Time Tracking for Consultants
Who Bill by the Hour
You sell your expertise by the hour. Every hour you don't track is money you don't collect. The average consultant loses 15-25% of billable time to poor tracking habits. At $200/hour, that's $60,000-100,000 a year. Gone. Because you reconstructed your timesheet from memory on Friday afternoon.
The leak in your consulting business
You're a consultant. You bill $150, $200, $350 an hour. You're rigorous about your craft but sloppy about tracking. Monday you had three client calls, a two-hour deep work session, and an hour of email. But when you sit down Friday to log the week, you remember the deep work and maybe two of the calls. The rest evaporates.
Research consistently shows professionals who track in real time log 15-25% more billable hours than those who reconstruct from memory. For a consultant billing $200/hour and working 30 billable hours a week, that's $900-1,500 per week left on the table. Over a year, you're looking at $45,000-75,000 in lost revenue. That's not a rounding error. That's a hire.
Five reasons consultants pick Miru
Built by a consulting company for consulting companies.
Capture every billable minute
The 15-minute call that ran to 40 minutes. The email thread you spent an hour on. The research that didn't feel like 'real work.' Track it all in real time and stop giving away your most expensive resource for free.
Invoice directly from time entries
Select the client, pick a date range, review the line items, and send. Your time entries become the invoice. No re-typing. No cross-referencing your calendar with a spreadsheet. Two minutes, done.
Multiple clients, one dashboard
Switch between clients without switching tools. Every project has its own rate, its own time entries, its own invoices. Filter by client, project, or date range. See your entire practice at a glance.
CLI for developer-consultants
If your consulting involves code, log time from your terminal. One command. Pipe it into git hooks, automate it with scripts. No context switching to a browser tab.
Stripe payments on every invoice
Clients click a link and pay. No wire transfers. No 'check is in the mail.' Average time-to-payment drops from weeks to days. Your cash flow becomes predictable.
The math on Miru for consultants
Solo consultant
Free. Forever. All features included. No credit card.
Time tracking, invoicing, Stripe payments, expenses, CLI, API.
Small consulting firm (5-20 people)
$5-$20/month. Total. Not per seat.
Compare: Harvest would cost $54-$216/month for the same team.
The ROI calculation
If Miru helps you capture just one extra billable hour per week at $200/hour, that's $10,400/year in recovered revenue. Against a cost of $0-$240/year. That's a 43x return. Conservatively.
Built by consultants, for consultants
Miru is made by Saeloun, a Ruby on Rails and React consulting company based in Pune, India. We use Miru every day to track time for our own client projects. When something is painful in the product, we feel it before any customer reports it. The invoicing workflow, the team dashboard, the CLI — all of it was born from real consulting work, not a product manager's spec doc.
Stop losing billable hours.
Free for solo consultants. $1/person/month for teams. Every feature included.