For Accounting Firms

The growth intelligence layer for top accounting firms.

Propense reads your time and billing, your CRM, and your firm's history of client work. We surface the next service every client needs, the BD angle a partner can actually use, and the moments worth acting on. The clients you already have become the most reliable pipeline you have.

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Top Recommendations
Brooks Manufacturing
Audit client since 2017 · $1.2M annual fees · Looks like 9 of your clients
CAS Advisory
Outsourced finance & reporting
92%
R&D Tax Credits
Section 174 capitalization study
88%
Transaction Advisory
Sell-side prep · Q2 2026 trigger
84%
SALT Review
Multi-state nexus exposure
81%
$340K potential annual fees across four service lines. Email drafts and BD briefs ready for the partner.
Who we work with

Built for firms that have more clients than partners can keep up with.

Propense was designed for the size and complexity of IPA Top 100 and Top 200 firms - but it works for any firm with enough clients that no one partner can see the full picture.

IPA Top 100

Large national & multi-office firms

$100M+ revenue firms with thousands of clients across multiple offices, service lines, and industry verticals.

  • Cross-office whitespace across audit, tax, and advisory
  • Industry-vertical playbooks across partner books
  • Daily partner briefings to keep relationships warm at scale
IPA Top 200

Regional firms scaling advisory

$25M-$100M firms with a strong audit and tax base, growing into CAS, advisory, transaction work, and niche services.

  • Move clients from compliance to advisory engagements
  • Build the CAS book from existing tax and audit clients
  • Identify the right partner to bring into each opportunity
Specialty & Niche

Niche and specialty firms

Firms focused on R&D credits, transaction advisory, valuation, ESG, or industry-specific advisory.

  • Find prospects that match the pattern of your best clients
  • Tie market triggers to specific service offerings
  • Equip BD with research and outreach drafts on demand
The real growth gap

Most accounting firms grow by hiring more partners.

The fastest growth lever is sitting in plain sight: the existing client book. Most firms still grow by hiring laterally and hoping cross-sell happens organically. Meanwhile, the clients you already have are sitting on millions of dollars of un-pitched CAS, R&D, transaction advisory, SALT, and risk work.

The cross-sell gap inside top firms isn't a sales problem. It's a visibility problem. Partners can't see across each other's books. Service lines can't see across industries. Market triggers pass without anyone connecting them to specific clients. Propense closes that gap.

What Propense does for accounting firms

Four ways we turn your book of business into pipeline.

W

Whitespace

Find advisory, CAS, R&D, transaction, and SALT revenue hiding in clients you already serve. Ranked by propensity and potential fees.

T

Triggers

Market events and client signals that mean a client is in-market right now - acquisitions, executive moves, financing rounds, regulatory shifts.

P

Prospecting

Run the same intelligence on your prospects. Identify the firms that look like your best clients and the service to lead with on each one.

A

Activation

Daily Hatfield partner briefs, one-click outreach drafts, partner-ready briefs surfaced inside your CRM. The intelligence reaches the partner.

Use cases by service line

Specific revenue, on specific clients, by specific partners.

Eight of the highest-impact use cases firms are running on Propense today. Each one mapped to a service line, ranked by propensity, and surfaced with the BD angle a partner can act on.

CAS & Advisory

Move clients from compliance to advisory

The biggest growth opportunity at most firms. Propense identifies tax and audit clients whose business complexity, headcount, growth rate, and systems profile match the firms already buying CAS engagements - then ranks them by readiness and potential fees.

Surfaces: client size and complexity match, current systems, partner relationship strength, peer firm patterns
R&D & Section 174

R&D tax credit & capitalization studies

Every client with engineering, software development, product design, or process improvement spend is a candidate. Propense surfaces clients with the operational signals that match credit-eligible activity and the Section 174 capitalization profile.

Surfaces: R&D-eligible activity, headcount mix, capex patterns, prior credit history, industry vertical match
Audit to Advisory

Audit clients ready for advisory engagements

Audit relationships are the largest untapped advisory funnel at most firms. Propense identifies audit clients whose growth, M&A activity, IPO trajectory, or operational complexity signals readiness for valuation, risk advisory, or transaction work.

Surfaces: growth velocity, leadership changes, financing signals, expansion patterns, audit findings themes
SALT & Tax

SALT exposure & nexus reviews

Clients expanding into new states, hiring remote workers, or scaling e-commerce often have multi-state exposure that has gone un-reviewed. Propense flags clients with nexus risk signals and pairs them with the SALT partner.

Surfaces: multi-state hiring, e-commerce growth, recent acquisitions, geographic expansion, prior SALT engagement gaps
Transaction Advisory

M&A & transaction advisory pipeline

Clients showing signals of an upcoming sale, acquisition, or financing event are the highest-stakes opportunities your firm has. Propense detects these signals in real time and matches them to the right transaction partners.

Surfaces: ownership changes, banker engagement signals, growth-stage patterns, PE backing, succession indicators
ESG & Sustainability

ESG & sustainability assurance

Public-facing clients, supply chain-exposed clients, and clients under regulatory pressure (CSRD, SEC climate rules) are candidates for ESG assurance, sustainability strategy, and reporting engagements.

Surfaces: regulatory exposure, public reporting status, supply chain complexity, customer pressure signals
Cyber & IT Risk

Cyber & IT risk advisory

Clients with breach history, expanding tech surface area, financial services regulation exposure, or data-heavy operating models are ready for cyber assessments, IT audits, and ongoing risk advisory.

Surfaces: breach history, tech stack complexity, regulatory regime, third-party risk profile, peer firm patterns
Wealth Advisory

Cross-sell to client executives

For firms with private client services or wealth practices, the executives at your business clients are some of the best wealth prospects you have. Propense surfaces the high-confidence individuals to introduce to your private client team.

Surfaces: liquidity events, executive comp profile, business-owner status, generational transition signals
17%
CAS growth rate across IPA firms - the fastest-growing service line in accounting.
3.2x
more revenue per client when an audit relationship extends into advisory work.
350+
service offerings at a Top 100 firm. Most clients use only a small fraction. Propense surfaces the rest.
40%
of partners say they don't know which of their clients need the firm's other services.
Customer stories

Trusted by leading accounting firms.

Read how IPA Top 100 and Top 200 firms are using Propense to surface cross-service opportunities, equip partners with data-backed insights, and build cross-selling into the daily rhythm of the firm.

Aprio LBMC Bennett Thrasher KLR Sensiba
Aprio

How Aprio Unlocked Hidden Revenue in Its Client Base with Propense

Aprio gained a clearer view of cross-service opportunities across its client portfolio. By analyzing engagement data and service history, Propense identified where clients were only using a small portion of the firm's nearly 350 service offerings - surfacing opportunities for partners to expand relationships, engage additional economic buyers, and bring more relevant services into client discussions.

Read the case study
LBMC

How LBMC Scales Cross-Service Insights with Propense

LBMC introduced a data-driven approach that helps surface high-value opportunities at scale and encourages the right professionals to collaborate around each client's evolving needs. The result is a more proactive, firm-wide process for expanding relationships and delivering comprehensive client service.

Read the case study
Bennett Thrasher

How Bennett Thrasher Has Created Routine Within Cross-Service

With Propense, the firm can now analyze its time and billing data to uncover clients with new business opportunities and bring data-driven insights into BD conversations - turning cross-service into a routine, not a one-off effort.

Read the case study
KLR

How KLR Unlocked Deeper Client Insights with Propense

KLR refined its engagement hierarchy to create a clearer, more granular understanding of every client relationship - so partners can better anticipate client needs and bring the right team into each conversation at the right time.

Read the case study
Sensiba

How Sensiba Is Rolling Out Propense Firmwide

Sensiba is rolling out a phased, adoption-focused approach designed to build confidence and encourage consistent use. Guided practice sessions and real client use cases help teams apply insights in their day-to-day work and collaborate more effectively across the firm.

Read the case study
Propense Client Benchmark

Firms using Propense for a year or more show stronger cross-sell performance.

We reviewed cross-selling performance across firms that have been using Propense for a year or more. The results point to a clear pattern: firms using Propense are identifying more client opportunities and realizing measurable improvements in cross-selling outcomes.

Inside the platform

Seven products. One advisor for every partner.

Everything Propense does sits on top of your existing systems. No data migration, no replacement of the tools your firm runs on today.

i.

Data Integration

Read time and billing, CRM, marketing automation, and external market data with no migration.

ii.

Data Enrichment

Fill the gaps in client revenue, headcount, ownership, and firmographic data automatically.

iii.

Data Science Models

Six propensity models including service recommendations, market triggers, and warm-intro paths.

iv.

Web App

The Propense workspace where partners see clients, prospects, recommendations, and the journey ahead.

v.

CRM Integration

Recommendations and BD briefs appear directly inside your CRM, on every client and prospect record.

vi.

Hatfield Agent

Daily partner briefs surfacing client news, thought leadership pairings, cross-sell opportunities, and ready-to-send research reports.

vii.

Prospecting

Take your top prospects through the same propensity engine that powers your client recommendations. Identify the best path to winning the business and surface where each first service can lead next.

Reads from your existing stack
CCH ProSystem fx Thomson Reuters Wolters Kluwer Workday Salesforce HubSpot Microsoft Dynamics Practice CS Caseware Snowflake Custom data feeds
See it on your firm

See what Propense finds inside your firm's data.

Book a 30-minute evaluation. We will put a sample of recommendations together on a slice of your firm's clients before we even meet, so you can see what we would surface before committing to a longer conversation.