About Alleviated Risk
Four industries hit the same wall. None of them got through it by buying software.
Alleviated Risk exists because one failure keeps repeating across industries that never compare notes. Oil and gas met it as engineering cost. Utilities met it as billing. Crop inputs met it as grower rebates. Agriculture is meeting it now, as the distance between what was planned, what actually went out, and what got billed.
Every one of those industries reached for the same thing first: a better system, a bigger platform, one more integration. And in every one of them the wall turned out to be somewhere else, in definitions nobody had agreed on and a reconciliation nobody owned. No two systems in the building had ever been asked to describe the same thing the same way, and new software bolted on top of that just adds one more place to look.
So the practice works in the opposite order. Settle the definitions and write them down. Reconcile the systems to them. Then decide what to run it on. That sequence is unglamorous, it is slower than buying something, and it is the part that decides whether anything else holds.
The record behind it
Alleviated Risk LLC is founder-led. Tim McKay spent thirty years building the systems that decide who gets paid, in oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, and crop inputs. He is not a grower and won’t pretend to be one. What he brings to agriculture is the pattern, and what happened the last four times somebody tried to buy their way past it.
$280M CAD to $360M CAD
Bayer Crop Science Canada grower-rebate turnaround, 2021 to 2024
Ran the turnaround of the grower-rebate platform. Rebate payments went from roughly $280M CAD for the 2022 crop year to roughly $360M CAD for 2023, with 90% of payments out the door before year end, work that earned two Bayer 2023 North America Product Supply awards. When a program pays growers on time and the numbers reconcile to the penny, that’s trust you can measure.
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International acquisitions integrated at Gran Tierra Energy
Integrated IT across 4 international acquisitions, including a mid-eight-figure Argentine business-unit integration.
65,000+
Utility billing at Accenture/Enmax
Delivered billing for 65,000+ utility customers. The hard part was never printing a bill. It was getting meter data, rate structures, and customer records that were never born under one roof to agree on what one household actually used.
ISO quality systems at Michelin
Manufacturing runs on written procedure: what gets done, in what order, by whom, and how anyone proves it afterward. ISO is that discipline made auditable, and it is the same discipline an operating record is built out of.
100,000+
Engineering turnover on a multi-billion-dollar capital project
Ran a 100,000+ document engineering-cost program: drawings, change orders, and contractor cost reports, every contractor keeping its own books its own way. The computers were fine. The true cost to date lived in nobody’s system and everybody’s argument.
22 years of know-how
AnyKey Solutions, and the frameworks that came with it
A boutique data-platform consultancy, spent building and running the systems other businesses ran their numbers on. Alleviated Risk carries those frameworks and that working practice forward, and is adapting them now for agricultural operations. 22 years of method did not start over at the fence line.
Different industries. Same job: make the operation legible, so the people running it and the people funding it can trust the same numbers.
Bring us the version that isn’t tidy.
The useful first call is the one where nothing lines up yet. That is the normal starting condition, not a reason to wait.
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