Consultancy operations & billing
Example of Digital Transformation →Know what your consultants billed. Invoice the client automatically.
The hours your consultants log become the client invoice, without a spreadsheet in between.
Invoices go out late or wrong. Margin per placement is invisible until quarter-end. Hours get reconstructed from memory at month-end. This is the middleman problem, and it's the one nobody else in our competitive set has solved.
The example product
Solvant Engine
In buildTime tracking, utilisation and automated invoicing for consultancies that place consultants with clients: the middleman problem, solved without a spreadsheet in between.
How it works
- 01
Consultants log hours against a client and project.
- 02
Rates, margins and contract terms are applied automatically.
- 03
Invoice is generated, reviewed, and sent on the client's billing cycle.
- 04
Margin and utilisation are visible per consultant, per client, per month.
What we build
Consultant time capture
Simple, fast logging built for consultants who bill by the hour, not for accountants.
- Log against client and project in seconds
- Mobile and desktop
- Weekly submission reminders
Rate and margin engine
Contract terms, rates and margins applied automatically, per consultant and per client.
- Per-client and per-project rate cards
- Margin visible as hours are logged
- Handles rate changes mid-contract
Invoicing and reconciliation
Invoices generated on the client's own billing cycle, reviewed before they go out.
- Approval step before send
- Matches invoiced hours back to logged hours
- Exports to your accounting stack
Utilisation dashboard
Margin and utilisation visible per consultant, per client, per month, not just at quarter-end.
- Per-consultant utilisation trend
- Per-client margin breakdown
- Flags under-utilised consultants early
Who it's for
- Staffing and placement agencies
- IT and engineering consultancies
- Managed service firms
- Any business billing client hours it doesn't directly work
Safeguards
Approval before send
Nothing invoices a client without a human reviewing it first.
Full audit trail
Every hour logged and every rate change is recorded against who made it and when.
Scoped access
Consultants see their own hours. Managers see their team's. Nobody sees more than their role needs.
Exportable, not locked in
Invoices and time data export to the accounting stack you already use.
Want something like this?
Stop reconstructing hours from memory.
We can adapt Engine to your billing process, or build something from scratch. Tell us what you're working with and we'll tell you which makes more sense.
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