Most software makes you bend to it. This one molds to your hand — projects, mileage, tickets, time, calls and capture, gathered into one calm room you run your studio from.
I built this for my own day job and the pile of projects I run on the side — one instrument at a time, Projects first, then each piece as I needed it. It was born fitted to real work, which is why it can fit yours.
You've turned on Today, Mileage and Tickets. The rest waits quietly until it's useful.
Every piece below is in the base price. New instruments keep arriving — some standard, some paid add-ons.
Who you work for, and how each one pays — salary, hourly, fixed, or not billed at all.
The base of the room. Always on, shared with anyone you work with.
The short list: what matters today, pulled out of everything else.
Everyone logs their own trips. You see the whole team's totals.
Requests in, work out, numbered so nothing slips.
A quiet timer, and the month totaled — for the accountant, or just because you're curious.
Notes, action items, and the ones that come back every week — kept next to the project.
Markdown, pinnable, searchable, and a task out of any line. The Logbook — your notebook, built right in.
The room you open first: your day, your work, and the tools you already use one click away.
The room should sound like yours too. Whatever you're playing, playing right here.
Add whoever helps you. They work the shared projects and log their own miles and time.
Fourteen instruments in all, every one in the base price.
See the full set ▸Everything below is included from day one — turn on what you use, per workspace and per project.
And the set keeps growing. I build things for my own work first; when one earns its keep, it lands here — either free as part of the standard set, or as a paid add-on if it costs real money to run. Blackbox — meeting audio turned into minutes and draft tickets — is the next one in the shed.
What's coming ›Every other tool asks a studio like yours to work the way it was built. This one has room in it for the way you already work — and one person on the other end of the email who can shape it.
Instruments are included and off by default. One friendly screen, plain words, reversible any time.
Your fields, your statuses, your labels. If you call them students, it says students. If you call them clients, it says clients.
When your work does something no product anticipated, get in touch. Because it was built to be shaped, the answer can actually be yes — and it lives in the product you keep getting updates to, not a private copy that rots. How asking works →
I've run projects, people and change management in corporate IT since 2007, and I still do it every day — so none of this is a guess about how work actually behaves. I built the first version on my own hardware and spent three years sanding it down, because I run that day job, a handful of side businesses and my own projects out of one screen — and my ADHD brain shorts out when there are nine things in front of me. It's mine first, which is why nothing in here scores you or nags you.
Then someone asked how they could get their own — and that's the whole reason this is a product. Whoever answers your email writes the code: ask on a Tuesday and it can ship that week. No committee, and no roadmap where requests go to die.
Clients, students, family, a contractor for as long as it takes: a room with a link, nothing to download for the person joining, no meeting timer counting down. Notes from the call land in your notebook when you hang up.
Students and their families, sessions to run, a spouse who helps on the admin. Calls, notes and miles in one place.
Projects per client, hours that must be defensible, mileage that has to be logged before you forget it.
Studio work, a couple of helpers, and a strong opinion about how it should be organized. Bring the opinion.
No tiers with features held hostage. Everything standard is in the base price.
The whole standard set, every instrument, no cap on your own work.
Add as many as you need, whenever you need them. Remove them just as easily.
Calls for the workspace and your guests. The only thing with real infrastructure behind it.
Tell me how your work actually works. I'll quote the shaping honestly, or tell you it isn't worth it.
Nine instruments on a Tuesday morning is right. Nine instruments at nine on a Saturday is noise. Name a mode, say what belongs on screen in it, and the Cockpit quiets down on its own — without switching a single thing off. Your mileage still records; you're just not looking at it.
I built it because nine panels at once is more than my head can hold. If your attention works like mine, this is the feature you'll notice first.
Aaron Aiken, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I built this for my own day job and my side projects, and I run it myself. There is no support team; there's me, and I answer.
Your data exports whole, any time, in formats you can actually open. It's your work; you keep it, running or not.
No, but it's right there when you want it. The Logbook is built in — a home for the spur-of-the-moment idea and the meeting note, and any line can become a task, a ticket, or an estimate. Skip it and nothing else changes.
Only if you bring your own key, and then it talks to your provider, not to me. I never hold the key and never read your work.