Timely

Timely is the leading AI-powered automatic time tracking solution designed specifically for consultancies, agencies, and software companies. By eliminating the burden of manual input, Timely ensures 100% accurate, real-time data that empowers strategic business decisions rather than reactive management. This allows your high-value teams to focus entirely on productive, billable work while leadership gains immediate, data-backed insight into profitability, utilization, and resource allocation.

Key Features

Timely transforms how professional services firms manage and monetize their time by embedding AI and automation directly into the workflow.

🧠 Automatic Work Capture (Memory Tracker)

The Memory Tracker operates silently in the background, capturing all work activity across applications and platforms without relying on cumbersome start-stop timers. This capability delivers 100% accurate, non-intrusive, real-time data, ensuring that your time sheets reflect actual performance and eliminating the guesswork traditionally associated with time logging.

🤖 One-Click AI Timesheets (AutoSheet)

Leveraging machine learning, AutoSheet analyzes your tracked activity patterns and generates complete, done-for-you timesheets in minutes. Users simply review and submit the suggested entries, drastically increasing time tracking adoption rates and freeing up significant administrative time every week.

📊 Comprehensive Profitability Reporting

Timely provides clear, actionable reports essential for optimizing business health, including detailed profitability analysis, performance reviews, and accurate billing summaries. You can easily customize reports based on billable rates, cost rates, and project tags to gain specific insight into where your margins are strongest and identify areas for immediate optimization.

💼 Workspace Capacity and Resource Planning

Move beyond tracking hours and start planning future utilization. Timely offers centralized dashboards that provide a real-time view of team bandwidth, helping managers understand where there is available capacity to deliver billable client work. This capability supports proactive resource allocation and helps build better one-to-one relationships by ensuring team members are not over- or under-utilized.

Use Cases

Timely is engineered to solve critical pain points across the project lifecycle, ensuring efficiency and financial clarity.

1. Accurate Client Billing and Invoicing: Use the 100% accurate time data captured by the Memory Tracker, coupled with flexible Billable Rates and Cost Rates, to generate professional invoices with ease. You ensure every minute worked is accounted for, eliminating revenue leakage and building client trust through transparent, verifiable billing records.

2. Streamlining Project Management and Health: The Project Dashboard provides instant insight into project health, deliverables, and budget status in a single view. Managers can track billable hours against budgets, assign tags for easy organization, and quickly identify potential scope creep or bottlenecks before they impact delivery timelines.

3. Optimizing Team Performance and Utilization: Utilize the People Dashboard and Overtime/Undertime tracking features to manage team performance effectively. By understanding real-time resource allocation and capacity, you can strategically assign tasks, maximize team productivity, and ensure that high-value talent is consistently focused on driving billable work.

Why Choose Timely? 

Timely is trusted by over 5,000 companies and 20,000+ users globally. Our advantage lies in combining powerful automation with a fundamental commitment to user privacy and data integrity.

🔒 Privacy By Design, Not Surveillance

Unlike traditional time tracking tools that often feel like spyware, Timely operates with a strict anti-surveillance policy. User memories—the detailed records of activity captured by the Memory Tracker—are entirely private by default. Managers cannot view tracked memories until the user explicitly reviews, organizes, and shares them, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy within your organization.

✅ Unmatched Data Accuracy and Trust

Timely eliminates the reliance on human memory, guesswork, and disruptive manual timers. By automating the capture process, the platform provides 100% accurate time data, giving leadership the confidence and trust needed to base critical business decisions—such as pricing adjustments, resource shifts, and performance evaluations—on verifiable facts.

📈 Proven Scalability and Performance

Timely is a robust solution proven at scale, logging 127 million+ actions and creating 13 million+ reports annually. Independent user ratings consistently rank Timely highly: it maintains a 4.8 out of 5 rating on G2 and scores above 95% in Quality of Performance, Support, Ease of Use, and Setup, demonstrating genuine user satisfaction and reliability.

Conclusion

Timely transforms time tracking from a necessary administrative chore into a powerful, strategic tool. By automating data capture and providing deep, actionable insights into profitability and capacity, you can maximize margins, optimize utilization, and drive sustainable business growth.