Case Study: Allgeier Martin increases billable staff by 30% without added overhead with Deltek Ajera

Consulting firm increases billable staff by 30% without increasing overhead

Allgeier, Martin and Associates, a 130‑person consulting, engineering and surveying firm in Joplin, MO, was hampered by fragmented systems (QuickBooks plus Excel/Access) that made monthly billing labor‑intensive, time and expense entry painful, and forced project managers to spend billable hours searching for information. They needed a scalable ERP to centralize data, speed processes, and extend reporting beyond accounting.

By implementing Ajera for project and financial accounting and adopting paperless billing, PMs gained full project visibility and invoices can now be drafted, approved and generated in one day. The firm reclaimed roughly 80 staff‑hours per month, freed about $5,000/month in additional billable PM time (≈ $60K/year), cut invoicing time in half, and added 30 billable staff without increasing overhead.

Allgeier Martin

Glen Davidson

CFO, Allgeier Martin