Lightweight PSA alternative
Most PSA tools make you implement a small ERP to answer two questions: are we on budget, and are we making money? Timix.AI does the part services firms actually live in — billable time, budgets, utilization, and margin — without the resource-scheduling boards, the invoicing module, or the rollout project.
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01 The problem
Full PSA suites promise everything and bill for it — in dollars and in setup. Most services firms use a thin slice of it and fight the rest.
Resource-scheduling boards, invoicing engines, capacity forecasting — priced in, implemented at length, and used by almost no one on the team.
By the time a heavy PSA is configured, the question you bought it for — are we on budget and making money? — is still being answered in a spreadsheet.
Which projects are over budget? Who's under-utilized? That shouldn't require a report-builder certification, but in a full PSA it often does.
02 How Timix.AI fits
Timix.AI does billable time, budgets, utilization, and profitability — deliberately not the scheduling and invoicing modules — so it's running this afternoon, not next quarter.
Customer → Project → Task → SubTask with three billing types (T&M, Fixed Price, OVH) and approvals — the structure a PSA gives you, without the configuration project.
4-level hierarchy, 3 billing types, Draft → Submitted → Approved workflow.
Fixed or hour-cap budgets with soft and hard limits and alert thresholds, health computed from live hours — budget-vs-actual without a deployment.
Budgets with soft/hard limits + alert thresholds; live budget health.
Dual rates roll revenue, cost, profit, and margin up to the client; work schedules and national-holiday profiles give utilization the right denominator.
Dual rates → margin rollups; per-user work schedules + per-org national-holiday profiles.
Ask Timix.AI which projects are over budget, or export any built-in report to PDF/CSV — no consultant required.
Timix.AI chatbot (Starter+); built-in reports with PDF/CSV export; bulk CSV import to migrate fast.
03 Try the simpler PSA
Create a workspace, bulk-import clients and projects from CSV, set rates and budgets, and have billable time, utilization, and margin running today — no implementation, no card. Full access for 90 days.
90-day free trial, full access, no credit card.
Want to look around first? Pre-seeded IT-services, law-firm and construction demo workspaces are open to everyone and show the full time-budget-margin loop on realistic data. Open the IT-services demo
04 FAQ
No — by design. Timix.AI reports utilization against each person's work schedule and your holiday profiles, but it doesn't schedule people on a capacity board. That's part of how it stays light and fast to run.
Yes for the basics — on Professional and up, Timix.AI generates commercial invoices from your hours. It deliberately skips the heavy PSA billing engine and country-specific cleared e-invoicing: for those, export billing-ready hours (Customer Billing, Unbilled Time to PDF/CSV) and bill in your accounting tool. Keeping the heavy billing out is part of why there's no rollout project.
The part you use daily: billable time capture, project budgets and alerts, utilization, and client/project profitability — with approvals and exports. The scheduling and billing modules stay with the tools that do them well.
Same day. Create a workspace, bulk-import clients and projects from CSV, set rates and budgets — there's no implementation phase, no card, and the 90-day trial is full access.
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