Know if it pays. Before you do it.

You're working your butt off...
but are you actually making money?

Most solopreneurs have NO clue which activities are profitable - and which are just expensive distractions in a productivity disguise. BeforeYouWork™ shows you EXACTLY where you're bleeding cash - before you waste another hour on stuff that doesn't pay.

No credit card. 2 minutes to set up. See where your money's hiding.

Good morning, Anna

Dashboard

00:47:14

7

2

84%

Open tasks

Website Acme - Phase 2

Due today

Review

Networking Follow-up

Due tomorrow

In progress

Marketing-Plan Q3

Due Fri

New
Quick Mode

2h 14m networking today

ROI +34 $/h

Dashboard
Tasks
Tracker
Quick
Sales Call · live

23:41

Referral received

Max → Acme (+$480)

The productivity lie

The productivity lie nobody tells you

Most systems and apps out there try to make you more productive. How can you run a process 20% more efficiently? 50% faster? But none of them tell you whether the work should be done in the first place.

It is completely useless to do work 50% faster if that work costs you money instead of making you money - then you only bleed money faster.

🔗

That networking activity? 4 hours a week - and one lead in 6 months. You just optimized how fast you waste your time.

☕

That "quick coffee chat"? You ran it 50% faster - and still burned $87 of your time for a "maybe later."

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That client project you're hustling on? After all the admin, emails and follow-ups you're earning $14/hour - while your target is $150.

Working hard isn't the same as making money. BeforeYouWork™ shows you whether the work is worth doing - before you do it.

The $10,000 Question

If you bill yourself at $100/hour... but spend 3 hours networking, 2 hours on admin, and 4 hours on "marketing"... and NONE of that directly generates revenue... what's your ACTUAL hourly rate?

(Spoiler: It's WAY lower than you think.)

What BeforeYouWork actually does

Finally - an app that shows you the money before you do the work

BeforeYouWork™ isn't just another time tracker. It's the ONLY platform that measures:

Where your networking is bleeding money

Which clients are ACTUALLY profitable (and which are just energy vampires)

What your admin tasks are costing you per hour

Whether that social media strategy is worth the time you're dumping into it

Think of it like a "business health monitor." Except instead of tracking your heart rate... it's tracking whether you're about to go broke.

Quick-Check

Where are you bleeding money without knowing it?

A few specific questions - pick the answer that fits best. We'll show you which features you need - and why you bleed money despite being busy.

Every feature you need...

to finally know what's ACTUALLY worth your time

Time Tracking

FREE

Track time freely — live timer, log past sessions, or use Quick Mode. Pause and resume anytime so only real working time counts. Every tracked minute can be attributed to tasks, projects, events, and people, so you know exactly where your time goes.

Time Tracking
00:47:13Acme · Clients

Acme Website · $87/h

$87/h

Quick Mode

FREE

Track your most frequent activities with one tap, the moment you start them. Fully customizable buttons with presets for contacts, projects, and organizations. Parallel timers with pause & resume — no activity goes unmeasured.

Quick Mode
Network
Admin
Outreach
Follow-up
Sales
Marketing

Tasks

FREE

Tasks that force clarity — every task needs a deadline and a responsible person, so things actually get done. Replace your to-do list with tasks that work. Add task-specific chats and files right inside. Define sub-items checklists that mark when the task is done, so you can delegate effectively. Track time directly inside tasks to see how much you've already spent.

Tasks

Acme Briefing · Budget 1h

In progress

Networking Follow-up · Budget 30m

New

Research · Budget 2h

Review

Drop-off

FREE

Offload mental load in seconds — drop any thought, reminder, or to-do without structuring it yet. Triage later into the Eisenhower matrix (Do, Schedule, Delegate, Delete), and turn the important ones into a task with one click — the AI reads the note and pre-fills the whole task form for you.

Drop-off

Call the dentist — by Friday, important.

DoScheduleDelegateDelete
Do · 1
Schedule · 0
Delegate · 0
Delete · 0

Projects

FREE

Each project automatically calculates its real value — expenses vs. income, so you see your actual hourly rate. Track payments directly in the project with one-time, installment, or subscription payment terms.

Project: Acme Campaign

Acme Campaign

Plan value

$3,000

Effort

24h

Hourly rate

$125/h

Meetings

FREE

Plan meetings ahead of time — define meeting items, who's responsible, goals to achieve, and who keeps the time. Log meetings afterwards and get a breakdown of who keeps meetings tight and which ones don't lead to anything.

Meetings

Client Strategy Call

Goals

3/3 ✓

Tight

92%

Time keeper: Anna

Events

FREE

Track conferences, meetups, and networking events. Log how much time you spent and how many referrals came out of each event — see which events actually pay off.

Event
Networking Conference Vienna12/9
12 attendees3 referrals

People

FREE

See everything you ever did with someone in their contact card — meetings, projects, time spent, referrals, shared work. When you want a quick look at what people are doing and what you have in common, it's all right there.

Contact
MM

John Doe

Acme Inc · 1 referral · $480 open

Organizations

FREE

Track companies, groups, and networking chapters. Link them to contacts and projects for a complete picture.

Organization

Networking Activity Vienna

Network group · 14 contacts5 projects

Overhead Costs

FREE

Add recurring and one-time costs with tax types and tax brackets. The app tracks and calculates your actual income based on all the taxes you pay and all your overhead costs — the single source of truth for every profit calculation.

Overhead Costs
Monthly$1.2k

Rent · $800

Software · $120

Marketing · $280

Income

FREE

See recurring vs. one-time income at a glance. Know exactly how much money you're still owed and who owes it — never lose track of an open payment again.

Income
Recurring$3,200/mo
One-time$2,480
Open$1,680

Budgets

FREE

Allocate both time AND money across buckets — salary, tax, savings, marketing. Know exactly where each second and each euro is going. Pro AI recommends allocations based on your debts, overhead, and real revenue.

Budgets
Total$5,000

Salary · $2,000

Tax · $1,200

Savings · $800

Marketing · $1,000

Time Coach

PRO

Set a goal — finish 3 projects by Q4, or Project X by the 30th — and the Time Coach reverse-engineers the hours needed from your history, compares them to the time you actually have, and tells you On pace / Behind / Ahead. When you drift, the AI re-plans your week for you. Pro only.

Time Coach
Goal3 projects

Required

120h

Available

88h

Behind−32h

Advisor

FREE

The feature that shows you what needs your attention most. Set income goals and see the hourly salary you need. It calculates how much your time is worth, how much projects and tasks cost you vs. what they bring, and shows each meeting, activity, and event's cost vs. income. Tells you what's useless and what to change. It also runs a Cut List that flags projects to drop or reprice, and a Time Coach that plans your time toward a goal.

Advisor
Goal$75/h
Time worth$112/h

Project: Acme

costs $14/hbrings $125/h

Cut List

FREE

Before you take the work, know if it pays. The Cut List screens every project against your target hourly rate and flags Don't take, Abandon, Reprice, Keep — or Salvaged when you rescue an underpriced plan. Task time-budgets roll into each project's scope, so adding tasks triggers "out of hand — reprice" warnings.

Cut List
Target $/h$75

Acme Campaign

Keep

Legacy Migration

Abandon

Beta Plugin

Salvaged

Referral Attribution

FREE

Know exactly who brings you money and who brings you leads. Every payment is attributed to the client who actually pays, while the person who referred them gets separate referral credit — so the same euro is never counted twice and you always see each person's true contribution.

Referral Attribution

Rebecca M.

1 referral · $480 referred

Rebecca L.

Client · $480 paid

Same $ — counted once each

Newsfeed

FREE

Stay on top of everything happening across your workspace — new tasks, completed work, meetings logged, and more — all in one feed.

Newsfeed

Anna completed "Design Draft"

New meeting logged with Max

Acme payment received: $2,480

Team Chat

FREE

Chat with your team outside of tasks. Create project-, workspace-, or just-for-fun chats. Turn on community moderation so non-admin posts need approval, and promote members to chat admins to help approve messages.

Team Chat

Use @Lucas this afternoon for the approval.

Lukas: On it ✅

Broadcasts

FREE

Send a push notification to a segmented audience — workspace members, a project team, a chat, event attendees, connections, organizations, specific people, or anyone tagged. Attach text, an image, a video, and a clickable link; recipients get a push that opens the full broadcast in the app.

Broadcasts
New product launch — tap to view
Workspace · Project · Tags128 recipients
Push sent ✓

Workspaces

FREE

Group projects and team members into separate workspaces — one per client if you want. Set roles (Admin/Member/Guest) and control access.

Workspace

Acme Team

AnnaLukasMaxAdmin/Member

Task Dependencies

FREE

Define which tasks must be finished before another can start. Block tasks when a responsible team member needs to give feedback — so nobody moves on before everything is signed off.

Dependencies
#110 Briefing ✓
↓ blocked
#122 Concept — approved

Voice Creation

PRO

Just speak your tasks, projects, contacts, events, etc. into your phone. The app transcribes them, adapts them, and fills everything out for you.

Voice Creation

"Project Acme, value 5000, 12/9."

→ Dialog pre-filled ✨

Recurring Tasks

FREE

Set tasks to repeat daily, weekly, or monthly. The app generates the next instance automatically — set it once and never think about it again.

Recurring

Stand-up

Every Mon 9:00 · next 8/4.

auto

spawns automatically · next instance in 3 days

Streak

FREE

Set your own daily goals — new contacts, tracked hours, delegated tasks, completed tasks, unprofitable things to cut, new projects. Keep the streak with 2 grace passes per month as buffer.

Streak

12

day streak

Today
8/12 h

Affiliate Program

FREE

Earn 20% commission for every paying user you refer. Paid out automatically via Stripe Connect.

Affiliate

beforeyouwork.app/?ref=ANNA

Lukas pays+20% via Stripe

WebApp - no download

FREE

No app store, no install. BeforeYouWork™ runs in every browser on every phone, laptop and OS - iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux. Platform- and software-independent, always up to date.

WebApp
iOS
Android
Windows
macOS
Linux

No download - runs in every browser

Personal AI Tour

PRO

Tell the app what's going on in your business — in your own words or by voice. The AI analyses your situation and recommends exactly which features you need and why, with a step-by-step guide to get started. The quick interview quiz is free; the AI analysis is Pro.

Why it matters

"Working hard" isn't the same as "making money"

The productivity lie says: be more productive, work faster, get more efficient, optimize more. And you do all of that - but your bank account still doesn't change, because nobody told you the truth.

Not all work is equal. Some activities make you money, but some cost you money. And doing the wrong work 50% faster only makes you bleed money faster.

BeforeYouWork™ is the ONLY app that tells you whether the work should be done at all:

  • →Where you're bleeding cash (even though you're "productive")
  • →Which clients are ACTUALLY worth keeping
  • →What your networking is REALLY costing you
  • →Whether your marketing is paying off... or just keeping you busy

And once you see that, you can change it: cut the dead weight, do more of what works, and finally make the money you deserve.

Pricing

Free vs. Pro

Everything you need to start. Upgrade when you're ready to go further.

Free

€0/mo

Time tracking, tasks, projects, meetings, contacts, overhead costs, income, budgets, advisor overview, team chat — everything to run your business. Up to 3 projects and 15 tasks.

Popular

Pro

€19.99/mo

Unlimited projects and tasks, custom quick-mode buttons, AI budget recommendations, voice creation, AI meeting analysis, personal AI tour, custom streak goals — everything unlocked.

Feature
Free
Pro
Core Features
Workspaces
1
unlimited
Projects
3
unlimited
Tasks
15
unlimited
Members per workspace
5
unlimited
Time Tracking & Quick Mode
Tasks with sub-items & chats
Projects with value calculation
Meetings with goals & time keeper
Events with referral tracking
People / Contacts
Overhead costs & tax brackets
Income (open / received)
Budgets (manual)
Advisor — overview & goals
Newsfeed
Team Chat
Recurring Tasks
Task Dependencies
Affiliate Program
Pro Features
Custom Quick Mode buttons
6 default
Voice creation (all types)
1x trial
File uploads (chat, tasks, photo)
1x trial
AI Budget Recommendations
AI Meeting Analysis
Personal Tour (AI analysis)
1x free
Streak — set your own goals
Google Drive
coming soon
coming soon

Stop guessing. Start knowing.

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Stop blind networking & being busy without knowing what it brings you. We show you exactly where you're bleeding money and where it's hiding. Visible, what's invisible everywhere else.

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