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Everything your delivery team runs on.

Clients and the contracts you signed with them, effective-dated rate cards with version numbers so approved hours keep their rate, projects that carry the contract's budget, a task plan with estimates and dependencies, the people assigned to each one, the hours they book against it — and what the job actually made, on a real double-entry ledger. One system, one login, any browser.

No installation · Works on any device · Interface in English, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian and Uzbek — translations still being reviewed

Public pricing: one price, every module included

From a signed contract to an accepted deliverable

01EstimateJob role x hours x the rate card, with version numbers, marked sent and then accepted.
02ContractFixed price, time and materials, retainer or milestone, with its own currency, value, PO number and budget hours.
03PlanPhases, tasks with estimates and dependencies, and the people assigned to each with an allocation percentage.
04TimesheetThe week entered against tasks, billable flagged, approved by a manager and locked once it has been billed.
05UnbilledHours and expenses that have not reached an invoice yet — and, separately, the ones that quietly never will.
06ProfitCost against bill per project, client and person, budget against actual, and an estimate to complete.
Every stage above is a module you already have — the invoice, the payment against it and the credit note included.
45Modules included
5Interface languages
∞Companies per account
0Software to install

Why one system

The parts that decide whether a project makes money.

Contract record for a fixed-price engagement: billing model, currency, value and rate card, its PO number, budget, owner and dates, and the projects run under it.

The contract knows its own shape

Billing model, currency, value, budget hours, PO number, dates and owner live on the contract record — not in whichever version of the SOW somebody last emailed.

Edit-rate-card form: name, currency, version number, the date the card takes effect, its status, and whether it is the default card for that currency.

Rates survive a price change

Rate cards are effective-dated per job role and currency and carry version numbers, and approved hours keep the rate they were approved at — and one project can still be given an override without touching the card.

One consultant's weekly timesheet: hours per project per day, non-billable hours marked NB, then each entry with its billable flag and Approved status.

The week is a grid, not an email

Hours are entered against the task they were worked on, flagged billable or not, sent up for approval, and locked once they have been billed — so a timesheet cannot be edited after the number it produced has left the building.

Resource planner: each person and job role down the side, eight weeks across, their planned allocation per week and their peak.

Who is on what, and until when

Assignments carry an allocation percentage and a date range per person. The resource planner shows the same thing week by week, with who is over-allocated and who is on the bench, against a utilisation target.

Profitability by project: hours, revenue, cost, margin, margin percentage and effective rate for each project, with its non-billable hours and the overall margin.

Whether the project made money

Budget against actual in hours and money, profitability per project, client and person on dated cost rates, an estimate to complete, and a leakage report for work that was done and never billed.

Fiscal periods: the ledger enabled with automatic posting, and each month open or closed, with Close and Reopen beside it.

The ledger is real double-entry

Chart of accounts, journal entries with reversals, trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet — inside fiscal periods you can close and lock.

Inside the system

What is on the screen today.

Every project, and the contract behind it

Each row carries its project number, the contract it is delivered under, the manager responsible, its status and the date it starts. The project with a dash where a manager should be is the one nobody has picked up — visible here rather than discovered in a status meeting.

Contract Manager Status Start date Filter by either
psa01.ineed.now/c/northwind-consulting/projects
Project list showing project number, name, the contract each project sits under, its manager, status badge and start date, with filters for contract and status above.

The plan, in the state it is actually in

To do, in progress, blocked and done, with a count on each column. Every card names the person it belongs to and the hours it was estimated at, and moves by pressing the state it should be in — the same tasks are a filterable list when a board is the wrong shape for the question.

Kanban Assignee Estimated hours Blocked Done
psa01.ineed.now/c/northwind-consulting/projects
Task board with To do, In progress, Blocked and Done columns; each card shows the task name, the person assigned and the estimated hours.

What you actually signed

Contract number, client, billing model and value in the contract's own currency, next to a status that distinguishes a draft from an active engagement from a closed one. Fixed price, time and materials, retainer and milestone all sit on the same register.

Billing model Currency and value Draft Active Closed
psa01.ineed.now/c/northwind-consulting/contracts
Contract list showing contract number, name, client, billing model, value in euro and a status badge reading Draft, Active or Closed.

Who you have, and how much of them

Employees and subcontractors on one list with their job role, their contracted hours a week and the share of those hours that is meant to be billable. Skills, dated cost rates and current assignments sit one click deeper, on the person's own record.

Employees Subcontractors Job roles Weekly capacity Billable target
psa01.ineed.now/c/northwind-consulting/people
People list showing each person's number, name, email, job role, whether they are an employee or a subcontractor, their weekly capacity with billable target, and status.

Everything included

45 modules. No tiers, no add-ons.

Every module below is part of the same system. You decide which ones each member of staff can open — the list is not a price sheet.

Delivery 9 modules

Clients

Directory · Contacts · Billing details · Payment terms

Contracts

Fixed price · Time & materials · Retainer · Milestone · Rate card

Rate Cards

Version numbers · Per job role · Multi-currency · Project overrides

Projects

Phases · Budget hours · Manager · Status · Assignments

Tasks & Plan

Estimates · Dependencies · Kanban board · Assignees

Milestones & Deliverables

Contract milestones · Deliverables · Acceptance

Project Templates

Repeatable phase and task skeletons · Capture from a project · Dependencies

Issues & Risks

Risk register · Likelihood and impact · Issue log

Notes

Rich text pages, nested · Private, or shared with the company · Search, tags and starred pages

People & Capacity 6 modules

People

Employees & subcontractors · Job roles · Skills · Cost rates · Capacity

Assignments

Person to project · Allocation percent · Date ranges

Resource Planner

Week-by-week board · Over and under allocation

Utilization

Billable vs non-billable vs bench · Against target

Leave & Availability

Leave requests · Approval

Departments

Department directory

Time & Expense 3 modules

Timesheets

Weekly grid · Per-task entry · Billable flag

Time Approvals

Approve, reject, reopen · Lock after invoicing

Expenses

Receipts · Categories · Markup percent · Rebillable

Billing & Revenue 6 modules

Invoices

From approved hours · Lines, discount & tax · Mark sent, part-pay & settle · Void or credit · Recurring schedules

Payments

Recorded against the invoice · Method & reference · Updates the balance · Per-currency register

Credit Notes

Credit a settled invoice · Partial credits · Reverses the sale in the ledger

Retainers

Manual billing periods · Drawdown against balance

WIP & Unbilled

Unbilled hours per project · Value in the contract currency · Age of the oldest hour

Receivables

Aging

Financial Control 4 modules

Budget vs Actual

Hours and money · Per project, phase hours

Profitability

Cost vs bill · Per project, client, person

Forecast & ETC

Estimate to complete · Revenue forecast

Leakage

Worked but not billed

Sales & Contracts 3 modules

Opportunities

Intake · Lead source · Weighted pipeline

Estimates

Role x hours x rate card · Versions · Mark sent & accepted

Change Requests

Scope change · Re-pricing against the contract

Client Portal 2 modules

Client Portal

Progress · Approved timesheets · Invoices · Documents · Portal access

Status Reports

Generated figures · Written narrative · Client sign-off

Accounting 4 modules

Chart of Accounts

Ledger accounts · Types · System roles

Journal

Entries · Manual entries · Reversals

Financial Statements

Trial balance · P&L · Balance sheet

Fiscal Periods

Monthly periods · Close & lock

Reporting & Analytics 2 modules

Dashboard

Active contracts · Projects by status · Unstaffed projects

Reports

Revenue & collections · Expenses by category · Date ranges · CSV export

Management & Security 6 modules

Users & Roles

Role labels · Department access · Module grants

Documents

Contracts · Private disk

Announcements

Announcements

Events & Calendar

Holidays

API & Integrations

Payment gateway (coming soon) · SMS provider (coming soon) · Email sender (coming soon) · Webhooks (coming soon)

Settings

Address and phone · Base currency · Exchange rates · Timezone

What this system costs

How it works

Your companies, your rates, your rules.

Nothing to install

It runs in a browser — a desk in the studio, a laptop at the client's office, a phone between meetings. We host, back up and update it; you open a URL and log in.

Permissions that mean something

Access is granted per module, per company and per department, and checked on every page and every action — a module someone was not given is refused, not just hidden from the menu.

Your language, your words

The software interface switches into Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian and Uzbek as well as English — the dictionaries are complete on every screen, though we have not yet had a native speaker read them all. The wording lives in those dictionaries rather than in the code, so when a label does not match the words your team uses, we change it without waiting for a release.

Grows with the group

One account can hold several companies — each with its own base currency, timezone and fiscal periods, on one login. Ask us and we add the next one to the same account.

Documents where they belong

Documents attached to a client or an invoice are stored on a private disk rather than a public folder, reachable only through the app and under the same per-module permissions.

Already running

The forty-five modules listed above are shipped and live today — the contract, the rate card, the project plan, the people on it, the timesheet, the client expense marked up and re-billed, the invoice raised from the approved hours, the payment and credit note against it, the profitability it produces and the ledger underneath. Only the integrations marked coming soon are still on their way.

See it with your own contracts. Now.

Tell us how you deliver today — how many people, how many live projects, whether you bill fixed price or by the hour — and we will show you the system running on your own shape of work, and what is still being built.

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What this system costs