Project Management Software for Consulting

The leak isn't the work, it's the logging

A consulting firm's real product is hours sold at a rate, and the single biggest threat to margin usually isn't scope creep or a difficult client, it's the hour a consultant worked and never wrote down, because the timesheet app was a separate tab and Friday afternoon got busy.

The usual fix is a stricter timesheet policy, chased by whoever runs operations. That produces resentment roughly proportional to how well it works, and it still arrives after the billing cycle has already closed, which means the correction, if it ever comes, corrects nothing.

ShipSprint puts logging next to the task itself instead of in a separate system, so the hour gets captured while it's still fresh rather than reconstructed from memory two weeks later. That's what project management for consulting should mean in practice.

What an unlogged hour actually costs

Take a mid-level consultant billed at a modest rate, losing even three or four hours a week to logging that happens late, badly, or not at all. Multiplied across a bench of fifteen, that's real revenue walking out the door every month, not because anyone did less work, but because the record of it never existed.

The fix isn't a stricter policy memo. It's making the honest path also the fast one, which is what logging next to the task, in five seconds, is for.

Findings that don't live in one analyst's head

Consulting work generates a huge amount of context, client interviews, working hypotheses, discarded approaches, the reasoning behind a recommendation, that traditionally lives in someone's notebook or a folder of docs nobody reopens after the deck ships. When that person rolls off the engagement, the context usually leaves with them.

ShipSprint's wiki keeps that material next to the engagement it belongs to, with page history so you can see how a finding evolved, and turns any sentence into a task the moment it needs one, so a follow-up doesn't get lost between the notes and the plan. The next analyst staffed on a repeat engagement inherits the context instead of starting the discovery over.

What an engagement actually looks like inside ShipSprint

A new client signs, and the engagement lead sets up a board sized to the actual team assigned, not an optimistic plan. A change request that arrives mid-engagement lands in triage rather than getting nodded through in a client call and forgotten by everyone except the client. Each consultant logs time against the task they just closed, so by Friday the week's hours are already sitting in the system rather than waiting to be reconstructed.

Four weeks in, the forecast, built from how fast this specific team has actually been closing tasks, flags that the final deliverable is trending a week late. That's still time to add capacity or renegotiate the date, instead of finding out from the client first, which is the version of this conversation nobody wants to have.

What the leak is actually worth

A fifteen-person consulting team billing an average of ₹4,000 an hour, where each consultant under-logs even ninety minutes a week, is quietly writing off roughly ₹390,000 a month in unbilled time, work that happened and was simply never recorded. Business, for the same fifteen people, costs about ₹9,000 a month.

You don't need to recover all of it. Recovering a tenth of that leak pays for the tool for the rest of the year.

Delivery, ops and finance, one subscription

A consulting firm isn't only its client-facing teams. Business development is chasing proposals, operations is staffing the bench, and finance is trying to close out billing on time. Templates for each side sit in one subscription rather than a separate tool per function, so the firm's back office and its delivery teams share one source of truth about what's actually happening.

ShipSprint also connects to Claude and ChatGPT, so a partner can ask which engagements are behind forecast this month in plain language instead of pulling a report together.

The pipeline is work too, even before it's billable

A proposal in draft, a pitch deck being revised, a scoping call that needs a follow-up, none of it is billable yet, but all of it competes for the same people's time as the engagements that are. Most tools treat pre-sale work as informal, tracked in someone's head or a personal to-do list, which is exactly the work that gets dropped when a client engagement gets loud.

Business development runs on its own board in the same subscription as delivery, so a partner chasing three proposals at once can see them next to the engagements already running, and staff a new engagement against a bench that's visibly, not theoretically, available.

Not a way to audit your consultants

No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, only delivered work and hours logged by the person who logged them. Scorecards are leave-adjusted and visible to the consultant they describe, which matters on a bench where billable utilisation already feels closely watched enough.

Starting with one engagement, not the whole firm

The easiest way to see whether this fits is to run one active engagement through it, set up the board, log real hours for two weeks, and compare what the system shows against what the engagement lead would have reported from memory. The gap between the two is usually where the case gets made, one way or the other.

The Free plan covers exactly that scale. Rolling out to the rest of the bench, once it holds up, is a subscription change, not a new tool everyone has to be onboarded to from scratch.

What it costs

• Free covers up to 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough to run one small engagement before rolling it out further.
• Team is ₹299 per user per month (₹2,899 a year), up to 40 users, most boutique firms fit inside that.
• Business is ₹599 per user per month (₹6,499 a year) and adds forecasts, scorecards and the command center across every engagement.
• Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, a sample project preloaded, no card needed. See pricing.