produce turned into finished cases.

A case names specific people. It shows their behaviour. It ties that behaviour to the line items or the money. It includes the source proof and the next action.

The chain exports the files it already has. Those files include waste, receiving, clock-in, cage counts, write-offs, and loyalty records already tied to an employee. The files go in. The cases come back.

It runs on one machine at chain headquarters. That machine stays inside the company. There is no IT project to start, and no team to hire before the first cases are ready.

POVA runs a local AI model on that machine. The model does not invent cases. Analytical algorithms build each case from the exported files. The same files produce the same case. An investigator can explain the case and share it.

The AI assists that work. It maps fields across the exported files. It handles the operational work of joining those files. It checks that the wording of each case is clear and specific to the finding.

The algorithms work through the whole export, not a sample. They connect staff, suppliers, stores, and shifts, including ties that were not declared. One odd waste line stays noise. The same person, the same supplier, and the same nights over many months become a case. Ordinary explanations are tested against the same records and kept or set aside, with the reason written down. A missing file stays an open question. Every claim points back to the file and the rows it came from.

Grocery internal fraud covers staff refunds, discounts, waste, and write-offs. Employee fraud at grocery and pharmacy chains follows the same person across refunds, waste, clock-in, and write-offs. Pharmacy internal fraud covers staff at a retail pharmacy chain, including controlled stock, refunds, and write-offs. Supplier fraud covers a supplier or a driver working with store staff, using receiving, invoices, and waste.

POVA is for the fraud manager and the loss-prevention lead who need cases they can act on. They interview, recover, escalate, or close. Book a scoping call to see it on the files the chain already keeps.