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Simplification
over customization
You can have intuitive and easy OR you can have customized to the exact way youâve been doing things before Monograph BUT you canât have both.
Just like when you work with clients, when you provide more options and decisions, you slow down the process and likely lead to even more subsequent options and decisions.
Weâre asking you to instead, follow our lead and make adjustments to your way of doing things for the sake of simplicity, consistency, and automation.
Add project budgets
Budget projects down to the phase and role levels so we can keep you on budget and profitable.
Staff every week
Adjust staffing plans every Monday morning to stay on time and on budget.
Invoice every month
Invoice monthly so we can ensure you have a predictable and regular cashflow.
Get paid online
No more paper checks, manual tracking, or unpaid invoices; just easier faster payments bookkeeping.
Control less,
empower more
Conventional wisdom in the A&E space suggests that sharing financial info of any kind with your team will distract them at best or lead to a mutiny at worst.
This means that at many firms, only a few people are responsible for the majority of important decisions regarding projects.
This doesnât scale and we couldnât disagree more with this approach. By delegating these tasks, you free up time for yourself and your accountant, allowing you to focus on higher-level priorities like forecasting and improving profitability.
And you empower your decision makers with the information that they need to do their job.
Delegate decisions
Decisions around timelines, staffing, and creation of invoices can be made by project managers to speed up your processes.
Let PMs see budgets
Project managers need access to billable rates and project budgets so they can make smart decisions on timelines and staffing.
Bonus: full transparency
Give everyone access to project budgets and billable rates so they fully grasp the understanding of âtime is moneyâ.
Finances
are for everyone
Managing your firmâs finances doesnât have to be overwhelming.
While you may be tempted to rely on an external bookkeeper or consultant, everyone needs to know how your firm is performing to make good decisions.
With Monograph, youâll receive notifications when project finances are off track and get an easy overview of your firmâs financials each month.
Keeping a pulse on your finances is as simple as checking your Monograph dashboard for key insights that keep your firm on track and profitable.
While you have everything you need in Monograph, your bookkeeper can continue to use Quickbooks to handle the accounting nitty gritty.
View profitability
Check on your business anytime with a very simple chart showing your firm and project profitability.
Stay on budget
Get suggestions on your staffing decisions to keep you on budget.
Regular invoicing
Easily build out your invoices based on time worked to keep your cashflow healthy.
Leave QuickBooks to your accountant
Sync it all to Quickbooks Online, so that your accountant is in the loop and can handle your accounting and tax details.
Actionable insights,
not reports
Our competitors will always have more reports than us. That's by design.
We donât believe you should be spending hours combing through spreadsheets or pivot tables to try and understand your business.
Monograph will tell you what you need to know and when you need to know it.
Relax when everythingâs good
If a project is on time and on budget, we wonât tell you that, because thatâs how itâs supposed to be.
Get alerts when it matters
But if you are running out of work, are over capacity, or have phases that are trending to lose you money, we will absolutely let you know.
Get smarter over time
Next time you build a budget, we'll help you do it profitably with smarter recommendations on phases, roles, timelines, and budgets.