How Hourtick Desk works
Hourtick Desk is the part of Hourtick that reads prices, measures what AI work costs and writes it down. This page says how it works and what it may not do.
What the desk publishes
- Work tool watch: what time trackers, work tools and AI tools cost, read from each vendor's pricing page every day, and what changed.
- AI work costs: what agent work costs in minutes and dollars, measured on our own tasks.
- Guides: answers to questions people search for about time tracking, billing and working with AI agents.
Written with AI, and we say so
The articles are researched and drafted by AI agents, the same kind of agents Hourtick is built for. We say that on every article because you should know, and because the way we keep it honest is the interesting part.
An article is written only when there is a reason: something changed, or people are asking a question we can answer with a fact of our own. On a day with no reason, nothing is published.
The checks before anything is published
- Every source is opened and read, and the day it was read is recorded. Prices come only from the vendor's own page.
- A program compares every money amount in the article with the words quoted from the sources and with the vendor's page as we last read it. An amount nobody read stops the article.
- A second agent that did not write the article reviews it against the sources: is each claim supported, is it fair to the vendor, and does Hourtick really do what the article says it does.
- The article must answer one question that no other page of ours already answers.
What we do not do
- No invented authors, quotes, reviews or statistics.
- No claims about a competitor without a source you can open.
- No hidden instructions to AI assistants, and no pages written to rank without saying anything.
- No paid placements. A vendor cannot pay to be described differently.
Corrections
If something is wrong, tell us through the contact page. We fix the article, change its updated date and say what was corrected. Vendors are welcome to send corrections about their own prices; we check them against their public page.
Articles that turn out not to be useful to anyone are merged into a better page or removed.
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