From time entry to billing, automated
A 2C team automated Triton’s monthly time cycle for fee earners, assistants and time owners - from calendar-based entry to approved hours flowing straight into billing.
0
manual steps between approval and billing
3user groups
on one monthly cycle
Live
status of every timesheet for time owners
The client
About Triton Partners
Triton is a European investment firm focused on the mid-market, with a strong emphasis on operational improvement. Founded in 1997, it has raised more than €25 billion and made around 600 investments across Business Services, Industrial Technology and Healthcare.
The challenge
What needed solving
Triton’s fee earners record time across several jurisdictions, and every approved hour has to reach billing. Without a central platform, tracking submissions, enforcing monthly deadlines and sending approved hours to the billing system all relied on manual work.
Time owners had no single view of who had submitted, what had been approved and what was still outstanding - so month-end became a bottleneck, and billing waited.
We built around how fee earners already work - not the other way round.
The solution
What we built
A 2C engineering team works closely with Triton to understand how the firm records and approves time, and turns it into a tailored platform for three groups: fee earners, their assistants and time owners.
It automates the full monthly cycle - from time entry through approval to billing submission - and fits the habits people already have, starting with their Outlook calendar.
- Calendar-based time entry, with a month-end release for approval
- An approver dashboard showing missing, in-progress and completed timesheets by week and month
- Rejection emails with a deep link straight back to the timesheet
- Outlook calendar sync, so time isn’t entered twice
- Deadlines, assistant assignments and fee earner records managed in one place
- Power BI reporting on rejection patterns and timesheet history
- Approved hours submitted directly to Unit 4, Triton’s billing system
The result
What changed
Month-end no longer a labour-intensive process
Real-time visibility of every fee earner’s timesheet status
Follow-up before deadlines are missed, not after
Approved hours flowing into billing with no manual step
Fewer errors and a faster billing cycle
Inside the partnership
More work for Triton Partners
- Enterprise
A connected investment ecosystem
For three years a dedicated 2C team has built and run 10+ connected platforms for a European private equity firm - from investor onboarding to procurement, invoices and timesheets.
10+connected platforms, built and run
- Enterprise
Digital AML onboarding for investors
A 2C team built the platform that takes Triton’s investors through anti-money-laundering checks - from the first invitation through review and e-signing to final approval, with every decision on record.
8categoriesof investor, from individuals to trusts
- Enterprise
Paperless purchase orders
A five-person 2C team turned Triton’s paper-heavy purchase orders into a guided digital workflow, built around the one decision that was never simple - and cut processing time by more than half.
50%+less time to process a purchase order
- Enterprise
One view of every investor
2C owns the application layer of Investor Master: one structured, searchable place where Triton’s teams find, review and maintain investor data - with a focused view for every kind of work.
4dashboardsone for each way of looking at an investor
- Enterprise
From invoice to payment
The Transaction Submission Portal takes every Triton invoice from upload to payment: AI reads it, the system checks it and the right people approve it - with an audit trail at every step.
AIreads every invoice - no retyping
- Enterprise
From invitation to signature
For Triton’s Management Investment Programmes, 2C helped shape the plan before any code was written - then built the platform that takes each investor from joining a programme to signing the offer.
4formsconfigured in the database, not the code
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