The recurring client pack
The same report, per client, on the same cycle. Gather it, drop it into the template, write two lines of commentary, send. Multiply by the client list and it is somebody's week.
Professional services
Nobody bills for assembling the monthly client pack, chasing the intake form, or finding which engagement a document belongs to. It still takes hours, and those hours come out of the ones you can bill.
Accounting and bookkeeping firms, law practices, insurance agencies, consultancies, marketing and creative agencies, staffing firms, and the operations or office managers who keep them running.
The same report, per client, on the same cycle. Gather it, drop it into the template, write two lines of commentary, send. Multiply by the client list and it is somebody's week.
A name, a reference or an email arrives and the answer lives across a practice system, a shared drive, an inbox and a billing tool. The search is the job, and it happens dozens of times a day.
A form comes in and someone has to remember to open the file, notify the right person, and start the clock. When they are busy, it waits.
Unbilled time, missing documents, engagements past a date, records that never got matched. Most of the list is fine. Someone reads all of it anyway.
Usually the recurring pack, because the rules are already written down in whoever's head builds it and the output is easy to compare against last month. Scoped and priced on its own, against the systems you already pay for.
If the report is genuinely different every month because the analysis is the product, automating it will produce something worse. Sometimes we can assemble the parts that never change and leave the judgement to your people, but that is a smaller job and we will say so.
The industry matters less than the process. If your team repeats the same steps every week, the work looks the same from where we sit.
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