Solutions · Consulting
For firms whose margin is decided in week six, not at the close.
Management, strategy and technology consulting firms running fixed-fee and time-and-materials engagements side by side.
What we hear
The four that come up on every call.
And what in Octayne answers each one.
Margin discovered too late
A month-end close tells you what happened. By the time a below-target engagement surfaces, the budget that could have corrected it is already spent.
Forecast at completion is recalculated as time, expense and vendor commitment land, so a below-target engagement surfaces while the budget to correct it still exists.
Projects & Delivery →Timesheet compliance eats Friday
Delayed entry is not an administrative annoyance — it is the single largest source of forecast error in a professional services firm.
The Time Agent drafts the week from what actually happened across the tools your people already work in. They edit and approve rather than reconstruct.
Time Agent →Utilization is a lagging report
By the time you can see who is overloaded and who is on the bench, the staffing decision has already been made for you.
Allocation, bench and committed work read against the plan continuously, so the staffing call is made on this week rather than on last month's report.
Resource & Utilization →Scope grows quietly
Work that was never in the SOW gets delivered anyway, and it lands as a margin miss rather than a change request.
The Review Agent holds a week that would push the engagement past budget and sends it to a partner with the exposure attached, so absorbed scope surfaces as a decision rather than as a margin miss.
Review Agent →
Next step
See it run against one of your live engagements.
Bring an engagement that worried you. We will show you where the margin went, and the week Octayne would have told you.