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Connect the enquiry, agreed engagement and billable delivery

Reduce non-billable coordination around scope, client documents and delivery approvals. Keep professional advice with the people accountable for it.

For Practice owner, operations manager or engagement lead

Explore three real work situations ↓
How it could work

Start with a situation you recognise.

Illustrative designs to scope with your team. Select a scenario, then follow the normal path and the exception.

An enquiry mixes several potential services

Finished result

A qualified brief ready for a professional scoping conversation.

  1. 01Capture need and context
  2. 02Match the appropriate service owner
  3. 03Collect scoping inputs
  4. 04Prepare engagement brief
When something does not fit

The request needs another discipline or conflicts with an existing commitment.

What happens next

Route to the engagement lead and record the unresolved scope decision.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
A prospective client describes a problem without a clear scope or decision maker.
Before taking action
Separate discovery assumptions from work and fees the client has accepted.
Measure the change
Qualification effort and proposal rework caused by missing scope.

Delivery is blocked by one missing client approval

Finished result

A complete approval package or an explicit blocker assigned to its owner.

  1. 01Map required documents
  2. 02Match current versions
  3. 03Request exact missing items
  4. 04Prepare approval package
When something does not fit

A client approves an older attachment after a revised draft was sent.

What happens next

Highlight the version mismatch and request approval of the intended document.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
A project reaches a milestone with documents spread across email and the workspace.
Before taking action
Use the agreed document owner, access permissions and accepted version.
Measure the change
Chase time and days waiting for a usable approval.

A completed milestone has not reached accounts

Finished result

An invoice-ready instruction linked to the accepted engagement.

  1. 01Read agreed billing milestones
  2. 02Match delivery evidence
  3. 03Check acceptance and scope changes
  4. 04Prepare billing instruction
When something does not fit

Delivery is complete but the client has accepted only part of the output.

What happens next

Prepare the undisputed portion and route the remainder to the engagement owner.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
The delivery team finishes an accepted engagement stage.
Before taking action
Keep fixed-fee milestones, time charges and disputed extras separate.
Measure the change
Completed work awaiting billing and handoff time.
Fit before features

When custom work makes sense.

Configure your practice or project software for common engagements. Custom workflows help where bespoke scopes, approval trails and billing evidence cross different systems.

Connect the records you already use

  • CRM and engagement records
  • Document workspace and client approvals
  • Project milestones, time and accounting

Access, data quality and write permissions are checked during scoping. Integration availability depends on your systems.

Go deeper

The systems behind these scenarios.

Controls, responsibility and recovery

Agree who can change rules, approve exceptions and authorise each write. Keep a history of source records, rule versions and action results. Detect partial failures, reconcile before retrying and assign unresolved cases to a named owner.

AI can extract, classify and prepare information. Validated rules and agreed permissions govern consequential actions; missing evidence triggers review. Test normal cases, exceptions and recovery against acceptance criteria before launch.

Related operating experience

See the foundations running at G3.

G3 is our founder’s retail and venue business in Melbourne. Explore relevant capabilities and their boundaries; your industry’s rules still need their own design and validation.

Questions worth asking first.

Start with a sanitised example, the result you need and one awkward case. We will map a bounded first implementation.

Can the system provide our professional advice?

The proposed scope organises information and carries out approved administrative steps. Advice and professional sign-off remain with your designated practitioners.

Can we start with one service line?

Yes. A repeatable engagement with clear inputs, approval rules and a completion definition is usually easier to validate than a practice-wide replacement.

What client inputs make a first implementation possible?

For one engagement type, bring a sanitised enquiry, scope template, milestone definitions and an example of an approval that went wrong. Identify where accepted documents and billing decisions live. This lets us separate a repeatable administrative handoff from work that still depends on professional judgement or a negotiated scope.

How would the workflow handle approval of an outdated attachment?

Link the approval request to a specific document version and engagement milestone. Compare an incoming approval with the version awaiting acceptance; flag a mismatch rather than progressing delivery or billing. Keep the original response and ask the engagement owner for the precise confirmation needed to continue.

Do we need an ongoing Canvo subscription?

No mandatory Canvo subscription. An agreed implementation includes 12 months of support for the delivered workflows, defects and minor compatibility changes to existing integrations. Optional proactive care and further development are scoped separately. Software, hosting and API costs remain separate.

Your operation, your rules

Bring the handoff that keeps going wrong.

Free workflow review. A$950 ex GST diagnostic. A bounded first deployment from A$4,900 ex GST, with 12 months of included support for the agreed implementation.

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