For consulting & professional-services firms

Know the true margin of every engagement.

Live portfolio · illustrative

Portfolio revenue
$12.4M
recognized YTD
Gross margin
38.2%
vs 34.1% last year
Unbilled WIP
$4.7M
oldest item 12 days
Realization
97.2%
after write-offs

Engagement Economics turns scattered hours, expenses, and invoices into one governed P&L per engagement — margin, WIP, realization, and forecast to complete — with every number able to explain itself.

Built for the operating rhythm of a firm: consultants submit weekly timesheets, managers approve, approved hours become WIP, WIP becomes invoices, and partners watch realization — all in one place.

Where firms bleed margin

The leaks are small, quiet, and compounding.

WIP that ages in silence

Unbilled work sits for weeks because nobody owns the number. Every day of WIP age is free financing for your clients.

Watched metric · Days of WIP age

Write-offs without a reason

Realization erodes one 'small goodwill discount' at a time. If write-offs need no reason, they need no limit.

Watched metric · Realization %

Time that never lands

Hours logged late, or never, mean revenue you already earned quietly disappears from the ledger.

Watched metric · Unsubmitted hours

Fixed fees that drift

Without a live estimate-to-complete, a fixed-fee engagement can be underwater for months before anyone notices.

Watched metric · EAC vs budget

The platform

One operating system for engagement economics.

Start with your book of business

Portfolio Command Center

Every engagement, one governed P&L

Revenue, cost, gross margin, budget variance, and health for every engagement — sortable, filterable, and one click from the full economics cockpit.

Billing, WIP & Realization

From approved hours to cash

Unbilled WIP by engagement, invoice building at standard value, write-offs that require a reason, realization tracking, AR aging, and DSO.

Timesheets & Approvals

Maker-checker on every hour

Consultants submit a weekly grid. Managers approve or send back with feedback. Only approved time enters WIP — internal controls by default.

Forecasting

ETC and EAC before it's too late

Estimate-to-complete assumptions produce a live estimate-at-completion against budget, so a drifting fixed fee shows up in weeks, not at closeout.

Explainable numbers

Every figure shows its work

Click any metric and see the formula and inputs behind it. No black boxes — the CFO's favorite feature for a reason.

Ask Nydros

An AI advisor grounded in your ledger

Ask for trends, comparisons, or charts in plain language. Answers come from your live data — never invented, always sourced.

Who it serves

Three chairs at the table. One version of the truth.

Owner & CEO

“Is the firm actually making money?”

  • Portfolio margin and utilization on one screen, every morning
  • At-risk engagements flagged with the reasons, not just a color
  • Backlog of contracted value vs. what's been recognized

CFO

“Can I defend every number?”

  • Every metric opens to its formula and inputs — audit-ready by design
  • WIP, realization, AR aging, and DSO with a full audit trail
  • Write-offs require a documented reason before an invoice exists

Engagement Partner

“Will this engagement land on budget?”

  • Live EAC against budget from day one, not at closeout
  • Staffing plans with blended margin by role and location
  • Approve your team's weeks in minutes, from one queue

Run the firm on numbers you can defend.

Set up your firm, load your engagements, and see your true margins this week — no procurement odyssey required.