Energy bill watchdog for independent businesses

Your energy bills have mistakes in them.
We find them.

Meterhound checks every gas and electricity bill your business receives, every month. Wrong VAT rates, estimated reads, out-of-contract rates, charges that should never have been there. We catch them, we chase the supplier, you get the money back.

No win, no fee on recoveries. Cancel any time. Built for pubs, hotels, cafes, salons and shops.

Six errors we catch again and again

Suppliers do not check their own homework. Small businesses rarely have time to. That gap is where money leaks, month after month.

VAT

20% VAT that should be 5%

Many small sites qualify for the reduced rate and never claim it. Refunds go back up to 4 years, then the saving repeats every month.

Rates

Out-of-contract rates

Miss a renewal and you drift onto deemed rates, often 2 to 4 times what you should pay. We track every contract end date so it never happens.

Reads

Estimated readings

A run of high estimates quietly overbills you. We compare estimates to actual reads and claim the difference back.

Levy

Climate Change Levy in error

If your site qualifies for reduced VAT, CCL should not be on the bill either. It usually is anyway.

Billing

Back-billing breaches

Suppliers cannot back-bill a small business for energy used more than 12 months ago. Catch-up bills often break this rule.

Cash

Inflated Direct Debits

Suppliers sitting on your credit balance are holding your working capital. We get it refunded.

How it works

You forward your bills. That is genuinely the whole job on your side.

Send us your bills

Forward them by email or give us portal access once. We take it from there, every month, without chasing you.

We check everything

Every line of every bill against your contract, your meter reads and the rules suppliers are meant to follow.

You get a statement

One page a month. Bills checked, errors found, money recovered to date, and how long until your contract needs attention.

Pricing

Per site, per month. No tie-in, cancel any time. Founding clients get their first 3 months at £99 total on any tier.

Validate

£49/month

  • Monthly bill validation
  • Errors reported with the fix
  • Contract renewal alerts
  • Supplier queries fully managed
  • Annual capacity review
Start with a free audit

Protect+

£129/month

  • Everything in Protect
  • Annual kVA capacity review
  • Contract tender support
  • Priority query handling
Start with a free audit

Recoveries carry a success fee of 25% of what we actually get back (20% on Protect+). Nothing recovered, nothing owed.

For hotels & larger venues

Paying for electrical capacity you never use?

Half-hourly metered sites pay a monthly charge for their agreed supply capacity, whether they use it or not. Most were set generously when the meter went in and never revisited.

Our kVA review analyses 12 months of your half-hourly data, compares your real peak demand to what you are contracted for, and manages the reduction with your supplier. You keep a safe margin. You stop paying for headroom you will never touch.

Ask about a capacity review
"I have spent my career finding energy billing errors for some of the UK's biggest property operators. I have also run a small business myself, so I know what it is like when a supplier problem lands at 4pm on a Friday. Meterhound brings big-portfolio discipline to the high street."
Meterhound's founder

Get your free 15-minute bill audit

Send us one recent gas or electricity bill. We will tell you what we would flag, what it is likely worth, and whether Meterhound makes sense for you. No obligation, no hard sell.

Email a bill to hello@meterhound.co.uk