Billable Hours & Margin Recovery Audit

We find your lost billable hours

A 90-minute diagnostic session gives your partners meeting a defensible number, and a minimum of three ranked recommendations to act on. Findings delivered within 3 business days.

Book the Audit — £497 See how it works

Is your firm leaving £80,000 per fee earner on the table every year?

The average UK fee earner records 773 hours against a target of 1,100* a 327-hour gap. On hourly billing, that's revenue never invoiced. On fixed fee, the same gap shows up as margin quietly absorbed rather than billed — see below. BillableAI finds it, fast.

Audit

A 90-minute diagnostic that puts a precise £ figure on the time and margin your firm is currently losing with a minimum of three ranked recommendations.

Implementation

We turn the findings into working systems so the hours stop leaking, without adding headcount. Implement internally or with our support.

Support

Ongoing optimisation and one new improvement tracked and implemented every month, so the gains compound rather than drift.

*Law Society 2025

"Fixed fee doesn't remove the leak, it hides it."

Billable Hours

Fixed Fee

Where the leak shows up

On the invoice

In your margin

Who feels it first?

The client (fewer hours billed)

The firm (cost absorbed silently)

How visible is it?

Relatively easy to spot

Easy to ignore — nothing on the invoice changes

The risk

Under-billing

Under-pricing your own time, unknowingly

"Whichever model you bill on, the hours are the same. What changes is whether the loss lands on the invoice or disappears into your margin, quarter after quarter."

Independently reviewed by a retired senior solicitor with extensive legal industry experience, who described the audit as exceptional value for the service being offered. Independent legal review, BillableAI Audit methodology

The Billable Hours Audit

Book your Audit

£497 + VAT

One-off, fixed fee, paid upfront. No retainer required to take part.

90-minute structured diagnostic session
Written findings report within 3 business days
A defensible, triangulated recovery or margin figure
Minimum of three ranked recommendations
Data hygiene practiced — analysis run on anonymised firm data

"Most consultants charge £5,000 for discovery. We charge £497 because we're confident enough in what we'll find that we don't need to hide behind a large upfront fee."

Book your Billable Hours Audit

Tell us a little about your firm and we'll be in touch to arrange the 90-minute session. Findings report delivered within 3 business days.

Who we are

BillableAI works exclusively with professional services firms to identify and recover lost billable time and margin. We combine structured business analysis with AI implementation to deliver measurable commercial outcomes not technology for its own sake.

Our process is straightforward: we find where your time goes, we put a number on it, and we fix it.

BillableAI was founded by a former British Army officer with over 20 years of leadership experience, including officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has since spent several years working directly with AI tools, automation platforms, and workflow systems applying them to real business problems, not hypothetical ones. Most professional services firms don't have time to separate what AI can actually do from the noise. We do that work so you don't have to.

Ready to find your number?

Book your Billable Hours Audit. A 90-minute session could uncover what your firm is leaving on the table — or quietly absorbing into margin every year.

Billable Hours Audit: £497 · Findings report within 3 business days

Billable Hours Audit fee: £497 + VAT. Findings report delivered within 3 business days of the diagnostic session.

All client data is anonymised before any AI tool is used to support analysis.

BillableAI is an advisory service for SRA-regulated law firms. BillableAI itself is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the SRA.