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Bill with confidence, deliver with evidence

Accurate time by engagement, clean client reporting, and utilization you can actually manage.

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Consulting firms live on billable accuracy and client trust. Momentum captures time by engagement automatically, separates delivery from overhead, and produces the reporting that makes invoices and renewals frictionless.

// The challenge

What gets in the way

01
Reconstructed timesheets

End-of-week guesswork means lost hours and uncomfortable invoice conversations.

02
Utilization mystery

Leaders cannot see real utilization until it is too late to rebalance.

03
Client scrutiny

Clients expect transparent, defensible proof of the hours they pay for.

Accurate
Billable capture
Per
Engagement reporting
+15%
Realization rate
// The full picture

How this plays out for consulting

Friday-afternoon timesheets are a margin tax

In consulting, the unit of value is the hour — and most firms measure it by memory. Consultants reconstruct the week on Friday, rounding generously or forgetting entirely; partners discover utilization problems at quarter close; and when a client questions an invoice, the backup is a spreadsheet the client has no reason to trust. The gap between hours worked and hours captured is the quietest leak in professional services.

Capture the hours as they happen

Momentum's agent records the working day automatically: the Activity view logs each consultant's start and finish, active time against the expected desk hours set in General settings, and a productivity score for the day. Departments organized by practice — Strategy, Technology, Operations — carry their own app rules, so a modelling suite is Productive for the deals team and a research tool for the strategy bench. The Timeline's Time Summary separates Productive, Non-Productive, and Unmarked hours, with per-app detail that shows exactly where a delivery day went.

Utilization managed weekly, not discovered quarterly

With a month of data, engagement managers run the practice from the Workforce Dashboard: average active desk time and average productive time per department, top performers versus the bench, and the expected-vs-actual trend that shows utilization slipping while there's still time to rebalance. When a client asks about hours, the answer is a Timeline — captured contemporaneously, not reconstructed — and the conversation moves on.

momentum · consulting · dashboardLIVE
Avg active desk time vs expected7h 22m / 8h
Productive share of desk time79%
Bench (under target hours)18% of staff
Days captured automatically100%
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// Metrics to watch

The numbers that tell you it's working

Every one of these lives on the Momentum Workforce Dashboard — no exports, no spreadsheets. Set your workday, expected desk hours, and target productive hours in General settings, and watch the expected-vs-actual gap close week over week.

KPIs update as agents report in
Expected-vs-actual trend per department
Drill from any number into an individual Timeline
// The playbook

From install to insight in four moves

A proven rollout sequence using real Momentum modules — agents, machine approval, department app rules, and the dashboard.

01
Organize by practice line

Create a Department per practice and assign consultants. Practice-level dashboards — time distribution, productive averages, rankings — become your utilization views.

02
Approve laptops, wherever they are

Consultant laptops on client sites enroll as Pending in the Machines module. Approve them remotely; if a laptop is lost or a consultant rolls off, disable agent login or uninstall remotely.

03
Encode the billable-day model

Set workday hours, expected desk hours, and target productive hours in General settings to match your utilization model, with thresholds that flag under-recovery automatically.

04
Rebalance from the trend

Review the expected-vs-actual trend and per-department averages weekly. Shift work from the over-loaded to the under-utilized while it still changes the quarter.

// How Momentum helps

A clearer picture for consulting

Momentum brings the signals that matter into one fair, real-time view — so leaders can act on evidence and teams can trust the numbers.

momentum · consulting · timelineLIVE
Accurate
Billable capture
Per
Engagement reporting
+15%
Realization rate
today · workday timeline
9:00■ active■ idle18:00
82%
prod. score
Automatic time by engagement
Delivery vs overhead breakdown
Utilization and realization views
Defensible client-facing reports
// After the 30-day baseline

Momentum never asks you to judge on day one. Collect a month of Timeline data, then set targets from your own expected-vs-actual trend — and watch it move.

+30d
baseline → lift
// Questions

Consulting teams usually ask

Do consultants still fill in timesheets?+

Capture is automatic — start, finish, active time, and app-level detail are recorded by the agent. Many firms keep a lightweight allocation step, but the hours themselves are no longer reconstructed from memory.

What do we show a client who questions hours?+

The Timeline: a contemporaneous, hour-by-hour record of active work and the applications used, with a Time Summary of productive versus other time. It's evidence, not an estimate.

Consultants work from client sites — does that break anything?+

No. Agents capture locally and sync when connected, including offline app usage. The Machines module manages every laptop remotely, wherever it sits.

Can partners see everything?+

Access is scoped. Engagement leads see their own team's analytics, and each consultant sees their own record. Nobody audits data outside their remit.

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