The problem with tracking consulting work
Your billable rate is high. Every hour matters. But your day looks like this:
- A 45-minute call that decided the next quarter's strategy
- 2 hours building a deck nobody asked for but everybody will want
- 15 minutes of email that unlocked €20k of work
- A "thinking walk" that produced the actual answer
- Travel, lunches, books, tools — all on you to recover
Timers can't capture this. Notion takes too long to maintain. And consulting clients want itemized invoices, not "12 hours of strategy".
That's the gap Frency fills.
How Frency works for consultants
You write a brain dump in plain English. Something like:
"Today: 1h discovery call Acme, 2h drafting strategy memo Acme, 45min advisory call Studio Bianchi, lunch with prospect, bought "Playing to Win" €18."
I read it and produce:
- Time entries with client, project, and duration
- An expense for the book, attributed however you say
- Clients and projects auto-detected
- A report card showing what I parsed
Real brain dump examples for consultants
Brain dump 1 — A typical Tuesday
"9 strategy call Acme 1h, 10-12 building Q3 deck Acme, lunch with Studio Bianchi prospect billed nothing, 14:30 deep work strategy memo Acme 2h, 16:30 advisory call Studio Bianchi 45min. Train ticket €42 for meeting."
Frency understood:
- Acme: 1h call + 2h deck + 2h memo = 5h
- Studio Bianchi: 45min advisory (no charge on the lunch unless you say so)
- Expense: €42 train, no client attribution unless specified
Brain dump 2 — Pre-engagement work
"3h prep for tomorrow's pitch Studio Bianchi. Reading their last annual report 1h, drafting workshop agenda 2h. Not billable yet — pre-engagement."
Frency understood:
- Studio Bianchi: 3h pre-engagement (flagged non-billable)
Brain dump 3 — Travel day
"Travel to Acme office: train 8-11, on-site workshop 11-17 (6h), train back 17:30-20:30. Train tickets €120 total. Lunch on Acme €25. Will bill 6h workshop + 3h travel at half rate."
Frency understood:
- Acme: 6h workshop + 3h travel (flagged half-rate)
- Expenses: €120 train + €25 lunch, both attributed to Acme
What you get with Frency
- Brain dump → time entries in seconds
- AI client and project detection — no setup first
- Expense capture in the same brain dump (travel, books, meals, tools)
- Credit-based wallet — €1 = 100 credits, pay only for what you use
- Free tier with about 10 brain dumps a month after signup
- Phone + desktop — log from a train or from your office
- DP Hours timer included if you want classic timer mode for deep work blocks
How this compares to your current stack
Most consultants I talk to use one of these setups:
- Harvest — solid time tracking but lots of manual entry
- Notion + spreadsheet — beautiful, slow to maintain
- Excel-based timesheet — flexible but tedious
- Nothing structured — guessing at month-end with high stakes
Frency replaces the friction without forcing you into a new system. The brain dump matches how you remember your day — in sentences, not in form fields.
Try it without signing up
I built Frency so you can try it before committing anything. No signup. No credit card.
Three brain dumps free without signup. If you like it, create an account to keep going on the free tier.
Frency is built by DPLab, a software studio shipping solo with AI agents.