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 per head.
60-day money-back guarantee · $99/mo flat, whole crew · No per-seat pricing
"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 — and 16% of hourly workers admit they've done it. Other apps photograph it happening. Chronox refuses the punch: no match, no pay.
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 punches offline — face check included — and syncs when the truck gets back in range.
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. No match, no punch.
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. 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 next bid, you're estimating from your own actuals instead of gut feel.
Live dollars-vs-estimate like this normally means a $280–$370/mo app or a full accounting integration. Here it's just what the punches add up to.
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 is this. 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 — and 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 vibe.
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 — answers come from your own records, receipts included
The other apps take a picture. Chronox takes a side.
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 — auto-deleted when someone leaves, never sold.
Tracks the clock, not the person
GPS is stamped at the punch. No breadcrumb trail between punches, no after-hours tracking, no cooked batteries.
Breaks that hold up
Meal and rest breaks to the exact minute, flagged short, missed, or late — records that end wage disputes before they start.
Works in dead zones
Punch offline — the face check runs on the device — and everything syncs when signal returns.
Payroll-ready exports
Approved hours to a payroll file in one click, OT and DT already weighted.
A view for every role
Foreman, accounting, management, admin — each sees exactly their job, with 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 app on that list, the lifetime license pays for itself in under a year. Every month after is free.
Three ways in. One guarantee.
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
When these 25 are gone, Batch 2 is $2,495 — and there is no Batch 3 planned.
Renewal locked at $495
✓Everything in Chronox
✓Whole crew, up to 30
✓Founding rate locked for as long as you stay
The "prove it to me" plan
✓Everything, nothing gated
✓No contract, cancel anytime
60 days. Money back. No forms.
Run two real payroll cycles on Chronox. If it hasn't paid for itself, one email to karson@chronoxapp.net gets every dollar back — lifetime included. There's no free trial because trials expire right when payroll gets busy. This doesn't.
Over 30 workers? $6 per additional worker per month — and 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 if Chronox isn't right for you, there's a 60-day full refund, and your records are yours: every punch, job, rate, and payroll line exports to plain CSV any day you want it.
— 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 — that's 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. 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.
What if the jobsite has no signal?+
Punch anyway. The face check runs on the device, and the scan, time, and GPS sync when it's back in coverage. Dead-zone jobsites were a design requirement, not an afterthought.
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.
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 nobody's punch ever gets blocked over billing.
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. Every role gets a built-in walkthrough on first login. Your next payroll period can close out of Chronox.
25 licenses. Then it's never offered again.
$1,995 once — or $495 for your founding year, or $99 a month flat. Verified time clock, job costing, and the morning briefing on every plan — with 60 days to get your money back.
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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.