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Industry · Professional Services

Grow without every partner selling all day.

In most firms, growth stops when the partners stop selling, and senior people spend evenings on proposals and admin. We help you build a pipeline that does not rely on referrals alone, justify premium fees, and use AI to draft, search and report so your experts bill more of their time.

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The context

Where professional firms lose time and fees

01
Referrals are not a strategy.

Most firms grow on partner networks and repeat clients, which works until key people retire, move or simply run out of hours to sell.

02
Buyers check expertise online.

Clients review LinkedIn profiles, published thinking and AI answers to judge a firm's expertise before they agree to a first meeting.

03
Fees face pressure.

Without clear positioning, firms are compared on hourly rates and lose work to cheaper competitors who appear to offer the same service.

04
Senior time goes to admin.

Partners and managers spend unbilled hours on proposals, reports, research and time entries that AI and better workflows can largely prepare.

Both numbers

Where we move revenue and cost in Professional Services.

Revenue ↑ · The leak

Growth that stops when the partners stop selling, because the firm has no pipeline beyond personal referrals.

Positioning for premium feesDefine the problems you solve best and for whom, so clients see a specialist worth paying for rather than one option among many.
Thought-leadership programmeTurn partner expertise into regular articles, LinkedIn posts and short video, published under their names and built from short interviews.
Pipeline beyond referralsBuild target account lists, run outreach and events, and track every opportunity in the CRM from first contact to signed engagement.
Client expansionMap services each client uses and could use, and plan reviews that open conversations about further work with existing relationships.
Cost ↓ · The drain

Senior people doing proposals, reports and admin instead of billable work, with knowledge locked in individual inboxes.

AI proposal and report draftingDraft proposals, engagement letters and reports from your templates and past work with AI, for the responsible professional to review and sign off.
Knowledge searchSearch past proposals, deliverables and research across the firm in plain language, so teams reuse what exists instead of starting again.
Time and billing workflowsPrompt time capture, prepare draft invoices and chase overdue payments automatically, cutting the month-end scramble for partners and finance.
Claude across the teamRoll out Claude with training, approved use cases and clear rules on client confidentiality, so professionals use AI well and consistently.
Your first 90 days

From review to results in one quarter.

Days 1-7

Review

Review pipeline sources, win rates, fee levels and where senior hours go. You get a written baseline of revenue concentration and unbilled time.

Days 8-30

Position

Agree positioning and priority services, plan the thought-leadership programme, and set governance rules for AI use with client data.

Days 31-60

Equip

Train teams on Claude with approved use cases, pilot AI proposal drafting, and launch partner content on LinkedIn and your website.

Days 61-90

Build

Start outbound pipeline programmes, switch on knowledge search and billing workflows, and set targets for pipeline and billable hours.

What we measure

Judged by the numbers, not the activity.

We take a baseline in Review week, agree targets in writing and report against them every month.

Pipeline from non-referral sources
Proposal win rate
Hours per proposal
Billable hours per senior professional
Typical starting points
Content Creation: Buyers research long before they speak to sales.
Lead Generation: Many established businesses still rely on referrals and the founder's network.
Claude Adoption: Claude is our default model for business work.
FAQ

Questions professional services leaders ask us.

Is it safe to use AI with client documents?
It can be, with the right controls. We set rules on what data AI may access, configure tools so client material stays within your environment and agreements, log usage, and keep professionals responsible for every output. We agree these rules with your leadership before rollout.
We interview each partner for a short session on a topic they know well, then draft articles, posts and video scripts for their review. Partners spend their time on the ideas and the final check, not on writing, so the programme can run alongside client work.
Not if they are built on your own templates, past winning proposals and the client's brief. AI produces a structured first draft quickly, and your team adds judgement, pricing and relationship context. The professional who signs the proposal stays responsible for it.
Keep exploring

Services we usually start with.

Lever 02 · Get ChosenContent Creation

Buyers research long before they speak to sales.

ExploreLever 04 · Fill the PipelineLead Generation

Many established businesses still rely on referrals and the founder's network.

ExploreLever 02 · EquipClaude Adoption

Claude is our default model for business work.

ExploreLever 02 · EquipAI Training for Leaders & Teams

Generic AI courses teach features.

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Tell us which number to move.

Thirty minutes with a Growth Architect. You will leave knowing where your biggest revenue and cost opportunities are in Professional Services, whether or not we work together.

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