Engagement Profitability and Rate Analysis

River works out what each engagement actually paid you per hour, twice. First on the hours your timesheet recorded. Then on a fuller estimate: recorded hours plus client meetings from your calendar that no entry covers, plus work sessions from file or message activity where you share it, each counted once under rules written down on the page. Every hour is then matched to a deliverable in the signed scope, and the hours that match nothing get their own column.

The usual profitability check is a spreadsheet with an Hours column: fee, hours, divide, sort, and the engagement at the top is the one you go looking for more of. It is the right calculation on the wrong denominator. The hours in that column are the ones somebody remembered to enter, and unbillable work on a fixed fee is precisely the work nobody enters. So the ranking often measures diligence at data entry rather than profit, and the fix it suggests can be exactly backwards.

Built for the independent consultant or small firm pricing the next engagement off the last one. It rolls up into the practice-level view in the consulting practice dashboard pack, reads the in-scope deliverable list out of the statement of work, and feeds what it finds into the next proposal. On the client side of the desk, the same net-of-cost arithmetic runs in the savings ledger. Run it at the end of an engagement while the calendar is still fresh, or once a year across the whole book.