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Professional Services

We build the systems behind professional services firms. Billing, time tracking, client portals, and knowledge bases, replacing the spreadsheets that hold them together today.

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Overview

Who it is for

Law firms, accounting and advisory practices, consultancies, agencies, engineering and architecture firms, and the operations leaders who keep them running. The work is billed by time or by project, delivered to clients who expect visibility, and documented in systems that have grown by accretion: a practice management tool, a billing spreadsheet, a shared drive, and an inbox.

The symptoms are a month-end that takes a week, clients who email for status, knowledge that leaves when people do, and a partner who has stopped trusting the utilization numbers.

What we deliver

Systems that let a firm run on its process rather than on its inbox:

  • Billing automation. Time and expense capture flowing into rules that generate invoices for review, with exceptions routed to a person and every invoice able to show its calculation.
  • Time tracking that fits how the work actually happens, integrated with the systems that need it rather than re-keyed.
  • Client portals that are secure, accessible, and connected to documents, invoices, and status, so clients see progress without asking.
  • Knowledge bases that live inside the workflow, are searchable, and show who owns each page.
  • Workflow automation for intake, conflict checks, onboarding, month-end, and the approval chains that run through email today.
  • Operational dashboards for utilization, realization, work in progress, and aging, on one data model with defined metrics.

How the engagement runs

  1. Listen. A 60-minute call about how work comes in, gets done, gets billed, and gets reported, and where each step depends on a person. A one-page scope within 48 hours.
  2. Discover. We map the real process with the people who run it, write down the billing and workflow rules that live in heads and spreadsheets, and build a prototype of the most painful stretch. The sprint ends with a process map, an architecture diagram, and a build plan.
  3. Build. The system lands week by week, each process running alongside the current one until the team trusts it. Weekly demos use real matters, projects, and invoices.
  4. Hand off. Your internal owner, often in operations or finance rather than IT, runs the system for two weeks while we taper, then a 90-day standby.

Typical stack

Your practice management, accounting, and document systems stay where they are. Around them: a typed web application on your cloud for the workflows and portals, integrations with retries and a log, a relational store with an audit trail, and the cloud’s native identity and security services. Reporting runs on a small governed warehouse with metric definitions in version control. Infrastructure is defined as code and designed to be run without a dedicated IT team.

Common starting points

The engagements firms ask for most are a month-end that closes in a day, a client portal that ends the status emails, billing rules moved out of the spreadsheet, and a utilization dashboard the partners trust. Each is a fixed-scope, fixed-term engagement with a named lead and an internal owner at the end.

The services that come up most in professional services are custom software consulting, workflow automation, and full-stack product development.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

We use a practice management or PSA tool already. Where do you fit?

Around it. The tool usually covers the core and leaves gaps: the billing rules that live in a spreadsheet, the client portal that does not exist, the knowledge base nobody updates, the month-end process run by hand. We build those gaps as software and integrate them with the tool you keep.

What does a client portal engagement look like?

Discovery with clients and the staff who serve them, a prototype of the most requested flow, then a build that is secure, accessible, and connected to the systems that hold the documents, invoices, and status it shows. Clients stop emailing for updates because the portal already has them.

Can you automate our billing?

Yes, when the rules can be written down, and discovery is where we write them down. Time and expenses flow in, rules apply, invoices are generated for review, and exceptions go to a person. Every invoice shows how it was calculated.

How do you build a knowledge base people actually use?

By connecting it to the work. A knowledge base that has to be visited separately decays. One that surfaces the right document inside the workflow, is searchable, and shows who owns each page stays alive.

Our firm is small. Is this worth it for us?

Fixed-scope engagements are sized to the problem. A single workflow, a billing automation, or a portal for one service line is a normal starting point, and it is designed so that a small firm can run it without an IT department.

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  • Custom Software Consulting

    A team that listens, scopes, and writes code in your repository from day one. We build what your business actually needs, not a generic template, and we leave you with something you can extend.

  • Workflow Automation

    The ten-step manual process that lives in someone's head and breaks every Friday, automated, audited, and observable. Cut hours of human toil per week, with a clear paper trail.

  • Full-Stack Product Development

    From greenfield zero-to-one to mature platforms that have grown teeth. Typed end to end, tested where it matters, and shipped in weekly increments your stakeholders can actually see.

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