Know exactly where
your team’s time goes.
Stop guessing why deadlines slip. Get a private, on-your-own-server dashboard that auto-tags every hour to the right client — so you can bill accurately, spot drift early, and give time back to the people doing the work.
Built for the questions you actually ask
How profitable is each client this week? Where did Tuesday go? Why is the Beta Health project slipping? Find out in 30 seconds.
Auto-tag time to clients
Define a project once — “Acme Corp = any window with acme.com or the acme-platform folder.” Every Cursor, Chrome, Zoom, and Slack second auto-rolls up to the right client. Tag the rest in one click.
AI-written daily reports
Claude reads each employee’s day and writes a one-page exec summary: highlights, per-project hours, suggested follow-ups. Use your Anthropic key free, or ours for $1 a report.
HIPAA & attorney-client mode
One toggle excludes Epic, Cerner, athena, Westlaw, Clio, iManage, and any window flagged “privileged.” Zero titles, zero keystrokes captured while those apps are foreground.
One-click installer per PC
Generate a ZIP for each employee. They double-click Setup.exe — that’s the whole onboarding. No env files, no batch scripts, no IT ticket.
Live hourly breakdown
See activity by hour, by app, by window title — for every employee, every day. Hover a bar to see what they were actually doing at 14:00 last Tuesday.
Hourly rates & billable totals
Set $180/hr for Acme, $0/hr for internal work. The dashboard shows what you can invoice — and what you’re leaving on the table.
Live in under 10 minutes
Three steps. The team agreement conversation is on you — the install is on us.
1. Create your team
Sign up, pick how many PCs you’re covering. Free forever for the BYO-Anthropic plan, no credit card.
2. Send the installer
Generate a per-PC ZIP from the dashboard. Each employee gets a one-click installer with their credentials baked in.
3. Watch the dashboard
By tomorrow morning you’ve got hourly charts, per-project totals, and an AI-written summary of every employee’s day.
Honest software for honest leaders
You shouldn’t need a six-figure ActivTrak contract to know where the day went.
Typical employee monitoring tools
- Data sits on a SaaS vendor’s server forever
- Per-seat pricing — $100s/mo even for tiny teams
- Screenshot every 30 seconds (creepy, expensive bandwidth)
- No first-class HIPAA / attorney-client carveouts
- AI summaries locked behind enterprise tier
- Sales call required to even see pricing
RBI Time Tracker
- Data lives on YOUR portal — you can self-host
- Free forever for BYO-Anthropic plan
- Activity samples + window titles, never screenshots
- One-toggle HIPAA & attorney-client redaction built in
- AI reports out of the box (your key OR ours, $1 per report)
- Click “Start for free” and you’re in
Pay for the AI, not the seats
Per-seat fees are extortionate. Both plans include unlimited employees, unlimited projects, and every feature on this page.
Bring your own key
Free forever. You pay Anthropic directly for AI reports — usually pennies each.
- Every feature included
- One-click per-PC installer
- HIPAA & attorney-client mode
- Project auto-tagging & billable hours
- You pay Anthropic, not us
Managed AI
We host the Anthropic key. Pay only when a report runs.
- Everything in BYO
- No Anthropic account required
- Card on file via Stripe
- Skip a day = $0 — only billed for actual reports
- Switch back to BYO anytime
The questions every CEO asks first
Is this employee surveillance?
It’s the opposite. The tracker uses your employees’ explicit agreement, never takes screenshots, and lets owners flip on HIPAA or attorney-client mode in one toggle so privileged work is never captured. You see when work happened and on what — not what was typed.
How long does setup actually take?
Five minutes per machine, max. You generate a ZIP from the portal for each employee, they double-click the installer, and the tracker is live and uploading to your dashboard. No env files, no IT involvement.
Where does the data live?
By default on tracker.runbyitself.com (our cloud). For regulated industries we ship the same code as a self-host package — point a Linux VPS at it and you own every byte. SQLite under the hood, easy to back up.
What does the AI report actually look like?
One page per employee per day: highlights paragraph, a table of time per app/project, and a "suggested follow-ups" list. Try the live demo — there’s one waiting for you on the first install.
Can I track which client I’m working for, not just which app?
Yes — that’s the whole point of Projects. Define a rule (window title contains "Acme", or folder name has "acme-platform") and every minute auto-rolls up to that client. Set an hourly rate and the dashboard shows you billable totals.
What if I run out of trust with Stripe / Anthropic?
You don’t need either. The BYO plan is free forever — no Stripe touch, you put in your own Anthropic key (or skip AI reports entirely and just use the raw dashboards).
Stop paying for surveillance.
Start paying for clarity.
Free plan, no credit card, your data on your server. The whole thing takes one evening — and tomorrow you’ll know exactly where your team’s day went.