Trace: Automated, Accurate, AI-Powered Time Capture
No time wasted. No revenue missed.
Trace is Actionstep’s next-generation time capture module designed to help law firms capture more accurate billable time with less effort.
Trace will be available to select Actionstep customers from February 2026, with a full release planned for April 2026.
Interested in Trace?
Stop manual time entries. Start capturing time more effectively.
For decades, lawyers and law firm professionals have relied on timesheets and memory to reconstruct their day, a process that is inefficient, error-prone, and directly tied to lost revenue. Trace reimagines time capture by leveraging powerful new AI technology and passive activity tracking, capturing work as it happens across the tools legal teams use every day.
No more forgotten time, no more manual timers, no more guesswork.
Just accurate, bill-ready entries – delivered automatically.
** benefits may vary by geography or location
Work Happens Everywhere. Trace Captures It.
Emails. Drafts. Research. Trace’s AI-powered activity captures detects work wherever it happens, inside or outside of Actionstep. In addition to Time Suggestions, capturing activity within Actionstep, Trace captures time spent on:
- Outlook, Word, and other productivity apps
- Browser research
- Document edits and reviews
- Meetings and calls
Trace turns all your billable work into real billable time.
Mapped and Bill-Ready Entries for Review
Trace uses advanced AI to handle the heavy lifting of time administration.
- AI Matter Mapping: Automatically connect activity to the right matter and billing code.
- AI Narratives: Generates clear, compliant, bill-ready descriptions based on what was done.
- Smart Suggestions: Learns your patterns to increase accuracy over time.
Spend less time writing time entries and more time on client work.
Capture Time to the Second
Trace records activity with second-level accuracy, giving you and your firm a complete and precise picture of billable work.
- Reduce leakage
- Improve realisation
- Increase transparency for your clients
Every second counts, and now you can capture them all.
Flexible Rates for Modern Billing
Trace gives firms more control over how rates and fees are applied, because the billable hour is just one of many pricing models.
- Fixed fees
- Phase and milestone pricing
- Activity-based rates
- Hybrid billing structures
Time and rates now work independently, so your billing models are more adaptable than ever.
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