Problems
Busy offices still lose money in the same places. Tockly is built around these realities — not around filling in a timesheet for its own sake.
Salary-heavy consultancies share a pattern: people are the product, fees are finite, and cost leaks are hard to see until they are expensive. The themes below are why firms look for better cost tracking and fee analysis — not another generic project tool.
When every project sits in one blurry P&L, you cannot see which jobs make money and which quietly lose it. The office feels busy; the margin still shrinks.
How Tockly helps
Track each project's cost against its own fees — so profitable work is not silently funding the rest.
Project financial healthThe job is still going, the budget is gone, and other projects end up paying for this one. By the time the report arrives, the only options left are bad ones.
How Tockly helps
See cost early, phase by phase, while there is still time to re-scope, re-staff, or stop the leak.
Project financial healthThe office is busy, but it is not clear whether a project can carry more people — or at what level — without burning the fee you sold.
How Tockly helps
Set the budget (fees) and work backwards to the team size and seniority the job can sustain.
Project financial healthHours get filled in on Excel, then sit unused until overspend has already happened. Capture without feedback is just paperwork.
How Tockly helps
Log time so hours feed the cost picture in real time instead of waiting for month-end.
TimesheetsThe percentage looks fair on paper, but you cannot see whether it still leaves sustainable profit once the team and programme are real.
How Tockly helps
Test the proposed fee with predictive fee analysis before you commit.
Predictive fee analysis