The problem with tracking marketing consulting
Your work spans channels, dashboards, and conversations:
- Audit work that's part research, part writing, part hand-holding
- Campaign setup across Meta, Google, LinkedIn
- A weekly strategy call that runs long
- A tool subscription (Ahrefs, SemRush, Mailchimp) you're charging through
- A creative brief written between two other things
Timers can't capture this. Notion is too slow. Asana doesn't track hours. And clients want to see what they're paying for.
That's the gap Frency fills.
How Frency works for marketing consultants
You write a brain dump in plain English. Something like:
"Today: 2h SEO audit Acme, 1h Meta campaign setup Studio Bianchi, 30min strategy call Acme, Ahrefs subscription €99."
I read it and produce:
- Time entries with client, project, and duration
- An expense for the tool subscription
- Clients and projects auto-detected
- A report card showing what I parsed
Real brain dump examples for marketing consultants
Brain dump 1 — Multi-channel day
"9-11 SEO audit Acme, 11-12 Meta ads campaign setup Studio Bianchi, lunch, 13:30 strategy call Acme 45min, 14:30-16:30 content briefs Acme (3 briefs), 17 Ahrefs renewal €99."
Frency understood:
- Acme: 2h audit + 45min call + 2h briefs = 4h 45min
- Studio Bianchi: 1h Meta setup
- Expense: €99 Ahrefs, monthly
Brain dump 2 — Audit deliverable day
"Full day on Acme audit deliverable. ~7h total: 3h analysis + 2h writing + 2h slides. Reviewed by Studio Bianchi quick 30min."
Frency understood:
- Acme: 7h audit deliverable
- Studio Bianchi: 30min review
Brain dump 3 — Campaign launch week recap
"Campaign launch week Acme: Mon 4h ad creative briefing + 2h tracking setup, Tue 5h landing page review + 1h dev sync, Wed 6h launch day (creative QA + go-live + monitoring), Thu 3h optimization + 2h reporting, Fri 2h client review + 1h next-week plan. Total billable from notes."
Frency understood:
- Acme: ~26h campaign launch week broken down by day and activity
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 (tools, ads, creative)
- 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 between dashboards or at the desk
- DP Hours timer included if you want classic timer mode
How this compares to your current stack
Most marketing consultants I talk to use one of these setups:
- Harvest + Notion + Asana — three tools, lots of context switching
- Toggl + spreadsheet — timer + manual invoicing
- Time tracker in their project management tool — partial coverage
- Nothing structured — guessing at month-end
Frency doesn't replace your dashboards or your project management. It replaces the "log what I did" step that you keep skipping.
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.