StrategyAnalytics
Beyond the Billable Hour: Time Data as Strategic Intelligence
Your time entries contain more than billing data. They contain the operating intelligence of your entire firm — if you have the tools to extract it.
Joseph Frantz
Field notes
The Journal
Insights on AI time tracking, professional services automation, and the future of legal tech.
EngineeringAI
How We Built an AI That Understands Your Practice
Inside TimeSentry's classification engine — how we turn emails, calendar events, and browser activity into accurate, billable time entries.
Joseph Frantz
AIProduct
Why AI Time Tracking Is Fundamentally Different
Most time tracking tools digitize the stopwatch. We think the entire premise is wrong — time capture should be passive, intelligent, and invisible.
Joseph Frantz
CompanyLegal Tech
TimeSentry at the NYSBA 150th Anniversary
TimeSentry sponsored the New York State Bar Association's 150th Anniversary and Annual Meeting — 12-hour days on the floor selling AI-powered time tracking.
Joseph Frantz
Legal TechAI
Dragon Lawyers and the Jevons Paradox of Legal AI
A law firm filed court papers with cartoon dragon watermarks. As AI makes legal work cheaper, we won't see less legal activity — we'll see a lot more of it.
Joseph Frantz
ProductivityIndustry
Energy Over Calendar: Rethinking Productivity
The #1 thing I've learned about productivity: optimize energy, not your calendar. Time is the container — energy is what fills it.
Joseph Frantz
Legal TechIndustry
The Realization Rate Problem: Why More Billable Hours Isn't the Answer
The average law firm has an 88% realization rate. Improving that to 92% increases revenue by 4.5% without working a single additional hour.
Joseph Frantz
IndustryTime Tracking
How Monks Invented Clocks and Changed Human Consciousness
Monks invented mechanical clocks around 1275 AD to solve a scheduling problem. Within 200 years, clock-based timekeeping had spread to all of society.
Joseph Frantz
Legal TechIndustry
Utilization vs. Realization: Where Should Your Firm Focus?
Professional services firms track utilization and realization. Trying to maximize both creates conflict — your focus should depend on your value delivery strength.
Joseph Frantz
CompanyMilestones
NYC Summer Is Hot but TimeSentry Is Hotter
Featured in Times Square, 500 industry pros at Demo Day, and Microsoft + Google verified. A recap of our hottest month yet.
Joseph Frantz
Founder's JournalTechstars
TimeSentry Is in Boulder
On comfort, discomfort, and what changes when you emerge from an immersive experience. Reflections as our time at Techstars comes to a close.
Joseph Frantz
Founder's Journal
8-Ball, Corner Pocket
Building a startup is a lot like moving a pool table. If you tackle the problems one by one consistently, eventually you start to see movement.
Joseph Frantz
EventsLegal Tech
Time on the CLOC
What we learned at CLOC Global about the collision course between AI billing tools and corporate legal operations.
Joseph Frantz
Founder's JournalStrategy
Startup Gamma
In finance, gamma is the second derivative. In startups, it's the only thing that matters: how quickly are you increasing your growth rate?
Joseph Frantz
EngineeringProduct
Making It Go Faster
Why we threw out our entire frontend and rewrote it in React. Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up.
Joseph Frantz
Founder's JournalStrategy
Thinking Outside the Box
On the nine dots puzzle, the rope-a-dope, and why TimeSentry's brand color is purple — a blend of red ocean and blue ocean strategy.
Joseph Frantz
Legal TechIndustry
Contextualizing the Billable Hours Problem
Kirkland & Ellis spent $344,000 just reviewing and revising time records on a single bankruptcy case. This is the problem we're solving.
Joseph Frantz
CompanyTechstars
TimeSentry Joins Techstars Boulder!
We're part of the Techstars family. Here's our plan: hyper-verticalize in financial advisory, build the cross-vertical AI engine, and blast across industries.
Joseph Frantz
The instrument for billable time
Lost time is never found again.
The search for lost time is over. TimeSentry admits new firms by invitation.