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Billable work stays billable.

Day rates, retainers, and deliverable-based engagements — Brunell makes sure every hour you sell is captured, priced, and invoiced without chasing the team.

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+18%
Typical uplift in captured billables
Same day
Timesheet compliance after rollout
30 sec
Retainer utilisation snapshot

Consultants sell expertise. Not admin drag.

Partners lose visibility on utilisation, write-offs, and which retainers are actually profitable until the quarter is over.

Timesheets are always late
Billable hours slip through the week; invoicing undervalues the work you already did.
Retainers without a live picture
You sold 40 days — but how many are used, on what, and what’s left to invoice?
SOW deliverables vs reality
Milestones and fixed deliverables need one job view. Email and slides aren’t a system.
Without Brunell · a typical week

💼  Partner pings five consultants for last week’s hours.

📊  Retainer “health” lives in a partner’s head and a deck from Q2.

📋  SOW milestone due Friday — nobody logged the workshop days yet.

💸  Invoice run: rebuild every line from memory and inbox.

You hired thinkers. They became typists.

Your firm’s operating system is a conversation.

Brunell is the AI that knows your clients, engagements, rates, and team — and closes the loop from scoping to cash.

Scope & quote fast
"Proposal for Acme ops review, 25 days at partner rate, 40 at consultant." Professional quote in seconds.
Log time where work happens
"Log 4h on Acme, workshop facilitation, for Priya." No portal, no weekly form guilt.
Retainer & WIP on demand
"Utilisation on Horizon retainer?" Days used, remaining, unbilled WIP — instantly.
With Brunell · same week
What's utilisation on the Horizon retainer this month?
Horizon: 28 of 40 days used, $14,600 WIP unbilled. Two deliverables due next week.
Invoice Acme for all unbilled April work
Invoice INV-2026-019 — $22,400 T&M. PDF ready. Send?
Log 3h for Tom on Horizon, stakeholder interviews
Sent ✓  3h logged. Retainer now at 31 days. $2,250 WIP.
Total time: under a minute. Margin protected.
Consulting workflow

Engagement to invoice —
one thread, zero leakage.

01

Win & scope

Quotes for T&M, fixed fee, or retainer — tasks and rates from how you actually sell.

02

Kick off the engagement

Accepted quote becomes a job; team assigned; budgets locked.

03

Daily billable capture

Chat or quick entry — Brunell nags before utilisation slips.

04

Expenses & subcontractors

Pass-through experts and travel on the job with the right markup.

05

Milestone billing

Fixed deliverables invoiced when you say — time and costs reconciled.

06

Partner dashboards via chat

WIP, utilisation, and overdue — asked in plain English, answered live.

"We recovered billables we didn’t know we were losing. Brunell paid for itself in the first month."

Sarah Okonkwo, Managing Partner — Peak Consulting, Sydney

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