Our story

We built the tool
we couldn't buy.

Eight years running a software agency taught us one thing: every tool on the market was built for someone else. So we built Chronixo - for us, and for every agency that felt the same.

Satendra Bhadoria

Founder & CEO, Chronixo

Jira

Sprints & tasks

Harvest

Time tracking

Hubstaff

Screenshots

Notion

Client updates

Excel

Timesheets

All in one

Sprint planning

Time tracking

Screenshots

Client portal

Timesheets

5 tools → 1 platform

The problem we solved

At one point, we were running five tools to manage a single project.

SolGuruz had grown to 100+ developers, clients across 15 countries, and dozens of active projects running simultaneously. By every external measure, things were working. Internally, it was chaos.

Every Monday morning started the same way: opening five different browser tabs before we could answer one simple question - how much do we bill the client this month?

Jira - sprints & tasks

Harvest - time tracking

Hubstaff - screenshots

Notion - client updates

Excel - timesheet approvals

Chronixo - all of the above

Data lived in different places. Time entries didn't match sprint tasks. Clients couldn't see their project status without us preparing a manual report. None of the tools on the market understood agencies. They were built for freelancers, or enterprise IT departments, or field teams. So in 2022, we stopped looking and started building.

"Every feature in Chronixo exists because I felt its absence at 11pm on a billing day. We didn't guess what agencies needed. We lived it for eight years."

- Satendra Bhadoria, Founder & CEO

Our journey

The story, told in sprints.

We build products in sprints. It only made sense to tell our own story the same way.

Sprint 0 · The beginning

Ahmedabad, India

SolGuruz is born in a rented office with a whiteboard and three developers.

Satendra founds SolGuruz with a simple thesis: Indian engineering talent can build world-class software products for global clients, at a price that actually makes sense. The first project is a web app for a US logistics startup. It ships in 6 weeks. The client asks for more.

3 devs

Day one headcount

Sprint 1 · First scale

Year 2–3

First international clients. Team grows to 40+.

Word spreads through the US and UK startup ecosystems. SolGuruz starts winning projects in fintech, healthtech, and e-commerce. Multi-timezone squads form. First enterprise-level client demands tighter project visibility.

15+

Countries we shipped products to

Sprint 2 · The pain

Year 4–6

100 developers. 5 tools. One breaking point.

SolGuruz scales to 100+ developers across multiple squads. Tool fragmentation becomes a real cost - hours every week reconciling data. Enterprise clients want project status. Screenshot data on Hubstaff's servers becomes a compliance concern.

150+

Products shipped for clients

Sprint 3 · The idea

Year 7

Internal prototype: "what if we just built it ourselves?"

After one particularly painful billing cycle, Satendra whiteboard-sketches the perfect agency tool. Sprint planning + time tracking + screenshots + client portal + timesheet approval - in one product. A small internal team starts building. The working name is "Project Atlas."

5in 1

Core tools consolidated

Sprint 4 · Beta

Year 8

25 agency beta users. Honest feedback. Major rebuilds.

Chronixo opens to a closed beta of 25 hand-picked agencies. The feedback is blunt and valuable: client portal is essential, BYOS S3 unlocks enterprise clients, sprint planning is the only native solution in the market. Three major architecture rebuilds later, the product is ready.

Beta agencies who shaped the product

Sprint 5 · Launch

2025 → Now

Public launch. Growing fast. Still building.

Chronixo launches publicly. Agencies migrating away from Harvest after its Bending Spoons acquisition find a purpose-built home. Early users report replacing 3 tools with one. The Monday billing nightmare is finally someone else's problem.

2025

The journey is just beginning

Founder & CEO

Satendra Bhadoria

Founder & CEO, Chronixo

Satendra has spent the better part of a decade building software for other people's companies - and doing it well. Under SolGuruz, he led a team that shipped 150+ products across 15 countries in fintech, healthtech, and enterprise SaaS.

But the experience of running a growing agency with fragmented tooling eventually became impossible to ignore. Rather than accept it as the cost of doing business, Satendra did what engineers do: he built a better solution.

He's based in Ahmedabad, India - and he still uses Chronixo every day to run SolGuruz.

Years in agencies

150+

Products shipped

15+

Countries served

"I'm not interested in building the biggest time-tracking company. I'm interested in building the most useful one - for the exact type of team I spent eight years running."

- Satendra Bhadoria

99.9%

Platform uptime - built to run your business 24/7

Years running a real software agency before building this

150+

Client products shipped - real-world experience behind every feature

Tools the average agency replaces when they switch to Chronixo

What we stand for

Three things we will never compromise on.

Not mission statement language. Real commitments - the kind that cost us something to keep.

01 · FOCUS

We only build for software agencies.

Every feature we ship has to make sense for an agency running 10 simultaneous client projects. The moment we lose that focus, we become another generic tool. We'd rather be the best for one customer type than mediocre for everyone.

02 · OWNERSHIP

Your data stays where you put it.

BYOS S3 is the most concrete expression of this value. Your employee monitoring data should live in your infrastructure, not ours. We only store what we absolutely need to deliver the product. This is not a pricing feature. It is a philosophy about trust.

03 · HONESTY

The price on the page is the price you pay.

No freemium traps. No features hidden behind enterprise plans that aren't mentioned until you've committed. We'd rather lose a sale than earn a customer who feels misled. Client portal users are billable seats - we say that clearly upfront.

At one point, we were running five tools to manage a single project.

SolGuruz had grown to 100+ developers, clients across 15 countries, and dozens of active projects running simultaneously. By every external measure, things were working. Internally, it was chaos.

Every Monday morning started the same way: opening five different browser tabs before we could answer one simple question - how much do we bill the client this month?

Jira - sprints & tasks

Harvest - time tracking

Hubstaff - screenshots

Notion - client updates

Excel - timesheet approvals

Chronixo - all of the above

"Every feature in Chronixo exists because I felt its absence at 11pm on a billing day. We didn't guess what agencies needed. We lived it for eight years."

- Satendra Bhadoria, Founder & CEO

We built the tool
we couldn't buy.

At one point, we were running five tools to manage a single project.

The story, told in sprints.

Three things we will never compromise on.

Replace your 3 tools with one that was built for agencies.

We built the tool
we couldn't buy.

At one point, we were running five tools to manage a single project.

The story, told in sprints.

Three things we will never compromise on.

Replace your 3 tools with one that was built for agencies.

We built the toolwe couldn't buy.

At one point, we were running five tools to manage a single project.

The story, told in sprints.

Three things we will never compromise on.

Replace your 3 tools with one that was built for agencies.

We built the toolwe couldn't buy.

At one point, we were running five tools to manage a single project.

The story, told in sprints.

Three things we will never compromise on.

Replace your 3 tools with one that was built for agencies.

We built the tool
we couldn't buy.

We built the tool
we couldn't buy.