Weeksinstead of months
Onboarding
A new consultant works from the firm’s own precedents, procedures and templates from the first week. Modeled.
V3Qtor AG/Industries/Professional services
Billable time, back on the clock.
Professional services firms lose margin in onboarding, in rework and in the hours nobody bills. We work with them on knowledge that is found rather than rebuilt, and on staffing that follows demand.
Where the margin sits
Where the margin sits in a professional services firm.
Figures are modeled or targeted; sources and detail on request.
4×billable productivity
Knowledge that is found
Proposals, deliverables and methods indexed and retrieved, with the source attached. Modeled.
Utilisationper practice
Staffing that follows demand
Pipeline, skills and availability on one forecast, so the bench is a decision rather than a surprise.
How it starts
What the first quarter looks like in a firm.
Thirteen weeks, from measuring the unbilled hours to a run-rate on the partners’ board.
Weeks 1–3
Count the hours
We take time-sheet, pipeline and HR data and measure where the unbilled hours go: onboarding, rework, searching, waiting.
You get: one page per practice with the hours and their cost
Weeks 4–8
Pick the practice and the lever
One practice, usually the one with the fastest growth. Precedents indexed, onboarding built from them; our engineers sit with the practice lead.
You get: the first cohort onboarded in weeks
Weeks 9–13
Run the practice from it
Staffing runs from the forecast, proposals start from the index, the number goes on the partners’ board.
You get: a utilisation figure the CFO can read
Practices and systems
The practices and systems behind the work.
Operations Intelligence
Process discovery, queue economics and what-if simulation on the operation’s own event logs.
Decision & Risk SciencesForecasting, causal impact and Monte Carlo, with the confidence interval before the budget.
ShieldOSThe compliance operating system: evidence that files itself, audit packs on any day.
Master Data Management LayerOne record across the systems that hold it, with rules, owners and lineage.
Talk to us about one practice.
Tell us which practice has the most unbilled hours. We will come back with where they go and what the first quarter would recover.