Billable Pro
Call-based billing automation for legal, consulting, and accounting — turning invisible phone time into captured revenue.
Phone calls are invisible to every time tracking tool on the market.
Manual timers don’t start themselves. Billing from memory loses 25–50% of call time. Practice management tools like Clio, QuickBooks Time, and Harvest all require manual entry — and carrier bills sit unprocessed in inboxes.
Sophisticated clients increasingly demand itemized call metadata for audit and compliance. A generic “15-min phone call” entry doesn’t survive scrutiny.
- Legal: A partner losing 3 unbilled calls/day @ $341/hr = $260K/year in leakage
- Consulting: A senior consultant losing 5 calls/week @ $300/hr = $78K/year per person
- Accounting: Q1 tax rush untracked calls can represent 20–30% of billable hours
- All verticals: 82% of firms cite phone time as their #1 billing leakage source
The Solution: Call-to-Bill Infrastructure
We don’t compete with practice management tools — we make them smarter. Billable Pro is the automated call ingestion layer they’ve always been missing.
Consulting: 15-min increments, project codes — exports to Harvest, QuickBooks
Accounting: 6-min increments, engagement codes — exports to QuickBooks, NetSuite
| Capability | Billable Pro | Clio / QuickBooks Time | Tempello / Billables.ai | Harvest / TimeCamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native UCaaS ingestion | ✓ Core product | ✗ Manual only | ✗ Email/calendar only | ✗ None |
| Carrier bill parsing | ✓ ML parsers (20+ formats) | ✗ Not supported | ✗ Not supported | ✗ Not supported |
| Multi-vertical support | ✓ Legal, consulting, accounting | Legal or general | Legal-focused | General productivity |
| Client matching accuracy | 95%+ proprietary dataset | Manual assignment | 85–90% email-based | N/A |
| Dispute-ready evidence | ✓ Full carrier/UCaaS metadata | User-generated notes | Email thread context | Timer logs only |
Positioning analogy: Twilio doesn’t compete with Salesforce — it powers the SMS layer underneath it. Billable Pro doesn’t compete with Clio — it powers the call-ingestion layer Clio has always relied on manual entry for.
Our Defensible Moat
Three compounding advantages that get harder to replicate the longer we operate.
1. Proprietary Cross-Vertical Matching Dataset
Every correction a user makes — “555-0123 = Acme Corp’s CFO” — trains our matching model. We’re building the only dataset that maps phone numbers to clients across legal, consulting, and accounting at scale. Patterns learned in legal (court clerks, opposing counsel lines) improve consulting accuracy and vice versa.
Why it compounds: More users → better matching → more users. A competitor starting today would need years of correction data across three verticals they don’t yet serve.
2. UCaaS Marketplace Position (Distribution Moat)
Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and RingCentral focus on core UCaaS — not vertical-specific billing automation. We’re positioned as the “billing layer” in their app marketplaces, earning co-sell placement with their sales teams recommending us to legal, consulting, and accounting customers.
Why it compounds: Microsoft Teams has 82% hybrid work penetration by 2027 (Frost & Sullivan). Early marketplace presence = first-mover advantage with platform-endorsed distribution that’s capital-efficient by design.
3. Technical + Compliance Head Start
Carrier bill parsing requires 12–18 months of ML model training per provider across 20+ bill formats — a significant replication cost for any newcomer. Add SOC 2 Type II certification ($200–500K, 12–24 months), attorney-client privilege compliance, and on-prem OCR for air-gapped deployments, and the barrier to compete in enterprise legal and accounting becomes substantial.
Why it compounds: Embedded workflow integration (client mapping configs, custom exports, staff training) creates 6–12 month switching costs per firm once deployed.
Strategic note: We’re NOT building another practice management tool. We’re the infrastructure layer that plugs into the tools firms already use — similar to how Stripe powers Shopify’s payments without competing on e-commerce.
Market & Business Model
Time-tracking software: $3.8B (2025) → $16.1B (2035) at 15–16% CAGR. Our wedge is call-based billing automation — a sub-segment currently unserved.
Target: 500 users by Month 18 = $600K ARR
Leverage: Legal validation de-risks expansion
Opportunity: 653K CPAs × $50–75/user/yr = $33–49M SAM
Business — $99/user/mo: Carrier parsing, advanced matching, PM integrations
Enterprise — $199/user/mo: SSO, audit logs, on-prem OCR, dedicated support
Implementation: $5–25K. Annual support: 15–20% of contract.
Traction & Roadmap
Pre-revenue, but technically validated and de-risked via design partner commitments across all three verticals.
✅ Completed
- Carrier bill parsing: 95% accuracy on AT&T/Verizon PDFs (500 real bills tested)
- Zoom Phone + Microsoft Graph APIs: OAuth flows working, call logs ingested
- Client matching: 92% accuracy on 10K test phone numbers
- Design partner LOIs: 3 law firms (240 users), 2 consulting firms (120 users), 1 CPA firm (35 CPAs)
- 85 customer discovery interviews — 68% willing to pay $75–150/user/mo
🚀 12-Month Roadmap
- 3 law firms, 240 users
- Zoom + Teams connectors
- Clio export functional
- 160 paying users = $190K ARR
- Consulting beta (120 users)
- SOC 2 Type I initiated
- 500 users, $600K ARR
- Marketplace approvals
- Accounting beta live
Funding Request: $2.5M Seed
18-month runway to $600K ARR, multi-vertical proof, and Series A readiness.
Use of Funds
Product Development — 40% / $1M
- UCaaS integrations (Teams, Zoom, RingCentral, Twilio, Google Voice)
- Carrier bill ML parsers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, 20+ formats)
- Client matching engine + cross-vertical pattern learning
- Export integrations (Clio, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Harvest, FreshBooks)
Compliance & Security — 20% / $500K
- SOC 2 Type I (Q2 2027): $80–120K
- SOC 2 Type II (Q4 2027): $150–200K
- Pen testing, SIEM, encryption, audit logging
Sales & Partnerships — 30% / $750K
- UCaaS marketplace submissions (Microsoft co-sell, Zoom App Marketplace)
- Partner co-marketing with Clio, QuickBooks, Harvest
- Sales hires: 1 AE, 1 partnerships lead, 1 SDR
- Conferences: ClioCon, Consulting Success Summit, CPA Practice Advisor
Operations — 10% / $250K
- Customer success hire
- AWS/Azure infrastructure (1K users)
- Legal, insurance, recruiting
Contact
+ Research Sources & Methodology
Revenue Leakage
Clio 2024 Legal Trends Report; Thomson Reuters 2024 State of Canadian Law Firms; LeanLaw Revenue Leakage Guide 2025; NASBA CPA practice management data; U.S. BLS Management Analysts outlook
Market Size
Fact.MR time-tracking market ($3.8B→$16.1B, 15–16% CAGR); Fortune Business Insights UCaaS ($48.79B 2023→$215.53B 2032); professional services sizing: professional counts × avg hourly rates × 2,000 billable hour targets
UCaaS & Platform Data
Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS 2025; Frost & Sullivan (82% hybrid by 2027); Microsoft Graph Call Records API; Zoom Phone API; RingCentral Call Log API; Twilio Voice API
Competitive Intelligence
Clio, QuickBooks Time, Harvest, Tempello, Billables.ai, TimeCamp, Bill4Time, legal tech publications