Why Quanta exists

I run a small agency. Like every agency, we tracked time, because tracked hours are how the work becomes invoices, and invoices are how everyone gets paid.

And like every agency, we paid for that privilege per seat, per month, for every single person on the team.

Here's what always bothered me. Most of my team touched the time tracker for a few minutes a day. A contractor would log their hours after lunch, a developer would punch a timer twice, and that was the whole relationship. But every one of those people was a full-price seat, billed every month, at the same rate as someone living in the tool all day. Every new hire and every short-term contractor made the bill bigger. The tracker had quietly become one of our larger software line items. For what? Entering numbers into boxes.

So three years ago I started building our own. Just for us at first: a fast timer, clean timesheets, reports that matched how we actually billed clients. Then invoicing, because exporting hours into another tool was silly. Then budgets, expenses, a desktop timer, QuickBooks sync. At some point I looked up and realized we had replaced the whole stack we used to rent by the seat.

Lately I've been experimenting with AI. You can describe your day in plain English, typed or spoken, and Quanta turns it into structured time entries. I built it because entering time is the chore everyone quietly avoids, and this felt like a real chance to innovate on how tracking gets done. I'll be honest: it's a work in progress, and it remains to be seen whether it becomes the way people track time or just an interesting experiment. It's included in every plan either way. I'd rather ship the experiment and learn than pretend I already know the answer.

Quanta is that tool, opened up to everyone else. It's a flat $40 a month for your whole team, or $10 if it's just you, because that's what it actually costs to run well.