The problem with tracking PM work
Your work is almost invisible until it isn't:
- 6 standups across 3 programs
- A 45-minute stakeholder call that decided the next release
- An hour of Asana cleanup and ticket grooming
- A retro that revealed a blocker
- A status report you write at 17:30 because nobody else will
Most timers were designed for makers. PMs aren't makers — they're the connective tissue. Your "work" is conversations, decisions, and unblock cycles. Timers miss most of it.
That's the gap Frency fills.
How Frency works for PMs
You write a brain dump in plain English. Something like:
"Today: 3 standups Acme (15min each), 1h stakeholder sync Acme, 45min ticket grooming Studio Bianchi, 30min status report writing."
I read it and produce:
- Time entries with client, program, and duration
- Clients and projects auto-detected
- A report card showing what I parsed
Real brain dump examples for PMs
Brain dump 1 — Standup-heavy day
"Standups: 9 Acme team A (15min), 9:30 Acme team B (15min), 10 Studio Bianchi (20min). 10:30-12 stakeholder sync Acme Q3 planning. Lunch. 13:30 ticket grooming Acme 1h, 14:30 retro Studio Bianchi 1h, 16 status report writing 45min split across both."
Frency understood:
- Acme: 30min standups + 1.5h sync + 1h grooming + ~20min status = ~3h 20min
- Studio Bianchi: 20min standup + 1h retro + ~25min status = ~1h 45min
Brain dump 2 — Crisis day
"Acme launch slipping. Spent the whole day on it: 5 calls totaling 4h, 2h replanning timelines, 1h writing comms to stakeholders. No other client work today."
Frency understood:
- Acme: 7h crisis management (broken into calls, replanning, comms)
Brain dump 3 — End of sprint week recap
"Sprint week recap: Mon planning ceremony 4h + standups, Tue 6h ticket grooming Acme + 1h Studio Bianchi standup-only, Wed program review 3h Acme + 2h Studio Bianchi planning, Thu standups + 4h status writing Acme + 2h Studio Bianchi retro, Fri 6h Studio Bianchi push to release."
Frency understood:
- Acme: ~20h split across the week
- Studio Bianchi: ~12h split across the week
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, books, travel)
- 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 meetings or end of day
- DP Hours timer included if you want classic timer mode
How this compares to your current stack
Most freelance PMs I talk to use one of these setups:
- Toggl + Asana/Linear — timer + PM tool
- Time-tracking inside the PM tool — partial coverage at best
- Harvest + manual entry — solid but slow
- Nothing structured — billing from memory and calendar
Frency doesn't replace your PM tool. It replaces the "log what I did today and on what program" step that you keep skipping because you were busy unblocking everyone else.
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.