Billable-moment detection
Phone calls, email threads, and document edit sessions are classified in real time. Client-related work becomes a draft time entry. Personal calls don't.
ClaimHour
ClaimHour
ClaimHour auto-captures the phone calls, emails, and document time solo lawyers forget to log. No practice management system required.
Built for US solo lawyers. Early access opens summer 2026.
The problem
You bill hourly. But billable moments rarely happen at your desk with a timer running — they're the call you take in the car, the email you send between meetings, the brief you draft over coffee. By end of day, half of it is gone. You reconstruct time from memory. You round down to protect the client. And 5 to 10 billable hours a week vanish from your invoice. Every existing fix — Smokeball AutoTime, Clio Duo, Billables.ai — assumes you've already bought into a $39–$159/month Practice Management System. If you haven't, and you still bill out of Word and QuickBooks like a third of US solos, the entire billable-capture category is closed to you. ClaimHour opens it.
How it works
Install the Mac menubar app and iOS companion. Add your client list. ClaimHour reads metadata only — no call audio, no email bodies, no document contents.
Take calls. Send emails. Draft documents. ClaimHour watches in the background and classifies every billable-looking moment against the matter it belongs to.
At 5pm you get a 2-minute digest. Approve, edit, or reject each entry. Export straight into QuickBooks, LawPay, FreshBooks, or a CSV for whatever you use.
What you get
Phone calls, email threads, and document edit sessions are classified in real time. Client-related work becomes a draft time entry. Personal calls don't.
Counterparty numbers, email addresses, and filename patterns are learned against your matter list. After two weeks, ClaimHour guesses right 95% of the time — you just click approve.
Every entry is rounded to 0.1 hour per bar-standard practice. Your invoices look like a lawyer wrote them, not an engineer.
QuickBooks IIF, LawPay invoice, FreshBooks, or a plain CSV. One click. No PMS lock-in. If your billing tool changes next year, ClaimHour still works.
Pricing
$29/mo
Solo with a handful of matters, getting started.
Most popular
$59/mo
Full-time solo with ongoing caseload.
$99/mo
Small firm, 2-lawyer solo, or power user.
Questions
No. ClaimHour captures billable moments and exports them. It doesn't try to own your calendar, your client intake, your trust accounting, or your billing. If you already use Clio or Smokeball, ClaimHour feeds them. If you bill out of QuickBooks and Word, ClaimHour works perfectly with that too.
No. ClaimHour never stores audio, email bodies, or document contents. We read only metadata — call duration, counterparty number, email subject keywords, document open-time. You control what moments become time entries, and you write the descriptions yourself.
Nothing leaves your device until you explicitly export to your billing tool. No cloud upload of content. ClaimHour is an aid to your memory, not a listener on your conversations. Consult your state bar's advisory opinions on third-party software — we're metadata-only and storage-local, which puts us in the same privilege bucket as a timekeeping app.
Pilot users recover 5–8 billable hours per week that weren't previously captured. At $250/hour that's $1,250–$2,000 recovered revenue per week — Pro pays for itself on the first Monday of every month.
ClaimHour still works — it captures the moments those tools miss (personal-phone calls, calls made from your cell, email activity when you're away from the desktop, weekend drafts). Export the captures as time entries and paste them in. Users with a PMS still recover 2–4 hours a week with ClaimHour layered on top.
Join the waitlist. We'll email when early access opens and you'll have a week to claim a lifetime discount.
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