LINK — The operating layer for growing consulting firms

The problem

Growth doesn't simplify operations. It multiplies the gaps.

The typical 20–80 person consulting firm doesn't lack software — it has too much of it. Time tracking lives in one system, projects in another, invoicing in a third, finance in a fourth. Someone reconciles it all by hand before leadership can answer a basic question: did last month's work actually get billed and paid?

That's not a tooling problem. It's an operational infrastructure problem — and it quietly costs margin every month.

68.9%

Billable utilization

Below the 75% threshold considered operationally healthy.

SPI Research, 2025

4.5%

Revenue leakage

Work never invoiced or never recovered — ≈ €225k/yr for a €4M firm.

SPI Research, 2025

22 hrs

Admin per month

Time each SMB owner loses to financial administration alone.

Xero

€275B

Chasing late invoices

Europe's annual cost — 74 working days per business each year.

Intrum, 2023

The solution

Connect, don't replace.

LINK sits between the tools you already run. It reads your data, resolves it into one canonical model, applies finance-aware rules, and writes clean invoices, alerts and dashboards back out — keeping your existing tools as the systems of record.

1 · Log time

A consultant logs hours in the time-tracking tool they already use.

2 · Validate & map

LINK matches it to project, rate and contract — exceptions caught instantly.

3 · Draft invoice

A compliant draft is assembled with Dutch VAT and sequential numbering.

4 · Issue on schedule

Sent on time and posted to accounting — no manual cross-tool transfer.

5 · Reconcile cash

Payment status flows back, so leadership sees cash in real time.

The quote-to-cash wedge: where consulting firms lose billable hours and delay cash — now closed end to end, with exceptions surfaced automatically instead of weeks later at month-end.

Connect, don't replace

Integrate through documented APIs and webhooks. Never abandon a working tool.

Single source of truth

Map fragmented records into one canonical model that resolves conflicts deterministically.

Modular & composable

Every connector and workflow is a building block. Expand coverage without re-architecting.

EU-hosted & compliant

Processed in the EU with RBAC, encryption, audit logging and retention built in.

Lean & managed

Favor managed cloud services so a small team can run reliably and scale on demand.

The product

One screen for everything that used to live in five.

High-fidelity, interactive product screens — built on LINK's visual identity. Click any screen to enlarge, or open the live, clickable prototype.

Platform architecture

A coordinating layer — not another system of record.

LINK is a cloud-native, API-first platform organized into five logical layers, with security, monitoring and governance as cross-cutting foundations. Your tools stay in place; LINK makes them work as one.

Your tools — kept in place

Time tracking Project mgmt Invoicing CRM Accounting / ERP

Compliant invoices · EN 16931 / Peppol Dashboards & alerts Clean structured records

Outputs served back to people & tools

Security & Access

SSO, role-based access control and encryption across every layer.

Monitoring & Connector Health

Live sync status and data-quality checks on every integration.

Governance & Compliance

GDPR, full audit log and 7-year retention — compliant by design.

Built for what's coming

EN 16931 & Peppol BIS 3.0-ready output as Dutch e-invoicing advances under ViDA.

Why the Netherlands, why now

A tight wedge where the pain is quantified and the timing is forced.

The Netherlands concentrates three conditions that rarely coexist: high digital maturity, a large and fast-growing professional-services sector, and regulation actively creating urgency around integrated financial data.

387k

specialist business-services firms — the largest single sector in the country (CBS).

62%

of Dutch enterprises are highly cloud-dependent — 3rd highest in Europe (Eurostat).

€5.24B

Dutch management-consulting market in 2025, growing ~4.1% a year (Mordor).

184k+

independent advisers registered with KVK, +1,000 every month (ZZP Nederland).

Wet DBA enforcement

From January 2025, firms must keep far more precise records of contractor relationships, hours and billing.

ViDA & Peppol e-invoicing

Dutch B2B e-invoicing mandates are advancing toward the Peppol network — a hard deadline that didn't exist two years ago.

An English-fluent EU corridor

EU-native compliance built here (GDPR, Peppol, ViDA) transfers directly into Belgium, Germany and the wider Eurozone.

Competitive position

The category with no incumbent.

Every existing option falls short for a 20–80 person consulting firm in a predictable way. LINK occupies the space none of them addresses.

Work-management tools

Asana · monday.com

Great for coordinating projects and tasks — but they don't understand finance.

No finance logic or billing

Automation tools

Zapier · Make · n8n

Connect apps without replacing them — but hand you a blank canvas and walk away.

No opinion, no compliance

PSA / ERP platforms

Scoro · Productive · Kantata · Odoo

Real depth for consulting — but they require ripping out the stack you already run.

Costly, disruptive migration

Consultancies & integrators

Local Dutch advisors · SIs

They can build the integration — but as bespoke projects priced beyond SMB economics.

Not repeatable at SMB scale

LINK — the connective operating layer

An opinionated, finance-aware integration layer that connects what you already use and makes it work the way it should have from the start. The finance-aware control of a PSA platform, without the cost, disruption and lock-in of a migration — productized so it's affordable and repeatable at SMB scale.

"We'll fix the thing that's quietly costing you margin every month — without breaking anything."

The five-year path

From concierge-led service to a product-led platform.

A disciplined path: prove value through hands-on delivery first, then progressively productize the repeatable work into software and agent-assisted automation.

Year 1

Validate the wedge

Launch the MVP — core dashboard, key integrations and concierge-led onboarding for the first Dutch consulting cohort.

Year 2

Expand coverage

Broaden workflows across time, invoicing and finance; standardize playbooks and connector reliability.

Year 3

Automate

Add reusable logic, structured invoice-data readiness and early automation — fewer manual service hours per customer.

Year 4

Scale segments

Subscription tiers, deeper automation and industry-specific plug-and-play beyond the consulting wedge.

Year 5

Product-led platform

An automation-driven platform across multiple industries and European markets, aligned with ViDA.

The team

Strategy, customers, market and architecture.

A four-person founding team building LINK as a Dutch B.V., combining strategic framing, customer understanding, local market access and technical design.

SB

Sachin Bijadi

Concept & Strategy

Digital product leader across start-up and Fortune 500 transformation. Contributes the original concept, strategic direction and outcome focus.

SL

Simeon Labuschagne

Customer Success

Client success leader across sales, operations and strategic planning. Brings a customer-centric perspective to delivery and adoption.

WS

Wouter Stegenga

Market & Operations

Built a Dutch operations & procurement consultancy. Brings local market credibility and day-to-day SMB proximity.

TP

Thiago M. Pinto

Platform Architecture

Engineering leader in data platforms, MLOps and integration infrastructure. Leads the platform architecture and technical foundation.

The foundation everything else is built on.

LINK is what a growing consulting firm reaches for when the tools they have stop working together — and what stays with them as they scale.

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