Professional Services

Automation for Professional Services

Professional services firms sell expertise and time, whether in consulting, accounting, legal, or other knowledge work. Profitability depends on utilisation, billing accuracy, and reducing administrative overhead. Partner time is the scarcest resource, and anything administrative competes with billable work. We build automation solutions tailored to these realities.

Overview

Understanding Professional Services

Professional services firms sell expertise and time, whether in consulting, accounting, legal, or other knowledge work. Profitability depends on utilisation, billing accuracy, and reducing administrative overhead. Partner time is the scarcest resource, and anything administrative competes with billable work.

Challenges

Common Professional Services Challenges

Time capture and billing accuracy

Partners and staff forget to log time or capture it inaccurately. Revenue leaks through unbilled hours and write-offs from poor records.

Document assembly and review

Creating proposals, reports, and deliverables involves substantial manual document work. Senior time goes to formatting rather than thinking.

Client intake and conflict checking

New client onboarding requires conflict checks, engagement letters, and setup across systems. Manual process creates delays and compliance risk.

Knowledge management fragmentation

Expertise and precedents scatter across email, documents, and people's heads. New matters reinvent work that exists somewhere.

Solutions

How We Help

Automated time capture

Track time from calendar, email, and system activity automatically. Capture billable hours without relying on memory and manual entry.

Document automation

Generate proposals, engagement letters, and standard deliverables from templates. Reduce document assembly from hours to minutes.

Client intake automation

Automate conflict checks, client setup, and engagement creation. Onboard new matters faster while maintaining compliance.

AI-powered knowledge retrieval

Search across firm documents and precedents using natural language. Find relevant work product without knowing where to look.

Technology

Common Professional Services Tools We Integrate

Clio
Practice Panther
QuickBooks
Xero
HubSpot
Salesforce
Microsoft 365
Google Workspace

We integrate with virtually any platform that has an API. If your tool isn't listed, we can still work with it.

Compliance

Regulatory Considerations

Professional Services operates under specific regulatory requirements. Our solutions are built with these constraints in mind.

Professional ethics rules
Client confidentiality
Data protection regulations
Industry-specific regulations
Terminology

Professional Services Terms We Understand

We speak your industry's language.

Billable hours

Time spent on client work that can be charged

Realisation rate

Percentage of billable time actually collected

Write-off

Time or fees not billed or collected from clients

Conflict check

Screening for potential conflicts of interest before taking new work

Engagement letter

Contract defining scope and terms of professional services

Matter

A specific project or case for a client

FAQ

Common Questions

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