About
Built by practitioners. Not consultants. Not theorists.
ProLens exists because we spent years running A/E projects and got tired of the tools that were supposed to help us.
Our story
How ProLens started
e didn’t set out to build software. We set out to answer a question that every A/E principal asks on Friday afternoon: how is my firm actually doing?
The answer was always scattered. Revenue numbers in the project management platform. Invoices in the accounting system. Client satisfaction in someone’s gut feeling. Team utilization in a spreadsheet that was already two weeks old.
So we’d spend hours pulling data, copying it into Excel, formatting it for the partner meeting, and then doing it all over again the following week. Meanwhile, our clients were calling to ask for status updates we should have sent proactively.
We tried the dashboards. We tried Power BI. We tried Deltek’s native reporting. Every solution either required a full-time analyst to maintain or showed us what we already knew without telling us what it meant.
ProLens started as an internal tool. A way to pull our own project management data, run it through AI analysis, and surface what actually mattered. The first versions weren’t the prettiest and they weren’t the most flexible, but they allowed us to catch trends before they became problems. They also allowed our clients a level of transparency into our workflow that set us apart from our competition and freed our client-facing team up from having to deliver weekly reports.
That’s when we realized these weren’t just our challenges. Every A/E firm we talked to had the same weekly rituals, the same scattered data, and the same reactive client conversations. Access to the data wasn’t the problem. None of them had the added insight.
ProLens is what happened when we stopped accepting that gap.
What we believe
Three principles, no exceptions.
The decisions we never compromise on, regardless of how a customer asks.
Read-only by design
ProLens never writes to your project management platform. Never modifies your data. Never stores your raw financials. We read, we analyze, we surface. Your system of record stays untouched. This isn't a limitation. It's a principle.
AI that explains itself
Every AI insight in ProLens shows its reasoning. No black-box scores. No unexplained recommendations. When ProLens says a deal is rated C, you can see the stage velocity, client history, and capacity data that led to that grade. If you disagree, your judgment wins.
Client portals should be free
We've never understood why firms pay extra for the privilege of communicating with their own clients. Every ProLens plan includes unlimited client portals at no additional cost. Your clients see status, milestones, documents, and invoices. Because transparency shouldn't have a per-seat fee.
Built on real experience
The chair we built ProLens from.
25+
Years of A/E project experience
Project types delivered
Platforms we've used in production
US and Poland
Countries with active operations
ProLens is built by the team behind ProCatalyst, a project management and technology consultancy serving architecture and engineering firms. Every feature in ProLens was designed by people who’ve sat in the PM chair, managed the budget, chased the invoice, and presented to the client. We built the tool we wished we had.
How we're different
What we are. What we aren't.
Most SaaS tools are built by engineers who study the industry.
ProLens was built by licensed practitioners who lived it.
Most dashboards show you what happened.
ProLens tells you what it means and what to do about it.
Most platforms charge per user and lock your data behind upgrade tiers.
ProLens charges per firm and includes client portals for free.
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