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For early-stage startups

Cost transparency as your startup grows

Track founder and team hours, watch runway-relevant cost, manage freelancers, and scale from free to paid on one European workspace.

🇪🇺 GDPR compliant · EU servers · No surveillance

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Startup workspace overview
I-STU-HEROHourvio dashboard for an early-stage startup showing founders, early hires, projects, and cost vs billable totals.

Built for the stage you are in, priced to grow with you

We built Hourvio for early-stage startups who need cost transparency without a finance team. Founder hours, early-hire hours, and the freelancer you brought in to ship a feature all need to land somewhere you can see them, match to the projects that drive the roadmap, and roll into a cost number that matters for runway. A time tracker built for a two-hundred-person enterprise is wrong for a five-person team, and a spreadsheet hits its limit the moment the second hire joins.

Hourvio scales from two founders to twenty hires without a rebuild. The Free plan covers up to five users with timer, weekly grid, calendar sync, and basic reports — enough for a founding team to run for months. When the team grows past five, Starter unlocks unlimited users, advanced reports, and exports for €4.99 per user per month. Professional adds invoicing, PDF generation, time off, approvals, and billable and cost rates at €9.99 per user per month when revenue starts flowing in.

Everything runs on European servers in Germany. No screenshots, no webcam monitoring, no keystroke logging. Early-stage teams run on trust and speed, and the product treats them that way.

Team roles from day one

Four roles — admin, manager, member, and freelancer — cover founders, early hires, and contractors without a custom permission system.

Project tracking

Projects bundle tasks, members, colors, and a client in one place. Tags and categories slice time by workstream for internal reviews.

Cost vs billable split

Billable rates and internal cost rates sit side by side. Cost summaries show where founder and team hours go across every project you run.

Freelancer management

Dedicated freelancer profiles with contract value, contract hours, and end dates keep contractors separate from your core team with budget alerts built in.

Free for up to five users

The Free plan covers timer, weekly grid, calendar view, Google and Outlook sync, and basic reports for up to five users. No credit card to get started.

Scalable upgrade path

Free → Starter → Professional → Business. Upgrade when you need advanced reports, invoicing, SSO, or audit logs. No data migration, no rebuild.

  1. Start with the Free plan

    Sign up and create a workspace in a couple of minutes. The Free plan covers up to five users with timer, weekly grid, calendar view, Google and Outlook calendar sync, and basic reports. No credit card, no trial expiry, nothing to pay while the team is small.

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    Free plan setup
    I-STU-01Workspace setup screen for a startup with brand color, default currency, and free plan confirmation.
  2. Invite co-founders and early hires

    Invite every founder and hire by email with a role — admin, manager, or member — and assign a direct supervisor for approval routing when you need it. Add freelancers on separate profiles with contract value, contract hours, and end dates so contractors stay clearly separated from the core team.

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    Team invitations
    I-STU-02Team page with founders, early hires, and freelancers being invited with roles and direct supervisors.
  3. Track time across projects

    Create a project for every workstream that matters: product, engineering, sales, customer calls, fundraising. Every team member runs the timer against the project they are working on, or types into the weekly grid. Every entry carries a description and a billable flag, so internal and client work stay cleanly separated.

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    Project tracking
    I-STU-03Timer running against a product project with the weekly grid showing time distributed across engineering, sales, and fundraising.
  4. Monitor cost and runway

    When revenue starts flowing in and the team upgrades to Professional, billable and cost rates sit side by side on every entry. The profit summary shows where founder and team hours go across every project, and velocity-based budget forecasts show when a workstream will hit its cap.

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    Cost dashboard
    I-STU-04Project status dashboard showing revenue, labor cost, margin, and budget progress for an early-stage startup.
  5. Upgrade as you scale

    Free covers the founding team. Starter unlocks unlimited users, advanced reports, and CSV and Excel exports. Professional adds invoicing, PDF generation, time off, approvals, and billable and cost rates. Business brings SSO, MFA, audit logs, and priority support when compliance gets serious.

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    Plan upgrade path
    I-STU-05Plan comparison panel showing Free, Starter, Professional, and Business with current tier highlighted.

Team management that scales

Four roles, direct supervisor chains, freelancer profiles with contract terms, and module visibility toggles per user or per role as the team grows past five.

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    Team management
    I-STU-02Team page showing founders, early hires, and freelancers with roles and direct supervisors visible.

    Projects and workstream tracking

    Projects bundle tasks, members, budgets, rate cards, and a client in one place. Tags and categories slice time by workstream for internal reviews and investor updates.

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      Projects and workstreams
      I-STU-03Project list with colors, members, budget progress bars, and tags across product, engineering, and sales workstreams.

      Cost and utilization reports

      Summary, detailed, and weekly reports group by project, user, or tag. Exports to CSV and Excel on Starter and above, role-based data scoping out of the box.

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        Reports and dashboards
        I-STU-04Summary report with founder and team hours grouped by project and a cost dashboard alongside it.

        Your data stays in Europe

        We host every workspace on European servers in Germany, and we never watch your team work. Security is a default, not an upsell.

        GDPR by default

        Every workspace is GDPR-compliant on day one. No toggles, no add-ons, no separate EU edition.

        EU servers in Germany

        We run on servers in Germany. Your data never leaves the European Union.

        SSO and SAML

        Bring your identity provider. We support SAML 2.0 and OIDC for single sign-on on the Business tier.

        Multi-factor authentication

        Protect every account with TOTP-based MFA. Enforce it workspace-wide on the Business tier.

        Audit logs

        Every admin action is logged with actor, timestamp, and context. Export and review at any time.

        Isolated infrastructure

        Customers on the Professional and Business plans run on their own database and application server. Not shared multi-tenancy.

        We trust your team. Hourvio has no screenshots, no webcam monitoring, no keystroke logging, and no mouse tracking. Ever.

        Time tracking that grows with your startup

        Join the Early Access list and we will email you the moment your workspace is ready. Start on the Free plan, no credit card.