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Most PSA platforms tell you what happened. Accelo shows you what's coming.
Professional services firms lose revenue every day through untracked hours, scope creep, misallocated resources, and manual processes โ and most don't find out until the damage is done. 42% of professional services organizations have some form of revenue leakage. 1 in 4 projects misses its deadline. Only 9% of professional services leaders fully trust their data.
Accelo closes those gaps with AI embedded across the full service delivery lifecycle โ not bolted on. It captures billable time automatically, flags projects drifting off-track before the deadline passes, identifies capacity shortfalls weeks out, and surfaces margin risk before the project closes.
Split Fee is a platform for UK recruitment agencies to collaborate on permanent placements.
Every agency has candidates they can't place and vacancies they can't fill. Another agency almost certainly has what you need โ but finding them, trusting them, and making the collaboration work has always been the hard part.
Split Fee solves this. Post your candidates and vacancies to the platform. Our matching algorithm finds opportunities across every agency on the network โ by skills, location, salary, and seniority. Candidate and client data stays anonymised until both sides agree to work together. When a placement is made, we handle the fee split and invoicing automatically.
No more posting in social media groups and hoping someone replies. No more sharing candidate details with strangers on trust alone. No more chasing invoices from agencies you barely know.
45% for you. 45% for them. 10% platform fee โ only when a placement is made.
Half of a placement fee is infinitely better than none of it.
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Accelo's answer
If you're a professional services firm running on a mix of project tools, spreadsheets, and separate billing software, Accelo replaces that stack with a single connected platform โ and adds AI intelligence the point solutions can't replicate.
Accelo is also the only PSA that handles both project-based and recurring/retainer work in one system, with billing models for T&M, fixed-fee, retainer, and mixed engagements. For firms running multiple contract types across a diverse client base, that flexibility alone eliminates a significant operational headache.
Split Fee's answer:
Most "split fee networks" are just directories or social groups where agencies post and hope someone responds. Split Fee is an actual matching engine. It scores candidate-vacancy pairs, handles the legal agreements (non-circumvention, self-billing), automates invoicing and fee splits, and manages the entire placement lifecycle from match to payment. Everything that normally requires trust, phone calls, and spreadsheets is handled by the platform.
Accelo's answer
Most PSA platforms are built around reporting โ they tell you what happened last month. Accelo is built around prediction: it shows you what's coming before it becomes a problem.
The core difference is embedded AI across the full service delivery lifecycle. Rather than a reporting layer bolted on top, Accelo's AI is woven into every stage โ from pipeline to project delivery to invoicing. It captures billable time in the background, flags projects drifting off-track before the deadline passes, identifies capacity gaps weeks out, and surfaces revenue leakage before the invoice goes out. Margin Guard, Early Issue Detection, and Resourcing Intelligence are in-app AI agents that run continuously, not dashboards you have to remember to check.
The other differentiator is true end-to-end unification. Accelo connects pipeline, projects, resources, and financials in a single platform โ so there's no handoff between systems, no data gap between delivery and billing, and no reconciliation at month end. Every disconnected tool a firm replaces is five fewer weeks per person per year lost to context-switching.
Split Fee's answer:
Split Fee is the first purpose-built platform for split fee recruitment in the UK. Instead of relying on LinkedIn groups, WhatsApp messages, and manual agreements, agencies upload their candidates and vacancies and the platform automatically matches them across agencies.
Candidate identities are revealed gradually; anonymised at first, then progressively disclosed as both sides accept, so agencies can collaborate without the risk of circumvention.
Accelo's answer
Accelo is purpose-built for professional services organizations where people are the product โ firms that bill clients for time, expertise, and project outcomes.
The primary verticals are management consulting, marketing and creative agencies, IT services and MSPs, accounting and CPA firms, engineering firms, and architecture firms. Most Accelo customers fall in the 20โ400 person range, though the platform scales to larger enterprise consultancies.
The buying committee typically includes a Managing Partner or CEO (focused on firm profitability and growth), a Director of Operations or COO (focused on efficiency and process), and a Finance Director (focused on revenue realization and billing accuracy). The shared pain across all of them: they're making major decisions on gut instinct or lagging data, losing billable hours in the gaps between tools, and finding out about margin problems after the project closes โ when it's too late to act.
Split Fee's answer:
UK recruitment agencies; from boutique firms with a handful of consultants to mid-sized agencies with specialist sector coverage. Any agency that has either strong candidates without the right vacancies, or client vacancies they can't fill from their own candidate pool. Split Fee turns those dormant assets into placements.
Split Fee's answer:
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Split Fee's answer:
Abbie, our founder, knew that although split fee arrangements have existed in recruitment for decades, the process has always been manual: find a partner agency, negotiate terms, trust them with your candidate data, chase invoices. Most agencies avoid it because the overhead and risk outweigh the reward. Abbie built Split Fee to remove that friction entirely, with automated matching, progressive identity disclosure, built-in legal agreements, and automated billing, making split placements as straightforward as direct ones.
I cannot imaging my life without Accelo. It drasticly improved my performance and profitability!
Highly recommend!
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