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Branded under your domain
portal.yourbrand.com — TLS, your colours, your logo. Clients feel they're inside your business, not someone else's SaaS.
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Solution
Client self-serve portal
A branded portal where your clients log in to see invoices, raise tickets, upload documents, track project progress, and chat with your team. We design, build, and operate it — replacing the chaotic mix of email threads and WhatsApp groups that's eating your bandwidth.
Outcomes you can expect
- drop in inbound 'where is X?' tickets
- 50–70%
- average rollout to first 100 clients
- 2 wk
- self-serve availability
- 24/7
- client onboarding instead of 1 day
- 1 hr
Who it’s for
Built for these teams.
- Agencies serving 50+ accounts who can't scale support headcount
- Service businesses (legal, tax, design, dev) tired of 'where's my invoice?' emails
- B2B SaaS adding a paid-customer success layer without buying Zendesk
What you get
Four things, non-negotiable.
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One sign-in, every workflow
Invoices, tickets, files, project timelines, meetings, contracts — all behind one login. Magic-link auth, no passwords to manage.
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Workflows your team already runs
We model your existing process — intake → quote → kickoff → delivery → review → archive. The portal automates the busywork, your team keeps the judgment.
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Operates itself after go-live
Self-serve onboarding, in-app help, AI assistant on the 80% repetitive questions. Your team only steps in for the interesting 20%.
How we work
From kickoff to live, the five steps.
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Wk 1
Audit
Tour your current support inbox + meeting calendar. Catalogue every repeat question.
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Wk 1–2
Information architecture
Design the smallest set of portal screens that absorbs 80% of those questions.
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Wk 2–5
Build core
Auth, invoices, tickets, files, timeline. Real client on staging by end of week 5.
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Wk 5–6
Migrate + onboard
Pull existing clients in. Branded welcome emails, in-app tour, fallback chat.
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Ongoing
Operate
Monthly retainer covers hosting, updates, in-app AI assistant tuning, quarterly UX review.
The stack we typically ship
Production-grade defaults, swappable on request.
- Next.js App Router
- Postgres
- Auth.js / Better Auth
- Stripe / billing webhooks
- Cloudflare R2 / S3 files
- Resend
- Sentry
FAQ
Questions buyers ask us first.
Will we lose phone / email support?+
No — the portal is additive. Phone + email still work, but the volume drops as clients self-serve.
Can clients upload sensitive documents?+
Yes — signed-URL S3/R2 uploads, server-side virus scan, encryption at rest, audit log per access.
How long does onboarding take?+
Average client takes under 1 hour to onboard themselves once we go live — they log in, see their data, and start using it.
Do we need to retrain staff?+
Minimal — the admin side mirrors the workflow they already run. Staff training is usually one 90-minute session.
Where this lands
Industries we ship this for · case studies that prove it.
Case studies
Tax & accounting · 2025
TaxConsultant
Replacing Drake + Dropbox + email with one branded client portal for a growing tax practice.
Read the caseEducation & academies · 2024–26
Filenod Academy
Building and operating an in-house IT training platform — 35 live courses, 48 cohort slots, 1,000+ alumni.
Read the caseLet’s build
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Filenod IT Services · Abbottabad, Pakistan · Worldwide