Keito keeps configuration, migration, optimisation, and failed-build investigation attached to the client repository that benefited.
Project review
Pipeline hours reviewed
152h
Active work
24
Reviewed
91%
Ready to bill
$18.4k
Time captured with context
CircleCI time tracking
Billing review complete
Client and project checked
Invoice evidence ready
Approved summary prepared
CircleCI time tracking needs more than a timer. The billing record has to keep client, project, approval, and invoice context together before the work reaches finance.
Group work by client, project, issue, branch, or repository reference so time reports explain what changed, not just who was online.
Use approvals and project summaries to catch unassigned work, non-billable research, and time that needs a clearer client note.
Export clean summaries that connect delivery activity to project budgets, retainers, and invoices without exposing internal noise.
CI delivery billing
CI improvements create leverage that hides their own effort. A consultant rewrites caching, splits tests, fixes flaky jobs, rotates secrets, and migrates executors; the client sees a green build and a shorter wait. Without a project record, that work becomes a vague DevOps line or disappears into support. Keito ties each CircleCI work session to the client repository and delivery objective, keeps the engineer’s explanation beside the time, and lets a lead approve what belongs in the invoice or retainer report. The workflow can sit beside CircleCI without claiming that Keito imports pipelines or build data automatically.
Track setup, migration, optimisation, and debugging by client repository
Keep pipeline outcomes beside the hours that produced them
Review CI delivery before client reporting and billing
Workflow fit
Keito keeps CircleCI time tracking connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Track setup, migration, optimisation, and debugging by client repository
Keep pipeline outcomes beside the hours that produced them
Review CI delivery before client reporting and billing
Keito is designed for technical teams that need billing records to reflect real delivery work without pushing every developer into finance tooling. The Keito CLI, GitHub Action, and Agent Skill log time from the terminal, CI jobs, pull requests, and AI coding sessions directly.
Managers can separate billable implementation, non-billable discovery, support, and internal work before reports leave the team.
Use tracked engineering work for invoice backup, project profitability, and retainer reviews without stitching together several spreadsheets.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Repository-level pipeline work vs hidden DevOps time
Keito keeps CircleCI time tracking tied to clients, projects, billable status, approvals, and billing summaries in one workspace.
Typical setups capture time in one tool and rebuild the billing explanation later from exports, comments, or spreadsheet cleanup.
Review before invoicing
Managers review entries before they become invoice evidence, so missing context is fixed internally rather than during a client dispute.
Raw timer exports usually reach finance before delivery leads have confirmed whether the work is billable, complete, or client-ready.
Predictable team pricing
Flat-rate plans let delivery staff, reviewers, contractors, and finance users participate without per-seat pricing friction.
Per-seat time trackers make teams choose between clean billing participation and controlling tool spend.
Agencies should track client-specific pipeline setup, configuration, caching, test optimisation, migrations, secret changes, and failed-build investigation. Keito assigns those hours to the repository and project served.
No automatic CircleCI import is claimed on this page. Keito provides the project time, review, and billing-evidence layer around CI engineering work.
Explain pipeline optimisation with the client repository, problem addressed, change made, outcome, approved hours, and billing status. Keito keeps that evidence with the reviewed time entry.
Use CircleCI build insights to understand pipeline performance and Keito to attribute human delivery work to clients, approve it, and prepare billing reports. The two records answer different questions.
Yes. Keito can group approved CircleCI setup, maintenance, and incident work by client and period, giving the retainer report a clear record of what the delivery team handled.
Solo includes 1 licensed user, unlimited AI agents, Mac desktop and iOS apps, Stripe payments, and standard CSV and Excel exports. Pro adds your team. Business adds integrations, planning, advanced reporting, and stronger controls.
1 licensed user
For independent consultants, freelancers, and small studios running work with AI agents.
Team collaboration
For teams that need shared workspaces, approvals, and team-level project visibility.
Advanced operations
For organizations that need integrations, planning, advanced reporting, and stronger controls.
AI agents do not require licenses on any plan.
Solo, Pro, and Business can use API keys for agent workflows.
Solo, Pro, and Business include standard CSV and Excel data export.
Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.