AI Time Tracking | Bill Every Hour You Worked
AI for Freelancers
Bill every hour you actually worked, without a stopwatch
Your Employee captures billable hours from your calendar, your tools, and your messages, then turns them into client-ready timesheets. Built for freelancers who undercharge because they forgot to start a timer. Every minute spent on client work gets accounted for and invoiced. Connect your calendar, your communication tools, and your project apps, and your Employee notices when you are working on which client. Meetings, focused blocks, async messages, and document edits all roll up against the right project. At week-end you get a draft timesheet ready to review, with notes on what was done. The hours you used to lose to forgotten timers now show up on every invoice. Clients get clear breakdowns that justify the bill and reduce disputes. You stop guessing what to charge for and start sending invoices that match the actual work delivered.
Benefits
How It Works
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At a Glance
- +18%
- Billable hours captured
- 10 min
- Weekly timesheet review
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- Forgotten timers
- 95%
- First-pass accuracy
The hours you forget to track are real money
Most freelancers lose fifteen to twenty-five percent of their billable hours to forgotten timers, undertracked admin time, and end-of-month guesswork that rounds down. On a hundred-thousand-dollar revenue year, that is fifteen to twenty-five thousand dollars walking out the door because the tracking system relied on perfect human discipline. Your Employee captures what you actually worked on as you work, without asking you to remember anything. The hours that used to disappear show up on the invoice, which is a direct raise without raising your rate.
Friday timesheet ritual takes ten minutes
The traditional end-of-week tracking ritual is everyone scrambling to remember what they did Monday. Your Employee replaces that with a draft timesheet built from real signals throughout the week. You spend Friday afternoon reviewing it on a cup of coffee, fixing anything misattributed, adding context notes, and approving. By the time you would normally still be reconstructing Monday, the week is already invoiced. The mental tax of always tracking, always remembering, always reconstructing, gets removed entirely.
Profitability per client and per project
Once hours are captured accurately, a more useful question becomes possible: which clients are actually profitable. A retainer that looked great on paper turns out to consume sixty hours a month instead of twenty. A small project bills well per hour but eats so much admin time the real rate is half what you thought. Your Employee surfaces these patterns automatically, which lets you raise prices, drop unprofitable clients, or restructure scope on the next renewal. The data was always there in your work; it just needed someone to capture it.
FAQ
Do I have to start and stop timers?
No. Your Employee infers what you worked on from your calendar, your tools, and your activity patterns. Timers are optional for cases where you want pinpoint accuracy on a specific task, but the default is fully passive capture.
How does it know which client I was working on?
Calendar event titles, meeting attendees, document names, project channels, and recent context all give signals. After a few weeks it learns your patterns, and ambiguous blocks get a quick yes or no question rather than a wrong guess.
What about non-billable time?
Personal events, internal admin, and breaks are filtered out automatically. You can mark categories as billable or non-billable, and your Employee learns the rules so future weeks need less correction.
Can I bill in fixed-fee mode too?
Yes. Even on fixed-fee projects, knowing the actual hours helps you price the next one correctly. Your Employee tracks the hours quietly and gives you a profitability view per project so you stop underbidding.
Will my clients trust the timesheet?
Clients tend to trust timesheets more than self-reported hours because each line item has context: what meeting, what document, what message thread. Disputes drop because the breakdown is specific and verifiable rather than a round number per day.