Turn a month of tracked hours into six invoices

How does a companion write better line items?

By reading the time entries rather than the totals.

Thirty-four hours against a project is one number; the individual entries say what happened, and grouping those into three or four honest descriptions is exactly the tedious language work worth handing over.

The draft comes back with the underlying entries attached to each line, so you can check a description against reality before a client does.

Which retainers are underwater?

A retainer at twenty hours that has consumed thirty-one by the 18th is a conversation you want on the 18th, not on the 30th when the work is done and unbillable.

A companion reads time entries against the project and reports burn with days remaining. Arithmetic on your own data, shown with its inputs, which is the only version anybody trusts.

The expenses nobody attached to a client

Billable expenses logged without a client, receipts sitting in an email folder, a subcontractor invoice that should have been passed through. A companion lists expenses with no project or client attached and cross-checks against what was billed.

Fixes are staged for confirmation. Broader habit: automate expense report collection, and the freelance view in ai for freelancers.

Where payment collection lives

Getting paid involves a gateway, card handling and late fees, and all of it lives inside FreshBooks or at your bank.

What a companion adds is the assembly, the chasing draft, and arithmetic on your own data with the inputs shown. Nothing it produces is accounting or tax advice, and the reachable surface follows the FreshBooks public API.

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