We built Tempo with an eye for ease of use and ease of collaboration. We don’t look at people as resources, assets or accounts, but as potential relationships. With this in mind we decided to forgo the usual company-with-users hierarchy in favor of a system that’s more flexible and cuts down on overhead and double entry.

In Tempo, everyone has their own account, and when you create your projects, you simply invite anyone you want to join your project. If they’re new to Tempo, all they need is a free account and they’re good to go. Anyone you’ve worked with before can be quickly added to your new project, skipping the invitation process altogether.

Let’s consider the web development company Voltronic LLC. The following people currently work for Voltronic:

Keith has already set up his Tempo account and uses his many projects to keep track of the different companies that hire Voltronic LLC to develop their web pages. He has a project Conglomo [New Website Build] where he has been using Tempo to track how much time his company spends developing websites for the Conglomo Corporation.

Recently the Conglomo Corporation asked Keith to design and build their newest website. He decides to hire some additional people. He hires another full time employe, Tsuyoshi Garrett. Adding Tsuyoshi to the Voltronic team is as easy as sending him an invitation through Tempo.

Tempo sends Tsuyoshi an invitation e-mail allowing him to create his own account and join the project Conglomo [New Website Build]. Since Tsuyoshi creates his own account, Keith doesn’t have to and he has some extra time to focus on designing the new website.

Keith also decides to subcontract Darrell Stoker to do a little additional work on a different project. Darrell already has a Tempo account and has worked with Keith in the past. It takes less than a few seconds to add Darrell to the project [Konstrux Inc] Login Filter:

Since Darrell has already worked with Keith, his account automatically accepts the invitation to join the [Konstrux Inc] project. In what took Keith fewer than a couple minutes, he added two new employees without the additional hassle of creating an account profile for them. Each member of the Voltronic LLC team can now log time slips and track time using all the features that Tempo provides.

Tempo also allows Keith to look at all of Voltronic’s different projects at once. Instead of signing in and out of different accounts, he can sign into Tempo and go to the projects dashboard and view all the different projects that Voltronic is currently handling. Instead of spreading the information across multiple accounts, Tempo keeps all the data in a centralized, easily accessible place.