Your Standards, Everywhere Work Happens — Shared Catalogs
Billing standards were never really a single-company thing. A firm’s activity codes need to reach every employee, contractor, and AI agent doing the work; a client’s outside-counsel guidelines need to reach every firm on the matter. Until now, each company on TimeSentry kept private copies — retyped, drifting, and quietly out of date.
Shared resource catalogs fix that. Group your time-entry guidelines and activity categories into catalogs, then share each catalog exactly where it applies: one matter, one client, your whole company, or an entire relationship class.
- Sharing that follows your working relationships. Share a catalog with “all contractors” once, and every contractor you add later inherits it automatically. End the relationship and access ends with it — nothing to clean up, nothing to remember.
- Their codes, your rates. A category shared with you arrives without the owner’s billing rate. Set your own default rate for it, or hide codes that don’t apply to your work.
- Guidelines with authority built in. When guidelines resolve on an entry, the most specific and most upstream source wins — a client’s rules outrank the firm’s, which outrank personal defaults — and every guideline shows who it came from.
- Revocation without wreckage. Stop sharing and history stays intact: past entries keep their categories, clearly marked as no longer shared, while new time can’t use them.
AI agents participate like everyone else — an agent on your team inherits the same codes and drafting rules as a human timekeeper, from the same catalogs.
The philosophy: your working relationships already say who should see your standards. Sharing should just follow the graph.