A clearer place for consultant-client work
Consultants manage ongoing engagements through conversations, information, deliverables, requests, feedback, and client decisions. Riverton provides a shared workspace for the consultant and client to work together with greater clarity.
Consulting engagements depend on continuous client coordination
Consulting work is rarely a single exchange. An engagement can involve gathering information, communicating with the client, sharing documents, delivering work, collecting feedback, answering questions, and moving through review cycles.
When those activities are spread across email, folders, messaging, and other disconnected tools, it can become harder to keep the engagement organized.
Communication across email
Client questions, conversations, and follow-ups can become distributed across separate email threads.
Information in different places
Consultants may need information from clients while documents and working materials exist in separate locations.
Repeated client requests
Ongoing engagements can require clients to provide information, answer questions, or complete requests at different points.
Feedback and review cycles
Deliverables may go through multiple rounds of client review, discussion, and feedback.
Tasks and decisions
Client participation can involve actions, decisions, reviews, and approvals that need to remain connected to the engagement.
Ongoing engagement context
The longer an engagement continues, the more important it becomes to keep relevant client work in context.
What a client portal does for consultants
A consultant client portal gives the consultant and client a shared environment for relevant engagement activity.
Instead of treating every interaction as a separate exchange, the shared workspace provides a common place for the client relationship and its ongoing work.
Consultant ↔ Shared Workspace ↔ Client
The shared workspace brings the consultant and client into a common environment for relevant engagement activity.
Client communication
Keep relevant consultant-client conversations connected to the engagement.
Files and documents
Create a shared environment for exchanging relevant information and engagement materials.
Onboarding
Organize the beginning of a consulting relationship and the information needed to start the engagement.
Information intake
Give client information gathering a clearer place within the engagement.
Tasks and requests
Structure client participation in ongoing consulting work.
Feedback and approvals
Keep review, feedback, and approval activity connected to the client relationship where supported.
Connect the consultant-client relationship to a shared workspace
Riverton is built around the idea that client work can have a clearer place when the business and client work together through a shared workspace.
For consultants, that means thinking about the portal around the engagement and the client relationship rather than treating each activity as a separate workflow.
Bring the beginning of the engagement into context
Consulting engagements can begin with onboarding, information gathering, documents, and initial client requests. A shared workspace can provide a common environment for that early work.
Explore client onboardingKeep consultant-client communication connected
Ongoing consulting work depends on communication between the consultant and client. A shared environment can give that interaction a clearer context.
Explore client messagingGive engagement information a clearer home
Consultants often need client information and documents throughout an engagement. A shared workspace can provide a common environment for relevant exchanges.
Explore file sharingKeep client participation connected to the work
Where client review, feedback, or approval is part of the engagement, those activities can remain connected to the wider client workflow.
Explore client approvalsFollow the engagement from start to completion
Consulting engagements can move through several stages. The shared workspace provides a conceptual model for keeping the consultant and client connected throughout the relationship.
Onboard
Establish the relationship and begin organizing the engagement.
Collect
Gather the information, documents, and input needed from the client.
Communicate
Keep the consultant and client connected as the engagement develops.
Deliver
Provide relevant work and deliverables within the engagement context.
Review
Give the client an opportunity to review and respond to the work.
Approve
Where approval is required, keep the client decision connected to the engagement.
Complete
Bring the engagement to completion while keeping the client relationship and work in context.
Make participation clearer for the client
The client is an active part of a consulting engagement. They may need to provide information, respond to questions, review deliverables, provide feedback, or make decisions.
A shared workspace gives those interactions a common environment instead of requiring the client to reconstruct the engagement from disconnected conversations and files.
Find relevant information
Give clients a clearer place to find information connected to their engagement.
Participate in the engagement
Give clients a structured environment for participating in ongoing consulting work.
Communicate with the consultant
Keep client-facing communication within the context of the engagement where supported.
Follow requests and deliverables
Provide a clearer environment for information requests, work, and client participation.
A client workspace for different types of consulting work
Consultants work across different disciplines and engagement models. The shared-workspace approach can apply wherever ongoing work requires meaningful participation between consultant and client.
Management consultants
Support ongoing client relationships involving information, communication, deliverables, and review.
Business consultants
Organize client-facing work around advisory engagements and ongoing collaboration.
Marketing consultants
Give client communication, information, and engagement work a shared environment.
Financial consultants
Provide a shared context for client information exchange and ongoing advisory work.
Technology consultants
Keep client-facing communication and engagement activity connected throughout the relationship.
Independent consultants
Bring client communication, information, deliverables, and participation into one shared environment.
Consulting work is a relationship, not just a collection of files
Email can handle conversations. File folders can hold documents. Messaging can handle quick exchanges. Project tools can organize particular activities.
But a consulting engagement can still remain spread across those separate places.
Riverton centers the model around the relationship between consultant and client.
Consultant + Client
The relationship is the starting point for the engagement.
Shared Workspace
Relevant client-facing work comes together in a common environment.
Clearer Work
The shared environment provides a clearer context for the work.
See how the Riverton workspace fits the engagement
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Explore the workflows behind client work
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Explore Professional ServicesConsultant client portal questions
What is a client portal for consultants?
A client portal for consultants is a shared environment where consultants and clients can organize relevant parts of an ongoing consulting engagement.
Why should consultants use a client portal?
A client portal can give consultants and clients a common place for communication, information exchange, engagement activity, reviews, and other client-facing work.
What should a consultant client portal include?
Relevant capabilities can include client communication, documents, onboarding, information collection, tasks, feedback, approvals, and updates, depending on the product.
How can a client portal organize consulting engagements?
A shared workspace can provide a common environment for consultant-client communication, information exchange, deliverables, requests, reviews, and participation throughout an engagement.
Can consultants share documents with clients through a client portal?
Client portals can provide a shared environment for exchanging relevant documents and information between consultants and clients.
Can a client portal help consultants communicate with clients?
Yes. A client portal can provide a shared environment for consultant-client communication, depending on the capabilities of the portal.
Can consultants use a client portal for onboarding?
A client portal can provide a shared environment for the beginning of a consulting relationship, including relevant information gathering and client interaction where supported.
Can clients review or approve consulting work through a portal?
Some client portals support review and approval workflows. The specific Riverton capability should be verified before making a product-specific claim.
How is a consultant client portal different from email and shared folders?
Email and shared folders can handle individual parts of a consulting engagement. A client portal is designed to provide a shared environment that brings relevant client-facing work into a common context.
Is Riverton suitable for independent consultants and consulting firms?
Riverton is built around a shared-workspace model for businesses that work directly with clients. Suitability depends on the consultant’s engagement model and the Riverton capabilities available.
Give your consulting engagements a clearer place to work
Explore the Riverton client portal or talk with the team about how your consultant-client workflow could fit a shared workspace.