The Problem With Complexity
Anyone who has ever tried to put hours into an oversized ERP, inventory, or DATEV system knows the pain: endless nested menus, memorizing project codes, five clicks for a simple “Meeting booked” action.
The result? Time tracking becomes its own task. People postpone it, forget it, or on Friday evening they sit with a note full of bullet points and piece together what they actually did all week.
Our Approach: The Time Clock as Translator
We asked ourselves: Why not build a simple, lean intermediary layer? A digital time clock that works everywhere—from a phone on a construction site fence to a tablet in a meeting, or in a browser at the desk. It records attendance, contract hours, and project time.
And then? It acts as a bridge. Through APIs, it cleanly pushes the data into your existing enterprise systems. You do not need to leave DATEV, but you also do not need to click through DATEV anymore.
The Philosophy: In the Background, Not Extra
Our vision is the cash register receipt. When the supermarket cashier scans your milk, the receipt appears alongside the purchase. It is no extra work, no deliberate decision, no “Now I still have to handle the accounting” moment. It just happens—automatically, invisibly, naturally.
That is exactly how time tracking should work. That is why we integrated two things you are already doing:
1. Calendar as Time Tracking
You already work with Google Calendar? Perfect. Our time clock syncs with your calendars. The “Design Review” from 10 to 11 a.m. is already there as a block. With one click you decide: was that project time? Then it gets booked. Was it internal organization? Then it goes into the correct bucket.
You already created the appointment anyway— we turn it into the booking without asking you to type the time again.
2. Commits as Time Tracking (for developers)
Your developers already write commits. With a simple keyboard shortcut, that message is sent directly into the time clock. You already told us what you did—we just listened and booked it.
No more, “Oh right, I still need to book the bugfix time” at the end of the day.
Conclusion: The Bridge Between People and Bureaucracy
The best software is the one you do not notice. By building a time clock that listens to what you already say (calendar events, commit messages), and then reliably forwards it to the larger systems, we solve the real problem: people should work, not book.
Just like the receipt that is never requested, but is always there when you need it.