Consulting engineering
From the accepted proposal to the final progress billing, CANOPE works alongside your engineers, technicians, and project managers. It understands your multidisciplinary mandates, tracks the budget on every task, and recovers the hours that slip away.
An engineer spends the afternoon on drawings, takes two client calls, reviews a structural calculation. By evening, half of it never reaches the timesheet. In consulting engineering, margin lives in tenths of an hour, and every missed entry comes straight out of the fee.
Progress is tallied by hand, at month’s end, in a spreadsheet nobody shares. The overrun surfaces too late, once the progress billing already sits below the hours actually burned on the task.
Civil, mechanical, electrical, environmental: each on their own project, with the purchase orders issued to subcontractors on top. Who delivered what, which client PO covers which task, where the billed-to-date stands — the information lives in ten heads and five spreadsheets.
CANOPE
CANOPE rebuilds each engineer’s day from their real activity, ties it to the right project and task, and prepares a timesheet they simply confirm.
It tracks progress on every task, lump-sum or time-and-materials, compares hours burned against the budget by resource, and warns the project manager before the mandate overruns.
It spots the hours and expenses ready to bill, builds the invoice with GST and QST, recalls the linked client purchase order, and freezes a document faithful to what was produced.
When a purchase order frames the mandate, CANOPE links it to its tasks, computes the true billed-to-date, and tracks the POs issued to subcontractors — nothing is claimed twice or missed.
It turns an accepted proposal into a full project in one move — sub-projects, tasks, budgets, and rates carried over — so the team starts the mandate instead of retyping it.
A day with CANOPE
8 a.m. — CANOPE has already built yesterday’s timesheet for the team: three civil engineers, one field technician. He confirms in two minutes what used to take half an hour of chasing.
10:30 a.m. — An alert: the structural design task has burned 82% of its hour budget at 60% progress. He adjusts scope with the client before the lump sum turns into a loss.
2 p.m. — The proposal for the rehabilitation project was just accepted. In one click it becomes an active project: sub-projects, tasks, budgets, and rates already in place.
4 p.m. — CANOPE flags three batches of hours and one travel expense ready to bill, the client purchase order already attached. The progress billing takes shape, taxes included.
5 p.m. — He approves the invoice. Lump-sum progress rolls forward, billed-to-date updates, and the document goes to the client, faithful to the last character.
Consulting engineering sells hours of expertise. CANOPE makes sure none of them are lost.