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title: "Industries - Timecone"
description: "Time tracking and timesheet approval for firms that bill by the hour: IT and technology consulting, management and advisory consulting, agencies and studios, engineering and architecture."
url: https://www.timecone.io/industries
updated: 2026-10-23
site: "Timecone"
---

Industries

# Made for firms that bill by the hour.

If your revenue depends on hours being logged, approved and billed correctly, Timecone was built for the way you work.

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### IT and technology consulting

Teams billing clients by project, role and task, often across several engagements a week.

- Roles and rates per project
- Budget used per milestone and deliverable
- Approved time synced to accounting

**Typical work:** implementation projects, staff augmentation, managed services.

### Management and advisory consulting

Senior people whose time is the product, where every hour needs to land on the right engagement.

- Outlook meetings become logged time
- Approvals by engagement lead
- Locked weeks with full history

**Typical work:** strategy engagements, advisory retainers, workshops.

### Agencies and studios

Creative and digital teams juggling many clients and fixed budgets at once.

- Portfolio of budget used across clients
- Project templates for repeat work
- Reminders for missing weeks

**Typical work:** retainers, campaigns, product design and build.

### Engineering and architecture

Firms tracking time by phase and deliverable, with careful sign-off before anything is billed.

- Milestones and deliverables with budgets
- Multi-group approvals
- WIP report to Excel

**Typical work:** design phases, drawings, site visits, client reviews.

Made by a consulting firm, for firms that bill by the hour.

*ST*Spruce Technology

> “We built Timecone to run our own consulting business. Spruce tracks, approves and bills its time in Timecone every week, and so do our customers.”

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**Your own database**One per organization

**Role-based access**See only what your role allows

**Locked approved weeks**With a full decision history

**No surveillance**No screenshots or activity tracking

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