A Saskatoon agri-bookkeeping firm
Seasonal client availability at a Saskatchewan agri practice
Three staff
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The situation
Agricultural clients are unreachable for months at a time. A document request sent during seeding is a document request sent into a void.
The firm's constraint is not its own capacity but its clients' availability windows.
How the workflow fits
Availability is a field on the client
A custom field recording each client's unreachable window turns "they never answer in May" into data the whole firm can filter on.
Lead times set to the window, not the deadline
Services carry lead times long enough that requests go out before the window closes.
The portal collects what the phone cannot
Clients upload when they have a spare evening, rather than when the firm happens to call.
What changes day-to-day
- Document requests go out before the client becomes unreachable.
- Nobody wastes a week phoning clients who are in a field.
- Seasonal patterns are recorded rather than remembered.