Daniel the CEO

Daniel leads a mid-sized consulting firm with a strong focus on growth. He balances long-term strategy with a demanding day-to-day and needs to quickly get a complete picture of the business.

Rather than chasing information across multiple systems, he wants everything in one place so he can make the right decisions on time and drive the company forward.

Daniel's challenges before

Decisions without data

Without real-time insights, Daniel was forced to act on gut feeling. Utilization, pipeline and financials lived in separate systems or in someone’s head.

Data in the wrong tools

Critical information scattered across spreadsheets, emails and disconnected systems. No single source of truth. Growth slowed by inefficiency.

Deals slipping through

Mismatches between available skills and client needs cost deals. Not because the competence was missing, but because no one had visibility into it.

Silos slowing everything down

Sales, delivery and leadership ran on separate tracks. Key-person dependency, slow information flow and unnecessary duplication of work.

People leaving

Low engagement led to high turnover. Consultants were matched on skills only, not on what they actually wanted to work on.

With Cinode, Daniel gains

Real-time data on everything that matters

Utilization, revenue forecasts and pipeline directly in Cinode. Daniel no longer waits for the monthly report to know how the business is doing.

The right person on the right engagement

Skills, availability and ambitions in one place. Daniel can match internally and with partners, ensuring consultants thrive, not just deliver.

Sales and delivery in one flow

Cinode is the CRM that also understands utilization. From first client contact to signed contract and staffed delivery, without switching systems.

The whole company on the same page

Sales, consultant managers and leadership work from the same information. No silos, no delays, no unpleasant surprises.

A culture people stay in

When consultants are matched on both skills and ambition, satisfaction increases. Lower turnover, stronger employer brand and happier clients.

The tools that make a difference for a CEO

These features help Daniel achieve rapid, profitable growth.

”We’ve seen time and again that our ability to swiftly present the right team directly impacts our position in the client’s decision-making process. Cinode often helps us be the first through the door – a critical competitive edge.”

Anders Franzén

XLENT Consulting Group

AI that makes a different

Cinode uses AI to automate time-consuming tasks, so you can focus on what actually creates value.

Consulting firms sit on a goldmine of data: skills, experience, client relationships and project history. But that information is often scattered, outdated or hard to find. With Cinode’s AI, your consultant data becomes a powerful real-time decision support tool.

The MCP Server lets Daniel ask questions directly to Cinode data in Claude or ChatGPT, utilization forecasts, pipeline status and skill gaps in plain language.
AI MailMatch handles incoming requests automatically.
AI Notetaker documents client meetings and links decisions to the right client. Less admin, faster decisions.
Mailmatch Cinode

How Cinode helps Daniel

Less time on administration

AI MailMatch handles incoming requests automatically. The MCP Server answers business questions in plain language. Daniel spends his time on decisions, not on chasing data.

More won deals

With a CRM built for the consulting industry, Daniel has full visibility into pipeline, skills and availability in one flow. He responds faster to requests and wins more engagements.

Faster decisions with AI

Real-time data, AI-powered insights and a single source of truth mean Daniel can act quickly and confidently, without waiting for reports that are already outdated.

Higher utilization rate

Sales and delivery run on the same data. Bench time decreases when the right consultant is matched to the right engagement on time, internally or via the partner network.

Loved by
our users.

Anders Franzén

Senior Partner, Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

Cinode helps XLENT make faster and better business

We chose Cinode many years ago due to our need for a standard tool regarding branding, keeping track and displaying our competencies.

Cinode had and still has a user-friendly user interface that is easy for us to use, which gives us the best tool to make faster and better business.

By using Cinode we, XLENT, can live up to our internal strategies and meet our customer's demands regarding speed and business precision.

Margit Matsson

CEO, Small business (>50 employees)

With Cinode, we meet our customers with the right skills at the right time.

The system contributes to a transparent organization and to a reliable supplier and partner.

Cinode makes us more productive in our business and in our recruitment. We are faster and more efficient.

Jami Sjöblom

Director, Sales and Partnerships Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

“Cinode is the best solution on the market for consulting companies”

What do you like best about Cinode?

Planner view that's used for staffing planning and customer information management regarding what are the stages of sales processes.

Andreas Wall

Strategic Sales Manager Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

Strong support in planning with a good visualization of booked and available employees and partners in an easy way.

The combination of easily visualizing the skills of all employees, partners together with a good overview of the deal pipeline and planning is strong. All in one platform.

Furthermore also a strong network of partners that are integrated where we have the ability to efficiently respond to deal requests as well as publish available expertise is strong.

Henrik Brusewitz

Sales Director & Cofounder Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

By using the resource allocation and resource forecasting modules you get sales statistics like revenue forecast and utilization forecast out of the box, this has proven to be very powerful for us.

Lina Säfström

Staffing manager Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

"Streamlining our processes regarding matching for customer requests and our utilization"

Cinode is a simple and user-friendly system, which gives us a good overview and an efficient matching process by being able to match with both employees, candidates and partners.

We can share all of our available consultant in different regions and countries all over the company, which can lead to more opportunities for our customers, and thus increase our hitrate and market share.

Hugo Arkstedt

Business Development Manager, Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

What do you like best about Cinode?

The best part about Cinode is that everything I need is in one place; Creating and downloading (nice looking) resumes, overviewing the sales pipe and other classic CRM features as well as administrating / contacting our subcontractor-consultant network with new assignments.

See how consulting firms like yours grow with Cinode

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  • Higher utilization rate
  • More won deals
  • Faster decisions with AI