Digital Socket LLC · Newark, Delaware
Numbers you can act on.
Most monitoring tools produce a number nobody trusts enough to use. WorkMonitor is built so a manager can move a workload on Monday, defend that call three months later, and be right. Every one of those words cost us the easy build.
Pre-launch. We hold no certifications, and we say so on the first line.
Every tool in this category answers one of two questions
What most tools measure
How busy does this person look right now?
An activity percentage rewards fidgeting and punishes reading. It is gone an hour later, nothing can reproduce it, and the first time it is challenged in a review you have nothing to put on the table. So managers quietly stop opening the dashboard.
What we build for
What actually got done, and what should you do about it?
That takes a record, not a gauge: the hours, the output, and the activity tying the two together. It still holds months later. And it is specific enough to act on — rebalance a workload on Monday, price the next project from what the last one really cost, catch an overrun in week two instead of at the invoice.
The ledger
Where the harder question cost us the easier build
6 forks, with the road we did not take beside each one. The cheap answer was always on the table: faster to build, sooner to ship, better in a demo, and worth nothing the moment somebody questions the number. Where a row can be checked from outside this company, it says how.
- 01The cheap version
Record what people type. Every keylogger does it, and a wall of captured text looks impressive in a demo.
What we built insteadCount key presses without ever reading one. The agent adds to a counter when a key goes down and throws the event away.
How you can check itAll three desktop agents are held to it by a test that reads their source on every build, and the figure it publishes is zero keystrokes recorded.
Where that figure is published - 02The cheap version
Send the raw screen to a server and blur it there, where the original still exists and somebody can still ask for it.
What we built insteadEnforce the capture policy on the device. The cadence you set, the blur, and the per-app deny list all apply before an image leaves the machine.
How you can check itA denied app is never captured rather than captured and hidden, and the change that set the policy lands on the audit chain.
Capture controls - 03The cheap version
Build the manager console, and describe the tool once at an all-hands. The people in the data never see it.
What we built insteadGive the measured person their own copy of the record: what is collected, what never is, and every manager who has opened it.
How you can check itIt is a page inside the product rather than a commitment in a policy document, and it is on this page a little further down.
See the page itself - 04The cheap version
Log administrative changes only. That is what an audit trail usually means, and it never shows who looked at whom.
What we built insteadAppend every read of a person’s record to a hash chain, and show that chain to the subject as well as to the auditor.
How you can check itGovernance changes, data access and our own staff actions each run on a separate chain, anchored to storage that cannot be deleted early even by the account root.
- 05The cheap version
Let a score trigger a warning letter. Automated discipline is the cheapest way to make monitoring look like it pays for itself.
What we built insteadSend the anomaly to a person to weigh, and freeze automated re-decision for as long as a dispute is open.
How you can check itWritten against GDPR Article 22 and EU AI Act Article 26 expectations, next to written guidance on what each regime asks of workplace monitoring.
Monitoring law by country - 06The cheap version
Read the organisation out of the URL and trust it. That is where most multi-tenant leaks begin.
What we built insteadResolve the organisation from the verified credential, then draw the same boundary a second time in the database with composite foreign keys.
How you can check itA row cannot reference another tenant even if the application code tried, and the control counts on the security page are recomputed from the schema and the API every time this site is built.
Why any of that was worth doing
One day somebody challenges a number. Everything above is what you put on the table.
The hours, the activity behind them, the version of the policy each person agreed to, and who opened the record and when. Months later, still there, still checkable.
The control inventoryWhy rollouts stall, and how this one does not
The argument you do not have to have
Monitoring programmes rarely fail on the technology. They fail three months in, when the numbers get challenged, the manager cannot show where one came from, and the whole thing quietly stops being used.
So the record reads the same from both sides. Every person can open the figures their manager sees, which means a disagreement arrives with evidence attached instead of landing on a manager’s desk as an opinion. Consent is recorded against a policy version. Every access is logged. The time goes into the work rather than into defending the tool.
Trust & Compliance- Proof Ledger
- Outcomes
- Certificates
- Audit log
- Data access
- Disputes
- Data egress
- Export
- What We See
- Controls
- Active app and windowThe app in front, and its title
- Activity levelAn intensity number, 0 to 100
- ScreenshotsAbout every 5 min, blurred on device
- Idle detectionGaps over 10 min show as idle
- What you typeThe number only, never the words
- Apps on your deny list6 apps: no capture while in front
- Time you mark privateLeft out of measurement entirely
- Live screen viewOff for Northlight Studio
- JMJon M. opened your timelineWeek 36 · check-in1 Sep, 09:14
- SDSara D. opened your screenshots3 captures · 28 Aug28 Aug, 16:02
- JMJon M. exported your dataTimesheet CSV · August25 Aug, 11:30
- LMLena M. generated an AI summary of your dayCopilot · sent to our AI provider22 Aug, 14:47
What We See, built from the same components as the product rather than photographed. Sample workspace.
Primary sources
Check any of it, without asking us
An argument about how something is built is worth exactly what its sources are worth. These are ours.
- SecurityThe control inventory, four figures with what each one is counted from, and the gaps we have not closed.
- Trust Center packSecurity overview, answers to the standard questionnaire, and the data processing agreement, on request.
- Legal and privacyThe privacy policy, the platform terms and the sub-processor list, each published as its own document.
- Employee monitoring lawWritten guidance for 32 jurisdictions on what each regime expects. Guidance, not legal advice.
- What has shippedThe release record, so any capability described on this site can be dated rather than taken on faith.
- Working hereThe terms, the bar the work sets, and why there is no vacancy list to apply to.
A note from the company
What this page will not tell you
WorkMonitor is made by Digital Socket LLC, a Delaware limited liability company with its registered office in Newark, Delaware. That is the whole of the company story we are in a position to tell you today.
You will not find a customer count on this page, or a logo wall, or a review score, or a certification badge, or a funding announcement. WorkMonitor is pre-launch and holds no certifications; SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are in preparation. Putting any of those things here now would take apart the argument the rest of the page is making.
What we publish instead is the part most vendors keep internal: a control inventory in which every claim names the code that implements it, our open gap list, pre-written answers to the standard security questionnaire, and our data processing agreement. The figures on the security page are recounted from the source they describe each time the site is built, so a number that drifts away from the code fails the build rather than quietly becoming a claim we cannot support.
None of that is modesty. You are about to make decisions with these numbers — who is overloaded, what a project really cost, whose case is strong at review. A buyer who catches one false claim on a marketing page is right to stop believing the rest of it, and a manager who catches one false number is right to stop using the tool.
Digital Socket LLC
131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713, United States