Time Tracking

Hours that roll into invoices.

Helm Time Tracking is the billable-hours app inside the Helm platform. Live timers, manual entries, pause support, and billable/internal flags on every hour. Time logs belong to a task and a project, and flow directly onto client invoices. No rekeying, no timesheet app, no sync between tools.

Live timer
Start, pause, and stop from any task.
Billable flag
Mark hours billable or internal per entry.
Invoice-ready
Tracked hours roll straight into invoices.
What's Inside

Everything you need to run time tracking.

Built into the platform. No add-ons, no integrations, no per-feature pricing.

Live timer with pause

Start a timer on any task or project. Pause without losing the entry. Resume on a different device. Stop when the work ends.

Manual entries

Not a timer person? Log hours after the fact against the right task, date, and project. All the same fields, no live timer required.

Per-task and per-project

Every entry links to a project and optionally a task. Project totals, task totals, and user totals roll up without a separate timesheet tool.

Billable or internal

Flag each entry billable or internal. Descriptions carry through to the client-facing invoice. Internal time is tracked for capacity, not billed.

Roll into invoices

Build an invoice from unbilled time. Pick the entries, set the rate, send. Nothing gets re-typed between timer and bill.

Summaries by project and task

See total hours by project and by task type in the time summary. Know where the week went without exporting a CSV.

How it connects

Wired into every other app by default.

Set Time Tracking up once. The rest of the platform uses it forever. One data layer, no sync, no glue scripts.

How it works

Start a timer. Ship the work. Send the invoice.

Click a task and start a live timer. Pause and resume as needed. Log hours manually if you prefer. Every entry carries a project, an optional task, a billable flag, and a description. When it's time to bill, the unbilled hours surface in the invoice builder. Pick them, set the rate, send.

Connected by default

Your hours already know what to do.

Because the time entry, the project, and the invoice share the same data layer, a timer on a task is a line item on a bill. You never export, import, re-type, or reconcile. A missed hour is a lost hour, so Helm makes tracking low-friction enough that people actually do it.

Built for AI agents

Agents surface the hours you missed.

Billing Manager and Operations Manager agents can surface unbilled hours, flag projects running over budget, and draft weekly billing summaries. Because time lives with the project and the invoice on the same platform, agents don't reconcile three tools to know what's billable.

Before / After

The difference an integrated time tracking makes.

Without Helm

Time tracked in Harvest or Toggl. Projects in Asana. Invoices in QuickBooks. Every billing cycle is a manual CSV export, a reconciliation spreadsheet, and a handful of missed hours nobody catches until the client questions an invoice.

With Helm

Start a timer on a task and the hour flows to the project, the client, and the invoice. Agents surface what you missed. Billing cycles take minutes, not afternoons.

Common Workflows

What happens when you use it.

1
When

It's Friday and you're about to bill for the week.

Helm does

Open the invoice builder. Unbilled hours appear by project. Pick the ones to bill, set the rate, send.

2
When

You forgot to log time for Wednesday's client call.

Helm does

Add a manual entry against the project and task with the right date. It shows up in the next invoice.

3
When

A project is eating hours and nobody flagged it.

Helm does

Operations Manager agent compares logged hours to budget, flags the overrun, and suggests scope or rate conversations.

4
When

You mark a task complete with time still running.

Helm does

Stop the timer. Hours finalize on the task. A workflow can fire to mark the next task in the project as ready.

AI Staff

Agents that run on Time Tracking.

AI staff with scoped access, configurable autonomy, and the same data your team uses.

FAQ

Questions about Time Tracking.

How does Helm Time Tracking compare to Harvest, Toggl, or Clockify?

Those are standalone timers that feed other tools. Helm Time Tracking lives on the same record as the project and the invoice, so a logged hour becomes a billable line item without an export or a sync. No reconciliation between timer, PM tool, and accounting.

Can I have multiple active timers?

No. One active timer per user by design. You can pause the current timer, start another, and come back. This keeps billable hours honest.

Can I log time without starting a timer?

Yes. Manual entries are supported end-to-end with the same fields as a live timer: project, task, billable flag, description, and date range.

Is there a timesheet approval workflow?

Not today. Time entries become visible to the person building an invoice, who reviews before sending. A formal timesheet approval step is on the roadmap.

Are utilization and billable-percentage reports built in?

Summaries by project and by task type are available today. Full utilization and billable-percent dashboards are on the roadmap. Agents can answer those questions on demand in the meantime.

Try Time Tracking in Helm.

Every app included. Agents come standard. Per-workspace pricing, no per-seat tax.

Get Early Access