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Professional services

Know which work pays before the quarter ends.

We fill your finance seat with a person who knows services books. Agents draft every invoice from approved time, on each client's terms. Your person checks each one, takes write-offs to you, and reports profit by project every month.

62,119 job postings in our pulls name QuickBooks, and 41.5% of them also ask for Excel. US postings, Mar 22 to Oct 3, 2026, from our own pulls. The full report

What is different about the books

A services firm's books break in the same four places.

The agents do itYour person does it
What goes wrong
What the agents do
What your person does
01

Project billing

Retainers, fixed fees and hourly clients all bill differently, so billing day takes three days.

Agents

Draft every invoice from approved time, on each client's own terms.

Your person

Sets up each client's terms once, and checks every invoice before it goes.

02

Unbilled work

Finished work sits unbilled because nobody pulled the time together, and it slips into next quarter.

Agents

Match expense receipts and card charges to the client and project.

Your person

Lists unbilled time and expenses by client every month, so nothing slips.

03

Utilization

You cannot tell who has room for the next project and who is stretched thin.

Agents

Keep payments and costs coded to the right client and project.

Your person

Reports the billable share of each person's hours every month, from your time tool.

04

Project profit and getting paid

Revenue is up, cash is tight, and the big invoices are 60 days late.

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Agents

Match payments to invoices and send overdue reminders.

Your person

Calls on the large overdue invoices, and reports profit by client and project by the 10th.

Your person checks every line the agents do. The agents never make the judgment calls.

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Who does what

The agents draft the invoices. Your person knows which work pays.

Work with a right answer goes to software from week one. Your person checks every agent result and keeps the judgment calls. Anything that moves money waits for a person.

Software agents, from week one

  • agents Invoices drafted from approved time
  • agents Payment matching
  • agents Overdue reminders
  • agents Expense receipts matched and coded
  • agents Bank and card matching

Your named person

  • person Review of every agent entry
  • person Fixed-fee, milestone and retainer billing set up and checked
  • person Utilization and project profit, every month
  • person Calls on the large overdue invoices
  • person Write-offs taken to you, never made by software
  • person Month-end close by the 10th

What you get, every month

The same list every month, checked by your person before it reaches you. The hours report shows the routine share moving to the agents over time.

Billing day
An invoice for every client, checked by your person before it goes.
By the 10th
Last month closed, with your profit and loss and balance sheet.
By the 10th
Profit by client and project, and utilization by person.
Every month
Unbilled time and expenses, listed by client.
Every week
Who owes what, and what was followed up.
The software you run on

Keep your software. Nothing moves.

The agents connect to 6 of the systems services firms run on. Your person logs into the rest, like any employee you give a login to.

The agents connect to6 systems
QuickBooks

Turns approved time into invoice drafts and matches payments.

Connected with a user you create
Xero

The same invoicing and matching, if your books are in Xero.

Connected with a user you create
Stripe

Client card payments matched back to their invoices.

Connected with a restricted key
Expensify

Expense reports and receipts coded to the client and project.

Connected with a key you create
BILL

Contractor and vendor bills entered and queued for approval.

Connected with a key you create
Ramp

Card spend and receipts coded as they post.

Connected with a login you approve
Your person also works inno agents here
Harvest

Exports the approved time the agents turn into invoices.

A login you give them
Your time tracking tool

Exports the approved time, the same way.

Shared with them like anyone else
Your project management tool

Checks project status before a milestone invoice goes out.

Shared with them like anyone else
HubSpot or Salesforce

Looks up client terms and contacts for billing.

A login you give them
Your payroll system

Works in it like any employee, and the agents keep the payroll entries in the books.

Shared with them like anyone else
What the agents takeInvoices drafted from approved timePayment matchingOverdue remindersExpense receipts matched and coded

Every connection uses a login, key or app you create, and you can switch it off at any time. Your books stay in your own software the whole time. All 15 systems the agents connect to

The roles services firms post

Which seat are you filling?

The same person and agents, sized to the job you posted. Each role page shows what that posting usually asks for and what the seat really costs.

Median posted pay from the US postings we read in full for each role. A seat costs more than its pay once you add payroll taxes and benefits. What loaded cost means

Professional services questions

Do the agents connect to our time tracking tool?

Not directly. Time tools are not among the systems the agents connect to. Your person exports the approved time, and the agents turn it into invoice drafts in QuickBooks or Xero. Nothing goes to a client until a person checks it.

Who decides write-offs and discounts?

You do. A write-off is a judgment about the client, so software never makes one. Your person flags the invoices that need a decision and applies what you decide.

We bill on retainers and fixed fees, not just hours.

That is the part your person sets up and checks. Each client's terms are written down once, and the agents draft every invoice on those terms.

Will our clients hear from software?

Only the routine reminders, on the schedule and in the words you approve. The large overdue invoices get a call or a note from a person.

We only need part of a person.

Then we size the seat that way. We sort your posting first, duty by duty. If the agents take enough of the routine, the seat is part time and you pay for those hours only.

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