One platform vs. bolt-on point tools
One platform, or four tools that nearly agree
Bolt a time tracker onto a screenshot tool onto a billing export and you own three records of the same week — and not one row where an hour, the work behind it and its invoice line meet.
Free for two seats, no card. One vendor, one data path, one renewal date.
Time tracker
The hour
exported to a spreadsheet
Screenshot tool
What was done in it
matched up by hand
Timesheet or HR tool
Who approved it
re-keyed from a report
Billing tool
The invoice line it became
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- The hour
- What was done in it
- Who approved it
- The invoice line it became
What the seams cost
The last week of every month, in a stack of four tools
- 1
Export from each tool
Pull the month out of every system, each on its own definition of a week and its own idea of what counts as work.
- 2
Re-key the hours
Type them into the timesheet, then into payroll, then into the invoice. Every hop is another chance to type a number wrong.
- 3
Chase the difference
The tracker, the capture tool and the export disagree about the same week, and nothing in the stack says which one to believe.
- 4
Sign it anyway
Approve a figure that cannot be traced back to the work, because no single tool in the stack holds both ends of it.
What lands on the bill
Five line items, or one
Every capability in a stack bills per seat, and the seats are largely the same people: the same week, paid for five times over. One platform charges once — and the month end above stops happening rather than getting faster.
- Activity capture and screenshotsits own subscription
- Time tracking and timesheetsits own subscription
- Payroll exportits own subscription
- Invoicingits own subscription
- Project budget and marginits own subscription
Five subscriptions, five seat counts, five renewal dates
Plus the integrations between them: someone builds those, and someone keeps them working the week a vendor changes an export format.
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$14per user / month
One subscription, one seat count, one renewal date, and all five of those capabilities on the same record: capture and timesheets, then payroll export, invoicing and project margin on top of them.
Free covers up to two seats. Team is the same monitoring core without the billing and payroll side.
Point by point, what the seams take out of you
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When the numbers do not agree
With WorkMonitor
The hour, the work behind it, its approval and its invoice line are one row, so there is one figure to defend rather than three to reconcile.
Bolt-on point tools
Each tool keeps its own version of the same week, and deciding which one is right is a person’s job every month.
When something breaks
With WorkMonitor
One vendor and one escalation path, with a named success manager who can see the whole record.
Bolt-on point tools
Several vendors, several support queues, and a fault that each of them can plausibly attribute to another.
Getting it adopted
With WorkMonitor
One rollout and one consistent experience across the workforce, so adoption is not the thing that stalls the programme.
Bolt-on point tools
A different agent, login and policy per tool, which is the part of a rollout that quietly stops.
Where the data goes
With WorkMonitor
One vendor, one data path, no third-party handling, TLS in transit, role-based access and a tamper-evident audit trail.
Bolt-on point tools
Every hand-off between point tools is another copy of the same sensitive record, and another place it can leak.
Fitting your organisation
With WorkMonitor
Policy granular to the team, role and region, rather than one setting applied to everybody.
Bolt-on point tools
A rigid standard configuration, with the exceptions handled outside the tool.
Surviving an audit
With WorkMonitor
Consent, retention and the audit trail are part of the record itself, so evidence is retrieved rather than reconstructed.
Bolt-on point tools
Compliance assembled by hand across systems, which is exactly the work that is skipped when nobody is asking.
What lands on the invoice
With WorkMonitor
One platform, one price per seat, one renewal date.
Bolt-on point tools
Several subscriptions with separate seat counts, plus the integration work between them and the cost of keeping it working.
What one platform covers
A stack cannot reconcile what it never collected
Three tools each hold a piece of the same hour, and no two of them start the week in the same place. One agent produces the time, the applications, the sites and the captures as one stream — so a figure and the work behind it are two views of one record, not two systems to argue over.
One agent, every signal
Live on the fleet in an afternoon. One lightweight agent covers Windows, macOS and Linux, rolled out centrally rather than device by device.
Hours and evidence from the same source. Time, apps, sites, screenshots and idle detection all arrive from one collector, so the hours and the work behind them can never disagree.
What a manager cannot sit and watch. Anomaly detection surfaces idle drift and behaviour worth a second look, with the evidence attached, instead of leaving it in raw logs.
One policy, every region
Decide it once. Consent, redaction and retention rules are set at the top and applied to every team and region, so a regional exception is a setting rather than a project.
New teams reporting on day one. Group-based rollout and templates mean a team that joins on Monday is in the numbers on Monday.
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
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The captures behind an hour, filtered by person and project — the same hour the timesheet, the invoice and the payroll run are built from.
One console
An admin surface per vendor is a leaver who still has access
Every extra tool is another console, another access model and another line on the offboarding checklist. Consolidating is not tidiness. It is the difference between revoking access once and hoping the third system was covered.
- Screenshot captureEvery 15 min, working hours onlyWhole orgOn
- Blur before uploadBlurred on the device — the sharp frame never leaves itWhole orgOn
- Keystroke contentNot collected, and cannot be switched onWhole orgUnavailable
- Private timeAnyone can pause capture; the pause is logged, the screen is notDesign teamOn
01Access, identity and devices
Access follows the person
Rights track role and employment status, so a leaver loses them in one move rather than in whichever consoles somebody remembers.
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One set of monitoring rules
Device rules, capture settings and IT playbooks are defined once and applied everywhere they should be.
03
The fleet at a glance
Device status, compliance and security posture across the estate, read from one view rather than assembled from three.
04The administration around it
Device lifecycles in one system
Procurement, configuration, recovery and end-of-life are tracked where the work is tracked, so a machine is never quietly unaccounted for.
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One number to call
One vendor and one escalation path, rather than three support queues that each have a reason it is not their fault.
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- Every named comparisonThe tools people weigh us against, one write-up each, including the cases where the other one wins.
- Drive it yourselfA real workspace, no signup and no sales call. The fastest way to check any claim on this page.
- What one platform costsThe full ladder, per seat, with what each plan actually lifts.
- The products on one recordMonitoring, AI, proof and project money as separate pages, sharing a single ledger.
- One vendor, one data pathHow the data is isolated, what is enforced on the device, and what we do not yet hold.
- What it connects toThe connectors that already exist, so consolidating does not mean abandoning your stack.