# AI for consulting firms: time, staffing, margin, billing > AI for consulting firms: prefilled timesheets, project profitability, staffing and billing without re-entry, proposals built on your engagements. Your partners decide. URL: https://aiorigin.io/en/secteurs/cabinets-de-conseil - Industries - Consulting firms INDUSTRY · CONSULTING FIRMS & SERVICES # AI for consulting firms: less data entry, margin tracked project by project. Your consultants spend too much time on data entry. We rebuild your management tool, AI-ready, and connect your agents to your engagements. Your clients’ data stays confidential. Talk about your project See how it works A 30-minute conversation with the team that will run your project, with no commitment. - Already delivered to Plein Sens, a consulting firm - Ready for e-invoicing AI IN CONSULTING FIRMS For Partners, CFOs, operations Who decides Your partners Updated October 15, 2026 THEY TRUST US - Celio - Plein Sens - Shiseido - Green-Got - Promologis - Bridgestone IN BRIEF ## How does AI help a consulting firm? In a consulting firm, the value lies in consultants’ time, and that is what leaks away: timesheets filled in from memory, staffing negotiated by email, margin known at the end of the engagement, proposals rewritten from scratch. AI helps most when it relies on an up-to-date management tool: time prefilled from the calendar, profitability calculated continuously, invoices prepared from approved time entries, proposals drawing on your past engagements. That is why we often start with the firm’s ERP, rebuilt AI-ready. E-invoicing makes this work urgent: since September 1, 2026, all companies must be able to receive electronic invoices, and SMEs will have to issue them from September 1, 2027. ERP, PSA OR CUSTOM? A PSA (professional services automation) is the tool service companies use for time, projects and billing. Custom software makes sense when your staffing and billing rules do not fit standard software. - Partners - Executive management - CFOs - Operations Updated October 15, 2026. WHAT YOUR TEAMS FACE ## Consultants’ time goes into data entry. What partners and CFOs tell us. TIME “Timesheets get filled in on Friday evening, from memory.” MARGIN “We find out an engagement’s margin once it is over.” PROPOSALS “Every proposal starts from scratch, even though we have already done ten similar engagements.” WHO IT’S FOR Consulting firms, architecture firms and service companies with 20 to 500 people, billing by time or by project. - Partners - Executive management - CFOs - Operations USE CASES ## AI prepares, your partners make the call. Uses built on your management tool, connected to your AI agents. ### Time prefilled from the calendar AI fills in the timesheet with the week’s meetings. The consultant approves. ### Real-time profitability by project The tool links time, expenses and invoices: every project has an up-to-date margin. The partner makes the call. ### Staffing and billing without re-entry AI suggests available consultants and prepares invoices from approved time entries. ### Proposals drawing on your engagements A Company Brain finds the relevant references and deliverables, under your confidentiality rules. ### Watch for your teams and your clients What is changing in your industries, summarized with the source. ### Your ERP, AI-ready Rebuilt as a custom tool, connected to your agents through MCP. The code stays yours. AI-READY ### Your AI agents read and act in the tool, through MCP. MCP is an open standard: a universal plug, under your control, between your software and AI. Your IT department approves every access. - SAMPLE REQUESTS TO YOUR AGENTS - “Which projects are losing margin this month?” - “Who is available next week for this engagement?” - “Find our last three similar engagements.” BEFORE / AFTER ## What changes in your week. Before and after: Consulting firms TODAYWITH YOUR NEW TOOL TimeEntered on Friday evening, from memory.Prefilled from the calendar, approved in a few minutes. MarginKnown at the end of the engagement.Updated every week, project by project. InvoicesPrepared by hand from a spreadsheet.Prepared from approved time entries, in electronic format. Every gain is measured in your company, from your starting point. OUR METHOD ## Four steps, with your partners. The four steps of our method, in a loop. Each can be done on its own; together, they organize AI across the whole company. ### Inspire your leadership team A keynote built on cases from your business. Your leadership decides where AI will be useful, and where it will not. ### Map your operations We spot the bottlenecks, rank use cases by gain and difficulty, and name the tools to keep. ### Bring your teams on board In a hands-on session, everyone arrives with a real problem and leaves with the AI agent that solves it. An AI policy sets the shared rules. ### Build with the AI Factory Our engineers build AI-ready business tools with you. You keep the keys. ### You take back the keys. The code and data stay with you, documented. We keep improving the tool with you, or you take it over. This is step 4 of our method: Build with the AI Factory. A PROJECT ALREADY DELIVERED ## Plein Sens, consulting firm. PROJECT SHEETPlein Sens The client Plein Sens, a consulting firm of about one hundred people. The starting point An aging in-house ERP that the team no longer dared to change, and that AI could not read. What we did We retrieved its data schema, then rebuilt the ERP as a custom tool, connected to AI through MCP. What we learned Once the data is retrieved, the core of the tool is rebuilt fast. Scoping is what sets the timeline. With the schema retrieved, the core of the ERP was rebuilt in a few days. With good scoping from the start, a project like this takes about one to one and a half months. Talk about your project Reference cited with the client’s consent. We publish no figures without their consent. YOUR QUESTIONS ## What consulting firms ask us. What is the difference between an ERP, a PSA and a custom tool for a consulting firm? A PSA (professional services automation) manages time, projects and billing for service companies; an ERP covers management more broadly. Custom software makes sense when your staffing, margin or billing rules do not fit a standard product. When should a firm move off spreadsheets? When the margin per engagement is only known at the end, when staffing is negotiated by email, or when invoices are prepared by hand: often between 20 and 50 people. How do you prefill timesheets without imposing them? The tool suggests entries from the calendar; the consultant corrects and approves them. Nothing is saved without them. Is our tool ready for e-invoicing? Since September 1, 2026, every company must be able to receive electronic invoices; issuing them becomes mandatory for SMEs on September 1, 2027. We check with you what your tool needs to produce. Can we connect Claude, Copilot or ChatGPT to the firm’s ERP? Yes, through MCP, an open standard your IT department controls. Every access is approved. Does our clients’ data stay confidential? Yes: hosting of your choice, access rights by engagement, and no model training on your data. Do we keep ownership of the code and data? Yes. The code and data stay with you, documented: we keep improving the tool with you, or you take it over. SOURCES ## The texts and studies cited on this page. Every figure on the site is sourced. See all our sources. Ministère de l’Économie, Facturation électronique : le calendrier de la réforme. economie.gouv.fr Union européenne, Règlement (UE) 2024/1689 sur l’intelligence artificielle (AI Act), June 13, 2024. eur-lex.europa.eu CNIL, Comment déployer une IA générative ? La CNIL apporte de premières précisions, 2024. cnil.fr LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR PROJECT ## Let’s talk about your firm. Thirty minutes to understand your current tool, and tell you what we would build in its place. Your contact The AI Origin team that runs the projects You talk directly with the people who will run your project, from scoping to go-live. No specific project yet? Start with a hands-on session: everyone brings a real problem and leaves with the AI agent that solves it. See step 3, Bring your teams on board Thank you, we have received your request. We will get back to you to schedule a time. ### Write to us in two lines. Your firm, your current management tool, your deadline. We will get back to you to schedule a time. 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