Project management
Easily manage projects from start to finish. Stay organized, track progress, and ensure timely delivery.
Sales & Proposals
Streamline sales with quick proposal creation, tracking, and faster deal closures.
Time tracking
Log work hours effortlessly, manage timesheets, and capture every billable hour.
Invoicing
Generate and automate professional invoices quickly. Get paid faster.
Financial Performance
Gain real-time insights into your financial health. Track revenue, expenses, and profitability.
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Consulting Engineers
Track project budgets, time and invoicing for your engineering firm.
Architects
Manage project phases, track time and invoice through Xero for your studio.
Town Planners
Track time across planning applications and invoice through Xero.
Building Designers
Manage project stages, time and budgets for your design practice.
Surveyors
Track jobs, manage field and office time, and invoice through Xero.
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Insights, frameworks, and practical guidance for professional services firms. From project management to financial performance, we cover what matters to your business.
The best consulting proposals sell the outcome, not the process. Here's a proven structure with real examples and the pricing format that closes more deals.
Getting billable hours wrong means leaving money on the table or overcharging clients. Here's the exact formula, worked examples, and the mistakes most firms make.
Job cost sheets show you exactly where project money goes — labour, materials, overhead. Here's how to build one and use it to price future work accurately.
When project managers and finance operate in silos, you find out projects lost money after the fact. Here's how to connect both sides for real-time profitability.
Cost variance shows whether your project is over or under budget — and why. Here's how to calculate it, interpret the results, and take action before it's too late.
Consultants need more than task boards — they need time tracking, client billing, and project profitability in one place. We compared the tools that deliver.
Scope creep is the top margin killer for consulting and agency projects. Here's how to spot it forming, have the client conversation, and keep projects profitable.
Consulting firms lose deals when their CRM can't connect sales to delivery. Here's what a professional services CRM actually needs to do.
Professional services automation connects your CRM, projects, timesheets, invoicing, and reporting into one system. Here's how it works and who it's for.
66% of professional services firms turn down work because of resourcing gaps. Here's how to allocate talent, balance workloads, and stop leaving revenue on the table.
Most firms don't realise a project is losing money until the final invoice. Here's how project financial management gives you visibility while you can still act.
Firms that track time properly bill 15-20% more than those using spreadsheets. Here's what to look for and how to get your team to actually use it.
Marketing agencies drown in concurrent projects across clients. Here's how to manage capacity, track budgets, and stop over-servicing accounts.
Creative agencies struggle when briefs change mid-project and scope creep goes untracked. Here's how to protect both the work and the bottom line.
Most consulting firms track hours but still can't answer 'which projects are profitable?' Here's what your time tracking tool needs to do differently.
We tested 7 CRMs against the full quote-to-invoice lifecycle consulting firms actually need. Three came close. One nailed it.
Engineering, surveying, and planning firms juggle multi-phase projects across sites and subconsultants. Here's how to keep them all profitable.
Unbilled expenses and approval bottlenecks silently drain project profit. Here's how purchase order software keeps spending visible and controlled.
QuickBooks Online invoicing is powerful but easy to set up wrong. Here's how to customise templates, automate reminders, and cut your payment cycle in half.
Consulting projects fail when scope, budget, and timelines live in different tools. Here's the system that keeps them aligned.
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