For consultancies, agencies and fractional CFO practices.
Log hours against each client’s budget. The hour that would go over waits for your approval. The invoice comes from the agreement.
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Nothing to pay until your first invoice. No card, no demo, no form.
41.5 of 40 h
Tue 8 Sep · 1.5 h · Board deck · Maya R.
Held for approval. 1.5 h over the client’s budget.
0.1%
of what you invoice
$0
to pay until your first invoice
1 min
a day to log hours, from Slack
0
demos, sales calls or forms
An hour that would push a client over budget doesn’t slip through. Ceed marks it pending approval and asks you. Yes, and it goes on the invoice at the agreed rate. No, and it stays on the record, unbilled. Either way you decided, and you decided today.
1.5 h · Acme Co · Board deck
Over the 40 h budget. Waiting for Dana.
On the September invoice, at the agreed rate.
Your team logs hours once. The invoice, the payouts, the margin and the close all come from those same entries.
Retainer, budget, rates by role, discounts. Computed from what the client signed, so the invoice matches the agreement.
Goes to your ledger as a document.
Revenue, cost and margin for every client, every day, from the hours as they are logged.
Visible to the owners and whoever they name.
The contractor’s statement and the commission come from the same entries as the invoice. Nothing to reconcile.
The same 100.5 hours the two invoices used. Your payment rail moves the money.
Shares taken as fees show on the invoice and in the record, at the value you agreed.
Close the month and its invoices, statements and margin freeze. Nothing in it changes after.
Closed by Dana K., Wed 2 Sep. Nothing in it changes.
Each workday, a message with the hours left per client. No timers, no screenshots. Everyone sees their own hours.
A retainer is a flat fee. You sized it in hours only you know. Ceed keeps that number, so scope creep shows up as a held hour, not as a thinner month.
What the client sees
One line. The hours behind it stay with you.
What you see
38.5 of 40 h
The budget you sized the fee with, and the margin it left.
On the tenth, Acme Co asked Tomás for one more thing while he was in there. He did the work and he logged the hour. Elsewhere, that hour is worked for free and found at the invoice, a month late.
The forty-first hour against a budget of forty, for a task the statement of work never mentioned. Ceed held it the moment Tomás logged it and asked you. It sits in the row where it happened, unbilled, until you say yes or no.
$16,000, computed from forty approved hours at the agreed rate. Under the number, six days of work, dated, in Tomás’s own words, for anyone who asks what the money bought. The held hour is not on it, and the invoice stays a draft until you decide.
On the eleventh the month reads minus $6,000. Nothing is invoiced yet and Tomás has cost that much. Beside it, what is booked: $16,000 to invoice and a 62.5% cash margin, never extrapolated. The question you carry to the close, did we make money, is answered with three weeks to run.
Your firm has its own tenth of the month. Sign up and that hour waits for your decision.
Nothing to pay until your first invoice. No card, no demo, no form.
Three steps from this page to a budget that holds at the hour.
Continue with your work Google account. The first sign-in creates your firm.
Add a client, its budget in hours and the rates. Or upload the agreements you signed and Ceed Intelligence reads them in.
Your team logs hours from Slack, one reminder a day. The hour past a budget waits for you.
Your people list, your W-2s and 1099s, your client list and the agreements you signed. Ceed Intelligence reads them and proposes the people, clients and budgets it found. You confirm, all at once or row by row.
It works anywhere you use Ceed, in your own words: log two hours on Acme Co, which clients are over budget, prepare the August invoice. It proposes, you confirm, and every act shows its price first.
team-2026.xlsx · 2025 W-2s and 1099s · 6 signed agreements
Untick any row. Money terms wait for your yes, one by one.
$0.42 · 61k tokens. Every record added is marked imported and opens this run.
0.1%
Invoice $200,000. Pay $200. A month you invoice nothing costs nothing. No seats, no tiers, no minimum, and the rate never moves.
Nothing to pay until your first invoice. No card, no demo, no form.
Fractional CFO, CISO, CMO and CTO practices. Consultancies and agencies up to fifty people. IT and security service providers, law firms, staffing. From the day a second person logs an hour to your client. Nineteen kinds of firm, one page each.
Your CRM, project tool, chat, ledger and payroll stay where they are. Ceed is the record they all work from.
We ran a security consultancy on those spreadsheets. We caught over-servicing at month close, we surprised a client with an invoice, we paid partners from a sheet we hoped was right. So we built the system we needed and ran our own books on it first.
Jon McLachlan and Sasha Sinkevich, founders of YSecurity and Ceed
Why they built Ceed, in their own words.
Time tracking, client budgets, invoices, contractor payouts and the month close for a firm that bills for its team’s time. When an hour would push a client over budget, Ceed holds it for your approval the moment it is logged. It costs 0.1% of what you invoice.
Nothing. Ceed charges 0.1% of what your firm invoices, starting with your first invoice. A month with no invoice costs nothing. No seats, no tiers, no minimum.
With a work Google account. The first sign-in creates your firm. There is no demo, no sales call, no form and no card to enter. Questions go to hello@ceed.so and a person replies.
Consultancies, agencies, fractional CFO and CISO practices, IT and security service providers, law firms and staffing firms, from two people to about fifty. Any firm that bills clients for its team’s time. Nineteen kinds of firm have a page each.
Ceed replaces the timesheet spreadsheet, the retainer math, the invoice typed by hand and the month-end reconciliation. Your accounting ledger, your project tool, your chat and your payroll stay where they are.
When an hour would push a client over budget, Ceed saves it and marks it held. The account leader or an owner approves or declines it. Approved, it goes on the invoice at the agreed rate. Declined, it stays on the record and is not billed. Nothing is refused at the door and nothing disappears.
Only what the agreement puts on the invoice. A flat retainer invoices as a flat retainer. The hours behind it, and the budget you sized it with, are yours to see.
No. Ceed watches each client’s budget, not the person. One Slack reminder a day, no timers, no screenshots. Everyone sees their own hours.
Because the fee should rise and fall with your firm. A month you invoice nothing costs nothing, and adding a person costs nothing. The rate never moves.
Slack is where hours are logged, from one reminder a day. Invoices and statements come out of Ceed as documents for the ledger you already use.
No. Ceed is the record. Your bank moves the money and your payroll provider pays your people.
Yes. Ceed Intelligence is part of Ceed, anywhere you use Ceed. It reads your files into the record, turns a sentence into the act and answers with your numbers. It proposes, you confirm, and every act shows its price. Every number on an invoice is still computed from the agreement and the record, the same way every time.
Yes. Give it your people list, your W-2s and 1099s, your client list and the agreements you signed. It reads them and proposes the people, clients and budgets it found. You confirm, all at once or row by row, and every record it added says so. Rates and other money terms wait for your yes, one by one.
What the model costs, shown on every act before you confirm it and as its own line on your statement. Or run it on your firm’s own account with the model provider. The 0.1% does not move, and Ceed works without it: every rule and number holds on its own.
Most of it, in a weekend. Not the rule that holds an hour the moment it is logged, not who may see rates and margin enforced on the server, not the month that cannot be rewritten, and not a vendor who answers for the invoice.
The invoices, the statements and the margin for that month are frozen as a record, and nothing in it changes after. Every edit before the close sits on a trail nobody can rewrite.
In your firm’s own tenant. Client names never leave it. Rates and margin are visible only to the owners and the people they name, enforced on the server, and everyone sees their own hours.