S&W, one of the fastest-growing UK accountancy firms and previously the Professional Services arm of Evelyn Partners, selects Dayshape’s AI-powered resource management software.
Dayshape, a software company using AI technology to power professional services planning, welcomes S&W as a valued customer. After recent organic and acquisition growth within Evelyn Partners, newly formed S&W selects Dayshape to provide vital visibility into project performance and empower practitioners to drive their own careers. S&W has around 1,800 employees and 120 partners located across 15 towns and cities in the UK and Ireland.
Matt Cockett, CEO of Dayshape, shared: “As we went through the process of selling and delivering for S&W our relationship has gone from strength to strength, built on trust and a shared vision for growing the business. We see this as just the beginning. By adopting Dayshape for its audit team and working closely together, we’re laying the foundation for S&W to truly optimise the company for the next phase of market leadership."
Russell Girling, Head of Audit Resourcing at S&W, shared: “Dayshape gives us unmatched resource visibility which is critical for us in terms of business decisions now and as we grow our audit team in the future.”
Notably, S&W will benefit from Dayshape’s real-time project financials to provide crucial visibility into mid-project performance. Further, Dayshape’s reports and dashboards allow S&W to easily pull reports— taking minutes rather than days—to analyze past, present, and future financial performance on key aspects such as margin and revenue.
Russell added: “Visibility into mid-project financials is fundamental to our ambitions as a firm. It enables the Resource Management function to drive productive conversations with Engagement teams over team size/structures of their team and the impact on their engagement economics. Dayshape has allowed us to review from a central perspective those engagements and make a difference even in such a short space of time.”
With the ability to update their skills and preferences in Dayshape, S&W employees will automatically be considered for opportunities that match their profiles and availability with Dayshape’s AI scheduling. The benefits of which are threefold as it cuts down admin for the resourcing team, encourages career ownership for practitioners, and ultimately optimizes the firm’s workforce.
Russell added: “I’m super passionate about our people having the ability to influence and drive their careers and Dayshape gives people the ability to do that. Plus, it provides us with insights into which skills are in demand and we can use that to inform our future hiring decisions as well as the development opportunities for our people.”
Mark Bishop, Head of Audit at S&W, states that “with the introduction of Dayshape even in such a short space of time we have been able to transform our resourcing function into one that is far more operational and strategically focused and not just perceived as a back-office admin focused function. I first-hand have seen the benefits Dayshape’s intuitive economics dashboard can bring at an engagement level along with elevated levels of reporting and I am excited at the opportunities it will present for both our people and the business as we aim to grow in the coming years.”
Dayshape is an award-winning software scale-up with an enterprise platform that's defining the future of AI-powered resource management and helping organizations to achieve extraordinary results.
Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, the Dayshape platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function.
By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organizations and careers for the long term. Find out more at dayshape.com.
S&W is one of the fastest-growing UK accountancy firms and builds on the heritage of Smith & Williamson which was founded in 1881. It was launched as a new business on March 31, 2025, following the sale of Evelyn Partners’ Professional Services business to Apax Partners.
As a leader in the accountancy mid-market, the firm offers clients a broad range of services spanning business and private client tax advice, assurance and business services and a suite of advisory and digital services that include recovery and restructuring, transaction services and forensic advice.
S&W has 1,800 employees and more than 120 partners operating from 15 towns and cities in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
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