For engineering and consulting firms
Give your team its hours back.
Engineers and project managers lose hours every week to administration: timesheets, invoices, proposals, document control, permit filings. HourBack shows where that time goes and which parts AI and automation can carry, so more of the week goes to billable work.
- No screenshots
- No keystroke logging
- Results by team, never by person
Project team week · example
- Reusing past projects and résumés in proposals
- Timesheet and invoice reconciliation
- Transmittals and document control
An illustration, not a benchmark. Your pilot measures your own team.
Where the admin hides
The work between the engineering, made visible.
Proposals
Past project descriptions, résumés and forms copied into each response. A drafting assistant fed from your own library can do the first pass.
Time and billing
Hours checked against budgets, invoices assembled and corrected, values carried between the project system and spreadsheets.
Documents
Transmittals, submittals, permit applications and QA/QC checklists: the same fields filled in again and again.
Support teams
IT service desk, HR onboarding and accounts payable: the shared teams that keep every project running.
Works alongside Deltek Vantagepoint, Unanet, Procore, Bluebeam, SharePoint and Microsoft 365, with recommendations built on the tools you already license, such as Copilot and Power Automate.
Rolling out across a firm
Start with one team. Expand in waves.
Pilot
One or two teams
Prove the value and the trust model with a team that volunteers. Four weeks to a readout.
Waves
More teams, same setup
Company settings are set once. Teams in the same role compare against each other, never people.
Governance
HR, IT and security on board
An employee charter, a minimum group of five, and a review with your IT and security teams before anything is installed.
Prove it
Measure again
Eight to twelve weeks after changes go live, the same measures show the hours that came back.
Pick a team. We'll show you its hours.
A pilot covers setup with your IT and HR leads, three weeks of observing, the team questionnaire and a readout with a plan.