# Ray and Timely

> Where the hours went, and the time logged from chat.

Source: https://heyray.io/integrations/timely

Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Timely and it can do the Timely part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written. 19 reads run without asking. 4 actions wait for a human approval.

## What Ray reads in Timely

Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.

- Logged events, projects, clients, and teams
- People, their capacity, and forecasts
- Reports you filter

## What waits for your approval

Every one of these posts an approval card in the thread showing exactly what is about to happen. Nothing runs until someone clicks approve, and no setting turns that off.

- Log time
- Add a client
- Update a client or a project

## Things Ray is never handed

These are left out during curation, so they are not something Ray could do and decides against. They are not in front of it at all.

- Create or delete a label or a team
- Lock or unlock a day
- Change a user

## Ask it like this

- "@Ray how many hours went to Acme this month?"
- "@Ray who has capacity next week?"
- "@Ray which projects are over their forecast?"
- "@Ray add Northwind as a client."

## Connecting Timely

Every person on the team connects their own Timely account on Timely's own login screen, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Timely shows who actually asked. Passwords never pass through Ray. Disconnecting Timely or uninstalling Ray revokes the connection.

## More

- This page for people: https://heyray.io/integrations/timely
- Every integration: https://heyray.io/integrations.md
- Install Ray: https://heyray.io/install.md
- Pricing: https://heyray.io/pricing.md