For software & dev shops
Keep the commercial side moving as fast as the code
You run a dev studio on fixed-scope projects and monthly retainers. Engineering has its rituals — standups, sprints, PRs. The budget conversations, change orders, and client reports have none, so they’re always a step behind.
The sprint ships. The invoice doesn’t.
A project crosses 90% of budget mid-build. A client slips an out-of-scope request into a standup and the team just builds it. A retainer sprint ends with no demo booked. dpaperwork watches the commercial layer the same way your team watches the board.
It does the legwork. You make the call.
Nothing reaches a client without your yes, and every draft shows what it changed.
Meridian platform build — 91% of budget burned, sprint 5 of 8
Flagged the overrun and drafted the change-order conversation.
Approve, edit, or skip
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Budget, scope, and reporting — watched, not chased
Every engagement carries its budget; the Monitor flags the burn rate before it’s a problem, checks new requests against the SOW, and drafts the sprint report from what actually shipped.
Fixed-scope and retainer both
One-off builds run as Projects; retainer sprints run as recurring Cycles, in one worklist.
Budget burn, in real time
See spend against budget as a project moves, not when the finance review lands.
Sprint reports draft themselves
Closed tasks and shipped work become the client update, in your voice.
Same week, different ending
The overrun turns up at the finance review.
Burn is flagged and the change-order conversation is drafted.
The team builds an out-of-scope request.
It’s checked against the SOW before a sprint is spent on it.
The sprint report gets typed after the demo.
It’s drafted from closed tasks and shipped PRs.
What’s doing the work
Less paperwork. More business.
Your team never misses a standup. dpaperwork makes sure the budget review, the change order, and the client report don’t get missed either.
Seats open in small batches — join the waitlist and you’ll be first in line when yours is ready.