A practice system where no deadline slips — and you know which clients truly profit
Accounting firms and professional practices run on trust, yet many still track work through folders, personal calendars, and a team lead's memory. We build systems that connect every client's jobs, every deadline, documents, time, and billing — so every job runs on schedule and every hour the team works has visible value.
- Nothing slips
- every client's filing deadlines tracked with alerts
- Every hour seen
- team time per client visible as numbers
- Every bill out
- monthly fees and special jobs billed on cycle
- 10+ yrs
- cross-industry experience
The short answer
What should an accounting or professional firm measure?
Professional firms sell time, so two numbers come first: billable utilisation — the share of worked hours that earn — and real profit per client after the hours actually spent. Firms that don't track time usually discover their loudest client is their most unprofitable. Time captured against jobs and clients underpins both billing and deciding which work to take.
Key facts
- Utilisation — the billable share of worked hours — is a time-selling firm's first number
- Profit per client nets off actual hours, not just fees collected
- Every client's filing deadlines belong in one system, not in someone's head
- Repetitive document work AI can draft should free hours to sell as thinking
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Intake to billing
A system covering client intake to every bill collected
Every part is designed to keep work on schedule, off anyone's memory, and profitable per client.
Recurring client jobs
Each client's monthly work — closings, filings, payroll runs — generates automatically every cycle. Nothing re-created by hand.
Statutory deadlines
Every client's filing calendar in one place, with alerts to the team well before the date.
Team job status
Which stage each job is at, who holds it, what documents it awaits — visible across the office without asking around.
Client documents in one place
Each client's documents filed by year and job type, found in seconds — not in boxes or chat threads.
Time sheets & time cost
Lightweight time logging per job, rolled up into the true time cost of each client.
Fees & cycle billing
Monthly, annual, and special-job fees billed on schedule automatically, with payment tracking.
Document exchange with clients
A channel where clients submit documents straight to the job, with a live list of what's still missing.
True profit per client
Fees charged versus team time spent — see who's worth it and where to reprice or re-scope.
Folders + personal calendars
- Deadlines live in individual calendars and memory
- Job status requires walking desk to desk
- Client documents scattered across chat, email, boxes
- Nobody knows how much time each client consumes
- Special jobs done and never billed
A connected practice system
- Every deadline in a shared calendar with alerts
- Every job's status visible office-wide, live
- Every document filed to its client and period
- Time and cost per client shown as numbers
- Every job billed on cycle — none forgotten
Common situations
Situations firms often face, and what changes with a system
Real practice situations, and what the system is designed to help with.
A small client's filing slips — because the person holding it was on leave
Every client's deadlines live in the office's shared calendar, not one person's. When the holder is away, the team sees the job and takes over immediately, documents included.
A fixed-fee client consumes more team time every month
Time sheets total real hours per client against the fee charged — showing exactly whose scope has outgrown the price, with numbers to renegotiate professionally.
Client documents live in chat, email, and boxes — one missing paper costs half a day
Every document lands in the system against its client and period, with a list of what's still missing to chase systematically. Reviews and closings speed up because nobody hunts for paper.
Why full workloads don't grow profit
Why full workloads don't grow the firm's profit
Professional firms sell time and trust — so profit leaks two ways: hours spent unseen, and trust lost to slipped work. A good system closes both at once.
Request an initial assessmentTime is the firm's only product
Every unrecorded hour is invisible cost and underpricing. Lightweight time sheets put the value of time back into decisions.
One slipped filing is remembered for years
The late-filing penalty may be small; the lost confidence is expensive. Alerts that don't depend on anyone's memory keep the firm's reputation off a single person's shoulders.
A fixed fee with creeping scope is an unintended discount
Work that grows quietly with no record becomes permanent free work. Per-client time numbers turn scope conversations into evidence-based ones.
A good practice must be transferable
With jobs, documents, and history in the system, new staff take over clients quickly — and the firm grows beyond the memory of a few partners.
FAQ
Questions firm owners ask most
The practice-management questions we hear most often.
How is this different from accounting software?
Different jobs: accounting software produces financial statements and tax forms; this system manages the firm itself — every client's jobs, deadlines, documents, time, and billing. They work side by side, with the practice system ensuring every job completes and every fee is collected.
The team is already busy — will they really log time?
Logging is designed to be minimal: pick the job and tap start/stop, or log the day in a few clicks. Crucially, the team sees the benefit — the numbers reprice work and rein in scope; they're not a surveillance tool.
Client data is confidential — how is it protected?
Access is set per person and per client: staff see only the accounts they handle, and every access and change is logged — far more auditable than folders and files shared over chat.
Our clients send documents by LINE — can that change?
No need to force it overnight. The team can file documents from chat into the system against the right job first, then invite clients to the firm's submission channel — which is easier for them too, since they see exactly what's needed and what's missing.
We're a small firm, under ten people — is it worth it?
Yes — a small firm is hurt more by one slipped job than a large one, and the owner is usually the bottleneck for everything. The system lets you delegate while still seeing every deadline. Start with jobs and deadlines, then grow into time and billing.
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