As your firm has grown, you’ve stitched together a time tracker, a billing tool, QuickBooks, and a sea of Excel spreadsheets. You might also have a simple project tracker and even a monthly cash flow forecast file living in spreadsheets, both of which are painfully tedious to maintain and become stale the minute they’re published.
Sound familiar?
It works — until it doesn’t.
These patchwork systems create more work, more confusion, and more risk. If it takes a week to review and convert time entries into customer invoices, or you’re manually uploading data between tools, you’re living inside a patchwork system coming apart at the seams.
PMs and Finance operate on different numbers
Project costs and financial reports are delayed or inaccurate
Your team spends more time entering data than analyzing it
Nothing integrates cleanly — especially during close or audits
The Business Cost: Misalignment and Misinformation
Every non-integrated tool and manual process adds:
Lag time between operations and insight
Risk of reporting errors that lead to bad decisions
Busywork that drains already stretched admin teams
You’re not just wasting time—you’re missing out on real opportunities to capture more profit to your bottom line and create lasting enterprise value.
Our teams specialize in helping A&E firms evaluate and unwind legacy systems. Here’s what that looks like:
Many of our A&E clients adopt BQE CORE because it replaces 3–5 tools with one scalable system. CORE includes:
One consulting firm that hired us last year was using QuickBooks for financials, Harvest for time tracking and light project management, paper-based expense reports, Monday as a CRM, paper and PDF proposals, an endless stream of emails to share information internally, and hundreds of Google Sheets for just about everything else. One of the principals was working nights and weekends to hold it all together by sheer will — and burning out fast. We helped them move into BQE CORE, simplify their workflows, improve their realization rate by 31%, and cut their monthly close time from 19 days to 5.
Actionable Takeaways for A&E Firms:
Make a list of every system your team touches to manage projects, people, and financials.
How much does each tool cost? Who’s responsible for administering each one? What are the potential data security risks associated with such a fragmented tech stack?
Identify any double-entry points.
Where are your people copying and pasting? What causes the most information lag, and how often do your numbers not match up?
Think objectively about your blind spots.
When was the last time you felt surprised by poor gross profit margins? How often are you forced to make decisions based on gut feel, and how predictable is your cash flow?
A disconnected system may seem cost-effective in the short term, but meanwhile, your firm’s value potential could be quietly leaking out through the air gaps over the long term.
Stop letting disconnected systems drain your profit potential. As an official BQE CORE implementation partner, SPRCHRGR transforms fragmented tech stacks into streamlined, integrated operations that deliver 360° visibility and measurable results. Our accounting and finance engineers don't just implement BQE CORE—we optimize every workflow, automate manual processes, and create custom API integrations that eliminate double-entry forever.
From assessment through ongoing optimization, we ensure you maximize your investment while minimizing disruption. Schedule a discovery call to explore how we can supercharge your operations and unlock the enterprise value hiding in your data.