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Professional services
See how a firm keeps its memory when its people move on.
In a consultancy or a law firm, knowledge lives in people. Turnover should not erase it.
01 The Situation
The firm sells exactly one thing: what its people know.
A consultancy or a law firm runs on accumulated judgment. Every engagement builds a deep, specific understanding of a client, a matter, a market. And every year a share of the people who hold that understanding leave, rotate or retire. The firm's value is what it has learned, and what it has learned walks out the door a little at a time.
02 Where It Breaks
Knowledge that exists only while its holder stays.
When a partner leaves, the reasoning behind a decade of advice goes with them. A new associate inherits the client and a folder of documents, and none of the context that made them mean anything. The firm has done the work before, often many times, but it cannot reliably find it or trust it. Institutional knowledge lasts exactly as long as the individuals holding it, which means it is always quietly leaving.
03 With Timer
What people know becomes what the firm owns.
Timer writes every engagement to one governed memory: the decisions, the reasoning, the client's history and how it all connects. When someone leaves, their context stays. When someone joins, they inherit the firm's memory instead of rebuilding it. When AI supports the work, it draws on everything the firm has ever learned, not just the file that happens to be open. The knowledge stops depending on who is still in the building.
04 What Changes