For founders & partners of professional services firms
Unbillable is a fixed-fee AI tools assessment for founders and partners of professional services firms. Across a 45-minute diagnosis and a 45-minute review, you get a plain-English prescription: the three to seven tools most likely to reclaim five to ten hours a week. £495, backed by our five-hours-found guarantee.
01 — The problem
Proposals rewritten from scratch. Meeting notes typed at midnight. WIP chased by hand. You know AI should fix this — but a fifty-hour week leaves no time to work out how, so the unbillable load quietly grows while the firms that moved first pull ahead. And every one of those hours consumes capacity at your rate, whether or not a client pays for it.
Run your numbers
Adjust both inputs. Most founders know their rate; the harder number is the time that disappears into evenings, follow-ups and repeated admin.
Capacity tied up
At your inputs, that is £3,000 of founder or partner capacity every working week — time unavailable for clients, sales or the team.
Reclaim even half and that is £1,500 a week back. The £495 fee is covered by the first 1.7 hours you recover.
Based on 47 working weeks · illustrative capacity, not a revenue forecast
The expensive part is rarely the software. It is the partner time spent choosing badly — or not choosing at all.
Where the hours go — pick your field
*Illustrative time estimates, not an industry average or a revenue forecast — use the calculator above for your own figures.
02 — How it works
Think of it as a doctor’s appointment for your diary: we listen, diagnose where the hours go, and write the prescription — named tools, not theory. No discovery workshops. No transformation roadmap. No jargon to decode.
A recorded, structured 45-minute conversation about where your week actually goes. Our favourite question: if you could wave a magic wand and delete one process from your firm, which goes first? (Nine times in ten: email.) No preparation required.
We take the transcript apart line by line and map every time sink against a tested library of hundreds of tools — many not even AI, just quietly excellent software you didn’t know existed — each checked against your practice systems, your team and your compliance constraints.
Deliberately short. Every recommendation reads the same way: the pain point, the tool that fixes it, what it costs a month, how long it takes to set up, the hours it hands back. Then a four-day quick-start plan and the return in pounds — your pounds, at your rate.
A second call to walk the report through together. You leave knowing exactly what to switch on Monday morning, in what order — and whether you’d rather do it yourself or have it done with you.
See the deliverable
A short walkthrough will show how the diagnosis becomes a ranked prescription: what we found, why each tool made the cut, what could go wrong, and what to switch on first.
An hour is either billable or it isn’t.
Our job is to delete the second kind.
Jim Tindill · Founder
03 — What you get
A confused mind doesn’t implement — so this is not a forty-page strategy deck. Ten pages, one instruction at a time, each priced in the two currencies you actually care about: pounds and hours.
You start in the top-left quadrant. Most clients have their first tool live within a day of the review call.
An illustrative matrix showing how recommendations are prioritised. Replace with a redacted client example before launch.
Inside the report · illustrative sample
Placeholder proofRecommendation 02 · Meeting follow-through
The partner currently spends roughly 2.5 hours a week reconstructing conversations and chasing promised actions. The recommendation pairs an approved meeting assistant with a standard follow-up template, while keeping client consent and data retention explicit.
The prescription
Every tool is scored against the firm, not the market. A high score can still carry a launch condition; here, consent and retention controls must be agreed before client use.
Illustrative format and figures only. Replace this panel with a redacted, verified client recommendation before public launch.
Illustrative client story
Replace before launchEight-person accountancy practice · North West England
In this example, the assessment finds three repeatable drains on partner time: missing-record chasers, meeting follow-ups and proposal drafting. Three off-the-shelf tools are sequenced over four days, with no practice-management migration and no client data used during setup.
“For the first time, we had a short list we trusted and a clear order to implement it.”
Placeholder testimonial · Finance partner
This is deliberately marked as placeholder evidence. Swap in verified figures and an approved client quote when the first case study is ready.
The Unbillable guarantee
If your assessment doesn’t identify at least five specific, feasible hours a week to reclaim, we refund the fee in full — every penny, no forms, no quibble. Every estimate shows the process behind it, the change required and the assumptions used, so “found” never means a hopeful number pulled from the air.
04 — Plain terms
The report is written for self-implementation, with a four-day quick-start plan and a named owner for every action. If you would rather have it built with you, implementation is available after the assessment — never bundled in before you know what you need.
Twelve places a month — first come, first assessed.
A useful disqualification
Unbillable is deliberately narrow. That makes it useful for the right firm and poor value for the wrong one.
We produce a practical tool prescription, not a transformation deck, keynote or twelve-month roadmap.
We are independent and may recommend a simpler product—or no new software at all.
A recommendation without a named person and a small pilot is just another document. We will not pretend otherwise.
If you will share where the week really goes and test one workflow at a time, this is built for you.
Every recommendation is independent — no reseller agreements, no commissions, no kickbacks.
05 — Your adviser
Unbillable was founded by Jim Tindill, a seasoned entrepreneur who has also worked as a business consultant at one of the UK’s leading trade agencies. He has advised founder-led businesses from the outside and built them from the inside — so every recommendation is judged by whether a busy owner will actually use it.
An hour is either billable or it isn’t. Our job is to delete the second kind.Jim Tindill · Founder, Unbillable
Questions
If you founded or hold equity in a professional services firm — law, accountancy, consultancy, architecture, recruitment, agency, financial planning — and your own hours are the constraint on growth, yes. Our sweet spot is founder-led firms of two to fifty people.
Most of our clients do — and barely one firm in twenty uses anything beyond it. ChatGPT isn’t the gap. The gap is knowing which three to seven of ten thousand tools fit your matters, your clients and your compliance obligations — many of the best aren’t famous, and several aren’t even AI. Naming them is exactly what the assessment does.
Central to every recommendation. We flag where data sits, what each vendor’s retention terms are, and which tools clear the bar for regulated work — and we’ll never prescribe a tool your professional body or insurer would wince at.
No. Unbillable is independent — no reseller agreements, no affiliate fees. Most tools we prescribe cost under £50 a month, and they’re recommended purely because they work.
You leave the review call with a four-day quick-start plan written for self-implementation. Roughly half our clients ask us to build it with them — and if you do, the full £495 is credited against the work.
Simply. If the report doesn’t identify at least five reclaimable hours a week across your firm, say so at the review call and the £495 comes back in full. No forms, no partial credit, no quibble.
Forty-five minutes · five hours a week · £495, guaranteed
Assessments are delivered personally, not by a team — twelve places per month.
Answers are AI-generated. For anything specific, email hello@unbillable.co.uk.
