E8 WORKFORCE — PRODUCTIVITY & PROJECT AI

Know where every hour goes.
Let AI plan the next one.

E8 Workforce tracks time across browser and desktop, turns it into productivity insight and payroll-ready attendance, then lets AI recommend each person's optimal day — while your projects stay in sync from Smartsheet to delivery.

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2-in-1Browser + desktop tracking
100%Payroll-ready timesheets
DailyAI plan recommendations
2-waySmartsheet project sync
What you get

Productivity you can see. Projects that stay on track. Payroll that runs itself.

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    Time & Activity Tracking

    A browser extension and desktop agent capture work hours automatically — with privacy controls your team can see and audit.

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    Productivity Analytics

    Focus time, app usage and trend reports that show where hours actually go — per person, per team and per project.

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    AI Daily Plans

    A private LLM reads yesterday's data and recommends each person's optimal day — what to do next, and where time is leaking.

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    Payroll Integration

    Attendance flows straight into salary runs via E8 Pulse — splits, deductions and bank-file generation included.

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    Project Management Sync

    Two-way Smartsheet sync keeps tasks, dependencies, snapshots and holiday calendars aligned with the hours actually worked.

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    Client Reporting

    Branded PDF and Excel timesheet reports, plus tokenised client-portal links for transparent, billing-ready delivery updates.

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From data to decisions

Turn tracked hours into decisions you can defend.

Raw activity data is noise. E8 Workforce reconciles it into timesheets your finance team trusts, trends your managers act on, and daily plans your people actually follow — all processed inside your own infrastructure, never someone else's cloud.

Automatic timesheetsPayroll-grade attendanceAI daily plans
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WHO IT'S FOR

Built for teams where hours are money.

If you bill, budget or pay by the hour, E8 Workforce pays for itself.

Agencies & studios

Billable utilisation, retainer burn and multi-client projects tracked with client-ready reporting built in.

BillablesRetainersClient reports

Distributed teams

Remote and hybrid teams across time zones, with visibility that does not depend on office presence.

RemoteHybridTime zones

Project-based contractors

Milestone delivery, Smartsheet-planned scope and proof-of-work reporting for every engagement.

MilestonesSmartsheetProof of work

Back-office & shared services

Attendance, shift accuracy and payroll-grade timesheets for operational and support teams.

AttendanceShiftsPayroll-grade
Smartsheet DeskTime Zoho People Zoho Books Slack Gmail WhatsApp Business PostgreSQL Smartsheet DeskTime Zoho People Zoho Books Slack Gmail WhatsApp Business PostgreSQL
Why E8 Workforce exists

You can't optimize
a day
you can't see.

Element8 built Workforce to run its own studios in Dubai: automatic time capture instead of Friday timesheets, project snapshots instead of surprise slippage, and a private AI that plans each person's day from evidence — not surveillance. Now it runs yours, on your servers, where HR data belongs.

100%Self-hosted HR data
14 daysFree team pilot
2 regionsUAE & the GCC delivery
DailyAI plan recommendations
How we are different

Why E8 Workforce?

Most tracking tools count minutes. Workforce connects those minutes to payroll, projects and a private AI that helps people work better — not just watch them work.

Privacy-first trackingEmployees see what is tracked, when it is active, and can pause it — visibility without spyware tactics. AI coaching, not surveillanceRecommendations go to the person first: plan the day, cut context-switching, protect focus time. Payroll-grade accuracyTimesheets reconcile to attendance and feed salary runs through E8 Pulse — no manual re-entry. Project health snapshotsVersioned Smartsheet snapshots expose scope drift, dependencies and slippage before deadlines do. GCC calendar awareUAE holidays, weekends and Ramadan hours are built into plans, timesheets and reports. Self-hosted — HR data stays homeRuns on your servers or in your AWS account. Hours, salaries and behavioural data never leave.
20+ AI apps in production 100% private deployment View case studies
PRIVACY & COMPLIANCE

Enterprise-grade privacy, from tracking to payroll.

Bilingual by default

English and Arabic reporting for GCC teams, with local weekend and holiday logic.

PDPL-aligned tracking

UAE PDPL principles govern how employee data is collected, stored and accessed.

AED invoicing

UAE commercial terms, VAT handling and clear procurement paperwork from day one.

Zero data egress

Tracking data and payroll files live on your GPU server or AWS UAE region — and stay there.

OUR PROCESS

From audit to autopilot in six steps.

Step 01

Discover

We audit how your teams track time, run projects and process payroll today — and where the hours leak.

Step 02

Architect

We choose the deployment model, size the GPU and map integrations — Smartsheet, Zoho People, payroll and calendars.

Step 03

Deploy

The private Workforce stack goes live on your infrastructure in weeks — extension, desktop agent and server.

Step 04

Integrate

Smartsheet, Zoho People, payroll and holiday calendars connect via APIs — two-way, with versioned snapshots.

Step 05

Automate

Timesheets flow into payroll, AI daily plans reach every inbox, and client reports generate on schedule.

Step 06

Operate

E8 Ops keeps it running: 24/7 monitoring, Wazuh SIEM security and model updates without downtime.

Selected Work

Real teams.
Real hours saved.

Anonymized outcomes from the platform running in production today — inside Element8 and for clients across the UAE.

Automation
Time Tracking · Payroll

Timesheet-to-Payroll Engine

Delivery
Projects · Smartsheet

Project Snapshot History

AI
Productivity · AI Plans

AI Daily Plan Rollout

20+
AI apps in production
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Industries

Built for teams that bill, build and deliver.

Wherever hours drive revenue or cost, Workforce turns them into evidence — tuned to how each industry actually books, staffs and reports its time.

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Agencies

Billable utilisation, retainer burn and client-ready timesheets across every account.
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Engineering & consulting

Project hours mapped to milestones, with Smartsheet plans and payroll in one loop.
03

Legal & accounting

Accurate, defensible time capture for billing, matters and engagements — without manual entry.
04

IT teams

Sprint focus time, context-switch costs and on-call hours made visible per project.
05

Media production

Shoot days, edit hours and freelancer timesheets tracked against each production.
06

Outsourcing & shared services

SLA staffing, shift attendance and client transparency reports at scale.
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Limited pilot slots

Every untracked week
is payroll you can't explain.

Hours leak into unbilled work, projects drift quietly, and payroll runs on trust instead of data. A free 14-day team pilot makes all of it visible — and hands you a productivity baseline report either way.

14daysFree team pilot — tracking live, baseline report delivered at the end.
0manual timesheetsAttendance and hours captured automatically from day one.
1reportA productivity baseline your management team can actually act on.

Start the pilot this month.

We run the setup, your team just works. Pilot slots are limited each month — the baseline report is yours to keep either way.

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Platform proof

Proof from the teams who run it daily.

E8 Workforce runs Element8's own studios first. These are internal platform outcomes — not client quotes.

“Timesheets stopped being a Friday chore. Hours flow from the tracker into payroll-grade attendance, and the monthly salary run takes minutes instead of days.”

Element8 operations
Internal platform outcome — payroll automation

“The AI plans earn their keep. People open the day knowing what to hit first, and managers stopped asking ‘what did we do this week?’ — the report already answered it.”

Element8 delivery team
Internal platform outcome — AI daily plans
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The goal was never to watch people work. It was to give every person — and every project — an honest picture of the day, and an AI that helps them win it.
Element8 E8 Intelligence — Dubai, UAE
FAQ

Quick answers
to slow objections.

01What exactly does E8 Workforce track?+

A browser extension and a desktop agent capture active work time: which apps and sites are in focus, task and project context, and attendance. What is captured is configured per team, documented in writing and visible to every employee. There is no covert keylogging, and screenshots can be disabled entirely.

02How do you handle employee privacy?+

Tracking is transparent by design. Employees see their own data, know when tracking is active and can pause it or flag corrections. Personal browsing categories can be excluded, and because the platform is self-hosted, behavioural data never leaves your servers. We align the setup with UAE PDPL principles.

03How do the AI daily recommendations work?+

A private LLM running on your GPU reads each person's recent activity, project deadlines and calendar, then writes a short morning plan: what to tackle first, where time leaked yesterday and which focus blocks to protect. Plans go to the individual first — it is coaching, not scoring.

04How does the payroll integration work?+

Tracked hours reconcile into payroll-grade attendance automatically. From there, E8 Pulse handles salary calculation, splits and bank-file generation — or we export clean attendance data into the payroll system you already run.

05Is the Smartsheet sync really two-way?+

Yes. Tasks, dependencies, dates and GCC holiday calendars sync in both directions, and Workforce stores versioned snapshots of every plan — so you can compare any two versions and see exactly how scope moved.

06Can we share reports with clients?+

Yes. Workforce generates branded PDF and Excel timesheet and progress reports, and issues tokenised client-portal links that give clients a live, scoped view of their projects without needing accounts.

07Can E8 Workforce run fully on-premises?+

Yes. The entire stack — tracking backend, database, analytics and AI models — runs on your own servers or in your AWS UAE or Bahrain region account. Hours, salaries and behavioural data never leave your environment, and Wazuh SIEM monitoring is included via E8 Ops.

Free 14-day pilot

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Reply within one business day.

Tell us your team size, the tools you run projects in and how payroll happens today. We will reply with a pilot plan — tracking live in days, productivity baseline report at the end.

We reply within one business day (Mon-Fri, UAE). Your details stay with Element8.