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Synthelio

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The operating system for IT solutions and services providers

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The operating system for IT solutions and services providers

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Software houses leak margin two ways: fixed-price work that slips, and allocated people waiting on access or kickoff instead of billing. Synthelio unifies engagements, staffing, P&L, contracts, time tracking, and people, so you see margin in real time and forecast it before you hire, staff, or sign. Timesheets are free forever, and so is one live engagement. Join the Founding cohort (first 10): shape the roadmap, a discount locked forever, and free until launch.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 The problem that led to this: in a software house, everyone can tell you last quarter's revenue, but almost nobody can tell you which projects are making money right now, or which ones are quietly bleeding. Margin leaks in two places, and both stay invisible until it's too late. Fixed-price work slips a little each week until it's underwater. And on time-and-materials, you've got people allocated to a client who aren't billing yet, waiting on access, credentials, or a kickoff that keeps sliding. Real cost, no revenue against it, and it never shows up on a dashboard. The deeper issue: the biggest margin lever in a services firm isn't tracking, it's forecasting. Who you staff where, and when you hire or hold, weeks before the decision is forced on you. Get that wrong and no amount of after-the-fact reporting saves the quarter. So Synthelio puts the whole thing in one place: engagements, staffing and bench, project and company P&L, contracts, time tracking, and people. You watch margin as it happens and forecast it before you hire, staff, or sign, instead of finding out at the monthly close. It's built for custom software houses and digital studios of roughly 30 to 500+ running a lot of concurrent client work from one shared team. A few things we wanted to make easy to say yes to: • Timesheets, free forever • One live engagement, free for good • Founding cohort (first 10): shape the roadmap, lock a discount that never expires, and free until we go live We're heads-down toward launch and want to hear from people who actually run these firms. What breaks for you today? What would you need to see before you'd trust a tool with your margin numbers? I'll be in the comments all day.

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Founders running billable teams: what is your actual utilization right now?

Something I keep running into with people who run billable teams, whether that's an agency, a dev shop, or a consultancy.

Scope drifts on a fixed-price project in week three. The client asks for one more thing, the team says yes because the relationship matters, nobody reprices anything. Here is how long it takes to show up:

Week 4, timesheets for week 3 land, some late. Week 5, managers approve them. Week 6, the month closes. Week 7, the management pack comes out and the margin is finally visible.

Four weeks of burn at the wrong rate, discovered a month after it started. By then the money is gone and the only lever left is to eat it.

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