Your inventory is time. Track it like it matters.
Sommet360 gives professional services firms accurate time, expense and approval data per project — so utilisation, recoverability and client billing rest on the same records.
- Recorded against
- Projects
- Approvals
- Engagement lead
- Output
- Billing-ready
“Nobody in a professional services firm doubts that time matters. They doubt that last week's timesheets are accurate.”
Consultants, lawyers, engineers and auditors record time late, in bulk, and from memory. By Friday afternoon the week is reconstructed rather than reported.
Every hour recorded imprecisely is either margin lost quietly or a client conversation about an invoice nobody can substantiate.
The fix is not stricter policy. It is making accurate recording the fastest option available — from a phone, in seconds, against the right project.
Where billable value leaks
Each of these is small on its own. Multiplied by every consultant and every week, they define the firm's realised rate.
How Sommet360 fits a billable operation
Accurate capture at the point of work, structured approval, and one dataset for utilisation and billing.
Mobile and web entry against the correct project makes same-day recording realistic instead of aspirational.
Receipts, categories and recharge status are captured with the claim, so client-rechargeable costs are never discovered after invoicing.
Engagement leads approve their own project's time and cost, with escalation to partners only where it is genuinely required.
Delivery leads can rebalance staffing before a period closes, not after the margin has already been decided.
The records that support the invoice are the records used for utilisation, recoverability and engagement profitability.
Recorded on the day the work happened — not reconstructed on Friday.
Accuracy improves the moment recording takes less effort than remembering.
Capabilities for a billable firm
Grouped by the outcome each one protects.
Capture and approve the work that revenue depends on.
Signed documents and policies that hold up in client and regulatory review.
Professional services margin is fully dependent on retention.
From recorded hour to issued invoice
Five steps, one dataset, no reconstruction.
Against the engagement, on the day, from web or mobile.
Receipts and recharge status captured with the claim.
One queue per project, reviewed before period close.
Approved time and cost consolidated per client and engagement.
Every line traceable to an approved record with its own audit trail.
Because utilisation reporting reads the same approved records, delivery and finance stop reconciling two versions of the same week.
Why this changes realised rate
Small accuracy gains compound across every consultant and every engagement.
Time recorded while the work is fresh is more complete than time reconstructed later — and completeness is revenue.
Engagement leads validate their own project's records, which removes the partner bottleneck and improves data quality at once.
Billing, utilisation and profitability analysis all read the same approved records, so disputes are resolved with evidence.
Related operating models
Firms often operate more than one delivery model.
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A walkthrough using your projects, rate model and approval hierarchy.
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