ProductAM Timesheets
CategoryDrawing-Led
AudienceDrafting / AEC
WorkflowPlan / Task / Export
StatusTrial Available
For engineering and drafting teams that bill or manage work by drawing
Advanced Mechanix Timesheets
A timesheet system that answers four simple questions: who worked, on which project, on which drawing, and what changed. Managers can plan the day, approve hours, track drawing stages, and export records for billing or review.
Drawing-Level Hours
Stage Progress
Manager Oversight
Task Board
REDLINE — The Operating Problem
Normal timesheets do not show drawing progress.
Engineering teams need to know more than hours worked. They need to know which drawing moved forward, who approved it, whether the project is over budget, and what can be shown to a client.
Hours live in one sheet. Drawing progress lives somewhere else.
Connect every entry to a project, drawing, activity, date, description, and approval status.
Progress updates depend on memory and meetings.
Move drawings through configurable stages with completion percentages, comments, deadlines, and history.
Budgets are checked after the overrun already happened.
Compare hours, cost, budgets, approvals, and project activity before cleanup becomes manual.
Leave and availability sit outside project planning.
Track requests, balances, working days, public holidays, approvals, cancellations, and absence history in context.
Managers need proof without making surveillance the product.
Use consent-based screenshot and activity evidence only where verified-hour cases require it.
Morning meetings become status chasing.
Use the planner as the meeting board: yesterday delivered, today assigned, weekly progress visible.
§01 — Platform
One place for hours, drawings, approvals, leave, and exports.
It is not just a clock. It is a delivery record for teams that plan, review, bill, and report work by drawing or document package.
01 / Timesheets
Detailed entries against real work
Submit daily work with project, drawing, activity, time range or hours, descriptions, edit history, and approval status.
02 / Deliverables
Drawing registers with stage rollups
Manage drawing and document assets, workflow stages, completion percentages, deadlines, tags, comments, and status changes.
03 / Management
Role-aware oversight
Give admins, managers, program managers, and employees the right views for approvals, exports, projects, users, and reports.
04 / Tasks
Task board for morning planning
Plan day-by-day work with owners, drawing links, expected outcomes, delivered notes, blockers, and actuals.
05 / Availability
Leave and public holidays in context
Track leave requests, balances, working days, approvals, cancellations, and absence history alongside project execution.
06 / Evidence
Analytics, exports, optional verification
Review dashboards, submission reports, Excel exports, and consent-based activity evidence when a project requires stronger proof.
§02 — Morning Planner
Start the day with a live task board, not spreadsheet archaeology.
The planner gives managers a practical meeting board: what each project needs today, who owns each task, what is blocked, what is ready for review, and how actual timesheets compare.
- Task cards with owner, due date, drawing, stage, planned hours, and actual hours
- Status lanes for planned work, active production, blocked items, and manager review
- Project context that keeps leads, clients, resources, and deliverables together
- Weekly sprint items tied to drawing and document assets instead of generic to-dos
Thursday plan42 planned hours across 9 drawing tasks
TasksDrawingsHours
Planned4
Prepare export for billing review
In progress3
Close QA comments on SLD
Check cable schedule inputs
Review2
Approve stage change
Issue riser package
§03 — Workflow
From morning plan to billing evidence without rebuilding the story by hand.
01
Set up projects and registers
Create projects, assign leads, define drawing or document types, activity types, stages, budgets, and delivery context.
02
Run the morning meeting
Set day-by-day work, resource allocations, expected outcomes, and delivered follow-up across the weekly planner.
03
Track work against drawings
Employees record time while managers compare planned resources, actual hours, stage progress, and project activity.
04
Export the evidence
Use analytics and timesheet exports to support billing, audits, project reviews, and client conversations.
§04 — Stage Progress
Progress is visible at the drawing level.
Drawing and document assets carry stage, completion percentage, status, comments, deadlines, and history. Managers can see what moved before they approve the hours behind it.
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§05 — SaaS Rollout
Self-serve onboarding with guardrails for existing company domains.
New firms can create a company account and begin from a trial setup. If someone signs up with a domain that already belongs to a tenant, the registration flow can direct them toward joining the existing company instead of creating duplicate workspaces.
Role-aware access
Separate workflows for admin, manager, program manager, employee, and super admin responsibilities.
Tenant-aware company setup
Company registration supports SaaS operations and reduces duplicate workspace creation by domain.
Verification stays secondary
Optional screenshot and activity evidence can be enabled for selected use cases, but planning and deliverables remain the core product.
Analytics and exports
Project views, dashboards, submission reports, and Excel exports support billing and project review.
Leave in the workflow
Availability, leave balances, public holidays, approvals, and cancellations sit beside project planning.
History on decisions
Approvals, edits, late reasons, comments, and status changes leave a record managers can inspect.
Built for delivery records, not employee surveillance.
The product focuses on planned work, submitted hours, drawing progress, manager approvals, leave, reports, and exports. Optional verification is consent-based and used only when a project needs stronger proof.
§06 — Start the Setup
Replace scattered spreadsheets with one drawing-based timesheet record.
Start each morning from the planner, then track the day, the week, and each project as work turns into approved hours and delivered drawings.
§07 — FAQ
Questions product buyers ask first.
Who is Advanced Mechanix Timesheets built for?
Drafting, engineering, and AEC teams whose work is managed through drawings, document packages, project stages, approvals, and delivery evidence.
What is drawing-level time tracking?
Instead of logging time only to a generic project, staff can attach hours to the actual deliverable: drawing, document, activity, date, description, stage, and approval state.
Does it handle leave and availability?
Yes. Leave requests, balances, working-day calculations, public holidays, approvals, cancellations, and absence history sit inside the same planning context.
How is it different from generic time tracking?
Time can be attached to projects, drawings, document assets, activity types, descriptions, dates, stages, status history, and approvals so managers can see how hours connect to deliverables.
Does the product include manager approvals?
Yes. Manager workflows include approvals, edits, late reasons, history, exports, project views, reports, and role-aware access for admins, managers, program managers, and employees.
Can a company start a trial?
Yes. The current product flow supports creating a company account and beginning from a trial setup. If a domain already belongs to an existing tenant, registration can direct the user toward the existing company.
Is this surveillance software?
No. Optional consent-based screenshot and activity features can support verified-hour cases, but the core product is planning, time, deliverables, approvals, analytics, and exports.
Where do I start?
Request a demo through our contact page, or tell us if you want help mapping your existing projects and drawing registers before setup.