contact@kelbar.ai Auckland, NZ
Industries/Professional Services

AI for professional services

your billable hours, back where they belong.

Accountants, law firms, consultants and agencies. The work you bill for is not the work eating your day. Intake, chasing documents, onboarding, invoicing and reporting all sit between you and billable time.

You don't have a client problem. You have an admin problem.

Most firms we speak to are not short of work. They are short of hours, because every new matter drags a tail of admin behind it: the intake call, the missing documents, the onboarding pack, the file setup, the invoice, the follow-up.

EnquiryIntake handledDocuments gatheredFile set upBillable work

Where it pays off first.

The parts of a professional firm that are repetitive enough to hand over.

Client intake without the phone tagNew enquiries get answered properly, qualified, and booked into the right person's diary, including the ones that come in after five.
Chasing documents on its ownThe signed form, the ID, the last set of accounts. It asks, waits, and asks again, so you are not the one sending the third reminder.
Research and first draftsAn agent reads the file and the source material and hands you a draft to review. You do the judgement, not the typing.
Profit per client and per matterWhich work is genuinely worth doing, and which client is quietly costing you more in hours than they pay in fees.

How it starts.

Firms usually start with intake, because it is the most measurable and the least risky.

01

We map where the hours go

One short session on your actual process, from first enquiry to final invoice.

02

We start with one bottleneck

Usually intake or document chasing. Something that pays for itself quickly and touches no privileged work.

03

We test it on real matters

It runs alongside your team on live work first, so you see every decision before it runs unsupervised.

04

We widen it as trust builds

Once the first piece is earning its keep, we take on the next. No big-bang rollout.

Sound like your firm?

The pattern is close to identical across accounting, legal and consulting.

01

Your best people do admin

Qualified, expensive people spending hours on intake forms, file setup and chasing paperwork.

02

Enquiries go cold

Someone calls, nobody is free, and by the time you ring back they have instructed the firm that picked up.

03

You bill less than you work

The hours are long. The billable ones are a fraction of them, and you cannot easily say where the rest went.

What it takes off you.

Playing phone tag with new enquiries
Chasing clients for documents
Re-typing details into three systems
Manual onboarding packs
Invoices going out late
Not knowing which clients are profitable

The things firms ask us.

It is the first thing we design around. Client data stays in systems you control, access is limited to what a given job actually needs, and we walk you through exactly where information sits before anything goes live. Privileged and sensitive work is normally kept out of scope entirely at the start.

No, and we build it so it cannot. It handles intake, scheduling, documents and admin. Anything that looks like advice gets routed to a human, every time.

No. We work with what you already use and wire into it rather than replacing it.

For anything client-facing it works from your own documented answers rather than generating its own. Drafts always come to a human for review before they go anywhere.

It depends on scope. Book a free chat and we will map where your hours go and give you a straight number.

Get the billable hours back.

Book a free chat. Walk us through what happens between an enquiry arriving and the work actually starting, and we will show you what can come off your plate.