Track utilization, manage project margin, plan capacity. All in one tool.
Consulting firms have three things they actually care about: consultant utilization (are people billing enough?), project margin (are we making money?), and capacity (can we take on the next engagement?). Tempough wires those three into a single workspace so the partner meeting doesn't start with someone exporting CSVs.
Billable percentage per consultant, per practice area, per time period. Targets you can set per-person. Variance vs. target highlighted so you can spot under- or over-utilization before it shows up in the quarterly P&L.
A consultant's cost rate today is different from what it was 18 months ago. Tempough stores cost rates with effective dates, so margin reports for last quarter use last quarter's rates. Important for partnership-distributable calculations.
Cost vs. billable revenue per project, per client, per consultant. OT-aware — if your team logs 50 hours on a project and your OT multiplier is 1.5x, the margin report computes 40 hours straight cost + 10 hours OT cost. Surprises don't hide in the spreadsheet.
Schedule consultants onto projects in advance. At the end of each week, see planned vs. logged for each person on each engagement. The variance number is what tells you whether your bench is right-sized.
Different consultants bill different rates. Same project, same consultant, different rate per phase (e.g. discovery vs. delivery). Tempough resolves the rate hierarchy automatically when generating invoices.
When a weekly timesheet is approved, OT is snapshotted and the period is locked. No silent edits after the fact. Audit log records who changed what, when, and why. Important when your billing is the source of truth for partner draws.
Not the full feature list — the ones that map directly onto how consulting firms actually work.
Billable % by person, team, or practice area. Configurable targets + variance.
Effective-dated rate changes. Historic reports use historic rates.
Per project, per client, per consultant. OT-aware. Locked at approval.
Schedule consultants in advance. Time-off and holidays deduct capacity.
Build ad-hoc reports across time, expenses, and invoices with filters and groupings.
Granular permissions per role. Every edit logged with diff.
Team gets you cost rates, margin, approvals, forecasting, and team reports. Team Pro adds branded invoices, webhooks/API for sync to a data warehouse, team groupings for practice-area splits, and document distribution (handbooks, IC agreements, policy ack workflow). Most firms over 8 consultants land on Team Pro.
The audience-specific case for switching from Harvest.
Timer + invoices
Retainers + approvals
Forecasts + QBO
Phases + milestones
Billable hours + matters
Retainers + channel reports
Phase-gate work + change orders
Time billing + tax-season capacity
No credit card. Cancel any time. Full feature set during the trial.