USE CASE / PRO SERVICESProfessional Services

Partners focus on core work.
AI handles first response.

Consulting, legal, accounting, tax, talent, PR — professional services where relationship selling is the essence. With Meeton ai, the AI handles first response on inbound inquiries and hands only promising deals to partners and experts.

Partners want to focus on closing and advising existing clients. But when they delegate first replies to growing web inquiries to a secretary or junior, they either miss promising deals or get tied up by cold ones. Meeton ai is a mechanism that leaves that judgment and first response to AI.
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Challenges in Professional Services

Inquiries are diverse, so first response and triage take time.

01

Partners' time is consumed by inbound handling

A partner's or expert's hourly value is tens of thousands of yen. Yet when their time goes to first-inquiry discovery — "what kind of project," "budget range," "current challenges" — the opportunity cost against their core work (closing, advising existing clients) is too high.

30-60 min
Traditional first-discovery time
02

Cold vs. promising deals aren't being sorted

Cold inquiries like "just want to consult" or "want to know your pricing" reach the same partner with the same weight as promising deals like "budget of 10 million, want to start within 3 months." Without sorting, first response to promising deals is delayed.

20%
Typical promising-deal rate
03

Can't balance the quality and volume of relationship selling

Because it depends on a single partner's capacity, you can't keep up with rising web leads. Add headcount and quality drops; protect quality and you can't handle the volume — a dilemma unique to professional services.

1 person-month+
Payroll burden when adding IS headcount
Meeton ai's AI capabilities

Solving Professional Services sales challenges,
with an AI SDR working in concert.

AI Chat

Meeton Live

The AI responds in real time in your website chat. It carefully discovers the inquiry's background, challenge, budget range, and timeline, and judges deal temperature automatically.

For Professional Services

The AI handles the first response for consulting and licensed-professional inquiries. Cold "just consulting" requests get a materials guide; promising "want to start within 3 months" deals book directly into the partner's calendar. It concentrates the partner's time only on high-closing-value deals.

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AI Email

Meeton Email

AI replies to inquiry emails. It confirms deal background, budget, and timeline within the email and judges meeting-conversion likelihood.

For Professional Services

The AI also handles first replies to email inquiries arriving via referrals. It naturally discovers — "May I ask a few things before our meeting?" — so by the time the partner enters the meeting, the key points are already organized.

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AI Calendar

Meeton Calendar

Automatic scheduling integrated with Google Calendar / MS Teams / Zoom. It automates coordination across multiple partners and multiple client stakeholders.

For Professional Services

It handles cases where the client brings several decision-makers. The partner side also needs to assign managers and associates, and the AI fully automates the scheduling of 4–6 people.

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AI Offer

Meeton Library

Based on the visitor's industry and challenge theme, it auto-recommends the best track-record materials, whitepapers, and case studies.

For Professional Services

It presents a track-record library by specialty and industry, optimized to the visitor. Clients can discover "is there a case similar to mine?" on their own, improving conversion to a booked meeting.

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Professional Services customer story

Results from the field, told in numbers.

Univis Groupコンサルティング
Univis Group

会計・M&A・コンサル——多サービス事業の問い合わせを、AIが一画面で仕分け始めた。Univis Group が3ヶ月で受注2件を獲得するまで

2件
3ヶ月で受注獲得（M&A・コンサル領域）
同じサービスを展開している会社は、正直あまりなかった。コスト面と、取りこぼしの機会損失を防ぎたい——そして新しいものを模索しなきゃいけないタイミングが重なって、Meeton ai に決めた。3ヶ月で2件の受注に繋がっているし、提案件数も増えた。アポにならなくても『どの企業が自社のコンテンツを見ているか』が瞬時にわかる。市場分析や競合分析の質まで上がっている。— 上田 翔太 氏 / Univis Group
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Common integrations in Professional Services

Strengthen your existing sales stack
without replacing it.

HubSpot

A leading CRM for consulting and licensed professionals. Centrally manages clients, deals, and touchpoints.

Slack

Instant info-sharing among partners and managers. Real-time notification of promising deals.

Google Calendar

Auto-proposes the optimal slot across the calendars of partners, managers, and the client's stakeholders.

Microsoft Teams

Standard at enterprise consultancies and large professional firms. Unifies internal comms and client meetings.

FAQ

Frequent questions from Professional Services teams

Q01This is an industry where partners value relationships. Won't AI handling first response hurt the customer experience?
The purpose of leaving first discovery to AI is to let partners focus on "high-value conversations." Meeton Live confirms deal background with polite language and immediately hands promising deals to a partner. Cold inquiries get materials and a resource guide, maintaining the right distance. In many cases, satisfaction actually rises versus "slow first response" or "a secretary responding mechanically."
Q02How do you sort cold "just want to consult" inquiries from promising deals?
During the inquiry, Meeton Live confirms "budget range," "timing," "current challenges," and "decision-maker" through natural conversation and computes a deal score automatically. Only inquiries above the threshold book directly into the partner's calendar; the rest go onto a materials and nurture path.
Q03Consulting involves highly confidential discussions. Is security adequate?
Meeton ai is operated to ISMS / SOC 2-aligned designs and handles confidential information. With configuration, you can build a flow that "skips AI handling for confidential deals and hands directly to a partner." See the security page for details.
Q04In an organization with multiple partners, how is deal assignment handled?
You can set auto-assignment rules to the best-fit partner based on inquiry content (industry, theme, region). Slack / HubSpot notifications also go directly to the assigned partner. It eliminates the "who will see this?" uncertainty.
Q05Can it handle leads via referrals?
Meeton Email gives AI replies to inquiry emails and confirms the information needed for meeting conversion within the email. Even for referral leads, by the time the partner enters the meeting, "budget, timeline, stakeholders" are organized.
Q06Can it be used for licensed professions (lawyers, accountants, tax accountants)?
Yes. It's widely used for first response to new inquiries for licensed professionals (retainer contracts, spot consultations, seminar-sourced). It enables instant response to frequent questions like "I'd like to book a consultation," "what are your fees," "what past cases have you handled," and reliable handoff of promising deals.
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