We read the bills nobody has time to read
Trace Global exists because the largest uncontested expense on a multi-site P&L is paid every month without anyone checking it against the tariff.
- meters audited across 410 utilities
- 186,000+meters audited across 410 utilities
- refunds and credits returned to customers
- $61M+refunds and credits returned to customers
- of filed claims accepted by the utility in full or in part
- 94%of filed claims accepted by the utility in full or in part
- from bill access to first findings report
- 21 daysfrom bill access to first findings report
Why we started
A national retailer can pay twenty thousand utility bills a year. They arrive in hundreds of formats from hundreds of utilities, each priced under a tariff that runs to hundreds of pages and changes several times a year. AP teams are measured on paying them on time, not on checking them. Bill-pay vendors are paid to pay them. Nobody is paid to read them.
The errors that result are not random. A store remodel changes its load but not its rate schedule. A current transformer is replaced and the billing multiplier is not. A plant qualifies for a sales tax exemption that was never filed. Each error repeats on every bill until someone recalculates the bill from the tariff, proves it, and asks for the money back before the refund window closes.
Harshit Srivastav founded Trace Global in 2025 to do exactly that, at the scale of thousands of meters, with a team of tariff analysts and engineers in Telangana working US business hours. We charge only from what we recover, which keeps us honest about what is worth filing.
How we work
The tariff is the standard
Every finding is a recalculation against the published tariff for that service period. Opinions do not go in a claim.
Evidence before filing
No claim leaves until the tariff excerpt, recalculated bills and meter data are attached and reviewed by a second analyst.
Keep the utility relationship
Claims are correction requests through normal channels. We escalate to a commission only with the customer's approval.
Paid on money received
We invoice after the credit posts or the check clears. If our work recovers nothing, it costs nothing.
Read-only by design
We never change service, payment or account settings. Credentials are vaulted, scoped and revocable.
Speed matters
Refund windows close monthly. The first findings report ships in about three weeks because every month of delay is money lost.
Leadership
- HS
Harshit Srivastav
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Founder of Trace Global. Sets company strategy and product direction, and leads customer and utility relationships.
- AR
Ananya Reddy
Chief Technology Officer
Built document-extraction and data pipelines for finance operations teams at Infosys. NIT Warangal B.Tech in Computer Science.
- VR
Vikram Rao, PE
Head of Tariff Research
Twelve years in US utility rate design and regulatory filings for investor-owned utilities and large commercial customers. IIT Bombay M.Tech, Energy Systems.
- MK
Meera Kulkarni, CPA
VP, Recovery Operations
Ran utility and telecom expense audit programs for US retail and real estate clients. Owns claim filing standards and the utility escalation playbook.
- KI
Karthik Iyer
VP, Engineering
Led ERP and AP integration programs for North American retailers at Tata Consultancy Services. Builds the capture and normalization platform.
- SP
Sneha Patil, CISSP
Head of Security & Compliance
Ran SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs for SaaS platforms at Wipro. Owns the Trace Global trust program and data residency controls.
Advisors
Robert Haskell · Advisor, Utility Regulation
Former staff economist at a Midwest state utility commission; 25 years on commercial rate cases and billing complaint dockets.
Dr. Lakshmi Narasimhan · Advisor, Energy Systems
Professor of electrical engineering, IISc Bengaluru. Research on load forecasting and interval meter analytics.
Patricia Moreno, CPA · Advisor, Retail Finance
Retired corporate controller of a 900-store US specialty retailer; led shared services and AP transformation.
Arvind Menon · Advisor, Data Protection
Privacy counsel for cross-border data programs; advises on GLBA, CCPA and the DPDP Act.
Milestones
2025 Q2
Trace Global founded in Hanamkonda, Telangana by Harshit Srivastav.
2025 Q3
Tariff library reaches 2,000 versioned commercial tariff sheets; first retail customer audit.
2025 Q4
First $1M in refunds returned to customers; EDI 810 and bill-pay vendor connectors live.
2026 Q1
SOC 2 Type II report issued. Demand and power factor audit launched with interval data.
2026 Q2
Predominant-use sales tax studies added for manufacturing customers.
2026 Q3
186,000+ meters audited; $61M+ returned to customers.
Company details
- Legal name
- TRACE GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED
- CIN
- U46309TS2026PTC223264
- Founder & CEO
- Harshit Srivastav
- Registered office
- 35-6-664, Amaravathi Nagar, Hanamkonda, Warangal, Hanamkonda, Telangana, India, 506001
- Phone
- +91 (0870) 241-6120 · toll-free 1800-309-7826
- hello@traceglobal.si
TRACE GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED is a private, non-government company registered in India.
We are hiring tariff analysts and engineers
Hanamkonda and Hyderabad, hybrid, with US-hours roles open across India.
Find out what your utilities owe you.
Connect bills for up to 50 meters. Get the findings report in about three weeks. Pay nothing unless money comes back.
- from bill access to first findings report
- 21 daysfrom bill access to first findings report
- of filed claims accepted by the utility in full or in part
- 94%of filed claims accepted by the utility in full or in part