AI Time Tracking for Azure DevOps — Recover the Hours You Already Worked

Your team's work is already recorded in Azure DevOps: commits, pull requests, code reviews, work item updates. TickPax turns that activity into reviewable time entries — so nobody reconstructs their week from memory, and billable hours stop slipping through untracked.

No timers to start. No timesheets to fill in. AI proposes, your team approves.

Recovered Engineering report — cumulative recovered hours over time, with recovered hours, estimated value, and AI acceptance rate

The problem TickPax solves

Manual time tracking fails engineers in predictable ways: timers nobody starts, Friday-afternoon timesheet guesswork, and work that never got a linked work item — a hotfix, a review, an untracked branch — quietly disappearing from every invoice and report.

The record of what actually happened already exists in Azure DevOps. TickPax converts it into time data your team can stand behind, with a human approving every entry.

How it works

Install from the Marketplace. TickPax reads your existing Azure DevOps history, so the first recovery proposals appear the same day — no data-collection waiting period.
Review. TickPax generates daily and weekly time proposals from commits, pull requests, and work item activity — each with its reasoning and a confidence score.
Approve, edit, or reject. Nothing is ever logged silently. Rejections can include a reason, which feeds the accuracy reporting.
See the payback. The Recovered Engineering report totals the hours TickPax recovered and prices them at your hourly rate — alongside proposed-vs-actual, AI accuracy, and rejection analysis for managers.

AI Recommendations — a daily recovered time entry of 1.5 hours for a feature work item, with 85% AI confidence and a Confirm & Log action

Recover untracked work

Commits without a linked work item are the most common way billable time disappears — and no timer-based tool can catch them. TickPax surfaces them, estimates the time, and lets the author link an existing work item or create a new one, writing the recovered hours and commit links back into Azure DevOps so the record is complete.

Untracked work recovery — a 1.5 hour recommended entry flagged as untracked with no linked work item, prompting the user to create or link a work item, recovered from refs/pull/10/merge at 95% AI confidence

Built into Azure DevOps — not another app to open

Time Recovery hub — daily, weekly, and calendar-range AI recovery flows
Calendar hub — confirm and manage time logs in one view
Insights hub — reporting for managers and delivery leads
Work item tab — log or review time without leaving the work item
Organization settings — plans, seats, and billable configuration

TickPax tab inside a work item — User Story 249 showing 1.5h logged hours, a billable testing time log, and a 1.5h AI-proposed entry alongside the native Details and history tabs

Calendar showing daily logged-hour totals across the month, with a Log Time Entry panel open to add a manual entry — category, work item, date, hours, quick-add buttons, and a billable toggle

Time records your finance team can defend

Client invoices, R&D tax credits, and audits all favor time records created as the work happens, tied to specific projects. TickPax produces exactly that trail as a side effect of normal use: every entry keeps its evidence — the commits and pull requests behind it, the AI's reasoning, proposed-vs-final values — with billable and non-billable flags at the project and category level.

Who it's for

TickPax fits teams where Azure DevOps is the system of record for engineering work: software consultancies and agencies billing by the hour, outsourced delivery teams that report effort to clients, and internal engineering organizations that want delivery visibility without adding timesheet overhead.

If timer-based tracking works well for your team, you may not need this. TickPax is built for the hours that timers miss.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Notes
Free	$0	5 users — try AI time recovery on your real data
Basic	$8 /user/mo	Team rollout, capped AI usage
Pro	$13 /user/mo	Unlimited logging, full audit and ROI reporting

Every new organization starts with 14 days of Pro, free. See what TickPax recovers from your last two weeks of activity before paying anything — if you don't upgrade, you land on the Free plan and keep your data.

FAQ

Does TickPax post time automatically? No. AI generates proposals; a person approves, edits, or rejects each one. The audit views show exactly what was proposed versus what was logged.

Is this monitoring software? No!. TickPax reads delivery metadata signals that are already in Azure DevOps from commits, pull requests, work items. It doesn't capture screenshots, code, keystrokes, or application usage, and users see and control every suggestion about their own work.

Do you read our commit messages or code review comments? No. The text of a commit message, a pull request review comment, or a work item comment is stripped the moment it reaches us — before anything is written to a database — and no text your engineers write is ever sent to the AI, on any path. TickPax keeps only what it counts with: how many commits and comments there were, when they happened, how many files changed, and any work item number the text referenced.

How fast do we see value? Same day. TickPax reads your existing Azure DevOps history, so the first proposals appear right after install if there is metadata.

How accurate are the suggestions? Accuracy depends on how your team links work to work items — which is why every proposal is reviewable, and why TickPax reports its own acceptance rate rather than asking you to trust it.

What access does it need? Read access to work items, commits, and pull request metadata in the projects you enable. Scopes are displayed and approved at install, per Azure DevOps extension policy.

Install free and see what your team's last two weeks were actually worth.

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