Overview

Chrona is automatic, AI-powered time tracking. A small desktop app runs quietly on each person's machine, takes periodic screenshots, and uses AI to reconstruct the workday into a clear, searchable timeline — no timers to start and no end-of-week timesheet to piece together. Each person's tracked hours then sync into your firm's CPAAutomation dashboard, where managers see where time goes across the whole team.

The two parts of Chrona

Chrona has two pieces that work together:

Part	Where it runs	What it does
Chrona desktop app	On each person's Mac or Windows machine	Captures activity, builds a personal timeline, and offers review, an Ask chat, an in-app dashboard, and a journal.
CPAAutomation Time Tracking dashboard	In your CPAAutomation web app	Pairs and manages devices and shows firm-wide hours, per-device timelines, and CSV exports.

The link between them is pairing: a manager generates a one-time code in the web dashboard, the staff member enters it in the desktop app, and from then on the device syncs its timeline to the firm.

Privacy: local-first by design

Chrona is built to keep your screen private.

Note: Screenshots and the local database stay on your own machine. They are only sent to Google Gemini for analysis, and they are never uploaded to your firm. The only thing that syncs to CPAAutomation is the finished timeline — card titles, summaries, categories, and start/end times.

Who does what

• Staff install the desktop app, let it track their time, and pair it to the firm. Everything they capture lives on their machine; they review and explore it locally.
• Managers generate pairing codes, manage devices, and read firm-wide reports in CPAAutomation. Whether you can generate codes and revoke devices depends on your role — admin, manager, analyst, and reviewer can manage devices, while viewers have read-only access to the reports.

Where to find it

• Download the desktop app from the Chrona section of the marketing home page (/#chrona-showcase) — there are buttons for Mac and Windows.
• Firm reports live in the CPAAutomation sidebar:
  • Time Tracking — the firm-wide dashboard (/dashboard/analytics/chrona)
  • Chrona Devices — pair and manage devices (/dashboard/analytics/chrona/devices)

First steps

If you're staff, get tracking in four steps:

1. Install Chrona and finish the first-run setup (add a Gemini API key and, on macOS, grant screen-recording permission).
2. Click Start recording and let Chrona build your timeline. See Capturing your time.
3. Explore your timeline, and review, ask, and journal to make sense of your day.
4. Pair your device with a code from your manager so your hours reach the firm.

If you're a manager, get your team set up:

1. Open Chrona Devices and generate a pairing code for each person.
2. Share each code with the staff member to enter in their app.
3. Watch hours roll in on the Time Tracking dashboard, and manage devices over time.