Industries · Professional Services

Intake, scope, staff, deliver, bill. The gaps between are where hours leak.

Consulting firms, agencies, and managed service providers. Navon handles the coordination between sales, delivery, and finance.

One engagement touches five systems and four functions before the invoice goes out.

HubSpot or Salesforce owns the deal. Jira, Asana, or Monday owns the work. Harvest and a shared drive own time and documents. QuickBooks or NetSuite owns the books, and email carries the hand-offs. The tools are fine. The coordination between them is where the hours leak.

The operating model

Every record enters once. The layer does the walking.

Today each of these systems is wired to the others by a person: re-keying, forwarding, chasing. Navon sits underneath as one coordination layer. A lead, a scope, or a week of time entries enters once, routes itself, and lands in the system that owns it, with the hand-offs logged.

Your systems stay. The re-keying goes.

CRMProject MgmtTime & docsFinanceEmail
Coordination layer
LEAD-882 · Warm introRouted to partner
SOW-214 · New scopeProject opened
Staffing · ENG-2107Team assigned
Every hand-off logged

How the money moves

The engagement lifecycle.

Lead to invoice and renewal. Five stages that today run in five tools, owned by different functions, stitched together by email and Slack.

With Navon, one record carries the engagement end to end. This is where we start.

Advisory-led

What an engagement deploys in professional services.

An operational audit first. Then a scoped mix built for how your firm actually runs: routed intake, automations, and managed AI agents, each inside an approval path.

  • Intake from form, email, or referral; partners and delivery teams install nothing
  • A scoped mix of automations, routed intake, and managed agents, each with a named owner
  • HubSpot, Salesforce, Jira, Asana, QuickBooks, and NetSuite stay the systems of record

Advisory engagements are live across professional services operations today. The platform extends here by design.

Engagement record · Fairview retainer
LEAD-882 · Warm intro
Routed with context pre-pulled
Qualified
SOW-214 · New scope
Draft assembled from past work
Partner review
Time entries · Week 27
Chased and rolled up
Complete
Renewal · RET-77
Surfaced 60 days out
Owner notified
Every hand-off logged · HubSpot + QuickBooks stay synced
Where automation lands

Six workflows we automate first.

Identified by your partners and practice leads. Each one replaces something a person is doing manually, work that has been quietly eating billable hours. Pick one to see it as it runs.

Lead intake and qualification

Inbound from form, email, referral, and warm intro. Classified, enriched, routed to the right partner or practice lead with the context pre-pulled. Nothing sits in a shared inbox.

ReplacesManual triage across CRM and email

Lead intake queue
LEAD-889 · Warm intro
Context pre-pulled
Routed to partner
LEAD-891 · Website form
Enriched + classified
Qualified
LEAD-893 · Referral
Practice fit unclear
Partner review
Where Navon fits

Advisory leads. Automations do the work. The platform hosts it.

For professional services firms, here is what each practice line looks like.

Advisory

Operator-to-operator.

Interviews with partners, practice leads, delivery managers, and finance. Intake-to-bill walk-throughs. Written findings, phased plan, and sign-off from the partners who own the work before anything gets built.

AI automations & agents

Intake, staffing, billing.

Lead intake and qualification. Scope and proposal prep. Staffing and utilization. Time and status collection. Billing coordination. Renewal and expansion signals. Each scoped discretely, sequenced by impact on billable hours. Where the work justifies it, managed agents carry a flow end to end, always inside an approval path with a named owner.

Platform

The layer it grows into.

As the automations compound, the platform consolidates them into one governed layer: leads, scopes, staffing, time, invoices, and renewals in one place with structured ownership, and Nova, the operations assistant, working inside it. It is live in construction operations today and architected to extend here. Runs in your cloud, your VPC, or fully local. Your existing systems stay.

See where this lands inside your firm.

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FAQ

Professional services questions.

The operational questions partners ask before the first call.

We are a [consulting firm / agency / MSP]. Does this fit?

Yes. The shape of the coordination problem is very similar across consulting firms, agencies, and managed service providers: intake, scope, staff, deliver, bill, renew. Tools vary (HubSpot vs Salesforce, Jira vs Asana, Harvest vs Clockify), but the gaps between sales and delivery are universal. The automations map to those gaps, not to a specific toolchain.

How does this work with HubSpot, Jira, Asana, or whatever we already run?

Navon sits on top of your existing stack. It pulls from and writes to whatever you run, and handles the coordination between sales, delivery, and finance that those tools were never designed to own. No rip-and-replace.

What about utilization and partner economics?

Utilization rollups, partner P&L by engagement, and practice health are exactly the kinds of operational views most firms rebuild by hand every month. Those rollups are a natural fit for the platform.

We bill hourly, on retainer, and fixed-fee. Does that complicate things?

No. Most client-services operations mix all three. The billing automations are built to handle the three cases and surface exceptions (over-run, under-billed, scope creep) before they hit the client invoice.

What does a first engagement look like?

An operational audit scoped to your firm: interviews with partners, practice leads, delivery managers, and finance. Walk-throughs of the intake-to-bill flow. At the end, a written picture of where hours leak and a phased plan for what to automate first.

Where does our data live?

Wherever it has to. HubSpot, Salesforce, Jira, Asana, Harvest, QuickBooks, and NetSuite stay the systems of record where they are today. The Navon layer runs in your cloud, in your VPC, or fully local, depending on your requirements, and that is decided during the evaluation, not retrofitted later.

Ready to see this inside your firm?

Start with a conversation. We walk through how your firm runs today and where the gaps are worth fixing first.