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Consultants
Automatic invites for consultant collaboration
We're making it easier for you to collaborate with your consultants and we've updated the consultant fee planner to make it more intuitive.

Easier collaboration
When you're planning consultant fees for your project, you'll see an opportunity to enable automatic invites. Turn that on, and we'll automatically send invites to all consultants on or added to the project. You can also enable automatic invites from the project details page.
Why is this a good thing? We'll when you invite a consultant to collaborate:
- Your consultants can upload their bills directly to Monograph, where you can review, approve or reject the, with comments.
- Your consultants get a light-weight view of the project gantt (minus your budget and staffing information) and we'll automatically update your consultant with changes to phase and milestone dates.
- You can assign deliverables to the consultant and collaborate via comments.
Consultant fee planner changes
When you're planning the consultant fees for a project, you'll pick the consultant company first (and the type of consultant work second). No big deal if you don't yet know the consultant company that will do the work; just pick "Company TBD".
Learn more here.
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Even smarter search!

We've improved our search:
- You can now search for documents uploaded to projects
- You can now take action directly from the search box (e.g. Create a project, View an Invoice)
- Search and suggested actions are now situationally aware of which project you are viewing and automatically filter results for that project
Pro-tip: Hit
Command+K
to bring up search on the fly!Happy Searching, the Monograph team!
The green bubbles deserve our love too -- we've just released the
Monograph: Time and Expenses
mobile app for Android! Download in the Google Play store now!
Just like the iPhone version, with the Android mobile app, you can:
- Track your time to projects and overheads that will auto-populate based on your staffing plans
- Use the mobile timer to accurately keep track of all your activities
- Track your expenses by taking a photo of receipts or other expenses and we'll scan them to simplify your data entry
With both iPhone and Android support, now your whole team can use Monograph easily on the go!
You now have can automatically calculate a draft project budget based on past projects. Use this tool to more effectively provide quotes to your clients.
See this support article or read on for more details!
Select the "Build a project budget" option and fill out project details, including a representative range of service fees that your client has budgeted.


Project data will be used to recommend a list of completed projects or templates with completed projects that whose time logged will be used as reference data. If no completed projects match the details for this project, you can build your budget from scratch with estimations of the total time needed to complete the project.


From here, a draft budget will be created. Phase budget recommendations will be made based on the actual time logged on this project. When you have accepted these and adjusted details as needed, you can update the status of the project from Draft to either Active or Proposed
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Projects
Create milestones & deliverables in bulk
To more efficiently manage your projects, Monograph now will create milestones and deliverables in bulk via file upload.
First, download the spreadsheet template to fill out with all of your milestones and deliverables from the Deliverables page on your project. Alternatively, you can create a free-text file that clearly outlines these milestones and deliverables.

When ready, select the file to upload it for extraction. If you upload the template spreadsheeet, Monograph will directly import the details added. Any other document will be shared with an AI tool for parsing.

You will be prompted to review the milestones and deliverables extracted. Nothing will be added until you confirm the details.



For more information on how to use this tool, please see this support article.
A nice complement to our new consultant collaboration features: now, when you mark a Consultant Bill in Monograph as paid, it will automatically reflect that in Quickbooks Online!
All you need to do is to set the "Consultant bills payment account" in your Quickbooks settings to the account you would like the payment to be attributed to.

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Consultants
The next generation of consultant collaboration is here
We're incredibly excited to share our
new consultant collaboration features
. Invite your consultants to collaborate on Monograph (for free) and:- Never chase bills around your inbox again.Consultants upload bills directly into Monograph, and you get notified. Then accept or reject the bill and iterated with your consultant. All activity tracked and visible to both parties.
- Give automatic real-time updates to your consultants on timelines and milestones.They get to see a stripped down version of the gantt, and get notified of changes.
- Collaborate more effectively on deliverables.Assign tasks to consultants, collaborate through comments.
Check out the video below and click here to start inviting your consultants.
Monograph's newest feature allows you to create project budgets automatically from external documents.
Leveraging AI technology, this tool will extract phases, budgets, roles and rates from contracts, proposal documents, and/or any other written PDF that has all of this data available. How it works
1. Upload file
When you create a project, you can select to "Auto-generate project from contract". 

2. Extract details
After uploading a file and entering basic details about the project, Monograph will attempt to extract the following project budget details from this document using an AI technology provider:
- Phase names
- Phase duration
- Project total and phase specific budgets
- Roles and rates
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The clearer these details are on the document provided, the more successful the extraction will be.
We recommend making sure phases are listed in a clearly structured outline or table with relevant details or directly in document headers. Details we cannot determine may be assumed from past projects at your firm.3. Review budget
You will be asked to review the extracted details and confirm them before proceeding with the project. At this time, you can make modifications to the extracted project budget before assigning team members.
For more information on how this works, please review [this support article].(https://support.monograph.com/en/articles/10371355-auto-generate-project-budgets-from-contract-documents)
Monograph has refreshed the management tools available to support project milestones and their constituent deliverables (formerly known as tasks) to allow for easier management today and support further enhancements in the future.
Milestone & deliverable timeline
On each project, the Deliverables page allows you to view all of the existing milestones & deliverables in a clear timeline view. Each phase is expandable to view all milestones and their deliverables (deliverables without a milestone are listed below all milestones).

As a result of this change, we have updated validation rules so that all milestones' dates need to be within the phase itself, and deliverables' due dates need to be both within the phase and before their linked milestones' dates. Additionally, we now update deliverable due dates when the phase end date changes as well also with the same logic as milestone date updates.
Deliverable comments also now provide more interaction. The most recent comments are called out on the main page above and in the deliverable, they show a clearer timeline of work. 

New notifications
In addition to new visualizations and editing tools, we also have enabled more notifications for milestones and deliverables for the projects your profile is following.
- Comments now are included in the personal digest of deliverable notifications
- In addition to receiving notifications about your personally assigned deliverables, we also have 2 new notifications to receive notifications on comments or status updates across alldeliverables

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Staffing
Staff both proposed and active projects
Monograph's team Staffing feature will now allow you to view your team's workload by committed "Active" projects and/or potential "Proposed" projects. Use this new filter functionality to track the impact on your team's time if you were to sign a new project.

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