Industry
Professional Services
Context
What the work looks like here
In firms that sell expertise, the economics are simple and brutal: billable hours produce revenue, and everything else consumes it. Yet a surprising share of senior time goes into assembling documents, chasing status, and answering questions the firm has already answered elsewhere.
These firms also hold deep institutional knowledge in an awkward form - past matters, precedents, proposals, reports - which is valuable precisely when someone cannot find it.
Constraints that shape the build
These are engineering decisions we make by default in this sector, before anyone asks for them.
- Strict client-matter separation in access control
- Confidentiality boundaries respected in any retrieval system
- Citations required on generated answers, so output can be checked
- Document retention aligned to the firm's professional obligations
Problems we solve
Where technology makes a measurable difference
Senior time spent on document assembly
Template and generation tooling for proposals, reports, and engagement documents, drawing on structured firm data rather than the last similar file.
Clients who have to email for status
Client portals that show progress, documents, and next actions - reducing inbound status requests and the time spent answering them.
Knowledge that only exists in people
Retrieval over the firm's own documents with citations back to the source, so answers can be verified rather than trusted blindly.
Utilization invisible until month end
Reporting on time, capacity, and project health against defined metrics, available while there is still time to act.
Typical work
What we are usually asked to build
- Client and partner portals
- Matter, project, and engagement management tools
- Proposal and document generation
- Internal knowledge retrieval with citations
- Time, capacity, and utilization reporting
- Integration between practice management and finance systems
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