Alternatives to the tools that measure your hours but not your profit
Almost every consultancy ends up in the same place: a tool that records hours beautifully, a spreadsheet that tries to turn them into margin, and a month-end close done by hand. Here we compare the usual options with Tenki.
Honest comparisons: each one also says when the tool you already use is the better choice.
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Harvest
The classic for hours, expenses and invoicing. We compare how far its journey goes with a platform that closes in P&L and cashflow.
Read the comparisonToggl Track
The best stopwatch on the market. We compare its time-centred focus with a platform that turns those hours into profitability.
Read the comparisonClockify
The most widespread free time tracker. We compare how far its financial layer reaches with a full profitability platform.
Read the comparisonMonday.com
The work OS you can configure for anything. We compare the cost of building your own system with a product already built for consultancies.
Read the comparisonExcel
The most used management tool in the world, and the most fragile. We compare what maintaining it really costs with a platform that calculates on its own.
Read the comparisonWhat comes up in almost every comparison
Hours get recorded, but never become margin
You know how many hours the team put in. What you do not know, until someone builds the spreadsheet, is how much you made or lost on each project and whether the problem is the estimate, the scope or the rate.
Real cost lives somewhere else
Salaries, overheads and purchases sit in accounting or in a separate sheet. Without them, the "margin" you see is just revenue minus billable hours: a number that bears little resemblance to reality.
You find out too late
The project goes underwater in week three and you discover it in next month’s close. By the time the number arrives there is no decision left to make, only an invoice that is hard to defend.
Nobody measures team health
Utilisation, overload, overtime and blockers get guessed at in meetings. When someone burns out or a project stalls, the signals were almost always in the data that nobody was watching.
The modules that close the loop
Weekly timesheet, daily timer, bulk CSV import and automatic compliance.
Real-time project margin, burn rate, scope creep and utilisation.
Expenses, invoicing, projected cashflow and automatic P&L.
More than 20 connected modules: team, clients, projects and KPIs.
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