Bill what you're actually doing.
The work expands. The fee usually doesn't. We build custom tools that capture the real scope, automate change orders, and shorten the gap between work delivered and money in the bank.
The work and the bill don't line up.
Independent consultants spend 30 to 50 percent of their time on work that doesn't bill. Scope creeps quietly: small additions, quick questions, one more pass on the deck. By the time the work is invoiced, it's worth more than the number on the invoice. And when the invoice does go out, 71 percent of practices say at least one in four invoices pays late.
Source: Ignition 2025 Agency Pricing and Cashflow Report.
What clients now expect from a consultant.
Clients who hire consultants today expect what they get from every other vendor they work with: status visibility, fast turnaround, and a clear trail from scope to invoice. The practices delivering that are growing. The ones still running on docs, decks, and email threads are losing ground to peers who got the operations right.
Where the work actually goes.
Most consultants we talk to lose the same hours to the same things. None of it is the work clients hire you for.
- Proposal writing and contract revision
- Scope tracking and change-order conversations
- Time entry and billing reconciliation
- Late-invoice follow-ups
- Internal admin, scheduling, and email triage
What we build for consultants.
Custom apps scoped to where the gap shows up in your practice. Not a generic project tool. Not another tab to keep open. Built for how your work actually moves and integrated with what you already use.
Proposal-to-invoice pipeline
Drafts populated from your templates, sent for signature, and tracked through delivery and payment in one view.
Change-order capture in the moment
Trigger when scope shifts, not weeks later when reconciling. Client sees the change and approves before the work happens.
Time and billing capture in the background
Time entries built from calendar, email, and document activity. You confirm; you don't reconstruct.
Unbilled-work dashboard
A single view of work delivered, work invoiced, and money in the door. The gap stops hiding.
Most consultant projects fit our standard scoped tiers. We'll price yours once we understand how your practice runs today.
Your client data stays yours.
Consultants handle confidential client information that's sensitive even when no single rule binds it. We build with that in mind, not as an upcharge.
- We don't train external models on your client data, ever.
- Single-tenant setup for your practice, not a shared pool with other consultants.
- Access controls and audit logs your clients and their counsel will recognize.
- Documented security posture, ready for any client review.
Tell us where the gap is. We'll tell you what we'd build.
We listen, we scope, you decide.
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