Cardinal measures human and AI hours, cost and leverage, and turns them into quotes, invoices and team reports.
How to sign in, how invites work, and what the sign-in messages mean.
Today is a personal briefing computed from your numbers: what to do next, where your time and money went, and which work is worth it.
Search the help articles, and ask the guide a question when you are signed in.
Install Cardinal's runner and Claude telemetry on macOS with one line in Terminal, then test it.
Install Cardinal's runner and Claude telemetry on Windows with one line in PowerShell, then test it.
The two checks behind Test my setup, what each message means, and how to get to green.
Exactly which files the install line writes and which Claude settings it adds.
Cardinal has no uninstall script yet; these steps undo what the install line did on a Mac or on Windows.
The workspace owner's summary of hours, AI time, leverage and cost for a date range.
See one day as a column of tracked sessions and your own entries, and add, edit or fill in time.
The Start and Stop control in the top bar, the s key, and what happens to entries left running.
Let Cardinal propose time entries for a day from your Claude sessions and the gaps between them.
The Projects list, a project's page, budgets with burn alerts, revenue and traditional-build hours.
Client activity, codes, default rates, billing details, and archiving.
What one Claude session's page shows, and how to relabel a single session.
See when you work, hour by hour, and how your numbers move month by month, with markers.
Confirm who each new project's work is for and what kind of work it is.
How the workspace owner's tracker data arrives, and the /hours command inside Claude Code.
How Cardinal works out the lowest hourly rate you can charge, and how to check a price against it.
Price a job from similar past work, approve it to lock the price, and track the outcome.
Draft a slide deck for a quote, edit the slides, and present or print it.
Create, edit, issue and track invoices and credit notes, record payments, and print them.
Let the agent draft invoices from unbilled time or an open quote, check them, and write the cover email.
Your company, VAT, bank details, numbering, terms and rate card for invoices.
Double-entry books: chart of accounts, journals, the trial balance and lock dates.
How you use Claude, what it costs, and where the spend went. Only you and whoever you report to can see it.
Seats, usage and waste for the people you manage, the leaderboard, and adding members, agents and teams (Team › Manage).
One person's or agent's numbers, details, teams, sign-in invite, keys and leaving.
How Claude Code sessions in deal folders add up to the cost of each deal, the win rate and cost per won deal.
How people join a workspace, how to belong to more than one, and how customer workspaces are opened.
The workspace owner's settings: idle threshold, subscription, label rules, pricing floor, sync, backups and export.
The small program on your computer that answers Cardinal's AI jobs with your own claude -p on your own Claude plan.
What the message means, how jobs queue, and how to get them moving.
How the AI jobs panel works, what it records, and how your decisions are counted.
What Write my briefing does, why Claude never writes a number, and who can read it.
Eight agents watch your numbers and suggest what to do: seats, coaching, scope, follow-ups, cash, client updates, lost deals and similar past work. Ask Cardinal answers questions. Nothing is ever sent for you.
Every message Cardinal would send for you, in full, with who approved it and on what basis. Dry run for now: nothing leaves Cardinal.
Your personal assistant plans your day from Today and your own calendar, preps your meetings and wraps up the day. Only you see it.
What to do when the installer or runner can't find the claude CLI, or it isn't signed in with a Claude plan.
Jobs stay on Waiting for your computer: check sleep, the login item, the log and the key.
Fixes for Command Prompt, constrained language mode, execution policy and missing Node.js.
Check the Cardinal runner Scheduled Task, start it, and test the connection.
Why Me, Team or Today show nothing yet, and how to get the first numbers in.
No. Cardinal collects usage numbers, never prompt or response text. Here is exactly what it sees.
What Cardinal needs from your Claude account, and how Desktop, Cowork and API keys fit in.
Set up Cardinal on the new computer, then retire the old one.
Which addresses Cardinal's installer, runner and Claude telemetry need to reach.
