Time tracking for financial advisors who bill clients for their expertise.
Keito helps financial advisors and RIAs capture billable hours — client meetings, financial planning, research, and consulting work — and produce clean billing summaries before every invoice.
time tracking for financial advisors needs more than a timer. The billing record has to keep client, project, approval, and invoice context together before the work reaches finance.
Capture delivery work by client and role
Record time by client, project, and team member role so billing reports reflect actual team composition without needing a separate tracking system per person.
Review team-level billing before it leaves the project
Give project leads a combined view of who worked on what, what is billable, and whether the team effort matches the client story before invoice prep starts.
Report team delivery in client billing language
Produce summaries that explain team effort by deliverable, milestone, or service area so clients understand what they are paying for.
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Advisory billing workflow
Make advisory time visible and billable without compliance risk
Financial advisors often juggle AUM-based fees with hourly consulting, financial planning, and meeting time that also needs to be billed accurately. The challenge is maintaining clean billing records that satisfy compliance requirements and hold up when clients review invoices. Keito provides a structured billing workflow where advisory hours are logged with client, engagement type, and deliverable context — then reviewed and approved before the invoice is prepared. This creates an auditable billing record that helps advisors justify fees and demonstrate the value of advisory time beyond portfolio management.
Log client meeting time, financial planning, and research hours with engagement context
Review advisory billing records before preparing client invoices
Produce per-client billing summaries that separate advisory fees from AUM charges
Workflow fit
Advisory billing accuracy
Keito keeps time tracking for financial advisors connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Log client meeting time, financial planning, and research hours with engagement context
Review advisory billing records before preparing client invoices
Produce per-client billing summaries that separate advisory fees from AUM charges
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What Keito adds to time tracking for financial advisors
Team billing without per-seat penalties
Keito flat pricing means project leads can add contractors, specialists, and reviewers without facing a billing escalation each time the delivery team changes composition.
Flat-rate team plans from $49/month
Mix of full-time and contract contributors
Finance and project lead reviewers included
Delivery context the whole team fills in
Keito is designed for teams who move fast. It captures the minimum needed for billing accuracy: client, project, task, and billable status, without turning every entry into a form.
Quick entry with client and project tags
Billable or non-billable classification per entry
Manager review before entries become billing evidence
One billing view across the full team
Project leads can see all team contributions to a client engagement, not just their own entries, so the billing review is a single step rather than an aggregation exercise.
Project and team utilization view
Combined billing summary by client
Exportable team report for invoice backup
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Compare the workflow
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
AreaKeitoTypical setup
Advisory billing accuracy
Keito keeps time tracking for financial advisors 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.
What is the best way to manage time tracking for financial advisors?
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 time tracking for financial advisors is not separated from the approval and invoice context it needs.
Can Keito help with time tracking for financial advisors?
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 time tracking for financial advisors needs to support billing, profitability, and client reporting rather than just attendance.
How is this different from a generic timer?
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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Start solo.
Add people when you need them.
Solo is built for one human owner and unlimited AI agents. Pro adds human teammates. Business adds integrations, exports, and online invoice payments.
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API on every paid plan
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Business-only payments
Stripe payments, exports, Xero, and QuickBooks are on Business.
Build a cleaner billing record for financial advisors, wealth managers, rias, and financial planning firms that bill clients for advisory hours alongside aum fees.
Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.