7CGI aimed to track task durations to assess their artists' efficiency and enhance billing accuracy. However, artists were reluctant to log work hours in timesheets. Incorrect entries led to invoices that poorly represented the artists' actual work, jeopardizing 7CGI's long-term success. TimeCamp simplified timekeeping, pleasing both the artists and the founder.
E-commerce agency
For project time tracking
20-49
U.S. and Europe
U.S.
33 hours saved each month on timekeeping tasks
More accurate and reliable client billing
Easy time tracker for 3D artists
7CGI is a 3D rendering studio started by Abdullah Al Baki, an experienced 3D artist. He aimed to build a studio offering top-quality services at affordable prices. With this goal, he gathered a team with similar skills and ambitions, and 7CGI was born. Today, the studio is well-known for creating realistic images of furniture, clothing, architecture, and other products.
3D visualization is a creative job, and seemingly similar projects may differ in the time needed for completion. Artists have good days and bad days, doing more than expected one day and running into problems the next. This volatility makes assessing project budgets and artists' effectiveness challenging. That's why the founder of 7CGI looked for a way to track work duration and charge clients the right price.
Initially, the artists tracked the start and end times of every billable task in Excel. As you can imagine, what was supposed to bring a solution turned into a new burden. The billable times were either missing or incorrectly filled out. The artists admitted that when they are in the flow, they don’t want interruptions — timesheets were seen as a nuisance.
Missing or incorrectly registered work hours led to a series of issues for the company. First, the invoices loosely reflected the actual effort the artists had put into work. Second, the company lacked reliable data on the artists' efficiency. This challenge threatened to cripple the company's development, so Abdullah looked for help. That was the moment when TimeCamp entered the stage.
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The 7CGI 3D artists started using TimeCamp, and it was a game-changer! Previously, each artist had to manually enter their work time on a spreadsheet. This was tedious and time-consuming as they had to recall the duration of each assignment.
Timekeeping is now automated and simplified with TimeCamp's desktop app, which tracks every task as soon as the PC launches. The artists praised its ease of use, noting the learning curve was easier than expected. To ensure the data is accurate, they simply needed to click the start-stop button next to each assignment to verify data against the desktop app's records.
That was easy to implement TimeCamp. What we love about TimeCamp most is that it has a user-friendly interface - it is easy to maneuver and finds things. In creative work, you can’t just compare how fast artists are based on a few tasks because it is a complicated and variable process. But you can take a look at a TimeCamp report and find out who is faster on average. And what is important - you can rely on this data because time reports don’t lie.
Abdullah Al Baki
7CGI FounderTimeCamp's user-friendly interface and one-click timer expedited 7CGI artists' timekeeping by at least 5 minutes every day. With 20 artists in the team, this equates to an hour and 40 minutes saved each day, adding up to over 33 hours a month! Quite a number.
Timesheets are now error-free and provide reliable insights into company performance. These documented work hours enhance invoice accuracy and provide proof of work if clients inquire. Clients can see that the billing is fair, which further fuels 7CGI's reputation.
