The time clock that knows if the job is making money.
Every punch verified by face scan, stamped with GPS, and costed to its job in real time.
Every morning, Chronox tells you what's leaking — in dollars. One flat price, not a per-head bill.
$99/mo flat, whole crew · Runs on the phones you already own · Set up same day
Three seconds, gloves on — and it only works if it's actually him.
Three leaks in every contractor's payroll.
Your guy's in the truck; his buddy's at the clock. Nucleus Research pegs buddy punching at 2.2% of gross payroll. Call it $1,100 a year for every $25/hr man on your books. 16% of hourly workers admit they've done it. Other apps photograph it happening. Chronox refuses the punch: no match, no punch.
Paper cards, group texts, "pretty sure I was at the Miller job Tuesday." Someone burns hours every week reconstructing the schedule, doing overtime math by hand, and re-keying it all into payroll. Chronox turns that into a ten-minute review and a payroll-ready export.
Basements, steel shells, county roads with no signal. Time apps that need coverage hand you blank days and guessed hours. Chronox will take the punch offline, face check included, and sync it when the truck gets back in range. In testing now, shipping with the iOS and Android apps.
Punch to payroll in four steps.
Crew punches with a face scan.
The foreman's phone or a site tablet is the clock. Your guys don't need an app, an account, a badge, or their gloves off — look at the camera, done. Chronox matches the face, stamps GPS, tags the jobsite, and refuses what doesn't match: no buddy punches, no photos held up to the camera. Crews spread across sites? Self-scan mode lets each man punch from his own phone, pinned to his own Face ID.
The foreman runs the day from one screen.
Who's on site, time entries, breaks, site delays, tools used, extra work: submitted from the field while it's happening, not scribbled down for later.
The office approves and exports.
Accounting reviews the week with rates already applied: overtime at 1.5×, double-time at 2×, per-man and subcontractor rates. Before anything's approved, Chronox sweeps the week for clock-vs-paperwork mismatches, missing entries, and pay outliers. Payroll exports in minutes, not a Friday.
Job costs move in real time.
Every approved hour hits its job and cost code: actual vs. estimate, percent complete, labor dollars burned. You find out a job is bleeding in week two — not at the final invoice.
Time apps tell you who showed up.
Chronox tells you if the job is making money.
Every face-verified punch already carries a job and a cost code, priced at that worker's real rate: overtime, double-time, and subcontractors included. So while other apps hand you a timesheet, Chronox is quietly building your job costs hour by hour, as the week happens. The timesheet and the job cost are the same record — nothing re-keyed, nothing reconciled.
Estimates vs. actuals, by cost code
Concrete, framing, electrical — see which line is eating the budget while there's still time to do something about it.
Live burn and % complete
Hours and labor dollars against the estimate, updated with every approved punch. No month-end surprise.
Extra work, captured and billable
T&M logged from the field with labor and materials, so change-order money stops walking off the job.
Crew and sub rates, costed right
The dashboard's numbers are payroll's numbers.
Most contractors learn a job lost money when accounting closes it out, a month after the last truck left. The final invoice is a terrible place to learn arithmetic. Chronox moves that lesson to week two, while you can still fix the crew mix, bill the extra work, or stop the bleed. And when a job closes, Chronox scores the estimate against what it really took, cost code by cost code, so the next bid starts from your own actuals instead of gut feel.
Live dollars-vs-estimate like this normally means a $180–$370/mo tier or a full accounting integration. Here, the punches are the job cost.
Hours aren't the only thing walking off your jobs.
The same foreman screen that clocks the crew files the rest of the field's records: extra work tickets with materials and signatures, delay logs with timestamps, and which tools went to which job. Submitted from the site while it's happening. No second app, no Friday reconstruction.
Out-of-scope work becomes a ticket, not a favor: technician hours, shop materials, and purchased materials on one record — signed by the customer and your manager before the invoice conversation. That's the kind of unbilled change-order money your morning briefing is built to catch.
Technician hours · Shop materials · Purchased materials · Two signatures
When week three slips and the GC wants to know why, you answer with dated, GPS-stamped delay records tied to the crew that stood idle — documentation you can take into a schedule claim, not a foreman's recollection from a truck cab.
Dated · GPS-stamped · Tied to the crew on site
Each entry ties tools to a job, a day, and a location, so equipment stops vanishing between sites, and the job that ran the compressor all week is the job that carries its cost. Where each tool was last seen, on record — not "check the other truck."
By job · By day · By location
Every morning: what's leaking, ranked in dollars.
Overnight, Chronox reads every punch, rate, estimate, and job on your books and flags what moved the wrong way. Each flag arrives with a dollar figure and a severity, worst first: a ten-second read with your coffee.
This morning
07:00 · 3 FLAGSRanked worst first · every figure traces to a metric
The whole list, in the app
INSIGHTSIf you're allergic to AI hype, good — so am I. The dollar figures are never generated by a chatbot. A deterministic engine computes every number in code, straight from your own punches, rates, and estimates. Every figure has to trace back to a defined metric before it's allowed on your screen. The AI's only job is writing the plain-English sentence around the math. Arithmetic, not a guess.
And you can put it to work on a schedule, in plain English: "Every Friday, sweep the week for unbilled extra work." It runs, it reports, and it never touches money or payroll on its own: Chronox prepares, you approve.
Need to dig? Ask. Every answer shows you the punch, the rate, or the ticket it came from
The other apps take a picture. Chronox takes a side — yours.
The certified stack behind Chronox Face ID — matching evaluated in NIST's FRVT program, liveness conformant to ISO/IEC 30107-3, biometrics encrypted on SOC 2 / ISO 27001-audited AWS infrastructure
Every claim above is checkable: pricing and docs cited at the bottom of this page
And the fundamentals, done right.
Consent built in
Workers e-sign a biometric consent before their first scan. Templates are encrypted math, never photos. When someone leaves, the template is destroyed and a deletion receipt goes on file. Never sold.
Tracks the clock, not the person
GPS is stamped at the punch. No breadcrumb trail between punches, no after-hours tracking, no batteries dead by lunch.
Breaks that hold up
Meal and rest breaks to the exact minute, flagged short, missed, or late against your state's rules — records that end wage disputes before they start.
Works in dead zonesComing soon
Punches will record offline, run the face check on the device, and sync when signal returns. In testing now, shipping with the mobile apps.
A certified face-ID stack
The matching behind every punch is evaluated in NIST's FRVT program, the liveness check is iBeta-tested to ISO/IEC 30107-3, and templates live encrypted on SOC 2 / ISO 27001-audited AWS infrastructure.
Payroll-ready exports
Approved hours to a payroll file in one click, OT and DT weighted, shaped for the system you already run: Gusto, QuickBooks, ADP, Paychex, Square, OnPay, and 5 more.
A view for every role
Foreman, accounting, management, admin — each gets its own view and a built-in walkthrough.
Full audit trail
Every change, who made it, and when.
Your data, exportable
Every punch, job, rate, and payroll line — plain CSV, any day you want it.
Per-seat pricing punishes you for hiring.
To get time tracking plus job costing for a 20-man crew, here's what the field actually charges (as of July 2026):
No base fee. No admin license. No annual prepay. No implementation fee. No per-seat anything — hire man #21 through #30 and the price doesn't move.
Against any competitor on that list, the lifetime license pays for itself in under a year. Every month after is free.
Three ways in. One flat price.
Every plan covers your whole crew. None of them charges per seat.
✓Everything Chronox is and becomes: verified time clock, job costing, morning briefing, all future updates
✓One company, up to 30 active field workers
✓Direct line to the founder
✓Never billed again
Stripe checkout, license active the same day. When these 25 are gone, Batch 2 is $2,495. There is no Batch 3 planned.
Locked at $495 for as long as you stay
✓Everything in Chronox
✓Whole crew, up to 30
✓$693 a year less than paying monthly
The "prove it to me" plan
✓Everything, nothing gated
✓No contract, cancel anytime
No hardware. No IT project. No hostage data.
Chronox runs on the phones already in your trucks. The foreman's phone or a site tablet is the clock; offline dead-zone punching arrives with the mobile appsComing soon. Payroll comes out shaped for 11 systems — Gusto, QuickBooks, ADP, Paychex, Square, and more — and your complete records export to plain CSV whenever you ask. If you ever leave, you leave with your books.
Over 30 workers? $6 per additional worker per month. Nobody's punch ever gets blocked over billing.
From the founder
I'm Karson. By trade I'm an apprentice electrician — IBEW Local 725. I built Chronox nights and weekends because the companies I've worked for lose real money the same three ways: padded timesheets, payroll-night paperwork, and software priced per seat like every field hand is an office employee.
Chronox is live and it's paid — no free tier, no investor money. Instead of raising, I'm selling 25 founding lifetime licenses. The 25 fund the marketing; that's the whole trick. You get the product for life at a price that pays for itself against one padded-hours worker. I get 25 companies whose opinions shape the roadmap.
It's a young product, so you might hit a rough edge. When you do, you'll have my direct line, and I fix things fast — my name is on it. And your records are yours, always: the whole set exports to plain CSV any day you want it. No lock-in, no hostage data.
— Karson Tully
Founder · Apprentice electrician, IBEW Local 725
The questions a contractor actually asks.
What happens to my crew's face data?+
Before anyone's first scan, they e-sign a biometric consent right in the app: built in, not paperwork we leave to you. What's stored is an encrypted mathematical template, not photos; it can't be turned back into a face, it's used for exactly one thing — verifying that the person punching is the person on payroll — and it's deleted automatically when you remove a worker, with a deletion receipt on file. Never sold, never shared. Chronox is designed to support state biometric laws like Illinois BIPA, with the consent and retention pieces already wired in. Full details in the privacy policy. The stack doing the work carries the credentials: NIST FRVT-evaluated matching, ISO/IEC 30107-3 liveness detection (iBeta-tested), and SOC 2 / ISO 27001-audited AWS infrastructure underneath.
What if the jobsite has no signal?Coming soon+
That's what the iOS and Android apps ship with: punch anyway, the face check runs on the device, and the scan, time, and GPS sync once you're back in coverage. The apps are in testing now. Until they land, the clock runs in the browser and needs a connection — and a foreman can always key a missed punch in seconds, flagged for office review.
Do my guys need smartphones or accounts?+
No. The foreman's phone or a site tablet works as the clock; the crew just looks at the camera. No apps to install, no passwords to forget, no badges to leave in the truck. And if you'd rather crews punch from their own phones, self-scan mode does that too — each scan pinned to that worker's own Face ID, so nobody clocks in a buddy from the parking lot.
What if the scan doesn't recognize one of my guys?+
It happens — new beard, cracked lens, low light. Nobody stands in line locked out: the foreman records the entry manually with a note, and it's flagged for office review so the record stays clean. And if a worker declines Face ID altogether, that's allowed — he punches manually through the foreman, no penalty, and the consent choice is logged. The scan is there to stop impostors, not to strand your own crew.
What exactly does "lifetime" cover — and what if I grow?+
One company, all features, all future updates, and support, for as long as Chronox exists — up to 30 active field workers. Past 30 it's $6 per additional worker per month. You're never forced onto a different plan, and a growing crew never gets locked out of the clock.
Is the AI just making these numbers up?+
No — and that's by design. Every dollar figure comes from a deterministic engine doing arithmetic on your own punches, rates, and estimates, and each figure must trace to a defined metric before it reaches your screen. The AI writes the sentence; your database supplies the number. Your company's data is also never sold or used to train anything with your name, your crew's biometrics, or your pay data in it.
What if Chronox goes out of business?+
Fair question to ask a young company, so here's the honest answer: I can't promise Chronox outlives us all. I can promise you're never trapped in it. Your full history — every punch, job, rate, and payroll record — exports to plain CSV any day you want it. And if Chronox ever winds down, you get advance notice and a final complete export before anything goes dark. That's a written commitment in the terms.
How is this different from QuickBooks Time, busybusy, ClockShark…?+
Three ways. Their clocks photograph or flag a suspect punch after it's already gone through — Chronox checks the face first and refuses the punch. Their job costing means a higher tier, a base fee, or wiring up accounting software — Chronox builds live cost-vs-estimate out of the punches themselves. And their bill grows with every hire — Chronox is $99 flat for the whole crew.
How fast can we actually start?+
Same day. Add your jobs and your crew, and the first punch works. Each role gets a built-in walkthrough on first login. Your next payroll period can close out of Chronox.
25 licenses at this price. Then it goes up for good.
$1,995 once, $495 for your founding year, or $99 a month flat. Verified time clock, job costing, and the morning briefing on every plan — running on the phones your crews already carry.
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Questions? karson@chronoxapp.net — I answer.
¹ Buddy-punching figures: Nucleus Research (≈2.2% of gross payroll); TSheets/Pollfish survey, 2017 (16% admission). ² Competitor pricing from vendors' published pricing pages and help docs, July 2026 — tier shown is the cheapest including job costing. Corrections: karson@chronoxapp.net.