Your Spreadsheets Work. The Gaps Between Them Are Costing You $300K–$600K a Year.
The problem isn’t any single tool — it’s the manual labor of making them talk to each other. Data reconciliation, duplicate entry, report assembly, and integration maintenance consume hundreds of hours every year.
Where the $300K–$600K Hides
The cost spreads across roles and processes — no single person feels the full weight. Aggregated, it’s staggering.
Time Cost
500-800 hours per year moving data between systems. That's a third of a full-time employee doing nothing but integration work.
Decision Cost
Leadership makes pricing, staffing, and investment decisions on data that's 1-4 weeks stale. Every decision carries that drag.
Risk Cost
Revenue recognition in a spreadsheet. One person who understands the formulas. No period locking. That's an audit finding waiting to happen.
DIY Patchwork vs. FastQlik
Side-by-side: what changes when you consolidate.
| Category | DIY Patchwork | FastQlik |
|---|---|---|
| Project Management | Jira / Monday / spreadsheets — siloed | Native project lifecycle with billing built in |
| Time Tracking | Separate app, re-keyed into billing | Integrated — flows to billing automatically |
| Resource Scheduling | Spreadsheet updated weekly (at best) | Real-time scheduling grid with utilization visibility |
| Billing & Invoicing | Manual export to QuickBooks | Generated from approved time and milestones |
| Revenue Recognition | Spreadsheet formulas (one person understands them) | Automated — ASC 606/IFRS 15 compliant |
| Financial Reporting | Assembled manually from 3+ sources | Real-time from unified data layer |
| Data Reconciliation | 500-800 hours/year | Zero — single source of truth |
| Audit Trail | Manual, incomplete | Immutable, automatic |
What You Keep
FastQlik doesn’t replace every tool. It replaces the reconciliation layer between them — and provides native integrations with the tools that matter most.
QuickBooks
General accounting stays in QuickBooks. FastQlik handles project financials and syncs automatically.
Jira / Azure DevOps
Development workflows stay where your devs work. Project and financial data flows into FastQlik.
Salesforce
CRM stays in Salesforce. Opportunities convert to FastQlik projects. Accounts stay in sync.
Frequently Asked Questions
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