“We already have a project tool.”
Then you already know what’s due. What you don’t have is what it cost — and bolting a timer onto a board leaves you reconciling two systems that disagree. Here the hours are a property of the task, so there is nothing to reconcile.
“We already have a time tracker.”
And it knows durations, not work. It can tell you Tuesday had six hours in it; it can’t tell you the checklist, who was waiting on whom, or why the thing ran over. That context is what makes the number defensible to a client.
“My team won’t log their time.”
They won’t fill in a timesheet. Logging here is a button on the task they already have open, a timer started once, or a correction made later onto the day it was worked. Reminders at 5:00 and 5:30, and nothing to reconstruct on Friday.
“We’re too small for this.”
Five people is the size where this hurts most and gets ignored longest — there’s no ops person to absorb it, so it lands on whoever runs the place. It’s built for 5 to 40, and it doesn’t ask for a process you don’t already have.