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Approve Contractor Timesheets

Capture the hours your team actually works, approve them without a Friday scramble, and see utilization before the month closes. These time tracking prompts build the layer between the work and the invoice: entries against projects, approvals with an owner, budget burn per project, and reminders that arrive before the timesheet is late. Built for agencies, studios, and service teams who bill for their time and want the numbers to be true.
Approve Contractor Timesheets

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Build me a contractor timesheet approval flow. Each submission covers one contractor for one period and records the hours by day and project, the agreed rate, the contract or purchase order it draws against, and any supporting evidence. Route each submission to one named approver with a deputy, and give the approver three outcomes: approve, query with a reason, or reject. Track the remaining balance on each purchase order and warn before a submission would exceed it. Add an AI agent that checks submitted hours against scheduled work, flags anything unusual, and drafts the query message when something does not line up.

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Approve Contractor Timesheets

Run one contractor submission and approval flow with named approvers, a query loop, and an agent that checks hours against the remaining PO balance.

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Contractor hours arrive in five formats and get approved by whoever is around. This prompt builds a single submission and approval flow: the contractor submits against a purchase order, a named approver reviews, and what leaves the process is a clean, rate-correct set of hours.

What's Included

  • Submission per period tied to a contract or purchase order.
  • One named approver per contractor, with a deputy for holidays.
  • Query loop: send it back with a reason rather than approving in hope.
  • An AI agent that checks hours against the PO remaining and flags overruns.

How To Use

  1. Set up contractors with rates, contracts, and PO limits.
  2. Have submissions arrive on a fixed day each period.
  3. Approve or query in one pass, never in a chat thread.
  4. Send approved hours to billing and payment.

Pair it with the billable hours tracker for staff time, and with invoicing and payments for what happens after approval.

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