Every entry behind every submitted week, read and reduced to what an approver should look at: hours on closed projects, whole days logged as one block, entries longer than a working day, time against an ended contract.
Eleven weeks arrive, each a column of round numbers, and the approver has no way to tell whether Thursday’s six hours on the migration project happened. So they approve everything and the process protects nobody.
A companion reads the entries underneath and hands the approver four specific things to check. Four flagged items across eleven timesheets is a review somebody can do properly.
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What makes a timesheet reviewable?
Detail next to the total.
A companion reads the entries behind each submitted week and flags hours on projects that closed, entries longer than a working day, whole days logged as one round block, and time against a client whose contract ended.
Four flagged items across eleven timesheets is five minutes. A wall of totals is a review nobody does at all.
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How does the chasing work?
Grouped per person, with their own missing days named.
A companion reads timesheet state and drafts one message listing exactly which days are empty, which is a far more actionable request than a reminder that a timesheet is due.
You send it. The nudge lands better from a person than from a system everybody has already muted.
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Approval stays with the approver
Approving somebody’s billable hours is an accountability act, and the signature belongs to the person making it.
What a companion removes is the excuse for rubber-stamping. Once the four things worth checking are on a list, checking them is quick and the approval means something again.
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Rates and billable totals, with the entries attached
Billable against non-billable by project and person, hours against a budget where the budget is reachable, and the entries that would change a client total if they were miscategorised.
It does the arithmetic and shows the inputs. Nothing it produces is accounting advice, and the invoicing decision stays with whoever signs the invoice. Adjacent: ai for agency account teams.
It reads the entries behind each submitted week through a connected Clockify account and flags what is worth checking: closed projects, days logged as one block, entries longer than a working day.
Approval is an accountability act and stays with the approver. What a companion removes is the excuse for approving without looking.
Ask for timesheet state per person with their empty days named, then send the drafted message. Naming the specific days works considerably better than a generic reminder.
Yes. Connect the account and a companion reads entries, projects and timesheets, and hands an approver something specific to check instead of a total. The credential is stored encrypted outside Strawberry, and the available actions follow the Clockify public API.
Yes, where the budget is reachable, with the entries attached to every figure. It does the arithmetic and shows its inputs; the invoicing decision stays with the person signing the invoice.
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