About TackTime
Accountability without surveillance
TackTime exists because time tracking went wrong. Somewhere between the stopwatch widgets and the screenshot spyware, the industry decided the way to trust a timesheet was to watch the person filling it in. We think that is backwards. You trust a record because of how it is kept, not because you photographed someone keeping it.
What TackTime does
TackTime is time management for firms whose hours become invoices and audit exhibits: consultancies, agencies, and government contractors. Teams enter their week deliberately on a weekly grid, close each workday, and submit. By design, each project's hours route to that project's manager for approval independently, so one slow approver never holds up everyone else's week.
Every change to every record keeps its full history, and sensitive numbers like billing rates and labor costs are visible only to the people cleared to see them. The controls a government contractor is held to, daily recording, justified corrections, supervisor review, and a history that is added to rather than rewritten, are the normal way of working here rather than an enterprise add-on.
What we refuse to build
TackTime does not monitor employees, and it never will: not as a toggle an administrator can flip, not as a tier, not later. The capability does not exist in the product, and that is a principle rather than a gap in the roadmap. We refuse for a practical reason as well as a moral one. Surveillance produces worse records. People being watched optimize for looking busy; people signing their name to a deliberate weekly record optimize for being right, and a folder of desktop screenshots answers none of the questions an auditor asks.
Keystroke logging
Typing volume is not output. Recording it also captures passwords, private messages, and health information that no employer should be holding.
Screenshot capture
Periodic screen grabs sweep up client confidential material and personal content, and create a store that has to be defended in every future dispute.
Webcam monitoring
Watching a person at a desk measures presence, not contribution, and treats an employee as a suspect by default.
Background activity tracking
Silently logging pages and applications makes an employer the custodian of an employee's private browsing, including banking and medical use of the same machine.
How we think about compliance
Timekeeping standards for government contractors are not bureaucratic hazing. They are what any firm would want if an invoice were ever challenged, and TackTime builds those controls in as the normal way of working.
A plain-language note, because it matters: TackTime supports a rigorous timekeeping process and does not certify anyone. It is not a certification, an attestation, or a guarantee of compliance. Compliance depends on how your organization configures and uses its tools, and software that promises otherwise is overpromising. Read how the controls work.
Who is behind TackTime
TackTime is built by TackTime, LLC. We would rather build one product that does this properly than a suite that does everything a little.
How a workspace begins
A new workspace begins with a 60-day trial. Once a workspace holds no live employee license, whether its last was a trial seat or a paid one, it stays readable to its owners for a further 30 days before suspension, so nothing is stranded while a decision is being made. 5 viewer accounts are included with every workspace.
Every workspace begins with a 60-day trial of the full product. You will sign in with your work identity first, then name the company and the address the workspace answers on.