AI is changing how consulting firms win work, staff projects, and protect margins. Not in theory. Right now. These resources cover what actually matters for firm leaders: where AI saves billable hours, where it shifts how you compete, and where it's still more talk than results.
Turning an Operational Discipline Into a Growth Engine
Novigi has an impressive story. Since launching in 2016, they’ve scaled to 550 staff across six offices and two countries, while becoming the fastest-growing professional services firm on the AFR Fast 100 - their story is worth studying.
Tracking Time Off, the Missing Strategic Link in Your Resource Planning
”When new work comes in, we have the right people, ready to go. Winning work and protecting the team, we never have to choose just one.” How often can you confidently say the same? Facing resourcing questions about upcoming projects can sound simple, but if your schedules are built on assumptions and capacity is only estimated, face it, your resource planning is under-engineered!
Projectworks Product Update: January 2026
Happy New Year! To kick things off, we're sharing our new, smoother connection between Schedule, Resourcing, and Forecasting. Plus, do you use our QuickBooks Online or HubSpot integrations? We've added new QBO classes and enabled HubSpot Line Items to create Budgets in Projectworks, saving you valuable billable time.
Resource planning is still one of the most manual, memory-dependent processes in most consulting firms, and it's usually the first thing to break as the firm grows. This post covers where AI is making a practical difference, what it looks like in a real resourcing meeting, and where it's still early.