Advice has no boundaries
"Quick question" calls, "can you look at this" emails — expertise leaks out of the engagement one favor at a time, unbilled.
Rixio for consultants: every extra request, documented and billed
Consulting scope is fuzzy by nature — which is exactly why it needs hard edges. Rixio turns your engagement letter into a living, signed baseline: deliverables with acceptance criteria, counted review cycles, and priced change orders for everything beyond.
Strategy, marketing, finance and independent consultants use Rixio to keep engagements profitable and clients accountable to their own decisions.
What's quietly costing consultants money
The SOW nobody reads
Your statement of work is a PDF in someone’s inbox. By week 3, the project runs on vibes and verbal agreements.
Always-on expectations
Clients paying premium rates feel entitled to premium access — evenings, weekends, holidays included.
How Rixio fixes it for consultants
A living, signed SOW
Deliverables, acceptance criteria and review allowances in a baseline both parties signed — visible to the client on every visit, not buried in email.
Extras become engagements
That "quick additional analysis" becomes a priced change order in 30 seconds. The client signs, you deliver, everyone’s clear.
Office hours, enforced
Time-locked chat queues off-hours messages until your working hours. Premium clients get premium responsiveness — during business hours.
Audit-grade records
Every deliverable, approval and decision timestamped and exportable — invaluable for disputes, renewals and your own case studies.
Questions consultants ask us
How do consultants prevent scope creep in engagements?
The mechanism that works is a signed statement of work with explicit deliverables and a formal change process. Rixio operationalizes it: deliverables carry acceptance criteria and review allowances, and any request beyond them automatically becomes a priced change order the client signs. Nothing out of scope proceeds unsigned.
What software do independent consultants use to manage clients?
Independent consultants typically need an engagement record, deliverable approvals, boundaried communication and payment milestones without enterprise overhead. Rixio bundles exactly that: a client portal (no client accounts needed), signed scope baselines, automatic change orders, time-locked chat and phase-gated payments — free to start.
Can Rixio handle retainer and project-based consulting?
Yes. Project engagements map to phased scope with milestone approvals. Retainers work as recurring scope items with monthly review allowances — when a client’s requests exceed the retainer’s allowance, the overage becomes a signed change order instead of silent free work.
Is my consulting data private and exportable?
Yes. Each workspace is fully isolated, and the complete engagement record — agreements, approvals, communications, payments — exports to PDF/CSV in one click. Your data is never held hostage.
Rixio for everyone who does client work
Stop scope creep. Get paid for every change.
Set up your first project in minutes — scope items, revision allowances, and a client link.