HourSheets

The Challenge

What needed solving

Small architecture studios bleed billable time. Hours get tracked in scattered spreadsheets, project budgets drift without anyone noticing, and partners have no real-time view of where staff time is actually going — making it hard to price work, catch overruns, or bill accurately.

Our Solution

How we built it

We built HourSheets as an OpenAPI-first web app with a fast, keyboard-friendly interface. Every hour is logged against a project and an employee, dashboards compute firm-wide aggregates directly in SQL, and admins get budget-vs-spent tracking, a staged approval workflow, daily task assignment, and per-project and per-employee breakdowns — all in one drafting-paper-clean UI.

Results & Outcomes

What we achieved

• Firm-wide dashboard: active projects, staff count and hours logged this week/month at a glance
• Per-project budget vs. spent vs. remaining — with fee, cost and profit tracked automatically
• Staged project-approval workflow with nested sub-tasks and per-stage assignees
• Filterable time log and role-based access (admin vs. team member)