Get time tracking right.

What counts as billable hours, how to track them accurately, and how to turn them into invoices without leaks.

A practical five-step method to track billable hours accurately for freelancers and teams: set up, track live, fill gaps, review and bill.

The difference between billable and non-billable hours, with examples, and why tracking non-billable time matters too.

How to calculate billable hours: the formulas for billable hours, billable amount and billable share, with worked examples for each one.

Define utilization the way finance accepts it, run a weekly submit, approve and lock rhythm, and pair it with retainer budget burn to avoid overruns.

Time tracking best practices: eight practical rules that make time tracking accurate and painless for teams, managers and clients alike.

Download a free weekly timesheet template with projects, days and totals. Works in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets.

Step-by-step: how to fill out a timesheet accurately, from projects and tasks to notes, plus the common mistakes to avoid before you submit.

How to run a weekly timesheet process that people actually follow: a simple weekly rhythm with deadlines, approvals and locking.

What decimal hours are, how to convert between hours:minutes and decimals, and a quick reference table you can use on any timesheet.

Set up a simple timesheet approval workflow for your team: who should approve, when to do it, and how to handle corrections after approval.

Move your team from Harvest to Hourtick: what to export from Harvest, how to recreate clients and projects fast, and how to keep your past hours on record.

How to track the hours AI agents work on client tasks: what to record, why agents shouldn't share a person's timesheet, and how to keep it honest.

Track what each AI agent and each task costs: model spend per task, converted to one currency, checked against the provider's bill, with budgets.

Assign agents to tasks, record their time and model cost next to people’s hours, report them separately and lock invoiced entries.

How to review AI agent work so a person is accountable, review time is counted and clients can see a record: roles, steps, and what to keep.

Most clients expect to be told when AI works on their matters; few firms tell them. What to disclose, how to show human review, and how to keep a record you can share.

What an AI agent's task really costs: model spend plus the people's time to brief it, review it and fix it. How to measure it per task and agent, and what to do with the number.

The harness is everything around the model: context, tools, memory, checks and guardrails. Why it decides how well AI agents do real work.

Everyone rents the same models. What sets your agents apart is the harness you build around them: what it gains you, why it's an asset, and how to prove it.

Pricing models for agent work on a company-specific harness: setup fees, retainers, usage with a markup and per-outcome pricing, and what to record.

Connect Claude Code to Hourtick to track your own hours from the terminal, or let it work as an agent whose time and cost land on the task.

Link a Linear issue to an Hourtick task, track time on it with a timer or an AI agent, and get a comment with the total when the work is done.