PSA software for business and professional consultancies.
Bring client engagements, consultant capacity, time, budgets, billing and ongoing service together. Chronodesk helps consulting leaders understand what is being delivered and how the work is performing.
The client sees one engagement. Your team may be managing it in five places.
Proposals and client information sit in one system. Delivery plans live in project tools. Resourcing is discussed in a spreadsheet. Consultants submit time elsewhere, while billing and retainer consumption are reconstructed at the end of the month.
That fragmentation makes simple management questions harder to answer:
- Which consultants have capacity for new work?
- How much of the engagement budget has been used?
- Is unbilled time accumulating?
- Are retained hours being consumed as expected?
- Which projects or clients require attention?
- What follow-on requests have been agreed but not yet planned?
Chronodesk brings the operational records around the client engagement together so delivery, operations and commercial leaders can work from the same information.
Manage the full consulting engagement.
Turn the opportunity into delivery
Keep the client context and create a structured engagement with phases, milestones, tasks, owners, budgeted hours and commercial values.
Match people to the work
Plan consultant capacity across active engagements and upcoming demand. See availability, competing allocations and utilisation without maintaining a separate resource spreadsheet.
Record time in context
Capture billable and non-billable time against the correct client, engagement, task or service request. Use approvals and rate cards before records move into billing.
Monitor the commercial position
Compare actual work with planned hours and budgets. Review performance by engagement or client while the work is active.
Continue the relationship
Manage retained advisory work, recurring tasks, follow-on requests and client service on the same platform rather than treating every interaction as a new disconnected project.
Designed for firms that sell expertise and outcomes.
Connect the delivery and commercial sides of consulting work.
Engagement and project management
Plan phases, deliverables, milestones and tasks with clear ownership. Use templates for repeatable engagement types and portfolio views for management oversight.
Project management software →Consultant capacity and utilisation
Compare availability with allocations across multiple clients. Use planned and actual information to support staffing decisions and future commitments.
Resource management software →Timesheets and rate cards
Record work where it happens, separate billable and non-billable activity and apply the correct rate structure for each client, role or engagement.
Timesheet software →Retainers and recurring delivery
Track ongoing commitments and the work performed against them. Use recurring tasks and service workflows to keep retained client delivery visible.
Billing and reporting
Use approved operational records as the basis for billing and performance reporting. Reduce manual reconciliation between consultants, project leaders and finance.
Client requests and portal access
Give clients a structured way to submit requests, follow relevant work and continue the relationship beyond a single project.
Client portal software →Operational clarity without turning consultants into administrators.
Chronodesk should help a consultancy create a simpler operating rhythm:
- Delivery teams know where work and client context belong.
- Consultants record time against the correct engagement.
- Operations can see capacity and allocations across the firm.
- Project leaders can compare actual effort with plan.
- Commercial teams have cleaner records for billing.
- Leadership can investigate exceptions using current operational information.
One advisory programme, from planning to retained support.
Client: Ashford Retail Group
Engagement: Operating-model redesign and implementation support
- Discovery, design and implementation are set up as project phases.
- Consultant roles are allocated against planned capacity.
- Time is recorded against the relevant workstream and rate card.
- Delivery effort is compared with budget throughout the engagement.
- Approved records support billing and management reporting.
- Follow-on advisory requests are managed through a retained service workflow.
Illustrative workflow. Configuration should reflect your engagement and billing model.
Consulting-firm PSA FAQ
What is PSA software for a consulting firm?
PSA software connects the operational and commercial processes used to deliver consulting work: projects, consultant resourcing, time, budgets, billing and reporting. It helps a firm manage client engagements using a shared set of delivery records.
Can Chronodesk manage fixed-fee and time-based engagements?
Chronodesk supports projects, time, rates, budgets and billing workflows relevant to different commercial models. Test your actual fixed-fee, time-and-materials, milestone or retainer structure during evaluation.
Can we see consultant availability across engagements?
Resource-management capabilities are intended to show capacity and allocations across active and planned work, supporting decisions about staffing and new commitments.
Can Chronodesk track retained advisory work?
Chronodesk includes contract and retainer management on the relevant plan, along with recurring tasks and service-management capabilities for ongoing client work.
Is Chronodesk suitable for a very small independent consultancy?
The platform can support small teams, but the strongest fit for this UK campaign is a growing firm managing several clients, projects and consultants where coordination and commercial visibility have become difficult.
Does Chronodesk replace our accounting system?
Chronodesk should not be positioned as a full accounting or ERP system. It manages professional-services delivery and related billing information, with integrations such as Xero supporting the wider finance workflow.
See whether Chronodesk fits the way your consultancy works.
Have a short conversation about your engagement model and current frustrations, or create your own trial environment and explore it independently.