Illustrative example
A 10-person engineering consultancyA client portal that replaces the email thread
Clients submit requests, upload documents and follow progress in one place, and the team works from a single queue.
Client requests
- New request: site inspectionPortal
- Building permit, 3 documentsClient upload
- Report ready for client reviewTeam
- Report approvedClient
The situation
Projects are run over email.
Clients send documents as attachments, ask for status updates, and approve reports by replying to a thread. Files end up in several inboxes and on a shared drive with no clear latest version. New clients and new employees are set up by hand, from a checklist that lives in someone’s head.
What we would build
- 01
A web portal where clients log in to submit requests, upload documents and see the status of each project
- 02
A single work queue for the team, with an owner and a deadline on every request
- 03
Approval steps for reports, recorded with who approved and when
- 04
Onboarding workflows that create the client workspace, folders and accounts from one form
- 05
Notifications by email and chat, so nobody has to check the portal to know something changed
What changes
- Clients check the status themselves instead of writing to ask
- Documents live with the project, in one current version
- The team sees who is working on what, and what is waiting for the client
- A new client or colleague is set up the same way every time
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