How does Pike measure utilisation?

Against each person's contracted hours, with capacity reduced on days of approved or pending time off. Billability, the billable share of logged hours, sits next to it.

Can we plan staffing from the pipeline?

Yes. Create pipeline work as proposed projects and book people on them. Proposed bookings show on the capacity grid beside confirmed work, and reports can include or exclude them.

Can rates differ by client or engagement?

Yes. Positions carry a default rate, and you can override it per project or per person on a project. Tasks inherit the rate from the project.

Do you support multiple currencies?

Yes. Set a currency per project from over twenty. Reporting converts everything to your workspace's base currency.

How is client data protected?

Pike is ISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 Type II, and GDPR compliant. Private projects are visible only to their members and workspace admins, down to the API.

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Pike connects pipeline, staffing, hours, and margin on one engagement record. Partners see utilisation and profit per client this week, not at quarter close.

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Firm dashboard in Pike with revenue, gross margin, utilisation, and margin per client

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Where consulting margin slips

Rates are set in the proposal. What the firm keeps depends on who you staff, how many hours they bill, and how fast you see it.

Bench time you learn about late

A consultant rolls off an engagement on Friday with nothing booked. Partners find out from the utilisation report a month later.

Staffing from memory

The right person for a data migration is whoever the engagement manager remembers. Skills, rates, and availability live in three places.

Engagement margin in a spreadsheet

Finance rebuilds engagement profitability each quarter from timesheet exports and payroll. By then the engagement is over.

Staffing

Staff by skill, rate, and availability

Filter people by skill and position, then see the effect on their capacity as you book them.

Book pipeline work as proposed, so you plan the bench before the proposal is signed.

Staffing a consultant on an engagement, filtered by skill, with the capacity impact shown

Positions with default billing rates and a project rate override

Rate cards by role

Positions carry a default billing rate. Override it per project or per person when an engagement is priced differently.

Real hourly cost

Salary and contracted hours become an hourly cost per consultant, with overhead added. Raises apply from their date.

Utilisation

Utilisation and margin, every week

Utilisation comes from contracted hours and logged time. Margin comes from rates and real cost.

Partners open one view for utilisation, billability, and profit per client, filtered by team or practice.

Utilisation by consultant next to margin per client

Who uses it

One workspace for the whole firm

Each role opens Pike to the numbers it answers for.

Partner

Firm-wide margin, pipeline, and utilisation, filtered by practice or client.

Engagement manager

Budget burn, staffing, and the hours your team logged this week.

Consultant

Your engagements, your tasks, and a timesheet you submit once a week.

Questions from consulting firms

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The features behind this page

Resourcing & capacity

See capacity at a glance, soft-book tentative work, and staff roles with placeholders.

Dashboards

The state of your business on one screen, filtered any way you ask.

Finance & invoicing

Live margin by client, project, and team, with invoices that flow to your bookkeeping.

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ISO 27001
GDPR
SOC 2 Type II

Built to keep sensitive client data secure and private.

Industries · Consulting firms

Staff the engagement
and know what it earns

Pike connects pipeline, staffing, hours, and margin on one engagement record. Partners see utilisation and profit per client this week, not at quarter close.

Contact sales

Sound familiar