Agency Retainer Hours Dashboard
Why This is an Opportunity
Time tracking tools exist but none of them are built around the retainer model where the client has a bucket of hours that resets monthly. This is a focused dashboard with time logging and a client-facing view.
Key Pain Points
- •Client asks on the 20th how many hours they've used and you have to scramble to pull numbers from Toggl, Harvest, or worse — Slack messages
- •Team goes over the retainer hours and nobody noticed until the end of the month, so you eat the cost
- •Rollover hours are a nightmare to track — did they use their 10 rollover hours first or their fresh 40?
- •You want to show the client a live dashboard but your time tracking tool's reports are ugly and expose internal notes
Original Discovery
Marketing and dev agencies sell monthly retainer packages (e.g., 40 hours/month) and then track usage in spreadsheets that nobody updates until the client asks 'how many hours do I have left?' This app lets team members log hours against retainer buckets, shows real-time usage to clients via a shared link, and sends alerts when a retainer is 80% used.
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