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Stop losing billable hours. Without spying on your people.

ActivityPulse turns desktop activity into per-project hours you can invoice — automatically, on Windows and macOS. No keystroke logging, no screen recording, and sensitive capture off by default.

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No credit card required 5-minute team setup Works Council & GDPR Ready
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Keystrokes logged
No code path records what anyone types
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Screen recordings
No session replay, on any plan
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Databases per org
Isolation is structural, not a filter
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Times an hour is counted
Idempotent sync, even across two devices
✦ Sample data — this is what the product looks like

Automated Tracking Employees Love and Leadership Trusts

See how ActivityPulse connects daily desktop app usage to high-level productivity insights: automatic project time attribution for employees, and clear workload analytics for team leads.

Agency Operations/Executive Billing & Utilization
$25,250 Billable CycleRole: Managing Director
Autonomous Timesheet Reconciliation: All 218 engineering hours matched to client billing codes with zero manual admin chasing.
Total Billable Time
218h 17m
+3.2% vs target
Billable Utilization
80.4%
Idle Removed
37h 12m
Subtracted, never billed
Attributed to a Project
98.6%
1.4% still needs a project
Invoice Accuracy
Per task
Attributed, with an audit trail
Privacy Status
Clean Audit
0 keyloggers / 0 screens

Team Engineering Velocity & Billable Heatmap

Automatic hourly work verification across team members

Current Week: $25,250 Generated
Aug 31
$4,240
Sep 1
$4,820
Sep 2
$3,950
Sep 3
$4,610
Sep 4
$4,180
Sep 5
$3,450
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Revenue
Hover any hour cell to inspect verified work allocation
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Revenue Realization by Client

Verified billable hours converted to client revenue

$25,250 Total
Acme FinTech — Cloud Migration($150/hr)
58.0h$8,700
HealthTech Corp — Mobile Platform($135/hr)
48.0h$6,480
Retail Next — Architecture Audit($160/hr)
34.5h$5,520
Client A — DevOps Infrastructure($130/hr)
35.0h$4,550

Why Leadership Chooses ActivityPulse

What changes when hours attribute themselves

Zero Missing Time on Client Billing
The twenty minutes on a pull request review, the hotfix across three repos — the work that never makes it onto a Friday timesheet is attributed while it happens.
Invoices You Can Substantiate
Each attributed segment records the application and window it came from, and the device that reported it.
Built For Works Council Review
No keystroke content and no screen recording by default — the two questions that stall a review, answered by the design.
✦ Predictable Impact

The Work That Never Reaches A Timesheet

Reviews, triage and quick fixes rarely look like a task, so they rarely get logged. This is what changes when time is observed instead of remembered:

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The Work Too Small To Log

Quick Slack answers, pull request reviews, and multi-repo hotfixes rarely get logged on manual timesheets. ActivityPulse records them transparently.

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Every Hour Counted Once

Each segment carries an id the server upserts on, so a retried sync adds nothing — and one person on two machines is one hour, not two.

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Timers To Remember To Start

Nobody chases a missing timesheet on Friday afternoon: the hours are already attributed to a project and a task, waiting for review. There is no invoicing engine here — you approve the period and export it.

Enterprise Grade

Engineered for Enterprise Agencies & Consultancies

Payroll-ready hours, approved before they leave

Export one row per person, project and task — hours × rate, stamped with the approval status of the period it came from — as CSV or JSON for your payroll or accounting system to import.

See where the week actually goes

Hours attributed by project, task and application category — including how much of a week is spent in meeting and communication tools. It describes the work, and says nothing about the person doing it.

Bank-Grade Tenant Isolation

Each organisation's captured activity lives in its own database, so isolation is structural rather than a filter someone has to remember to apply.

The Smarter Choice

Why Modern Teams Choose ActivityPulse

How ActivityPulse compares to traditional manual logging and legacy monitoring tools.

CapabilityActivityPulse (Modern & Privacy-First)Manual Logging (Timers & Sheets)Traditional Monitoring Tools
Team Morale & Adoption
Visible: the agent shows the person what is captured, and can be paused
Friction-heavy: Engineers delay manual time logs until end-of-weekHigh resistance: Opaque tracking causes team pushback and hesitation
Billable Accuracy
Accurate: Automatically attributes active work windows to exact client projects
Approximated: short tasks and reviews are reconstructed from memory at the end of the weekInput-based: Treats raw mouse/key clicks as engineering output
Client Invoice Trust
Audit-ready: Clear, verifiable project breakdowns clients approve without dispute
Frequently questioned: Vague lump-sum hours invite invoice disputesIntrusive: Exposes unrelated personal windows in broad screen grabs
Employee Privacy
Privacy-by-default: no keystroke content, no audio and no camera — and every capture setting is shown to the person it applies to
Private, but relies entirely on manual recallBroad collection: Inadvertently gathers personal tabs and messages
Works Council & GDPR Compliance
Streamlined: Designed specifically for strict EU privacy and Works Council standards
Compliant, but lacks automated proofHigh legal friction: Requires lengthy privacy impact assessments
Buyer FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Does ActivityPulse log keystrokes or record the screen?
No. Keystroke content is never captured — there is no code path that records what a person types — and there is no screen recording or session replay by default. Screenshots exist as an Enterprise capability that is off unless an administrator deliberately enables it. What is captured by default is which application and window were in the foreground, and for how long.
Will our engineering team accept being tracked?
That is the constraint the product is designed around rather than an afterthought. The desktop agent shows the person what is being captured on their own machine and offers a pause control for personal time. Nothing reads their keystrokes or their screen, and no productivity score is calculated for them. Teams reject tools that watch them; they tolerate tools that count hours honestly.
Is ActivityPulse GDPR compliant?
Compliance is a property of a deployment — your lawful basis, your works council agreement, your retention policy — not something a vendor can hand you in a box. What ActivityPulse provides is a design that makes a compliant deployment achievable: minimisation by default, sensitive capture off unless enabled, a narrower scope that can never widen a broader one, an audit trail of configuration changes, and erasure that removes the captured activity and the raw archive behind it.
Will a works council approve it?
That decision is theirs, and it depends on your agreement with them. The questions they usually ask have concrete answers: no keystroke content, no screen recording by default, the monitored person can see what is collected and pause it, capture can be limited to a working-time window, and no individual is given a productivity score.
What happens when someone works offline or on a plane?
Capture continues. Segments queue in a local outbox on the device and sync when the connection returns. Each segment carries a UUIDv7 that the server upserts on, so a retried or delayed sync stores the time once — no lost hours, and no hour counted twice.
Does ActivityPulse give people a productivity score?
No, and that is deliberate. Producing a headline productivity score is an explicit non-goal, and the dashboard is built not to compute one. The product reports what happened — hours attributed to projects, idle time subtracted, which applications the time was spent in — and leaves the judgement to a human who has context the software does not.

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