Why we built Eclairy

We spent years building eBilling and matter management for in-house IP teams. The problem we found was bigger: every team buying professional services needs a reliable way to understand invoices, enforce agreed rates, and keep spend data clean.

The teams that manage service spend well have more than agreements and software. They have an operating layer that keeps everything working: rates are negotiated and maintained, invoicing rules stay current, invoices are checked against what was agreed, and the data remains clean enough to report on.

Traditionally, keeping that layer running takes a surprising amount of human effort. On larger teams, an operations function absorbs it. On smaller teams, it gets distributed among managers, finance, administrators, and spreadsheets. Even teams with dedicated systems often spend significant time configuring and maintaining the system itself.

Eclairy was built around a different idea:

The system should do more of that operational work for you.