Use case Professional services

Timesheet capture and billing reconciliation, automated

Hours reconciled against deliverables, anomalies flagged, and a draft invoice with supporting detail waiting for finance at cycle close.

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The problem

Firms under bill routinely through unlogged hours, mismatched timesheet categories and late invoicing. Finance loses days each month reconciling time logs against deliverables, chasing consultants for missing timesheets, and assembling invoices by hand. Then clients dispute line items that have no supporting detail behind them.

What gets built

An automation that runs at billing cycle close, pulls time tracked against tasks per project and per person, and uses Claude to reconcile those hours against the deliverable categories, flag the anomalies such as unlogged days, over running categories and unallocated time, and generate a draft invoice with detailed line items and a supporting timesheet summary. Finance reviews and approves in one pass before it goes to the client.

How it connects

The chain, end to end

Every piece sits where your business already works. Nothing here asks your people to open a new tool.

ExtractClickUpTime logged against tasks, by project and by person.
ReconcileClaudeHours matched to deliverable categories, anomalies flagged.
DraftAccounting platformA draft invoice with line items and supporting detail.
ApproveFinance reviewOne review pass, with the exceptions already surfaced.
SendEmailInvoice delivered, billing exceptions alerted to finance.
Instruments in this build
Claude
ClickUp
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Definition of done

What finished looks like

We name the finish line before we start, so there is no argument later about whether it landed.

  • A draft invoice generated for every active client within the cycle close window.
  • Time entries categorised and matched to deliverable line items without manual sorting.
  • Anomalies flagged with the specific detail finance needs to judge them.
  • Invoices leaving with supporting detail attached, so line items are not disputed blind.
Start here

Start with a translation, not a tool

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