How our consulting team replaced manual data entry

Wanted to share our journey since I keep seeing similar questions come up.

We’re a mid-size consulting firm (about 50 people) and used to have 2 full-time analysts whose primary job was entering data from client documents into our analysis models. We’re talking contracts, financial statements, RFPs — hundreds of docs per month.

With Qomplement, here’s what changed:

  1. Week 1: Set up templates for our 5 most common document types
  2. Week 2: Started routing all incoming docs through the parser
  3. Week 3: Built a simple review workflow where analysts spot-check extracted data instead of entering it
  4. Month 2: Those 2 analysts now spend 80% of their time on actual analysis work

The ROI was pretty clear within the first month. Not trying to shill — there are definitely docs that still need manual intervention (handwritten notes, really old faxes) — but for standard business documents it’s been transformative for us.

This mirrors our experience almost exactly. The analyst time savings alone justified the cost for us. What types of contracts are you processing? We do a lot of lease agreements and found we needed to tweak templates pretty heavily for those.

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