Shortcut keeps engineering delivery organized by stories, epics, and iterations. Keito captures the billable hours behind that work so client invoices reflect actual delivery, not rough estimates.
Iteration review
Story billing
$31.4k
Active work
24
Reviewed
91%
Ready to bill
$18.4k
Time captured with context
shortcut time tracking
Billing review complete
Client and project checked
Invoice evidence ready
Approved summary prepared
shortcut 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.
Shortcut delivery billing
Shortcut is a popular alternative to Jira and Linear for engineering teams that want a lightweight, story-first delivery workflow. Stories, epics, and iterations give engineering leads a clean view of what is shipping and when. For consultancies and agencies whose Shortcut work serves client projects, the missing piece is the link between delivery activity and billable hours: Shortcut tracks the work, but it does not track which hours map to which client, which entries are billable, or whether a manager has reviewed the time before it becomes invoice evidence. Keito provides that layer. Engineering teams log hours against Shortcut-style stories and epics in Keito with client and project context, approval queues catch unassigned or misclassified time before invoicing, and finance receives client-ready summaries that explain iteration delivery in language clients understand. The result is engineering work that converts into clean billing without forcing developers to write their own invoice narratives.
Track Shortcut story and epic work by client and project
Approve billable entries before invoices are prepared
Produce client-ready iteration summaries from reviewed time records
Workflow fit
Keito keeps shortcut time tracking connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Track Shortcut story and epic work by client and project
Approve billable entries before invoices are prepared
Produce client-ready iteration summaries from reviewed time records
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.
Story delivery vs billing record
Keito keeps shortcut 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.
Use a workspace where time is captured against the right client and project, reviewed before invoicing, and exported as billing evidence. Keito is built around that workflow, so shortcut time tracking is not separated from the approval and invoice context it needs.
Yes. Keito tracks work by client, project, person, billable status, and review state, then turns approved records into client-ready summaries. That makes it useful when shortcut time tracking needs to support billing, profitability, and client reporting rather than just attendance.
A generic timer records duration. Keito records billable context: who did the work, which client and project it belongs to, whether it has been reviewed, and how it should appear in billing evidence.
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