For the only technical person in the building
Turn the work you did into hours someone can check.
Lira scopes requested work into reliable hours, keeps a searchable record of everything you did and when you wrote it down, and produces the report in language your manager actually reads.
drove to the branch to sort the label printer on the order system. copied the working config off the other store, tested with sam, printing again
The problem
Doing the work and proving the work are two different jobs.
You run the infrastructure, the integrations, the software and the hardware, and you report to someone with no way to judge the difficulty of it. Your week is four interruptions, two things you finished, and one thing you can't explain without a whiteboard. What reaches them is a short list of sentences — which conveys none of the volume, and turns an offhand “probably next week” into a date on record.
There is no peer to compare against, no technical manager to translate for you, and no review framework that fits what you actually did. When it works, nobody notices. When it breaks, everybody does. That is a communication problem before it is anything else.
Time trackers record hours. They don't tell anyone what those hours were worth, and they don't give you an account of your own work that holds up six months later when it matters.
What it does
Work arrives as a sentence in a chat message. Lira researches what it involves, asks you only the questions whose answers change the size of the job, and turns it into an hours range you can defend. Anything you can't answer widens the range instead of being guessed at.
Every entry keeps the time it was written, set by the database, and every later edit is recorded separately. Ask it what you were doing at 3:30 last Tuesday, or when someone called you about a job, and it answers from the record with citations.
A report for the audience you name, on the day you choose, covering the period you work to. Printable, because plenty of managers still want paper.
“Stopped the same tire being sold twice on two marketplaces”, not “refactored the reservation ledger”. Your log stays exactly as you typed it; the report gets a cleaner reading of the same facts, and you approve every change.
Your queue laid out in weeks against the hours you actually have, after interruptions. State the order once as rules — this before that — and it holds while everything else moves around it. When a date won't hold, it says so, in hours, before you commit.
What the work was allotted against what it took you, on its own page. This is your read on where you are getting faster and which kinds of job the estimates keep missing — the weekly report deals in delivered scope, not in how long any one task took on any one day.
What it looks like
Book time is the labor a job is allotted — the same idea as the flat-rate hours on a repair order. Each item logged this period was estimated on its own against a mid-level developer working with AI assistance, then added together.
Inventory count app misses Aug 6. Ahead of it with no date of their own — 92h at the low end: Social posting tool, Staff training. Raise it as a question →
What does the new tool need to do with the POS?
Real-time inventory and order write-back is an order of magnitude more work than a standalone lookup.
How the hours work
Book time, the same idea as a repair order.
Book time is the labor a job is allotted, independent of how fast the person doing it happens to be. A mechanic who beats the allowance is a good mechanic, and nobody thinks the number is invented. Lira estimates every item that way — against a mid-level developer working with AI assistance, because everyone does now — and adds them up.
It is what the work was allotted in labor, not a timesheet. The method is the same every week, so the figures are comparable across reports rather than being one person's impression of a busy fortnight.
It won't invent numbers. Unanswered questions widen a range and lower its confidence rather than resolving quietly in the cheap direction. Estimates record the assumptions they rest on, so one that turns out wrong points at the assumption instead of at you.
What it costs
Solo is $29 a month, or $290 a year, for one private account. Team is $19 per seat per month with a 5-seat minimum, and every teammate keeps their own fully private log — team billing is one shared invoice, nothing else. Seven-day free trial on both. Every part of it has been built against real weeks rather than a demo.