Sectors · Professional Services
The strategic data and AI partner that helps professional services firms decide what to change, and then builds it.
A trusted, well-known and innovative partner
We have worked with a broad portfolio of professional services firms: law firms, accountancy and tax practices, private equity and M&A advisers, management consultancies and communications agencies. That work has taught us where the real questions sit: how AI changes the work, how to capture what a firm knows, how to stay compliant, and what happens to the billable hour.
For you, that means a concrete plan for the future and strategic advice that looks beyond single use cases, backed by genuinely innovative builds: a Company Brain, self-learning agents, knowledge graphs and fine-tuned language models. Alongside them come simpler wins that save time and raise quality, with your systems connected so your people work with AI in one place.
Stage 01
Datacation is an active voice in the sector. Our experts, among them Bart Cleijsen, regularly deliver keynotes and publish thought leadership on how the sector is developing and how data and AI are changing the way the work gets done.
Stage 02
Impact starts with understanding how your firm really works. Rather than swapping single steps for AI, we redesign processes AI-first: we look at each workflow as if we were setting it up today, with the technology now available. Every use case becomes a business case, so gains and costs are tracked from day one.
Stage 03
We build the systems that make AI work the way your firm works: a Company Brain that captures what your people know, knowledge graphs over case files and contracts, self-learning agents that improve with every matter, and language models fine-tuned on your domain. All connected in one place, secure and fully compliant.
Stage 04
Implementing AI does not stop at launch. Adoption is where value is either realised or lost, so we design a change management journey that fits how your firm actually works, from the individual to the team. We follow the ninja principle, placing AI ambassadors in the teams themselves, so trust in the technology is built by colleagues rather than announced from above.
Pick a subsector to see the work behind it.
Employees waited days for answers on internal policy. An AI assistant now answers their legal questions from ASML's own policy documents, with the source for every answer.
Staff wrote every summary by hand, and the results varied by author. An AI model now drafts the summaries, and staff refine them in a built-in chat.
AI reads a data room against your own checklist and puts the clauses, gaps and risks that affect the price in front of your deal team, with a reference to the source document.
See the solution
Seth Schaafsma, Motivaction.
Our offering
Our offering follows the same four stages as our approach, but the question behind it is bigger than tooling: what does your firm look like when junior work changes, knowledge lives in a Company Brain and the billable hour is under pressure? We help you answer that question honestly, and then we build what the answer requires.
Industry lead
“Adding AI to an old process only gives you a faster old process. The gains come when you redesign the work as if you were starting today.”Bart CleijsenAI Consultant & Professional Services Lead
Bart leads our Professional Services sector. He joined Datacation right at the start in 2021 and spent four years hands-on in the technical work, mostly inside professional services firms: from an internal AI tool rolled out firm-wide, with in-house AI ninjas, to a legal research tool.
What we build
Concrete examples of what we build in this sector.
One place where the knowledge of your firm lives: precedents, templates, working papers and the way your best people approach a matter.
Agents that carry out multi-step work in your own systems and get better with every file, every review and every correction.
Case files, contracts and regulatory texts turned into a connected graph that AI can reason over and cite reliably.
Models trained on the language of your practice, deployed in your own cloud or fully on-premise when confidentiality demands it.
Your document management, CRM, time registration and knowledge sources connected, so your people work with AI in one place.
Rigorous evals, red-teaming and monitoring, so the partners signing off on AI-assisted output know exactly what they're putting their name to.
Proven in practice
Employees at ASML waited days for answers on internal policy. Datacation built an AI assistant that answers their legal questions from ASML's own policy documents, with the source for every answer.
Why Datacation
We're not a generalist consultancy with an AI badge bolted on. We are a dedicated data & AI partner: econometricians, mathematicians and engineers who build things that survive contact with production.
Backgrounds in AI, data science, econometrics and mathematics. Many of our people hold PhDs and stay connected to leading research groups and universities.
Your domain knowledge plus our technical expertise. We build alongside your team, transfer the knowledge and leave you in control of what we make together.
No endless plans, but concrete steps. We start small, prove value fast and scale what works, from a first Quick Scan to a platform your whole organisation runs on.
Technology only works when people actually use it. We speak the language of the boardroom and the shop floor, and we design for adoption from day one.
Safe, explainable and manageable AI, with the governance, policies and change management to match. We help you raise adoption without lowering the bar.
Tell us what you are working on. We will get back to you and explore together what data and AI can do for you.
