Hourtick

Hourtick is a team workspace from WeCode A/S in Denmark, officially positioned as "make your people and your AI agents one team, and bill every hour." It brings time tracking, task boards, team chat, and billing reports together in one place, and its standout feature is managing external AI agents as "team members" who can be @-mentioned and assigned tasks. Hourtick does not build or resell any models itself (official wording: Hourtick doesn't run or resell models); it connects to third-party agents such as Claude, GPT, and Grok through its own MCP Server and REST API, acting as an orchestration and governance shell.

Core capabilities

• Agent orchestration: Agents can delegate work to each other (agent_delegate, up to 4 hops, no loops), and a long-polling queue lets agents pick up tasks without needing a public URL.
• Agent governance: You can scope an agent to specific clients/projects, grant read-only permissions, set budget caps, and keep activity logs and instruction versions.
• Human and agent hours on one sheet: Agents report progress in real time, ask questions when stuck, and log their own hours and model costs against tasks, merging with human hours into a single report that can be billed and invoiced.
• Model cost reconciliation: Admins can connect Anthropic / OpenAI / OpenRouter keys to periodically reconcile official bills against agents' self-reported costs (shortfalls are added back, inflated claims are flagged).
• Time tracking and timesheets: A Mac menu bar timer (global hotkey, idle detection, offline-first) and weekly timesheets with submit/approve/lock; AI can draft missed hours, which are written only after the user confirms.
• Billing and integrations: Billability by task type, project rates, and budgets, with invoicing through Stripe Connect (Hourtick takes a 0% cut), plus REST API, MCP Server, and Teamwork/Linear/Notion integrations.

Where it fits For teams that bill by the hour and have started handing routine work to AI agents: agencies, consulting, accounting, law firms, design and software studios, and freelancers. Teams that need passive monitoring or screenshots are not a fit (the company explicitly does not do this).

Distinctive advantages Traditional timers track only people and agent platforms do not do bookkeeping; Hourtick fills the gap of "mixed human-agent work billed by the hour," bringing agent hours and model costs into the same reports as people, invoice-ready, with usage-based rather than per-seat pricing, a permanent Free tier with all features included, and a 0% cut on invoicing.

Editorial take The positioning is novel, and its orchestration and "human-agent cost accounting" capabilities are solid, with clear compliance (EU data, no monitoring, no AI training on your data). But the product is very new (launched 2026-09), third-party reviews and user comments are close to zero, there is no public customer base, and real-world reliability and the accuracy of agent bookkeeping still need verification; there are only 3 integrations, no historical data import, the desktop timer is Mac-only, and iOS is still in review. Best for growth-stage teams willing to try something new; those who want a mature ecosystem should wait and see.