Independent consultants and fractional executives juggling several client engagements at once

Is Retainer still maintained?

Actively maintained: site updated 2 weeks ago.

We do not audit vendors. What Retainer publishes, read 2026-10-25: on training with your data, “We do not use your practice data to train our own models, and we do not use it for advertising.”.

What are alternatives to Retainer?

In Finance, by use: TradepilotUSA, Bill Every Hour You Actually Worked, CPA Buddy, Wrightly, Vexula, Kostvexa.

Retainer

Ranks renewals, quiet clients, overdue invoices and unbilled hours into one daily queue for independent consultants.

Actively maintained

FinanceWorkflow automationSmall businessFree tier+2

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At a glanceswept Oct 24, 2026

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For: Independent consultants and fractional executives juggling several client engagements at once
Activity: Actively maintainedsite updated 2 weeks ago
Used for: track retainer renewal dates before they lapse
spot quiet clients and stalled proposals early
log hours and invoice work outside retainer scope

Worth knowingcomputed from what we read · each with its source

Has an MCP server (1 in the registry)public registry →
Publishes llms.txt, a file written for AI assistantsuseretainer.com ↗

Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read Oct 25, 2026

Trains on your dataNoprivacy policy ↗
Privacy policy updated2026-10-04privacy policy ↗

“We do not use your practice data to train our own models, and we do not use it for advertising.”
privacy policy ↗

These are Retainer's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read Oct 25, 2026

MCP servercom.useretainer/toolsverified in the MCP registry
Stateanswers, 5 toolschecked 2026-10-25
Address to connectuseretainer.com/mcp

MCP server details →

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Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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What is Retainer?
Ranks renewals, quiet clients, overdue invoices and unbilled hours into one daily queue for independent consultants. It is listed in the Atlas under Finance.
Who is Retainer for?
Independent consultants and fractional executives juggling several client engagements at once
Do people use Retainer?
Little sign of use.
Is Retainer still maintained?
Actively maintained: site updated 2 weeks ago.

Does Retainer train AI on your data?
No, per its privacy policy (2026-10-25): “We do not use your practice data to train our own models, and we do not use it for advertising.”
Is Retainer safe?
We do not audit vendors. What Retainer publishes, read 2026-10-25: on training with your data, “We do not use your practice data to train our own models, and we do not use it for advertising.”.
What are alternatives to Retainer?
In Finance, by use: TradepilotUSA, Bill Every Hour You Actually Worked, CPA Buddy, Wrightly, Vexula, Kostvexa.

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No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.

Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.

How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.

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