One platform, built on the truth of your time.
Lotus starts with one thing done properly: an accurate, automatic record of your firm's time. Everything else, whether planning, delivery, insight or mobile, builds on that foundation. Add what you need, when you need it. It all runs on the same source of truth.
Time is the foundation. Everything builds on it.
Time sits at the centre of Lotus, captured accurately, automatically, as the work happens, and every other capability draws from it. Your project tracking, your resourcing, your reporting, your insight: all of it runs on the same time data, so nothing has to be reconciled and nothing drifts out of sync.
Delivery
Plan and track the work against real captured time.
Mobile
Capture in the field, from a phone.
Insights
Understand the whole firm from one connected picture.
Time: captured properly, so everything else can be trusted.
In many firms, time is treated as accurate enough to rely on for revenue, yet it's usually reconstructed from memory at the end of the week. Half-remembered, rounded off, full of inaccuracies. Every bill, budget and decision built on it inherits those errors. An indefensible timesheet isn't just lost revenue; it's a bill that can cost you when a client questions it.
Lotus captures time automatically as the work happens. A lightweight desktop agent reads the labels around your work and builds your timesheet in near real time, allocated to the right client and matter. You review, adjust and approve; nothing is guessed, and nothing is finalised without you.
An accurate, defensible record of every hour, captured without the daily friction or admin of manual timekeeping, and solid enough to build everything else on. Timesheets you can stand behind, bills that hold up, and hours you'd otherwise have lost or left unbilled.
An accurate timesheet that builds itself. Lotus captures your work and allocates it to the right client and matter automatically, with no starting a timer and no reconstructing your week.
Mobile: capture time away from the desk.
Not all billable work happens at a desk. Client visits, site meetings, calls on the move: the time that's hardest to capture is exactly the time most likely to go unbilled, because by the time someone's back at their computer, the specifics are forgotten.
The Lotus mobile app captures field time three ways. On-site client visits can be logged through opt-in geofencing, so arriving at a client's office records the visit without anyone starting a timer. Time that isn't tied to a location can be entered manually in a few taps. You can also review, adjust and submit your timesheet from your phone, so field time is managed then and there.
The billable work that used to slip away, the site visit, the client meeting, the phone calls on your way there, captured in the field, while it's still fresh and therefore accurate.
Field time captured the moment it happens. On-site visits detected automatically, calls and off-site meetings logged in a few taps, each assigned to the right matter from your phone, so nothing is lost between the field and the desk.

Delivery: plan the work, then track how it's going in real time.
Firms commit to work with an estimate and a plan, then lose sight of both until it's too late to get back on track and on budget. The project that quietly ran over, the person who was overloaded while another sat idle, the quote that turned out to be undersold: all of it only becomes clear after the money's spent.
Running on time as it's captured, Delivery lets you watch a project burn down in real time, with budget and hours depleting against the plan as the work actually happens, not weeks later. A project heading over budget shows it while there's still room to act. The same live view drives resourcing: see who's over-committed and who has capacity, and assign people accordingly. Plan-versus-actual is built on real captured time, so it's the true state of the work, not an estimate of it.
Budget and schedule conversations you can have proactively, or avoid altogether. People assigned where they're needed, with a feedback loop that sharpens how you estimate and quote the next job.
A project's true state, live. The burn-down against your allocated resources updates in real time, so you see a project heading over while there's still room to act, not a week later.
Insights: the answers a firm runs on.
The numbers that decide a firm's health, which work is profitable, where time is leaking, whether the firm is over- or under-utilised, are usually locked in spreadsheets, assembled by hand, out of date by the time they're read. Most firms fly on instinct because the real picture is too much work to see.
Insights turns the data across every module into one connected picture: utilisation, realisation, leakage, profitability, and how work is allocated, without stitching spreadsheets together, because it all runs on the same source of truth. Where it helps, AI takes the answers those questions surface and suggests paths forward, reasoned over your own data.
One view of the firm, and the questions that decide margin answered from real data instead of guesswork, so the people running the firm can act on what's actually happening, not what they think is happening.
The whole firm, understood. Insights turns everything Lotus captures into the answers a firm runs on: what's profitable, where time is leaking, how work is spread, where to act. One connected picture, with AI surfacing the opportunities in it.
Capture is only half of it. Allocation is the rest.
The difference is what Lotus does with what it captures. It allocates every block of time to the right client and matter, accurately, as the work happens. That accurate allocation is the foundation the whole platform stands on: it's what makes a timesheet defensible, a burn-down live, and a firm-wide picture trustworthy. Get the allocation right, and everything built on top of it can be trusted.
Lotus fits the systems you already run.
Lotus gives your firm something it's never had: an accurate, automatic record of time. The best way to get value from that is to make it available to the tools you already run, so Lotus becomes the source of truth for time that the rest of your systems can draw from.
You decide what flows where. Your time data can feed whatever depends on it, from billing to reporting to the systems your firm runs day to day, on your terms, through standard integrations and a full API. Lotus also connects to the identity platforms your firm already uses, so people sign in without another password to manage.
Lotus captures the truth of your time. What you do with it, and where it flows, is your decision.
Start with time. Grow from there.
Every firm starts with Time, the foundation everything else is built on. From there, Lotus grows with you: add Mobile for the people in the field, Delivery to plan and track the work, Insights to understand the whole firm. Each one builds on the same accurate time data, so the more of Lotus you run, the more connected the picture becomes. One platform, one source of truth, added to as your firm needs it.
See the platform in action.
The best way to understand how it fits together is to watch it work: capture, timesheets, reporting, and the data behind it. Twenty minutes, no obligation.


