How Klimaatroute Cut Report Time by 80% and Freed Advisors for More Clients
80%
total time saved
45 min → 10 min
main report writing
55 min → 15 min
quality control feedback
Klimaatroute helps businesses and individuals reduce their carbon footprint through energy audits.
Advisors visit sites, assess what is needed, and write detailed reports for each client. Those reports are what the business charges for — they are the product, not just documentation.
DWS has worked with Klimaatroute as their technical partner on a Product Partnership basis — building, maintaining, and improving the Django platform their advisors work in every day.
The reporting process was slow because it was manual.
After each site visit, advisors returned to the office and rebuilt their reports by hand — pulling from notes, calculating measures manually, and formatting everything from scratch each time.
- Configuring and calculating measures20 min
- Writing the main report text45 min
- Quality control feedback55 min
- Processing that feedback20 min
Over two hours per report. Before the advisor could move on to the next client.
Klimaatroute needed the process to be faster without becoming less accurate.
A report builder that automated the parts of reporting that don’t need a human decision.
We built the Report Builder as a Django web application inside the existing Klimaatroute platform — so advisors worked in one place, not two.
Pre-filled report text
The system generates approved, context-sensitive paragraphs based on what the advisor entered during the site visit. The writing starts done, not blank.
In-line commenting
Quality control officers leave comments directly inside the report instead of sending separate documents back and forth. One version. No email chains.
Variables and snippets
Advisors insert predefined text blocks and values. If a value changes anywhere, it updates across the whole report automatically. No manual find-and-replace.
Measures table editing
Advisors add and edit measures directly in the report interface, with automatic recalculation. The numbers are always current.
Over 80% time saved per report.
45 min → 10 min
main report writing
55 min → 15 min
quality control
20 min → near zero
manual configuration
An advisor who used to spend over two hours on paperwork now spends under half an hour. That is not a workflow improvement. It is a capacity increase — the same team can take on more clients without growing headcount.
More assessments, more clients served, more revenue for the same team.
Client perspective
Client perspectiveRepetitive work was taking hours out of every advisor's day. The Report Builder turned that into a much faster, much cleaner process — without the advisors needing to change how they work in the field.
This is what product ownership looks like in practice.
Django Web Studio builds and maintains web products for digital businesses using Django and Python. In the Klimaatroute engagement, that meant more than adding a feature — it meant examining which parts of a critical business process could be automated without removing the professional judgement that makes the output valuable.
Advisors still make every recommendation. They still visit the sites, ask the questions, and sign off the reports. What changed is that the system now handles the parts that never needed a human in the first place: the formatting, the calculations, the version control of the feedback loop.
If a repetitive internal process is capping how many clients your team can serve, the right product improvement creates more capacity than the next hire would. That is what we look for when we take on a product. Not just what needs building — what is getting in the way.
Repetitive work taking time away from your clients?
That is usually a product problem, not a headcount problem. The fastest way to find out is a 30-minute call — we will tell you whether we think it is solvable and what it would take.