Telll reads the boards your team already uses and keeps a running cost for every job. Nobody fills in a timesheet. Nobody has to remember anything on Friday afternoon.
A fixed fee goes out. Unknown hours go in. Nothing in your stack joins the two. A job can eat twice the hours it was priced for, and do that for a year. You find out when you sit down to price next year, which is one year too late to do anything about it.
Every tool that answers this asks each person to log their time daily. In real teams that happens on Friday, from memory, or not at all.
Work sits in a column marked "in progress" whether it took two hours or two weeks. The label never changes.
A job staffed with your two most senior people burns more money in twenty hours than a busy-looking job burns in fifty.
The tools that get this without a timesheet do it by recording every app and document on your team's computers, and they still ask each person to approve the result. Telll installs nothing on anyone's machine and asks nobody to approve anything. It reads the board your team already moves work across, which they do anyway, for their own reasons, whether or not you are watching. And it counts the work, not the worker: what a client, a project or an account cost you. Never the output of a person.
Point Telll at Trello. Read-only means read-only: Telll asks Trello for read permission and nothing else, so it cannot move, edit or delete anything on your board even if we wanted it to. Two minutes.
Every hour, quietly, by itself. Your team does nothing differently and never sees it.
Hours per client, per project, per account. Putting your fee next to it is what we are building now, and early access members get it first. Your board is counted from step one, so the day it opens you have real history instead of an empty page.
Every job on the board, totalled per client, project or account. From the day you connect it, with no timesheet and nothing for your team to fill in.
Telll knows where every piece of work is sitting, because that is how it counts. So it also knows what has not moved since Tuesday. Same record, no extra setup.
Telll reports by job, never by person. Tell your team it is running. There is nothing in it they need to be protected from.
Telll counts what it can see on the board your team already moves work across. There is no new habit to build, no tool to learn, and nothing to fill in on a Friday. It is the reason this works at all, because anything that needs a team to change how they work stops being accurate the week everyone gets busy.
The same thing goes wrong in all of them: agencies and studios, the retainer that stopped being worth it. Software and IT service firms, the customer whose "small changes" became a second job. Architecture and engineering offices, the project that ran three times the fee. Consultancies and professional firms, the account that eats the partners' week.
And inside every one of them, one person: whoever has to name the price for next year and cannot work out what this year cost.
Nothing to move, nothing to rebuild. Telll sits on top of the board you already use, and starts counting the same afternoon.
Sign in with your email. No credit card.
Paste your Trello link. Read-only.
Telll shows you what it found on the board. You tick and merge.
From that hour on. You just watch.
Telll is counting from this hour on. Your board fills the report in by itself.
Telll cannot tell you what this year cost. It can make sure you are not asking the same question again next August.