Structural Engineering
Petch Consulting Engineers
A small engineering firm losing hours a day to admin, before a single billable minute was recorded.
The challenge
James ran a lean structural engineering practice where time was the whole business. Simple template documents could eat hours. Most mornings started with more than an hour of email before any billable work began, and it was hard to know where time and cost were really going.
What we did
We started with a strategic assessment of how the practice actually operated, then built a time and cost management system tailored to the business and integrated directly with his invoicing software. Alongside it, we introduced AI tools to handle repetitive admin and support business development.
Hours to minutes
Admin tasks that used to take hours
Every minute
Now tracked and costed to the right project
“Previously, simple but highly time-consuming administrative tasks could take hours of my time. These tasks are now completed in a matter of minutes. Before working with BlueWater AI, I could spend more than an hour each morning just responding to emails before recording a single billable minute. Now every minute of my working day is tracked, costs are accurately recorded, and non-billable time has been significantly reduced. I cannot recommend Rhys and the team highly enough. Implementing this has been one of the best business decisions I have made.”