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The real cost of five tools (and what one workspace replaces)

ProductOctober 8, 2026·2 min read·by the Teamdott team

A typical 10-person services company runs: a chat tool, a time tracker, a leave/HR app, a payroll helper, and some client-portal-ish thing bolted onto email. Each looked cheap alone. Together they are a stack.

Do the arithmetic once

Call it $210+ a month before the hidden line: the hours lost stitching them together — exporting attendance into the payroll sheet, copying approvals from email into the project tool, answering "where was that decided?"

What one workspace collapses

Teamdott's bet is that these are not five products; they are five views of the same company:

Fair caveat: consolidation is a trade. A dedicated time tracker has features Teamdott skips on purpose (screenshots, app logging — deliberately). The question is whether your company needs the long tail, or needs the pieces to finally talk to each other.

Pricing that respects geography

Teamdott prices per seat in your local currency — a studio in Lagos, Lahore or Lisbon pays what makes sense there, with no features locked by region. Meetings and the 3-person starter workspace stay free.

Run your team on Teamdott

Clock in/out, live availability, timesheets, leave, payroll and branded payslips — plus one thread per client. The workspace preview is open: no card, no setup call.