About

I built Phased for my own projects.

I am Marko Rimár, an interior architect with more than eight years of practice. I run fixed-fee projects, where the price is agreed before anyone knows exactly what the work will take. The question I kept needing to answer was simple: is the fee still holding up while there is time to act? Phased is the tool I built for that, first for my own work and then for everyone who works the same way.

The problem with fixed fees

A fixed fee hides one of the most useful numbers a freelancer needs: what an hour of the work is actually earning. A general time tracker answers how long something took. It does not answer whether this phase is still worth its agreed price, because it has no idea what that price was. I kept that answer in spreadsheets for years, rebuilt them for every project, and updated them too late to change anything.

So Phased keeps the agreed price on the work itself. A project is split into phases, each phase carries its share of the fee as a budget, and every hour recorded against it updates how much of that budget is used and what the work is currently earning per hour. When a client asks for something outside the agreement, that time is marked Out of scope, so it stops eating a budget it was never part of and can be presented separately in a client report.

Why I built Phased

Phased began as a small time tracker for my own projects. As I used it, the missing connection became clearer: knowing where the hours went was not enough. The time needed to stay connected to the phase, fee, budget, and scope it affected.

I built Phased around that connection and tested the workflow on real projects with real fees before publishing it. That focus also defines what it leaves out. Phased does not try to be a team-management, approval, billing, or payments platform. It ends at a clear, frozen record you can send to a client. Everything it does not do is on the comparison pages, next to the tools that do.

How it is run

  • Paid for by subscriptions. €7 a month or €66 a year, no investors and no advertising. Every account starts with a 30-day trial of the paid features and no card is required.

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  • Your data stays yours. It lives in an EU database, you can export all of it at any time, and deleting your account deletes it.

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  • Direct support. Email goes to me, and a reply usually takes a day or two.

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  • Run as a registered sole trader in Slovakia. The legal details, registration, and supervisory authority are in the terms.

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