Lead → client pipeline
Pipeline with stages, owners, capacity and forecast.
Professional Services
Agencies · Consultancies · Studios
Client operations platforms that replace email-driven account work with a structured pipeline from lead to delivery.
Professional services firms run on people and goodwill. As the team grows, accounts spread across inboxes, decks and shared drives. We build the operating system that turns that into a repeatable process.
Common operational problems
Where the manual operation breaks.
The patterns we see most often in this industry — and the ones our platforms are designed to replace.
Client work in inboxes
Briefs, approvals and feedback scattered across email.
Spreadsheet pipelines
Deals tracked manually, with no view of capacity or stage.
Manual project handoffs
Sales → delivery handoffs lose context every time.
Untracked billable work
Time, scope and change orders captured after the fact.
No portfolio visibility
Leadership can't see margin or health by client until quarter-end.
Systems Visileo builds
What we ship for this industry.
Each is a custom, owned platform — engineered as production software, not stitched together.
Project workspace
Briefs, milestones, approvals and asset handover per engagement.
Client portal
Branded surface for clients to review, approve and download.
Time & utilisation
Billable tracking against scope, contracts and budgets.
Operational reporting
Pipeline, utilisation and margin in one dashboard.
Typical workflows
How the work actually flows.
Representative end-to-end workflows the platform owns.
Workflow
Lead to engagement
- 01Lead captured with structured data
- 02Routed through pipeline with stage owners
- 03Proposal generated from templates
- 04Engagement provisioned automatically on close
Workflow
Project delivery
- 01Brief and milestones created in workspace
- 02Internal team and client invited to portal
- 03Approvals tracked against milestones
- 04Final assets delivered + archived
Recommended platform architecture
How the system is composed.
The reference architecture we recommend for this industry — adapted to each engagement.
Architecture
Professional services platform — reference architecture
Internal team workspace + branded client portal share one backend so every interaction is logged against the engagement.
- Client
- Service
- Data
- External
01 · Client surfaces
Team workspace
Pipeline · projects
Client portal
Branded surface
Ops dashboard
Utilisation · margin
02 · Application services
Pipeline service
Leads · stages
Project service
Milestones · approvals
Time & scope
Tracking · budgets
Document service
Proposals · assets
03 · Data & integrations
Postgres
Clients · projects
Audit log
Approvals trail
Transactional email
Notifications
Calendar sync
Where required
Example implementation approaches
Shapes the engagement can take.
Common starting points — each scoped to the size and stage of the business.
Approach 01
Agency of 15
Pipeline + project workspace + client portal replacing email and spreadsheets.
Approach 02
Consultancy
Engagement workspace with structured deliverables and a partner-level reporting view.
Approach 03
Creative studio
Branded portal for asset review, approvals and final handover.
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