For German agencies · before next year's fees get set

You know what you charged. You do not know what it cost.

Telll is client cost tracking that reads your project tool. It sits on top of tools like Trello, ClickUp or Asana and gets the hours per client from one thing your team already does: handing the finished work in. Nothing to replace.

Trello today, ClickUp and Asana next, more to follow · Connects in 2 minutes · Onboarding a small number of agencies by hand
Your board

In work 2

Corvara key visualSaraCorvara

Review 1

Halden landing pageOmarHalden
  

Done 1

Pellworth brand deckLinaPellworth
Northgate reel V2Jonasdrive.google.com/reel-v2
✓ Moved to Review · Lena has it
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Telllon Jonas's phone · 09:10
Finished the Northgate reel? Drop the link here and Lena has it.
drive.google.com/reel-v2
On the card. Moved to Review. Nobody will chase you today.
  1. 1Telll asks Jonas on his phone
  2. 2He drops the link to the finished file
  3. 3The card moves. The reviewer has it.
Sits on top of your tools. Nothing to replace.
No timesheets
Nobody chases anybody
By client, never by person
7.50
of every 100 euros is what the average German agency kept last year.
German agency industry body, 2026 figures.
The problem

One client you lose money on eats the profit from four good ones.

And you cannot see which one it is, because the only ways to find out all need your team to do extra work.

Timesheets are fictionFilled in on Friday, from memory, or not at all.
The project tool is behindUpdating it is homework. Homework gets ignored.
Someone spends half the day chasingProject managers call the job "professional nagging".
How it works

How Telll gets the hours without a timesheet. It rides on what your team already does.

Everyone on your team already hands finished work to the next person: the designer to the reviewer, the copywriter to the account manager, the account manager to the client. Telll becomes the place that happens. Your project tool updates itself, whether that is Trello, ClickUp, Asana or another.

09:10 · Tuesday

Telll asks once, in the morning.

Only about a card that has not moved. Never a blanket question to everyone.

Finished the Northgate reel? Drop the link here and Lena has it.Telll
09:14 · Jonas

Jonas pastes the link.

The same link he was going to send on WhatsApp anyway. That is the whole ask.

Finished the Northgate reel? Drop the link here.Telll
drive.google.com/reel-v2Jonas
09:14 · Your project tool

The card moves. Lena has the file.

Link on the card, card in Review, feedback back in the same chat. Nobody chased anybody.

In work
Northgate reel V2moved
Review
Northgate reel V2reel-v2

Where this stands: Telll counts hours per client for a live agency today. The hand-in by link is being built with that same agency this month. Telll connects to Trello today, ClickUp is being tested, Asana is next, more tools follow. The fee and the team per client go into setup with the first agencies this autumn. Early access gets it all first.

How the counting works

The timesheet nobody has to fill in.

You want to know what each client costs you. Every tool that answers that asks your team to log their hours. They do it on Friday, from memory, or not at all. So the number is wrong before you ever see it.

Telll uses something that already happens. Your team moves work through a tool like Trello, ClickUp or Asana. While a job sits in the In work column, its hours go to that client.

Two weeks in, you have the hours per client. Nobody wrote down a single hour.

When you set up, you tell Telll two things about each client: what you charge them, and which of your people work on them. From then on the hours sit next to the fee, and you see which clients pay for themselves.

Do tools like Trello, ClickUp or Asana not already track this?
They can, if someone presses a timer on every job and stops it again. Nobody does. Telll needs no timer. It reads where the work sits, so there is nothing to press and nothing to forget.
Watch the full two weeks ↗
Hours per clientDay 1 of 14
Northgate Retail0 h
Corvara Group0 h
Pellworth & Sons0 h
Halden Foods0 h
Example data.
For your team

Nothing new for them. That is the point.

Anything that asks a team to change how they work stops being true the week everyone gets busy. Telll asks for nothing new.

Nothing to fill inNo timesheet, no daily question, no reminder to ignore.
Feedback comes back fasterIn the same chat where they dropped the link.
The nudge has a different name on itTelll does the asking. Your project manager keeps the goodwill.
By client, never by personGerman law does not allow full monitoring of staff, and Telll does not do it. You tell your team it is running. We ask you to, on day one.
Who it's for

German agencies of 15 to 50 people. Fees for next year get set in the autumn.

You sell a fixed fee and pay for variable hours. Every October to December, clients tell you what they will pay next year, before you know what they cost you this year. Connect in September and you answer with numbers.

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Next year's fees get decided between October and December.

Telll cannot tell you what this year cost. Connect it now, and when the rate requests land you answer with numbers instead of a guess.