Time tracking and billing for software studios
Developers rarely stop to fill in a timesheet. Today Cursor or Claude can log the hours over MCP with the permissions you grant, and the Chrome extension puts a Track button inside the issue. At launch, commits and pull requests become suggestions to accept.
Every feature in every plan. 30 days free, no card.
A month of design and development at 40 percent margin
Field app is billed by the hour at 125.00. A designer and a developer cost the studio different amounts per hour, so the margin comes from who did the work.
| Revenue36:00 × 125.00 | 4,500.00 |
|---|---|
| Design, Sam24:00 at a cost of 70.00 | 1,680.00 |
| Development, Rina12:00 at a cost of 85.00 | 1,020.00 |
| Margin, 40.0% | 1,800.00 |
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What you will use most
All of it is in every plan
- AI and MCPClaude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over MCP, and the activity log records what each one changed.
- Suggested entries from GitHubCommits and pull requests become suggestions you accept or dismiss, on Sumhour Cloud at launch.
- Browser extensionA Track button in Jira, Linear, GitHub and GitLab, your own GitLab server included, from the Chrome extension.
- Fixed fee projectsA fixed build with hourly extras on chosen tasks, for support after launch.
Where Sumhour stops
- Commits never log time on their own. A suggestion waits until someone accepts it.
- Sumhour has no sprints or story points. It tracks hours, and your issue tracker keeps the plan.
Software studios: common questions
Can I use Sumhour from the command line or an API?
The REST API and personal tokens work today. The sumhour command line tool arrives on npm at launch, with a dry run on every write.
AI and agents in the guideCan we host it ourselves?
Self-hosting opens with the public launch. The code is AGPL-3.0, it runs with one command, and every feature is included with no software fee.
Self-hosting guideDoes the Track button work on our own GitLab server?
Yes. GitLab works on your company’s own server as well as on gitlab.com.
