For consultanciesUtilization and project margins

Utilization and margin, without the spreadsheet.

See who’s billable, which engagements actually pay, and send the retainer without re-keying it, all from the workspace your consultants already track time in.

  • Free forever plan
  • Utilization built in
  • Retainers on autopilot

The consultancy stack

One workspace instead of a spreadsheet stack.

Time in one tool, utilization in Excel, retainers in another, margins nowhere. Pistacio keeps them together, so the numbers agree.

Today

  • Harvest
  • Excel utilization
  • a retainer sheet
  • Lexoffice
  • a CRM

With Pistacio

  • Time & utilization
  • Retainers
  • Project margin
  • Invoicing
  • CRM

What consultancies need

Run on utilization and margin.

Utilization

Know who’s billable, live.

Utilization per consultant against a target, so you spot idle time and overload before the week starts.

Time tracking
Retainers

Retainers that send themselves.

Put monthly retainers on a schedule with auto-send, so recurring revenue never waits on an admin day.

Invoicing
Margin

See which engagements pay.

Margin per project from tracked time and rates, so you renew the profitable work and reprice the rest.

Clients & projects
Capacity

Plan the next engagement.

Budgets and hours show who has room, so you sign work you can actually staff.

Clients & projects
Pipeline

New work, in the same place.

A lightweight CRM beside delivery, so a signed proposal becomes a project without a handoff.

CRM & leads

A week at a consultancy

How consultancies run on Pistacio.

1

Plan the week

Capacity and utilization show who’s free, so engagements get staffed on numbers, not guesswork.

2

Track against clients

Consultants log time to engagements as they go, billable by default.

3

Watch utilization

Utilization updates live, so an idle bench or an overloaded lead shows up early.

4

Send the retainer

Monthly retainers and billable extras go out on schedule as clean invoices.

5

Review the margin

The month closes with margin per engagement, so renewals and repricing are informed.

We run Pistacio on Pistacio.

It's how we replaced five separate tools for our own company. We hit the rough edges before you do, because we're in here every day too.

Bootstrapped, and built by the people who use it daily.

Pricing that scales with you.

Start on the free forever plan. Move up when the team grows.

Save up to 33%

Free

€0

Free forever

Time tracking and invoices for a tiny team.

Includes

  • Up to 5 users
  • 5 clients
  • 3 projects
  • 1 year of history
Most popular

Growth

€10

per user / month · billed annually

Run client delivery end to end.

Includes

  • Unlimited seats
  • expenses
  • budgets & rates
  • utilization

Business

€20

per user / month · billed annually

Pipeline, finance ops and compliance.

Includes

  • CRM
  • bank bookkeeping
  • working-time compliance

Frequently asked questions

  • Yes. Utilization tracks live against a target from the time your team already logs, no spreadsheet.

  • Put a retainer on a monthly schedule with auto-send; billable extras add on as needed.

  • Margin per engagement comes from tracked time and rates, so you know what to renew and what to reprice.

  • Time, utilization and invoicing are all in Pistacio, so the separate tools and the copy-paste go away.

  • Yes; Growth adds utilization, budgets and rates for client delivery at scale.

  • Yes. Consulting software built around utilization and margin: time, capacity, project profitability and retainer invoicing in one workspace.

Built for German business

The standards Pistacio is built on.

Pistacio creates e-invoices in the XRechnung and ZUGFeRD formats, Germany’s standards for electronic invoicing.
E-Rechnung (Bund)
Invoices and receipts are kept GoBD-compliant, with clean sequential numbering and proper retention.
GoBD (BMF)
The books export cleanly to DATEV for your Steuerberater at quarter-end.
DATEV
Working time is checked against the limits of the German Working Hours Act (ArbZG).
ArbZG (Gesetze im Internet)

Start running the day from one place.

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