Private, automatic time tracking for teams
Built for privacy, Rize is an automatic time tracker that runs in the background, tags time to clients and projects, and shows profitability, burn and capacity. No timers, no timesheets, no surveillance.
Rize at a glance
- Who it's for: Agencies, accounting firms, law firms and other professional-services teams that bill by the hour or work on retainers and fixed fees.
- What it does: Tracks time in the background and assigns it to clients and projects. Your team reviews it in a few minutes a week. You get complete timesheets, capacity and client burn, plus profitability once you add rates.
- What it replaces: Timers and weekly timesheets. Nobody has to start, stop or remember anything.
- Privacy: Private and secure, with no micromanagement or surveillance. Each person reviews their own time before the team sees it.
- Connects to: ClickUp, Asana, Linear, Notion, Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, Zapier, the Rize API and MCP for Claude and ChatGPT.
- Works on: macOS and Windows desktop apps, with web dashboards for reports.
- Price: Team plan from $29.99 per person per month, billed annually ($39.99 billed monthly). Free trial for teams under 20 people, with a $500 guided pilot for teams of 20 or more.
20+%
more billable time recovered
< 5 min
setup, no training needed
100%
automatic — no timers
“Before Rize, I felt blind. Now 100% of our time is reported automatically and we’re charging what we’re supposed to charge.”
LRR Design Agency
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Available for macOS and Windows. No credit card required.
THE PROBLEM
Your firm runs on timesheets nobody fills in
01
Timesheets are their own job
People rebuild the week from memory or copy last week forward. Ops spends the first week of the month chasing them.
02
Timers need discipline. Monitoring costs you trust.
Timers depend on people remembering; screenshot tools cost you the team's trust. Neither produces data you can price from.
03
So billing, staffing and pricing run on guesses
Billable hours slip, teams that look full aren't, and fixed-fee clients take more hours than you priced.
WHY RIZE
Why teams switch to Rize
01
Automatic and accurate
Rize builds the timesheet from the apps, docs, meetings and calendar events people actually worked on, and tags each hour to the right client and project. Your team reviews it instead of writing it.
02
Privacy first
No screenshots by default. Rize reads only the app name, window title and URL, and each person reviews their own time before the team sees it. No micromanagement, no surveillance.
03
Agentic first
Rize’s MCP server lets Claude and ChatGPT read your time data: ask “how many hours did we spend on Acme this month?” and get an answer. The API and Zapier send reviewed time to your finance, billing and planning tools.
Built for modern agencies and teams
Retainers, fixed fees and value pricing only work when you can see the hours behind them.
Already have a finance team? Rize sends clean, reviewed time into the systems you run: CSV, Zapier, API or MCP.
Other professional-services firms: consultancies, law, architecture and in-house client-services teams →HOW IT WORKS
Automatic time tracking your whole team can trust
Three steps. No timers, no timesheets, no behavior change.
01
Install and invite your team
About 5 minutes. Desktop app for macOS and Windows, no browser extension.
Learn more →
02
Bring in your clients
Import clients and projects from ClickUp or a CSV. Rize tags time to the right client automatically.
Learn more →
03
Your team just works. Rize does the tracking.
People do a quick weekly review of their own time. You get complete timesheets, plus burn and capacity by client.
Learn more →
Privacy First
Private by default,
so your whole team buys in.
Each person sees their own data first
Only time tagged to clients and projects is shared with the team. Personal activity stays private — always.
No screenshots by default
By default Rize reads only app name, window title and URL. People review and approve their time before anyone else sees it.
Adoption is why the data is accurate
Privacy is why the team uses it, and use is why the numbers hold up. Rize earns adoption — it doesn't force it.
INTEGRATIONS
Works with the tools your team already uses
Rize connects to your existing workflow — no migration, no disruption.
WHAT YOU GET FROM THE DATA
Know exactly where your team's time — and money — is going
Once every hour is tracked, the reports build themselves.
WHAT RIZE MEASURES
What Rize measures
Automatic time capture that turns hours into profitability, burn and capacity data.
- Automated time capture
- Rize captures every work session in the background on macOS and Windows — no timers to start, no timesheets to fill in. Learn more →
- Team time visibility
- Rize gives a real-time view of where team hours go — by client, project and activity — without anyone logging anything manually. Learn more →
- Capacity and workload
- Rize measures actual capacity on salaried teams from tracked work patterns, so allocation decisions use real load rather than billable-hour proxies. Learn more →
- Invoicing-ready time data
- Rize drafts reviewable timesheets and client-ready hours exports — CSV or via Zapier — that plug into the billing system you already use. Learn more →
- Retainer burn and over-servicing
- Rize shows monthly burn vs plan by client and department, flagging the retainer that is about to go over before it does. Learn more →
- Client and project profitability
- Rize reports margin by client, project and person from the hours your team actually worked, so underpriced engagements surface before the month closes. Learn more →
- Profitability calculator
- The free Rize team profitability calculator prices delivery cost per client from tracked hours and loaded rates. Learn more →
- Integrations
- Rize imports clients and projects from ClickUp and maps tracked time to Asana and Linear tasks, plus Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack and the MCP server for AI assistants. Learn more →
Two ways to start
Team plans start at $29.99 per person per month, billed annually. Try it free with a team of under 20, or book a $500 pilot and we'll set up the install, client import, team invites and your first client report. See full pricing
How Rize compares with other time trackers
Most time trackers need someone to start a timer or fill in a timesheet. Rize doesn't.
| Feature | Rize | Harvest | Toggl | Clockify |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Needs a timer or manual timesheet | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creates time entries automatically, no manual step | Yes | No | No | No |
Frequently asked questions
For agencies on retainers and fixed fees, the measure that matters is burn vs plan. Rize tracks your team's time in the background and shows monthly burn by client and department, so you catch over-servicing before the retainer is gone — no timers, no timesheets. See how agencies use Rize →
Rize compares monthly hours worked against each retainer's plan, by client and department. Burn reports flag accounts trending over their retainer mid-month, so teams rebalance or renegotiate before the fee is consumed. How agencies track retainer burn →
Rize multiplies actual hours per client by each staff member's loaded cost rate and compares it to the fixed fee — margin = (fee - delivery cost) / fee. Because hours are captured automatically, the delivery cost is real rather than timesheet-reconstructed. Client profitability for flat-fee firms →
Rize tracks time automatically and shows engagement actuals vs budget, so you see which fixed-fee clients take more hours than you priced. Staff review their own time privately before anything is shared with the team. See how accounting firms use Rize →
Surveillance tools monitor employees with screenshots, keylogging, and webcam access. Rize does none of that. Rize is automatic time tracking that teams choose to adopt — employees control their own data, review their entries before sharing, and can edit or delete any tracked time.
Yes. Each person sees their own data first and approves what's shared. Only time tagged to a client or team project is visible to the admin — personal browsing and non-work activity is never shared.
Harvest, Toggl and Clockify all depend on someone starting a timer or filling in a timesheet. Rize has no timer — it tracks work in the background and drafts the timesheet automatically, so the data is complete even when the team forgets to log anything. Compare Rize with other time trackers →
Rize imports your clients and projects from ClickUp and maps tracked time to Asana and Linear tasks, plus Google Calendar and Outlook for meetings and Slack for notifications. The MCP server lets AI assistants query your time data, and approved time exports to CSV or connects to other tools via Zapier. See all integrations →
Rize is a desktop app for macOS and Windows — desktop-focused by design. Most knowledge work happens on a computer, and tracking desktop activity directly is what allows Rize to automatically categorize your time with high accuracy. A mobile or browser-only tracker cannot capture the same level of work context.
Yes. Rize captures time on research, drafting and client communication by matter — automatically, with no end-of-day reconstruction. See how law firms use Rize →
No. Rize (rize.io) is automatic time tracking software for agencies and professional-services teams. It is not related to the Rise or Ryze apps.
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