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Professional services. Revenue: time worked but written off or never paid.

Grip reads timesheets, engagement letters and invoices, client by client, and names the billed time clients will not pay, in AED.

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USD 104.7 millionA US consulting firm's reserve for client bills it may never collect, end 2025.
Proven at FTI Consulting

Source: FTI Consulting, Inc., Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025. FTI carried an allowance for expected credit losses of USD 104.7 million against USD 764.2 million billed and USD 378.1 million unbilled receivables, after a USD 42.8 million provision and USD 31.1 million of write-offs in 2025.

3 workflows

Where we start.

9 of 51 changes other professional services companies made. Open one to see the company.

01

Price and margin

Write-offs estimated monthly, success fees tracked, insurance priced into fees.

ReadsInvoice and credit note historyEngagement letters and fee estimatesEngagement letters, timesheets by engagementInvoices and success-fee receipts
Estimate each month how much billed time clients will not pay, and name who agreed.
Proven at FTI Consulting

Source: FTI Consulting, Inc., Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025.

List every fee paid only on success, and what that work has earned so far.
Proven at FTI Consulting

Source: FTI Consulting, Inc., Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025.

Build the cost of indemnity insurance into your price, since it rises with your audit fees.
Backed by research

Source: UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism, Ministerial Resolution No. (111) of 2022 on the controls for professional liability insurance of auditors (Arabic).

02

Cash and working capital

Filing season billed as delivered, contingent cases and retention loans reviewed.

ReadsMonthly aged debtorsEngagement letters with billing termsMatter list with fee basisTimesheets by matter
Bill each tax return or audit as it is delivered, so receivables do not peak when cash is tightest.
Proven at CBIZ

Source: CBIZ, Inc., Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025.

List each no-win case with its costs so far and years to a result, and choose which to fund outside.
Proven at Gateley Plc

Source: Gateley (Holdings) Plc, Annual report and financial statements 2026 (year ended 30 April 2026).

List every loan and retention payment to senior people against the fees each one brings in, before renewing any.
Proven at FTI Consulting

Source: FTI Consulting, Inc., Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025.

03

Sales and demand

Audit files graded early, yearly advice turned into subscriptions.

ReadsInternal file review reportsRegulator inspection lettersMinistry licence and registration datesSecurities regulator approval letters
Grade your own audit files the way regulators would, before a client asks you to.
Backed by research

Source: Financial Reporting Council (UK), Annual Review of Audit Quality 2026.

List which clients your licence lets you audit now, and plan for the rest.
Backed by research

Source: UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism, Federal Decree-Law No. 41 of 2023 Regulating the Accounting and Auditing Profession (Arabic text as published by the Ministry).

Turn advice clients buy every year into a subscription, and track how much fee repeats.
Proven at Information Services Group

Source: Information Services Group, Inc. (ISG), Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025.

The money at stake.

Public figures, each with its company and year. An estimate is marked.

USD 3.4 billion

A US consulting company's unfinished contracted work at end 2025.

Proven at ICF International

Source: ICF International, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (filed 27 February 2026). ICF's total backlog fell to USD 3,405.0 million at December 2025 from USD 3,786.3 million, and the unfunded part is its own estimate, based on the customer, past use of contract capacity and the assumption that recent revenue on a contract will continue.

USD 1.3 billion

A US research company's cash generated from operations in 2025.

Backed by research

Source: Gartner, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (filed 12 February 2026). Gartner's subscriptions are mostly paid in advance, which drives its operating cash; operating cash fell to $1.3 billion in 2025 from $1.5 billion mainly because 2024 included $300.0 million of event cancellation insurance proceeds.

Grip at work

What your Grip looks like.

A sample company, in AED. Yours is built from your own files.

Each value pocket, the place where money sits, opens its project, its tool and its AI agents. Sample figures.

What we stand on
01Money first

Every project shows the revenue, cost or cash it is worth, in your currency, from your own files, before you agree to it.

02Every project has proof

Every project runs on a client's Grip, was designed on our own Grip, or comes from a play a named company published, with the document we read it in.

03Your systems as they are

We read the systems you already use. Nothing to move, replace or clean up first.

04Value and money found in 2 weeks

A two-week pilot on one department, your first project live and its money delivered by Day 30, then one fixed monthly fee.

Questions

What professional services companies ask first.

Three answers, each with one public figure, its company and its document.

Question 1How can AI reduce written-off time in professional services?

AI reads timesheets, engagement letters and invoices, client by client, and names the billed time clients will not pay, in AED. For scale: USD 104.7 million, A US consulting firm's reserve for client bills it may never collect, end 2025 (FTI Consulting).

USD 104.7 millionA US consulting firm's reserve for client bills it may never collect, end 2025.
Proven at FTI Consulting

Source: FTI Consulting, Inc., Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025. FTI carried an allowance for expected credit losses of USD 104.7 million against USD 764.2 million billed and USD 378.1 million unbilled receivables, after a USD 42.8 million provision and USD 31.1 million of write-offs in 2025.

Question 2What does an AI transformation programme in professional services start with?

It starts with the revenue, cost and cash you are losing today, read from the systems you already use. One workflow goes first, usually price and margin, read from invoice and credit note history and engagement letters and fee estimates. For scale: USD 3.4 billion, A US consulting company's unfinished contracted work at end 2025 (ICF International).

USD 3.4 billionA US consulting company's unfinished contracted work at end 2025.
Proven at ICF International

Source: ICF International, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (filed 27 February 2026). ICF's total backlog fell to USD 3,405.0 million at December 2025 from USD 3,786.3 million, and the unfunded part is its own estimate, based on the customer, past use of contract capacity and the assumption that recent revenue on a contract will continue.

Question 3How fast do professional services companies see results from AI?

A two-week pilot on one department finds the value and money in your own data before you commit. Your first project goes live, and its money is delivered, by Day 30. For scale: USD 1.3 billion, A US research company's cash generated from operations in 2025 (Gartner, Inc., 2025).

USD 1.3 billionA US research company's cash generated from operations in 2025.
Backed by research

Source: Gartner, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (filed 12 February 2026). Gartner's subscriptions are mostly paid in advance, which drives its operating cash; operating cash fell to $1.3 billion in 2025 from $1.5 billion mainly because 2024 included $300.0 million of event cancellation insurance proceeds.

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Tell us what you want to fix. In a two-week pilot we find the value and money before you commit.

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