Every consultant day becomes margin you can see, every day.
If you bill consultants by the day (it's called Time & Materials, or T&M: the client pays for people's time), you make your profit one day at a time. hice keeps the proposal, the assignment, approved hours and costs together: the margin of every engagement updates itself, with no spreadsheets to piece back together.
Free for up to 10 people, no credit card required.
How an engagement runs in hice
Five steps, from the client's request to the renewal. They are panels of the same drawing: what you enter in one shows up in the others, with no retyping.
The won opportunity becomes an assignment
When the client says yes, the proposal becomes a T&M assignment: client, day rate, consultant cost and duration. You enter them once, and from then on everything else uses them.
T&M assignmentClient AlphaDesign supportWonClient rate€600 per dayConsultant cost€390 per dayDurationMar 1 – Aug 31AI suggests who to send
For each assignment, the AI searches CVs and notes for the skills required and suggests the right consultants. For each one you see which requirements they meet and which still need checking.
Right for the assignmentEmma Clarke5 of 5 requirementsMetLuke Foster4 of 5, one to clarifyTo checkMark Bennett3 of 5, two to clarifyTo checkDays arrive already approved
The consultant logs their days, even from their phone. The manager approves in one click and the days go into the engagement.
MarchEmma ClarkeClient Alpha · 20 dApprovedThe margin updates itself
Every approved day updates revenue, cost and margin. You don't wait for the books to close to know how things are going.
March marginClient Alpha€4,20035%cost €7,800revenue €12,000It warns you before an assignment ends
If an assignment is about to end and there's no renewal yet, hice warns you in good time. You talk to the client early, instead of finding out when the consultant is already sitting idle.
hice · assignment endingEmma Clarke's assignment at Client Alpha ends on August 31 and has no renewal yet.Prepare the renewal
The parts list: what you get, what it's for, which plan
Almost everything a consulting firm that bills by the day needs is already in the free plan. Business adds Hice AI, more people and the email and calendar connections. Enterprise adds a server all your own.
| No. | What you get | What it does for you | Which plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Clients and contacts | Each client's history on one page: meetings, proposals, engagements and notes. | All plans |
| 02 | Sales opportunities | See which proposals are open, what they're worth and where they stand. | All plans |
| 03 | Client research with AI | Before a proposal, the AI prepares an overview of the client and the numbers at stake. | All plans |
| 04 | T&M assignments and work packages | A won opportunity becomes an assignment with rate, cost and duration. You split large engagements into work packages. | All plans |
| 05 | Consultants suggested by AI | Search by skill inside CVs and notes, and the AI suggests who fits each assignment, explaining why. | All plans |
| 06 | Timesheets and billable days | Approved days turn themselves into the list to invoice, at the right rate. | All plans |
| 07 | Real-time margin and KPIs | The margin of every engagement and the company's numbers update while the work gets done. | All plans |
| 08 | AI chat, by voice too | Ask questions in plain words, even out loud, instead of digging through filters and tables. | All plans |
| 09 | Reminders and automations | The AI remembers what needs doing for you, and repetitive steps run on their own. | Business and Enterprise |
| 10 | Ready-made documents | Proposals, reports and other documents prepared from the data already in hice. | Business and Enterprise |
| 11 | Desktop and mobile app | People working at the client's site log their days from their phone, in a minute. | All plans |
| 12 | More teams and companies | Divisions and group companies, each with its own view of the same data. | Business and Enterprise |
| 13 | Advanced roles and permissions | Decide in detail who sees rates, costs and margins. | All plans |
| 14 | Connected email and calendars | Your mailbox and Google and Outlook calendars in sync with hice. | Business and Enterprise |
| 15 | Dedicated server and dedicated support | Infrastructure just for your company, a custom setup and a contact person who looks after you. | Enterprise only |
The three squares are, in order, Free, Business and Enterprise. The free plan is for companies with up to 10 employees, with some limits (for example 5 GB of storage). Business costs €19.90 per MAIN user per month and €1.90 per BASIC user, excluding VAT; Enterprise is tailored to you. See pricing
What changes for you, the owner
When you find out how much you made on an engagement.
See each consultant's margin while they work.
Every approved timesheet updates the engagement's revenue, cost and margin.
No assignment ends without you knowing.
The alert arrives before the end date, while there's still time to renew.
Invoice only approved days, at the right rate.
The rate lives in the assignment: nobody copies it by hand into a spreadsheet.
Offer the client the right consultant, and know why.
The AI shows you which requirements are met and which need checking.
Need a consultant you don't have? Publish the job
A client asks for a profile you don't have available today. Publish the job on your careers page and share it with a link, on LinkedIn, WhatsApp or by email. Applications land in hice by themselves.
They come with an AI score
Every application has the CV, the answers and a score that shows how well the person matches the job.
Handle them from the job
Move people to screening, reject or accept them, with no CVs scattered across your inbox.
Ready for the next assignment
In one click the person joins the candidate database: the CV becomes a record with skills and experience, and you find them again when you open the next opportunity.
Questions owners ask
My consultants work at the client's site. How do they log their days?
From the mobile app or a computer. The manager approves them in one click and the engagement's margin updates.
Can I show engagements without everyone seeing rates and margins?
Yes. Everyone sees the data their role allows. The AI chat, too, only sees what the person using it is allowed to see.
Our assignments live in Excel today. Do we have to re-enter them by hand?
No. We import the data for you from Excel or the management software you use: migration is included in the Business and Enterprise plans and your history stays intact.
How much does it cost?
It's free forever for up to 10 employees. Beyond that, the Business plan costs €19.90 per month for each MAIN user (people who coordinate and approve) and €1.90 for each BASIC user (people who log hours and expenses), excluding VAT.
Draw your next engagement in hice.
Enter an assignment with rate, cost and duration: from the first approved timesheet, you see the margin. If you use Excel today, we'll bring your data in for you.
- Free for up to 10 people
- No credit card required
- Data migration with Business