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We started in a spare room in 2022, because the four of us kept rebuilding the same spreadsheet at three different companies. The first version was ugly, shipped in nine weeks, and had eleven users — six of whom were related to somebody in the room. It is now used by 11,400 teams across 38 countries.

What the platform does

  • Scheduling & shifts — Build a week in about four minutes, publish it to everyone at once, and let people swap between themselves inside rules you set. Changes reach phones in under two seconds, and queue up when there is no signal.
  • Time & attendance — Clock in from a phone or a fixed tablet, with location checks that can be switched off entirely, because not every team wants them. Exports straight into whichever payroll system you already run.
  • Open API — Anything the interface can do, the API can do — documented, versioned, rate-limited at 600 requests a minute and capped at 10 MB per payload. Sandbox keys are free and never expire.
  • Reporting & exports — Hours, costs, overtime and no-shows, in tables you can genuinely export. We refuse to build a dashboard with a speedometer on it, and we are well aware this has cost us deals.

We raised $2.4 million in a seed round in 2023 and have not raised since. That was deliberate: it means we answer to the people paying for the product rather than to a growth target set in a boardroom. We reached break-even in March, and we intend to stay there.

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Hero lines

  • Ship the boring parts faster
  • Built in eighteen months by nine people
  • Your operations, finally in one place

We are a nine-person company building the tool we needed at our last jobs — and 11,400 teams now open it every weekday morning.

Free for the first five seats, $19 a seat after that, no contract longer than a month. Leave whenever you like; take your data.

Version 1 shipped in nine weeks and was frankly rough. Version 4 is not, and the roadmap between them is public.

Team bios

Anika Wexler — Co-founder, product

Anika ran operations for a 400-person logistics company and built the original spreadsheet this whole thing replaced. She still takes two support shifts a week, which is why the settings screen no longer sits four clicks deep. Sails badly, and competitively.

Danilo Petrescu — Co-founder, engineering

Danilo wrote the first version alone in nine weeks and has been carefully deleting it ever since. He is unreasonably strict about database migrations and unreasonably relaxed about nearly everything else. He answers on-call more often than the schedule says he should; we are working on that.

Naledi Sithole — Head of customer success

Naledi joined as employee number five from a hospitality background, which means she has lived this problem at 6am with a shift missing and no one answering the phone. She runs onboarding, writes most of the help documentation, and pushes back hard when engineering wants to move a button.

Quotes

“We moved 260 staff across four sites in a single weekend, and the only thing that broke was my assumption that it would be painful. Their founder was on the call at 7am on a Sunday!”

Josh Cardoso, Operations Manager, hospitality group

“The public roadmap sold it to me. One entry simply said “we are not building this, and here is why” — I have never had that kind of honesty from a vendor.”

Ilse Verhoeven, Chief Operating Officer

“Overtime dropped 18% in the first two months, mostly because managers could finally see it coming rather than discover it in the payroll run.”

Ken Abernathy, Finance Director

FAQ answers

Will you still be here in five years?

A fair question to ask a young company. We are profitable, we have raised money once, and our monthly costs are covered by revenue rather than by the bank balance. If we ever do wind down, the commitment is ninety days’ notice and a full data export in an open format.

What does the platform actually cost?

Free for up to five seats, then $19 per seat per month, billed monthly. Annual billing saves 15% and is entirely optional. There is no enterprise tier with a hidden price — the same page shows the same numbers to everybody who visits it.

How is our data protected?

Encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in the region you choose, with an independent penetration test every year and the summary available on request. We do not sell data, we do not train models on it, and access by our own staff is logged and reviewed.

Can we try it properly first?

Yes — the full product, no card, no time limit under five seats. If you want a larger trial, ask and we will open one for 60 days. We would far rather you found out in week three that this is wrong for you than in month eleven.

Closing lines

Start on the free tier and see whether it survives a real week. If it does not, tell us why: roughly a fifth of what we shipped last year came from people who tried the product, decided against it, and explained themselves on the way out.

If you would rather have a person walk you through it, we do a 25-minute call with no slides. Ask anything, including what we are bad at — there is a list, and we will happily read it to you.

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