Rize

Rize attacks a specific, unglamorous problem: firms that bill by the hour or work on retainers run on timesheets nobody fills in, so pricing, staffing and billing decisions are made on guesses. Timers require discipline and people forget them; screenshot-based monitoring collects data but costs team trust. Rize takes a third route — it runs quietly on the desktop, observing the applications, documents, meetings and calendar events people actually worked on, then reconstructs the week from that activity. Nobody starts or stops anything.

Privacy is the design constraint rather than an afterthought. By default Rize only reads the application name, window title and URL, and does not take screenshots. Each person gets a personal window to review and correct their own time before any client or project attribution becomes visible to the rest of the team; only time tagged to clients and projects is shared, while personal activity stays private. The thesis is that adoption drives accuracy — if the team resists the tool, the numbers are worthless.

The reporting layer is where the value shows up. Once hours are captured and reviewed, Rize builds utilization and workload views, automatic client reports emailed on a schedule, retainer burn versus plan, and a profitability dashboard by client, project and person. It also connects outward: ClickUp, Asana, Linear, Notion, Jira, Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, Stripe, Zapier, a CSV export, a REST API and an MCP server that lets Claude and ChatGPT query your time data. Team pricing starts at $29.99 per person per month billed annually ($39.99 monthly), with a free trial for teams under 20 people and a guided $500 pilot for larger teams.