What Is Poor Time Tracking Costing Your Agency?

A 2-minute audit based on the patterns we see in agencies like yours. Enter a few numbers and see how much revenue is leaking to untracked hours and timesheet admin.

How the estimate works

We multiply team size by weekly hours, untracked percentage, and average weeks per month to get unbilled hours. Multiplying those hours by your billing rate gives the revenue leakage. Admin hours spent chasing timesheets are multiplied by your admin hourly cost and added on top. The result is directional, not a guarantee.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A time audit estimates the gap between hours your team actually works and hours that get billed or assigned to clients. For agencies, the biggest leaks are forgotten timers, context switching, admin work, and end-of-day rounding. Rize's calculator turns that gap into a dollar figure so you can decide whether automatic time tracking is worth it.

Agencies using manual timers or spreadsheets typically under-report 10-30% of billable hours. For an 8-person agency billing $120/hour, a 15% gap means over $50,000 in annual revenue leakage. The exact number depends on team discipline, project complexity, and how often people forget to start or stop timers.

Managers and operations staff spend 1-5 hours per week chasing, consolidating, and cleaning timesheet data. That cost is real even if the hours are not billable. This calculator adds it to the revenue leakage so you see the full cost of manual time tracking.

Rize captures work sessions automatically in the background, assigns them to clients and projects with AI, and removes the need for manual timers. Agencies switching from manual trackers typically recover 15-30% more billable time and eliminate most timesheet admin.