Work data for visibility

Know whether to move people or hire more, before month-end

A request for two more people is on your desk, and the newest number you have closed a month ago. Insightful shows what each team actually worked, week by week, staff and contract alike.

Desk-based knowledge work.
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“We scaled to 30,000+ contractors without losing millions to work fraud.”
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Head of CX & Ops, Mercor
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"With Insightful, we address issues in real time — so we're far more proactive than reactive with our employees."
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CEO, SupportZebra
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"When we started with Insightful, productivity was in the high 70s. Now we're at 92% — and people come asking, 'How did I do today?' It's gamified their work."
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Agency Owner, Farmers Insurance
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"Insightful shows us the when, where, and what of problems. Not micromanagement — transparency."
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Trusted by Teams from AI Hyperscalers to the Fortune 500
200,000+
Hours a year back into delivery

Once the hours stopped being typed in.

30 min
Workload review per employee

Down from 80 hours of manual assessment.

90%+
Schedule adherence

Across Customer Support and VIP Support teams.

Make the staffing call on the week you just had

Without Insightful

Without Insightful

You staff from headcount and volume

One system says how many people you have, the other how much came in.

The report lands weeks after the problem

By the time the month closes, the week that went wrong is three weeks old.

Counting it by hand costs a manager days

And the picture is out of date by the time anybody finishes building it.

You miss a day and cannot say why

The SLA report shows the miss and stops exactly where your question starts.

More heads is the only lever offered

Coverage gets argued from feel and last quarter's overtime bill.

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With Insightful

You staff from what teams worked

Hours by team, staff and contract alike, off the week that just finished.

You see it the same week it happens

Hours come off the desktop application as the work happens, near live.

Nobody builds the picture by hand

It is already assembled when you open it, by team and by site, every week.

The day that missed reads back

Hours split down to a person or roll up across a whole site.

The coverage you have shows up first

Where there is room and where people are stretched, before you sign.

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Move somebody instead of hiring somebody

Approval for a visibility rollout

What your security reviewer asks before this ships

What gets collected is set per team before anyone installs anything. Insightful records the hours, the applications and the work setting, and never the content of any of them.

Who can open which report
Access is scoped by role, reporting is team level by default, and department-scoped admin roles are in development rather than shipped.
Set the depth before rollout
Screenshots blur, or turn off entirely, per application, team or person. Visible Mode gives an employee the same record their manager sees.
What is never captured
No keystroke logging, no webcam or microphone capture, and no message or document content. That holds at every tier and at every setting.
Workforce visibility

Whether today holds, and whether you need another head

On its own each report answers half the question. Read together they tell you whether today's coverage holds and whether last week supports another hire.

Do we need another head, or another week?

Hours against a team, a site or a contract, read before anyone writes the request.

Is one team carrying the site?

Load read at team level rather than person by person, against the structure you have.

Did last quarter's change move anything?

The question after this one, and the page that owns it rather than this one.

Client results

Coverage found before anyone wrote the request

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Learn how this leading US bank unlocked hidden savings with the help of Insightful’s workforce and capacity analysis.

Every system the operation runs on, connected

Your WFM tool, your ticketing stack and your payroll run beside the record rather than against it, and 50+ integrations cover the rest. You can talk to your work data with MCP connectors.

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Two weeks shows what each team actually worked, staff and contract alike. A headcount call wants more than that, and this is where it starts.
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FAQ

What operations leaders ask us most

Does this mean watching what our people do?

No. Insightful is a work insights platform: it collects hours, active and idle time, which applications and pages were open with a timestamp on each, and the work setting, then reports them by team. It does not read message content, document content or file contents, and it never logs keystrokes or captures webcam or microphone, at any tier and with every control at its most permissive position. Screen Monitoring exists and you configure it: screenshots blur, or turn off entirely, per application, team or person. The part worth saying out loud is that there is a desktop application on the machine. That is why we recommend telling people it is there, and why the default report is a team rather than a person.

Does it cover contractors as well as employees?

Yes, on the same record, and it is usually the reason the existing picture was stitched together in the first place. Payroll covers employees, the contract workforce sits outside it, and nobody can put the two halves in one view. The condition is identical for both: the desktop application has to be on the device, which for a contract seat is a term of the engagement rather than a technical question.

What makes these hours more defensible than a timesheet?

Hours and activity are captured automatically as work happens rather than submitted afterwards. Where someone does add or edit an entry, it routes to a named approver before it counts toward payroll, and the change lands in a record no user can alter, carrying the actor, the timestamp and the values before and after. A timesheet carries a recollection; this carries who changed what and when.

How is this different from Workforce Efficiency?

Workforce Visibility answers what your teams actually worked, and whether you can move somebody or have to hire. Workforce Efficiency answers why the same work is taking longer than it used to. You need the first before the second means anything, so they are worth reading in that order.

How long before this is worth making a headcount call on?

Longer than a fortnight. Hours are captured from the first day the desktop application is deployed, and today's hours are readable this morning, so nothing has to be backfilled. What takes longer is confidence: two weeks gives you one period to compare against, and a fortnight that contained a release, a holiday or somebody's leave is still one unusual fortnight. Give it a few cycles of whatever your normal period is before a hiring decision rests on it. Everything here comes off a desktop application, so it covers desk-based knowledge work on Windows, macOS and Linux and not a team without a primary computer.