A performance analytics consultancy for accounting and advisory firms — built to put the numbers that actually pay in front of the partners who can move them.
Insight Horizons builds performance analytics for the firms that sell it to everyone else. Accounting and advisory firms are extraordinary at measuring their clients — and strangely blind to their own economics. Leadership grades the year on billed hours, utilization, and top-line revenue: the numbers that feel like a good year. The numbers that decide whether it was one — realization, collections, write-offs, the cost of capital locked up in aged WIP, and the margin left after what the work cost to deliver — sit in systems no one has pointed the right way.
That gap is the whole reason we exist. We take the data a firm already has — billing, WIP, time — and build the system that turns it into a scoreboard that reflects the cash the firm actually keeps. A real data foundation underneath, automated pipelines that keep it current the day after month-close, and executive analytics on top. Insight, then action, then performance — in that order, every time.
We're not a generalist BI shop learning your business on your budget. We come out of the numbers themselves — realization, margin, working capital, forecasting — and the operating reality of a professional-services firm. That's why the first thing we hand you is a dollar figure, not a demo. And nothing we build is a black box: a real data model on the stack you already own, documented and maintainable, with no key-person risk and no platform lock-in. It's yours.
We come out of the numbers themselves — realization, margin, working capital, forecasting. Not a generalist BI shop learning your business on your budget.
Data foundation, automated pipelines, and executive analytics — engineered together as one system, not a dashboard bolted onto a spreadsheet.
The first deliverable is a number — what you're leaking today, read straight from your own billing and WIP data. If we can't surface something worth acting on, there's nothing to build, and you don't pay for finding that out.
Realization tells you what you kept of what you billed. It says nothing about what the work cost to earn. We put cost and revenue on the same line — the layer most firms, and most tools they buy, never reach.
Every signal traces back to data you can interrogate and logic you can follow. A real data model on the stack you already own — documented, maintainable, and yours. No key-person risk, no lock-in.
We work best with leadership that already suspects the scoreboard is measuring the wrong things — and wants the real picture, named and ranked, even when it's uncomfortable.
Large enough that realization, write-offs and aged WIP add up to real money, and small enough that a few underwater engagements actually move the year.
Not a blended average that hides the problem — which clients cost more to serve than they pay, which partners write down the most, which engagements bleed.
When the top line climbs for years while the cash you keep quietly slips, a report that only tracks revenue will never show you why. This is the layer that does.
A thirty-minute conversation, no deck — it starts with The Performance Diagnostic: two weeks, read-only, nothing sensitive to hand over. If it doesn't surface something worth acting on, you don't pay.