Consulting
Your AI Engagement Manager, Proposal Writer & Business Developer
"Losing billable hours to proposals, scheduling, and admin work?"
AI employees built for consulting firms. Manage the full client engagement lifecycle from initial contact through active delivery, automate proposal and SOW generation, and keep every deliverable on track.
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A Day in the Life of Spencer
Your AI Client Engagement Manager
- Discovery-call notes land in the inbox at 4:40 PM after a prospect meeting
- Spencer picks them up instantly and flags the engagement as proposal-ready
- Drafts the proposal and SOW from your templates — pricing, methodology, case studies
- Creates the deal in HubSpot with milestones and a follow-up sequence
- Sends the partner a review-ready draft with open questions highlighted
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- Your Expense Reporting Agent Gets Billable Travel onto the InvoiceSep 8, 2026
The Expense Reporting Agent chases receipts, checks them against policy and codes billable costs to the engagement, so consultants stay with the client.
- Partners Trust the Pipeline Review When Every Open Deal Gets ChasedSep 7, 2026
The Lead Qualification Agent chases open proposals, asks partners for deal status weekly and rebuilds the forecast, so reviews run on current facts.
Challenges We Solve
- !Tracking multiple client engagements and deliverables simultaneously
- !Generating proposals and SOWs quickly without sacrificing quality
- !Scheduling meetings across busy consultant calendars
- !Following up on business development leads consistently
AI-Powered Features
- Automated proposal and SOW generation from templates
- Client engagement lifecycle tracking with milestone alerts
- Smart meeting scheduling with conflict detection
- Business development pipeline with follow-up automation
- Deliverable tracking with status reports
- Meeting preparation with client history summaries
- Project budget monitoring and alerts
- Client satisfaction surveys and NPS tracking
The five workflows every industry shares
The same five run in all 27 industries. What changes for consulting is the overlay: the records, the stages and the words. How it works.
The Consulting overlay: Clients, Engagements, Prospects, Engagements, Deliverables. Stages: Initial Contact → Discovery Meeting → Proposal Drafted → Proposal Sent → Negotiation → Engagement Active.
Intake and triage
Every call, text, email and form becomes a prospect on the client's record, with who, why and the next step. A fixed ladder of rules sorts it before any model is asked.
Touches: Opens the engagement at Initial Contact.
Follow-up
Moves each engagement forward and writes down why each move happened. Chases the engagements that have gone quiet, and stops when a person says stop.
Touches: Initial Contact to Engagement Active, one stage at a time.
Scheduling
Books the visit, call or appointment on the calendar and on the engagement, sends the confirmation and the reminder, and reschedules when the client asks.
Touches: The calendar and the engagement.
Quoting
Prepares the quote from your price book or template, sends it once a person approves it, and follows up until it is answered.
Touches: Prospects and the engagement.
Reporting
Each day, what each agent did and what it proposed, built from the log of every action it took. Nothing is reported that was not recorded.
Touches: The record, read back to you.
Workflows specific to Consulting
Real automation workflows — your agents work in the tools your consulting business already uses, through each tool's own connection or in the browser, and record every result in your CRM.
Proposal & SOW Generation
AI drafts proposals and statements of work from meeting notes — pulls in your pricing, methodologies, case studies, and terms. You review and send.
Client Engagement Tracking
Tracks every engagement from discovery through delivery — milestones, deliverables, and status updates sent to clients automatically.
Business Development Pipeline
Manages your BD pipeline with automated outreach, follow-ups, and meeting scheduling. Nurtures leads until they convert.
Annual Impact for Consulting
Based on 24 workflows mapped across 5 departments
Department-by-Department Assessment
Every workflow mapped with friction score, time investment, and savings potential
| Workflow | Friction | Hrs/Wk | Annual Cost | Savings | Annual Savings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Engagement Status Tracking Engagement managers spend hours each week manually updating status dashboards from scattered data so... | 7 | 15h | $66,300 | 55% | $36,465 |
Scope & Change Request Management Scope creep is the silent killer of consulting margins. Change requests are documented inconsistentl... | 8 | 8h | $39,520 | 60% | $23,712 |
Client Reporting & Communication Consultants spend Friday afternoons assembling status reports from time entries, project boards, and... | 6 | 10h | $39,000 | 65% | $25,350 |
Deliverable Quality Assurance Partners spend hours reviewing deliverables for formatting consistency, branding compliance, and qua... | 6 | 8h | $39,520 | 45% | $17,784 |
Engagement Closeout & Transition Closeout is the most neglected phase of consulting engagements. Lessons learned are documented in a ... | 5 | 5h | $22,100 | 55% | $12,155 |
| Department Total | 46h | $206,440 | $115,466 |
Investment & Return
Conservative estimates based on your 24 mapped workflows
Conservative
Automate highest-ROI workflows first
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Full department coverage across your business
Full Deployment
Every workflow automated with dedicated agents
Supported Roles
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