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Find it.
Prove it.
Claim it.
Ikora matches your council's records to your DRFA claim and flags eligible costs that are missing evidence. Your team decides on each one.
The problem
Sound familiar?
- Your disaster costs sit in four different systems, and nobody has the weeks it takes to join them up.
- A claim stalls, or gets cut back, because the evidence behind one cost is thin.
- At acquittal, someone rebuilds the same paper trail from scratch, months after the event.
- Some costs that qualified never make it into the claim at all.
- The 2024 independent review of Commonwealth disaster funding heard "on multiple occasions about the complexity" of the rules, and made 47 recommendations. Colvin Review final report, NEMA
The records already exist. They just aren't connected.
Four steps
How it works
Connect
You send us exports from payroll, plant and fleet, purchasing, work orders and contracts. CSV or Excel files are fine.Match
Ikora links the records that belong to the same cost. Day-labour overtime on 3 March, for example, lines up with an EPAR work order and the plant logs from that event.Flag
It points out costs that look eligible but aren't in your claim, and claimed costs that don't have enough evidence yet.You decide
Your staff review every flag. The DRFA and your state's guidelines decide what's eligible. The AI doesn't.
Want to see a flag go from raised to resolved?
Book a demoWhat you get
One evidence trail for every cost
Every cost in your claim comes with its evidence attached. Anything that belongs in the claim but isn't there shows up for review.
Field apps already capture photos and damage. Ikora works on the money side: overtime, plant hours, purchases and contracts.
Matching across systems
Ikora joins up records that no one person has time to cross-check, so fewer eligible costs get left out.
Evidence-gap flags
Each flag names the exact document that's missing. You can fix the gap before your state administrator or the claims audit gets to it.
Flags that explain themselves
You see the source records, the reasoning and a confidence level. Your staff can check it, and they can defend it in a claims audit.
Historical recovery review
We can run Ikora on an event you've already acquitted. You see what it finds without putting a live claim at risk.
Program fit
Where it works: Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements
- It covers Counter Disaster Operations, EPAR and day-labour claims.
- The claims audit samples transactions, and when evidence is missing, acquittal and payment have to wait.
- Ikora checks payroll on-costs against state caps. NSW, for example, caps on-costs at 31.69%.
- It works next to field-evidence tools like Recover and Asset Vision. It doesn't replace them.
- Rules are set per state, because QRA, the NSW Reconstruction Authority and Victoria each run their own process.
Working in the US? See the FEMA Public Assistance page.
Who we are
Who's building this
NSF I-Corps team
We're an NSF I-Corps team working on one narrow problem: tying disaster costs to the records that prove them.
A person makes every call
Ikora suggests. Someone on your staff decides. We built it that way on purpose.
We're looking for pilot partners
We don't have customer logos yet, and we won't pretend we do. If your council has an acquitted event and decent exports from its systems, we'd like to run a recovery review on it with you.
Talk to us about a pilot →Before you book
Questions people ask us
Do we have to share our data for the demo?
No. The demo runs on sample data. If you do a pilot later, we only use the exports you choose to send.
Does the AI decide what's eligible?
No. It flags costs and explains why. Your staff decide, and the DRFA and your state's guidelines govern eligibility.
Does this replace our recovery consultant?
No. Consultants can use Ikora to document claims faster.
What does a pilot cost?
It's a fixed fee that we scope with you on the call. We size it to sit under typical council purchasing thresholds.
Which systems does it work with?
Anything that can export to CSV or Excel. That covers most payroll, plant, purchasing and work-order systems.
Are you affiliated with NEMA or a state recovery authority?
No. Ikora is independent.
Book a demo
See your next claim before the auditor does
In 20 minutes you get:
- a walkthrough on sample data
- the sample flag report, yours to keep
- if you want it, a scope for a recovery review on an event you've already acquitted