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Laurel

Laurel is the work intelligence platform for professional services. AI handles capture, classification, and narrative drafting, automating the administrative work draining professional time and turning every work activity into ready-to-review timesheets, real-time profitability, AI ROI, and pricing intelligence. Across 150+ customers including Aprio, GHJ, The Bonadio Group, and EY, Laurel captures 99%+ of billable activity and delivers a 4-11% revenue lift.

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Laurel Company Details

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Year Founded

2016

Number of Employees

Mid-Size (51-200 employees)

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Laurel Product Description

Laurel helps accounting firms maximize utilization, reduce manual timekeeping, and understand the true cost of service delivery. The platform automatically captures chargeable and non-chargeable work across digital tools, including email, documents, meetings, browsers, and firm applications. Laurel then uses AI to group activity, assign it to the right client or project, and generate review-ready time entries and narratives.

For professionals, Laurel turns timesheets from a manual reconstruction exercise into a short daily review. For firm leaders, Laurel creates a new work intelligence layer that shows how time is actually spent across clients, engagements, service lines, and teams. This helps firms recover missed chargeable work, reduce write-downs, identify scope creep, price engagements more confidently, understand staffing and capacity, and measure whether AI and workflow investments are actually creating leverage.

Laurel is most relevant for firms that rely on accurate time data for billing, profitability, realization, utilization, fixed-fee pricing, capacity planning, or service delivery improvement.

Firm Fit

Large Firms (51+ CPAs), Enterprise Only

Buyer Personas

Managing Partner / Firm Owner, Senior Partner (Tax / Audit / Advisory), Director of Operations, Operations Manager, Head of Tax / Tax Partner, Audit Partner, CAS / Client Accounting Services Leader, Finance Lead / Controller, Technology Director / IT Lead, Innovation Lead / Digital Transformation Lead

Pricing Model

Custom Pricing

Support Channel(s)

Phone & Email, Live Chat

Product Launch Year

2016

Starting Price

Contact for pricing

Key Integrations with Laurel
  • Aderant
  • IRIS Star
  • Practice CS by Thomson Reuters
  • Wolters Kluwer
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Calendar
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Office
  • Adobe
  • Chrome
  • Edge
  • flat file/API workflows
  • and many more

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Overview of Laurel for Accounting Firms

Laurel’s AI captures missed chargeable time while showing you exactly where your team creates the most value per hour.

GHJ unlocks firmwide time intelligence with Laurel

GHJ unlocks firmwide time intelligence, giving leadership visibility into how resources are allocated across every corner of the firm

Laurel Signal

Work intelligence, profitability, pricing, and AI ROI use cases.

What Laurel Clients Say

Laurel gives us objective visibility into how work actually happens, something traditional timekeeping simply never delivered. With Signal, we’re moving beyond compliance-driven time entry to real operational insight, helping our teams work more efficiently while bringing clarity to our true cost of delivery and project visibility.
John Roman Jr.

CIO, Bonadio Group

Laurel provides the reliable time intelligence we need to run the firm. With Signal, we can see what’s really happening beneath the surface of our engagements. Uncovering hidden write-downs and understanding how partner and senior time affects leverage. That visibility allows us to staff more effectively, protect margins, and plan with confidence.
Adam Rimes

CFO and Partner, Aprio (a Boomer Circle Member)

Signal has provided us with unprecedented visibility into how our teams are spending their time across projects and technologies. The data-driven insights have been invaluable for driving efficiency and profitability.
Tom Barry

Managing Partner, GHJ (a Boomer Circle member)

Laurel Answers & Perspectives

What problem does Laurel solve for accounting firms?

Laurel reduces the manual burden of timekeeping while helping firms recover missed chargeable work and understand how time is actually spent across clients, engagements, service lines, and teams.

Laurel runs in the background and captures work activity across emails, documents, meetings, browsers, desktop tools, and supported firm applications. Professionals review suggested entries rather than reconstructing their day manually.

No. Laurel is useful for hourly, fixed-fee, value billing, and hybrid models because it helps firms understand the true cost of service delivery and identify where scope creep or margin erosion is occurring.

Laurel’s AI groups related work activity, predicts the relevant client or project, and drafts time-entry narratives so professionals can review, edit, and release entries faster.

Signal is Laurel’s work intelligence layer. It turns captured work activity into insights on profitability, utilization, pricing, staffing, workflow efficiency, and AI ROI.

Managing Partners, COOs, CFOs, Innovation Leaders, CIOs, and practice leaders are common stakeholders because Laurel impacts revenue, realization, operations, technology, and user adoption.

Laurel supports rollout through technical implementation, onboarding, user training, customer success, and ongoing business impact reporting.

Laurel integrates with common billing, practice management, productivity, browser, and desktop tools. Current fit should be confirmed with Laurel based on the firm’s exact tech stack.

Laurel gives leaders more reliable work data for pricing, staffing, capacity planning, profitability analysis, scope management, and technology investment decisions.

Start with a discovery call covering timekeeper population, billing workflows, systems, service lines, current timekeeping pain points, and the business case for revenue recovery or operational intelligence.

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