If you bill for your time and deliver client work, the Workbench (/workbench) is your command center — projects, a timer, expenses, and contracts, all wired so you can turn work into an invoice instantly.
Projects
Organize client work at /workbench/projects:
- Any billing model — hourly, fixed-fee, or retainer.
- Budgets with alerts — get warned before you blow past scope.
- Phases & milestones — break big work into stages, with milestone payments.
- Team roles — assign who’s doing what.
- A project summary — ask the AI for the state of any project in a sentence.
Time tracking
A real timer built for billing:
- Live timer — start and stop with one click; the AI can start it for you (“start a timer for the Acme redesign”).
- Manual entries — log time after the fact, edit anytime.
- Billable flags & auto-rounding — bill accurately, without the mental math.
- Linked to invoices — tracked time rolls straight into an invoice.
Expenses
Track what you spend at /finances/expenses:
- Categories & receipt capture — snap a receipt, Freely reads it (OCR).
- Markup — bill expenses to clients with your margin.
- Multi-currency — spend in one currency, bill in another.
- Spending analysis — ask the AI where the money’s going.
Contracts
Get agreements signed at /workbench/contracts:
- Templates — Service, Project, Retainer, NDA, and your own.
- E-signatures for both parties — legally binding, no third-party tool.
- Public signing links — send a link; your client signs without an account (
/contracts/sign/...). - Milestone payments — tie payments to signed milestones.
- PDF & versioning — every contract is saved, versioned, and downloadable.
The one-click payoff
Because projects, time, expenses, and contracts all live together, turning delivered work into an invoice is one action — no re-entering anything. Ask the AI: “Invoice the Acme project for this month’s time and expenses.”
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