Time tracking for retainers
Timers and timesheets are table stakes. The question a retainer business actually needs answered is: how many hours does this client have left this month?
Retainer work fails quietly. Hours get logged (mostly), a spreadsheet gets updated (sometimes), and at month-end someone discovers a client at 160% of their retainer — or worse, bills for it and starts an argument. Pinboard tracks time where the work happens, rolls it up per client and per project, and turns the month into a billing report instead of an archaeology project.
Overheard
How many hours does Acme have left?
Can everyone log their time by Friday?
We can't bill what nobody tracked.
Capture
Start a timer on the task, the ticket, or the timesheet itself. Time entries carry the project and client automatically, because they were created in context.
Visibility
Billing reports aggregate tracked time per project and per client, so the retainer conversation happens mid-month — while there's still time to act on it.
One view answers 'how much of the retainer is used?' without exports.
Separate billable from internal time so reports reflect what can actually be invoiced.
AI
Pinboard's AI can suggest timesheet entries from your actual activity and let you log time in a sentence — 'log 2 hours on the Acme redesign yesterday.'
Pricing
Time tracking and billing reports are part of the planned Pro plan at $10 per editor per month — not a separate product or a per-feature upcharge. Planned pricing — the whole platform is free while in early access, and early-access teams get notice before anything is ever charged.
Questions
Yes — billing reports roll tracked time up by client and project for any date range, with billable and non-billable time separated. That's the view a retainer business lives in.
Yes. Time entries attach to tasks or tickets, so request work and delivery work both count against the same client — which is usually where retainer leakage hides.
Nothing right now — approved workspaces get the full platform free during early access. Planned pricing is Pro at $10 per editor per month, with Service Desk (+$10), CRM (+$15), and AI (+$12) as optional per-seat add-ons, so you only pay for the apps you switch on.
Yes. Pinboard ships an MCP server with 56 tools, so the assistant you already use — Claude, or any MCP-compatible assistant — can create tasks, log time, file tickets, and query boards directly. There's also an open REST API with token auth.
Early access
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