HR software for consultancies & professional services
Client work sets the calendar; your systems should at least know about it. CoDash keeps the people record straight while the practice tools run the engagements.
CoDash runs the people side of a consulting or professional-services firm: leave with coverage guardrails around client commitments, cost centres matching your lines of business, the working-time opt-out register kept properly, documents with acknowledgement evidence, and progression frameworks for a promotion-driven culture.
Leave that respects the engagement calendar
Requests show team coverage before anyone approves; auto-approval can handle the easy cases while multi-step chains guard long absences. The team month view answers "can we both be off during the Manchester project?" before it becomes awkward.
Structure that matches how you bill
Cost centres and departments mirror your lines of business for reporting; teams and dotted-line management mirror how engagements actually staff. The org chart derives from the team tree, so it stays true.
The registers a partner asks about
Working-time 48-hour opt-outs recorded per person. Documents - engagement policies, codes of conduct - published with read-acknowledgement evidence. A full audit trail behind every record change.
An up-or-through culture, structured
Career frameworks with levels, review cycles with structured templates and 360, 1:1s with a written trail - the promotion case builds itself from a year of evidence instead of a scramble in November.
What we deliberately don't do
Utilisation, billing and engagement economics live in your practice management tools. CoDash is the people system beside them, with CSV exports where they want data.
Worth reading alongside
- The 48-hour opt-out: what it disapplies and what it doesn't
- Can an employer refuse holiday? The rules and the notice maths
- What an employment tribunal actually costs an employer
- Pro-rata holiday calculator
Common questions
Can leave approval reflect client commitments?
Yes - approvers see team coverage for the dates requested, auto-approval only fires when the team stays covered, and long leave can require a second sign-off.
Do you track utilisation or billable hours?
No - that belongs in practice management. CoDash holds the people record: leave, growth, compliance registers and documents.
Can we run different allowances for partners and staff?
Yes - allowances, working patterns and leave types are per person, with pro-rata handled automatically.
Is there an audit trail for regulated work?
Every record change is audited with actor and before/after, sensitive fields are permission-gated, and each employee can see who accessed their record.
See it around client work
The demo is open - check the coverage view, the opt-out register, the review cycle. No sign-up needed.