The AI platform to run your consulting firm — from resource planning to month-end close

Automate staffing, delivery, and financial operations with AI

Connect your CRM and staff projects proactively

Capture time and invoicing as the work happens

Forecast revenue and margins and monitor project health

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Trusted by professional services teams & consulting firms globally

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You fix chaos for clients. Why tolerate it internally?

Forward-thinking consulting firms use Operating to automate operations end-to-end, from resource planning to invoicing, improving utilization and margins along the way.

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From reactive to proactive

Forecast in real time to make better decisions

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Right people on the right projects

Skills-based matching of consultants & projects

Use AI to optimize operations

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One platform, many use cases

Resource planning, timesheets, invoicing, and project financials

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Key metrics in one place

Delivery margin, utilization, consultant availability and more

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Loved by resourcing and project staffing teams

Clear the bench and keep up with project openings

How it works

Match consultants to the right projects

  • See consultant availability ranked by urgency to clear the bench
  • Connect CRM to match consultants to projects in your sales pipeline for efficient project staffing
  • View all open and unassigned positions in projects to distribute work smoothly in your staffing team

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+ integrations to other CRMs possible via our REST API

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Allocate work and plan project budgets

  • Solve the resource allocation puzzle: see people, projects, and budgets on a timeline
  • Allocate work with hourly rates and project budgets
  • Plan projects financially: forecast revenue, costs, and margins

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+ integrations to other CRMs possible via our REST API

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Track time and compare planned vs. actual hours

  • View planned hours on your timesheet for faster, more efficient filling.
  • Keep timesheets with resource allocation and project staffing to minimize system switching
  • Analyse deviations between planned hours and actual hours spent

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+ integrations to other CRMs possible via our REST API

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Approve timesheets, recognize revenue, and generate invocies

  • Ditch month-end close spreadsheets and handle everything in Operating instead.
  • Revenue recognition that's designed for professional services organizations
  • Timesheet approvals, and recurring and custom invoicing schedules for efficient invoice generation

Off-the-shelf integrations with

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+ integrations to other CRMs possible via our REST API

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Forecast revenue, margins and utilization

  • Forecast utilization to make the right moves in sales and hiring
  • Forecast revenue & project margins, and predict where your business is headed
  • View predictive project burnup charts with project allocation and timesheet data

Off-the-shelf integrations with

Pipedrive LogoHubSpot Logo

+ integrations to other CRMs possible via our REST API

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Operating integrates with multiple CRM, HR and time tracking tools

Integrates with CRM and HR Tools—and more

CRM deals turn into tentative projects for your staffing team to act on. Approved leaves in your HR tool turn into time off allocations. Operating is designed to work seamlessly with the rest of your tool stack.

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Discover how Operating helps optimize consulting firm workflows, from matching consultants to projects to resource scheduling, and monitoring budgets.

Here's what our customers are saying

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Columbia Road streamlines resource planning and cuts hours of busywork per week, thanks to the added transparency from Operating, ensuring each team is staffed with the right consultants.

Connecting CRM and Time Tracking Seamlessly

We used to jump between HubSpot and Harvest all the time, but with Operating, it’s all just there, working together.

Shawn St Mart
Delivery Lead
Furo

From juggling tools to simplified operations

We switched to Operating to spend less time juggling tools and more time on client work. The reports, plus HubSpot and HiBob integrations, make that easy.

Petya Raykovska
Director Of Operations
Human Made

Operating helps us identify all billable work, improving our profitability

Last year, pre-Operating, we absorbed $250,000 in unbilled work due to inefficiencies. This year, it's down to $25,000.

James Shaw
COO
Inventive.io

We're seeing higher utilization and better profitability

Operating played a key role in improving our profitability and utilization. By optimizing processes and enhancing tracking, we achieved 40% growth over the calendar year.

Anna Lehto
CEO
70/30 Digital

Our staffing has gotten a lot clearer, and we now have a more reliable future outlook

Operating is great—it's a new approach compared to our homegrown spreadsheet setup, but we're quickly getting smarter and gaining clarity, especially for staffing new projects.

Brittany Meeks
Associate Managing Director
Winterberry Group

Operating helps us staff projects efficiently by showcasing our consultants' skills

We're about 150 people, in different locations and countries. We can keep things efficient and people-focused with a common view of our sales pipeline, allocations, and our team's skills and interests.

Ville Loppinen
General Manager
Columbia Road

Resource planning and forecasting connected with HiBob and HubSpot

We replaced our complex finance projection spreadsheet, and now our HiBob leaves are visible in Operating, keeping our calculations up-to-date.

Jacqueline Enoch
CFO
Founder and Lightning

Fewer Excel sheets, a reliable future outlook—what's not to like!

Centralizing our capacity planning and skill matrix Excels into Operating has made running the business easier.

John Kavaleff
COO
Iona

Operating helped Sievo tie together their whole operational toolkit, replacing their homegrown setup, while greatly improving their resource allocation efficiency.

Running a large consulting company is complex

Hundreds of projects, tens of teams, and thousands of consultants. Your team spends a lot time planning for things that ends up being canceled or postponed. It takes too much time with clunky disconnected systems no one understands.

That’s why we built Operating. Designed for enterprise consulting companies, Operating streamlines project staffing, resource allocation, time tracking, and forecasting. Less busywork, more time for clients.

Fewer Excel sheets, a reliable future outlook – what's not to like!

Centralizing our capacity planning and skill matrix Excels into Operating has made running the business easier.

John Kavaleff, Iona
JOHN KAVALEFF
COO
Iona & Co

We're growing the business – together with the whole team

Everyone now has visibility to upcoming and current projects. The information that used to live in people's heads is now in Operating.

Elisa Lipponen, Nordkapp
ELISA LIPPOnen
Director of Ops
Nordkapp

Staffing cross-border projects is much easier now

We have a lot of projects done together across our different offices. Operating helps find the right person for the right need - no matter where they are located.

Simon Fransson, Columbia Road
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General Manager
Columbia Road Sweden

Where does complexity live in your consulting firm?

Discover whether your firm runs on simplicity or unnecessary complexity, and uncover the hidden structures that slow down growth and margins.

Choose the hard way – or the Operating way!

Operating is the go-to tool for operations and delivery teams in consulting firms and professional services teams—see how it helps your or your COO!

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