KEEL is professional services automation for consulting firms and system integrators. It runs each engagement from the commercial statement of work through staffing, timesheets and approvals to invoice readiness, and shows margin, utilization and forecast in real time. Every number drills down to the timesheet line that explains it.
Most firms find out an engagement lost money when the invoice is already late. The causes were visible weeks earlier, in different systems.
The SOW was priced on one staffing plan and delivered on a different one. Nobody compared the two until the margin report.
Hours beyond what the client authorized are discovered when finance tries to invoice them.
Time is billed that the client never approved, or that has no client time record behind it.
Retainer hours run past the cap and are absorbed instead of raised.
The dashboard and the forecast spreadsheet are built separately and disagree.
The signed SOW's legal language no longer matches the commercial terms the team is delivering against.
Each capability has its own page with the detail.
Sections, a weekly staffing grid and the SOW's own rate sheet, approved by the engagement lead, managing director and finance before anything reaches the client.
A frozen staffing forecast with numbered revisions, timesheets approved row by row, and time-and-materials weeks approved by the client in the portal.
Every billable line names what is blocking it, and leakage is counted in dollars: over-cap retainer hours, overruns and unsupported time.
Planned value, actuals, backlog and forecast landing by account and practice, each drilling to the person, the week and the timesheet line.
Every screen and instruction starts from the role that needs it.
Owns the book of accounts, approves commercial SOWs, owns the firm rate card with finance, and reads the executive dashboard.
Creates the account, authors the commercial SOW, builds the staffing plan and approves team timesheets.
Approves anything with money in it, owns invoice readiness, revenue leakage and exports.
Enters time and sees allocation remaining. Never sees rates or margin.
Approves time row by row, signs SOWs and change requests, accepts milestones and reads status reports. Never sees cost or margin.
No. KEEL produces invoice-ready lines and exports them; a QuickBooks integration is available. There is no rip-and-replace.
Lexara. KEEL owns the commercial SOW; once the lead, managing director and finance have approved it, Lexara drafts the legal language and sends it for signature.
Yes. On time-and-materials work, the engagement lead's approval sends the week to the client, who approves it row by row in the client portal.
Yes. Upload an existing SOW; it lands in review mode, you correct the extracted fields, and confirming it creates the account, engagement and staffing plan.
Managing directors, engagement leads and finance leaders at consulting firms, strategy and advisory practices and system integrators that run on services.
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Sections, a weekly staffing grid and the SOW's own rate sheet, approved by the engagement lead, managing director and finance before anything reaches the client.
Planned value, actuals, backlog and forecast landing by account and practice, each drilling to the person, the week and the timesheet line.
KEEL owns the commercial SOW. Lexara drafts the legal language and handles signature, so scope, contract and billing form one chain.
Load one SOW and its timesheets. KEEL shows the drift and the exact rows behind it.
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