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Operational AI infrastructure for proposals, client intake, engagement operations, knowledge retrieval, and time-to-bill — built around how your firm actually delivers.

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You are losing time and revenue in predictable places

We have mapped operations at boutique advisories, mid-market consultancies, and global services firms. The specifics change. The friction points do not.

01

Proposals start from scratch every time

A new RFP arrives, a senior partner opens a blank Google Doc, and starts pulling from three old proposals they remember liking. By the time the draft is ready, two associates have lost half a week and the proposal still doesn't reflect the firm's best thinking.

Operational signal Proposal cycle · 20–60 hrs / engagement
02

Client intake takes a partner's week

Scoping calls, requirements gathering, conflict checks, engagement letters, KYC — every new client passes through ten manual steps before work can start. Partners spend their first month on every account doing logistics, not delivery.

Operational signal Pre-engagement admin · 1–2 partner weeks
03

Institutional knowledge lives in people, not systems

The associate who knew the right framework, the right comparables, the right phrasing for that one regulator — left for in-house. Their work product is somewhere on a shared drive but nobody knows the folder structure. The firm rebuilds the same playbook every two years.

Operational signal Attrition cost · partner-equivalent hours lost
04

Project management is a daily Slack reconstruction

Status across active engagements lives in heads, in threads, in handwritten notes. The Monday update is a partner pulling together a story from whatever they can find. Client questions get "I'll get back to you" — and they remember.

Operational signal Engagement status visibility · partner-dependent
05

Billing eats the team's last working day

Time entries get corralled at end-of-month, narratives get re-written, write-downs get debated. The bill is sent ten days after work happened, the client doesn't recognize half of it, and DSO climbs another two days.

Operational signal Realization slip · 5–15% on poorly-narrated time
06

Cross-engagement insight is impossible

The firm has done eighty engagements like this one — but nobody can search across them, surface the patterns, or reuse the artifacts. Every client benefits from one team's experience, never from the firm's.

Operational signal Cross-matter retrieval · partner memory only

The operational lifecycle of a professional services firm

Before we talk about AI, we map the machine. Every firm we work with starts here — the four operational surfaces every engagement touches, and the work that happens on each.

Stage 01

Sales & intake

From RFP to engagement letter. Where the firm wins — or where its best people lose their billable week.

  • Inbound qualification Web, referral, RFP, networking
  • Proposal drafting Scope, approach, fees, references
  • Conflict checks Across active and prior engagements
  • Engagement letter Terms, scope, fees, e-sign
  • Client onboarding Stakeholders, access, kickoff
Stage 02

Engagement operations

The middle of the funnel — where engagements get delivered, slowly, mostly by reinvention.

  • Workplan & RACI Tasks, owners, dates, dependencies
  • Status reporting Internal + client cadence
  • Document production Memos, decks, models, reports
  • Review cycles Partner review, client comments, revisions
  • Knowledge capture Templates, comparables, lessons
Stage 03

Billing & realization

Where the work the firm has already done becomes the revenue the firm actually books.

  • Time capture Real-time vs. end-of-week reconstruction
  • Narrative quality Client-readable, accurate, defensible
  • Write-downs Threshold rules, partner approvals
  • Invoice generation Format, attachments, schedule
  • Collections DSO tracking, follow-up cadence
Stage 04

Knowledge & client lifecycle

Everything that turns one engagement into ten — and lets the firm build on prior work.

  • Internal knowledge base Templates, models, comparables
  • Cross-engagement retrieval Search prior matter, output, outcome
  • Client communication Updates, deliverables, lifecycle
  • Account expansion Cross-sell, upsell, referrals
  • Post-engagement review Lessons, NPS, archive

AI is infrastructure, not a replacement for your associates and partners

We do not believe in an "AI consultant." We believe in an AI operations layer that takes the predictable, repetitive, system-to-system work off your team so your associates and partners can spend their time on advice and relationships.

AI handles

The predictable, the repetitive, the system-to-system.

  • Proposal drafting
    Pull from prior engagements, scope, references, fees
  • Conflict & intake checks
    Across active matters, prior clients, KYC
  • Engagement workplan generation
    RACI, dates, dependencies from proposal
  • Document drafting
    Memos, decks, models — first draft from prior work
  • Time narrative drafting
    Client-readable narrative from calendars + notes
  • Cross-engagement retrieval
    Search prior matter for patterns, comps, outputs
  • Client communications
    Status, deliverables, scheduled updates
Humans handle

The advice, the relationships, the partner review.

  • Client strategy
    Theory of the engagement, recommendation
  • Judgment calls
    What advice to give, what to push back on
  • Partner review & sign-off
    Substantive review of every output
  • Client relationships
    Hard conversations, lifecycle, expansion
  • Sensitive engagements
    Litigation-adjacent, regulator-facing, M&A
  • People management
    Reviews, staffing, growth, culture
  • Anything irreversible
    Sent advice, filed reports, signed engagement letters
Anything substantive passes through a human.

Sent advice, partner-signed deliverables, executed engagement letters, issued invoices. The AI drafts, retrieves, and surfaces — your partners and billers decide and sign.

What we actually build

Six systems we have deployed in production at services firms. None of them are chatbots in the marketing sense. All of them are operational infrastructure that connects the tools you already use.

Proposal Drafting Engine

01 · Sales

RFP comes in, the engine pulls from prior engagements, scopes the approach, drafts fees, surfaces relevant references — partners review a draft instead of starting from blank.

Ingest RFP Retrieve precedent Draft scope + fees Compile Partner review
Cycle time 20 hrs → 4 hrs (typical)
Precedent depth All prior engagement output
Human checkpoint Partner approves final
Touches: Drive · Engagement archive · CRM · Vector DB

Client Onboarding Engine

02 · Intake

Conflict checks, KYC, engagement letter, kickoff packet — orchestrated as a workflow. Partners start delivering work in week one, not week three.

Match Conflict check KYC Engagement letter Kickoff
Onboarding cycle 2 weeks → 3 days
Conflict scope Active + prior matters
Human checkpoint Partner approves engagement
Touches: CRM · DMS · E-sign · Compliance

Workplan & Status Engine

03 · Engagement

Engagement plan from proposal, status from team activity, client-ready updates produced on a cadence — partners review and send.

Proposal Workplan Track activity Draft status Send update
Status cadence Weekly client, daily internal
Visibility All active engagements
Human checkpoint Partner approves client view
Touches: PM tool · Email · Calendar · DMS

Firm Knowledge Assistant

04 · Knowledge

Partners and associates retrieve frameworks, templates, prior outputs, and comparables in seconds — across the firm's full engagement history.

Index Retrieve Cite Compose
Index scope Engagements · templates · memos
Citation policy Always cite source engagement
Access control Per-engagement ACLs
Touches: DMS · Drive · Engagement archive · Vector DB

Time Narrative Engine

05 · Billing

Time captured from calendars, docs, and messages — drafted into client-readable narratives. Billers and partners review, not reconstruct.

Capture Cluster Draft narrative Review Bill
Realization +3–7% on improved narratives
Cycle time Days, not end-of-month
Human checkpoint Biller + partner approve
Touches: Time system · Calendar · Email · Billing

Cross-Engagement Intelligence

06 · Operations

Patterns across engagements — what worked, what didn't, where the firm is strongest, where there's repeat demand — surfaced to leadership, not buried in archives.

Index outcomes Cluster Pattern detect Surface Decide
Reporting By practice, partner, sector
Use case Practice planning, hiring, sales
Human checkpoint Leadership reviews insight
Touches: Engagement archive · BI · CRM · Vector DB

One RFP, end to end

This is what the first two hours of a new RFP look like once the operational layer is in place. No associate scramble, no late-night drafting, no blank-doc paralysis.

Thursday 4:42 PM +2 hrs · proposal sent
Lane 01 Main flow
P.01 · +0s
RFP arrives
Inbound email · enterprise prospect
System
P.02 · +30s
Scope extracted
Objectives, timeline, decision criteria
AI
P.03 · +2m
Precedent retrieved
12 relevant prior engagements
AI
P.04 · +5m
Conflict check
Clean across active + prior
AI
P.05 · +10m
Proposal draft
Scope, approach, fees, references
AI
P.06 · +1h
Partner review
Strategic adjustments, fee calibration
Human
P.07 · +2h
Polish + send
Final formatting, send via CRM
AI
P.08 · +2h
CRM tracked
Engagement opportunity created
System
Lane 02 Parallel
+10m AI Internal staffing draft sent to practice lead fire-and-track
+2h AI Follow-up cadence: 3d · 7d · 14d if no reply fire-and-track
+2h System Knowledge tags applied for future retrieval fire-and-track
< 2h
RFP to sent proposal
0
Associate hours required for draft
Faster than blank-doc baseline
1
Place the opportunity lives (CRM)

Diagram is illustrative. Production traces include retries, fallbacks, and human-checkpoint pauses not shown here.

Fits into the stack you already run

We do not ask firms to migrate. We build the operational layer on top of the systems you have already invested in — your DMS stays the document of record, your CRM stays the relationship system, and the AI lives in the seams between them.

DMS & docs
  • iManage
  • NetDocuments
  • SharePoint
  • Drive
  • OneDrive
  • Box
CRM & sales
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Affinity
  • InterAction
  • Copper
  • Custom CRM
Project & billing
  • Kantata
  • Mavenlink
  • Productive
  • BigTime
  • Tempo
  • Custom PM
Workflow & data
  • Slack / Teams
  • Email
  • Outlook / Gmail
  • n8n
  • Notion
  • Vector DB
Read where the work lives

We do not replace your DMS, CRM, or PM tool. They stay systems of record. The operational layer is additive.

Confidentiality by design

Client data stays inside your systems. Per-engagement ACLs respected. Models we use are configured to not retain prompts.

Custom systems welcome

Internal portals, in-house knowledge bases, legacy archives — we integrate where your work already lives.

How we think about AI inside a services firm

01

AI is operational infrastructure.

Not a feature, not a chatbot, not a magic button on a marketing page. The work it does is the same work your associates have always done — moved into a system where it runs reliably.

02

Accuracy is the floor.

If a system is not measurably more accurate than your current process, we do not ship it. We measure realization, cycle time, and retrieval precision continuously.

03

Operational fit beats novelty.

The best AI system is the one that disappears into the firm's actual workflow. If your team has to change how they work to use it, it is the wrong system.

04

Humans stay in the loop on advice.

Recommendations, partner reviews, client decisions, fee calls — all go through a person. The AI drafts, retrieves, and surfaces — partners decide and sign.

Professional Services · Featured Deployment

Automating the Full Engagement Lifecycle for a Defense Practice

How a Florida personal injury defense firm replaced its case management software with an AI operating layer — reducing legal assistants from 6 to 1, saving $60K a month, and automating the full engagement lifecycle from intake through billing. The operational pattern other professional services firms use to compound leverage.

Read the case study

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How long does an engagement actually take?
A first system — typically proposal drafting or the firm knowledge assistant — is in production inside 4 to 8 weeks. We start with a workflow audit, ship a single high-leverage system end-to-end, and only then expand.
What does this look like for the firm during build?
A weekly working session with a partner or COO, async access to an associate or biller for workflow questions, and read-only credentials into the systems we are integrating with. No new platform to learn until the system is live.
How is client and engagement data protected?
Data stays inside your existing systems. We do not store firm data in our infrastructure. Models we use are configured to not retain prompts, access is scoped per role and per engagement, and audit trails are written to your DMS and CRM.
What happens when the AI is wrong?
Every system has a human checkpoint at the substantive step — sending a proposal, delivering a memo, issuing a bill. The AI drafts and retrieves; a partner or biller accepts. Errors are logged, reviewed, and fed back into the system.
Do we need to switch off our current DMS or PM tool?
No. Your DMS, CRM, PM tool, billing system — all stay systems of record. We build on top of them. The operational layer is additive.
How is this priced?
Fixed-fee for the initial audit and the first system. Retainer for ongoing operations, optimization, and additional systems. We do not bill hourly for AI work — outcomes, not seat time.

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