Turn inbound interest into a discovery call this week
A consulting lead cools fast. A buyer who filled in your contact form on Monday is talking to two other firms by Wednesday. A booking link in the first reply puts a real discovery call on the calendar while the problem is still urgent.
Each kind of meeting gets its own type, length and owner: a 30 minute discovery call, a 90 minute scoping workshop, a weekly project check-in, a quarterly retainer review. Prospects see only the types meant for them.
Route by practice area, industry or seniority
A routing form asks what the buyer needs help with, which industry they are in and roughly how large the company is. Each answer shows only the consultants who fit. A pricing project goes to the pricing lead, a cloud migration goes to the technology partner, and a small company with a small budget goes to a senior consultant rather than a partner.
When several people cover the same practice, round robin shares new calls between them and skips anyone already booked.
Keep client sessions out of your inbox
Active clients get a private booking page for working sessions. They pick from the hours you have set aside for them, the invite lands in both calendars with the call link, and reminders go out with reschedule and cancel links. That removes the back and forth that eats billable hours.
- Separate meeting types for discovery calls, workshops and check-ins
- Routing forms by practice area, industry or company size
- Qualifying questions answered before the call
- Reminders with reschedule and cancel links to cut no-shows
- Client time zones handled automatically
- Your logo and colors, on your own domain with the Team plan
Flat pricing for the whole firm
Consulting firms add analysts, associates and part time experts all the time, and per seat tools charge for every one of them. HourMeet charges per team. Starter costs $49 per month for up to 5 team members. Team costs $149 per month for up to 20 members and adds round robin, routing forms and own domain branding. Business costs $499 per month for up to 75 members and adds SSO and an audit log. Yearly billing is 50 percent lower.
A boutique with a few partners fits Starter. A firm that wants routing by practice area belongs on Team. The comparison is worked out in scheduling software pricing per seat versus flat, and a broader checklist is in how to choose a consultation booking system.