Fee proposals, scoping notes to costed proposal
An engineering practice turns a set of scoping notes into a costed fee proposal without re-keying anything into the job system. The scoping notes, the rate card and the history of similar jobs already exist, they just sit in three places and get assembled by hand every time. The work is to join them, draft the proposal against the practice's own template, and surface the assumptions the estimator needs to check. The estimator still reviews and signs off every number before it leaves the building. The measure is simple: how long a proposal takes today against how long it takes after.