Professional services built its tech stack for timesheets - AI changed the rules.

Professional services firms spent two decades layering tools on top of tools. An ERP for the general ledger, a handful of point solutions for everything else, and spreadsheets holding it all together. That architecture worked fine when the hardest thing you had to track was a timesheet. But it doesn't work anymore.

AI agents, outcome-based contracts, and hybrid delivery teams expose every seam in that patchwork. When the seams start to show, what disappears first is operational visibility - the ability to know, in real time, whether a project is actually making money.

Integration isn't orchestration

The standard defense of the fragmented stack is that “everything is connected.” Maybe it is. But connected is not the same as orchestrated.

A recent report from Service Performance Insight (SPI) found that data quality issues and brittle technical integrationsrank among the top barriers to AI adoption in professional services. The infrastructure, not...

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