Xero + Karbon.
Karbon runs the firm's work. Xero records what the work earned. The practice questions - capacity, profitability, where the bottleneck actually is - need both at once.
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One system answers questions about itself.
Karbon is superb at moving work through a firm and quiet about what the work was worth. With work items and time landed next to fees billed, the firm can price from evidence: which work types recover, which clients consume the team, and whether the capacity problem is volume or process. And because client Xero files connect on the same platform, firm reporting and client reporting live in one governed place.
Ask it, and where the answer comes from.
“Which clients consume the most team time per dollar of fee?”
Karbon time against Xero fees, per client - the politely unprofitable clients surface with numbers attached, which is what makes the repricing conversation possible.
“Where is the bottleneck in the workflow, really?”
Work item ageing by stage and assignee, read against deadlines and capacity - a process answer, not an anecdote.
“What does next quarter's capacity look like against committed work?”
Recurring work items and their historical effort against available hours - the hire-or-not question with a denominator.
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Xero + Karbon, answered.
Does VibeCFO integrate with Karbon?
Yes - a purpose-built pipeline lands Karbon work items, time and client data next to the firm's Xero, refreshed twice daily, in a database the firm owns.
How is this different from Karbon's own dashboards?
Karbon reports on the work. The blend reports on the business of the work - profitability, recovery and capacity need the fee side, and that lives in the ledger.
See Xero + Karbon on your own data.
Connect the pair in your guided 14 days and ask the questions above of your own numbers - that is the whole trial.