Keito is built for marketing agencies that bill clients for creative and campaign work — flat-rate pricing, retainer tracking, and client billing evidence that covers every account team member without a per-seat cost spike each month.
Retainer close
Monthly billing
$52.8k
Active clients
11
Campaign hours
614h
Retainers
8
Campaign hours captured
Paid media and creative
Account manager review
All retainer hours approved
Client invoices ready
By account and service line
Marketing agency billing is a monthly discipline — campaign hours, retainer balances, and creative work all need to reach the invoice without manual consolidation.
Record time by client, project, and team member role so billing reports reflect actual team composition without needing a separate tracking system per person.
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.
Produce summaries that explain team effort by deliverable, milestone, or service area so clients understand what they are paying for.
Retainer and campaign billing
Marketing agencies lose billing accuracy when campaign managers, copywriters, designers, and media buyers log time in separate systems or rely on memory at month end. When a retainer client questions why this month cost more, the answer needs to come from a reviewed, per-person billing record — not a consolidated spreadsheet built in the last 24 hours before the invoice goes out. Keito creates that record: every campaign and retainer client has a live billing view that account managers can approve before invoices are prepared.
Track creative, media, strategy, and account management hours in one billing workspace
Review retainer usage against the agreed scope before invoicing clients
Produce client-ready summaries by campaign, service line, and monthly period
Workflow fit
Keito keeps marketing agency time tracking connected to client, project, billable status, approval, and invoice context before the work reaches finance.
Track creative, media, strategy, and account management hours in one billing workspace
Review retainer usage against the agreed scope before invoicing clients
Produce client-ready summaries by campaign, service line, and monthly period
Keito flat pricing means project leads can add contractors, specialists, and reviewers without facing a billing escalation each time the delivery team changes composition.
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.
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.
The difference is not just recording time. It is whether the record can support billing, project decisions, and client conversations.
Retainer tracking
Set monthly retainer budgets per client and track hours against them in real time.
Generic time trackers show hours but not retainer consumption or remaining headroom.
Team billing
Flat-rate pricing includes account managers, creatives, media buyers, and finance reviewers at no extra cost.
Per-seat pricing makes it expensive to include all agency contributors in the billing workflow.
Campaign visibility
Track time by campaign, channel, and deliverable for billing and internal resource conversations.
Marketing project tools track task status, not billable hours by campaign and client.
The most effective approach is a single workspace where campaign managers, creatives, and media buyers log time with client, campaign, and service line context. Account managers review entries against the retainer scope before billing, and clients receive summaries that match the retainer language they agreed to.
Keito lets you set a monthly retainer budget per client and track all campaign and creative hours against it in real time. Account managers can see retainer consumption throughout the month, have early conversations about scope when hours run high, and produce the retainer summary at billing time without manual assembly.
Marketing agencies need time tracking that supports multiple service lines per client (strategy, creative, media, account management), monthly retainer budget visibility, approval workflows for account manager review, flat-rate pricing that includes the whole account team, and client-ready export formats for invoice backup.
Marketing agencies typically switch when per-seat pricing becomes unsustainable as the account team grows — adding new campaign managers, freelance copywriters, or media buyers creates cost conversations every month. Flat-rate pricing means agencies can add team members to the billing workflow without renegotiating the tool budget.
Solo is built for one human owner and unlimited AI agents. Pro adds human teammates. Business adds integrations, exports, and online invoice payments.
One human owner
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, exports, online payments, and stronger controls.
AI agents do not count as human seats on any plan.
Solo, Pro, and Business can use API keys for agent workflows.
Stripe payments, exports, Xero, and QuickBooks are on Business.
Start with Solo, add people on Pro when you need reviewers or collaborators, and see how Keito turns tracked effort into clearer reports.