WorkMonitor for startups
Start free, and see where a small team’s hours actually go
Focus data, a burnout warning and proof for your first enterprise client, on a free plan. Set the policy now and you never pay to retrofit it at a hundred and fifty people.
Free for two seats, no card.
Team or Business, per seat, no minimums.
- Product4
- Engineering5
- Support3
- Sales2
- Operations1
- Finance1
Startups
What changes for a small team
Pick a line and the page it happens on opens on the right.
- AKMonitoring & AnalyticsA clear picture of the working week.Search or ask…
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
Northlight StudioActivity boardWho is working, on what, right nowPERSONINFOCUSSTATE- AKAria K.Figma92Active
- JMJon M.Terminal78Active
- SDSara D.Slack61Active
- RPRavi P.Notion34Idle 11m
- LMLena M.Teams55In a call
- TVTomas V.Off shift0Off
4 of 6 active · 42 apps seen todayUpdated just now
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
- AKAria K.Figma92Active
- JMJon M.Terminal78Active
- SDSara D.Slack61Active
- RPRavi P.Notion34Idle 11m
- LMLena M.Teams55In a call
- TVTomas V.Off shift0Off
Rollout
Setting this up while the team is still small
- 1
Start on the free plan
Self-serve signup, seats and trials through Stripe, with plan entitlement gating, so the tool grows with the company rather than ahead of it.
- 2
Set the posture before it is political
Consent recorded against a version and per-app deny-lists agreed while the team is ten people. At fifty it becomes a negotiation.
- 3
Measure focus, not hours
Deep-work stretches and fragmentation rather than time at a desk, which is the only version a small technical team will accept.
- 4
Wire the API in early
A typed v1 REST API, SDK, OpenAPI spec and scoped keys from day one, so the integration is not a rewrite later.
Deciding this under pressure vs. deciding it while it is cheap
workmonitor.vsHow this usually goes
When the privacy posture gets set
With WorkMonitor
At ten, as a configuration nobody has strong feelings about yet.
How this usually goes
At fifty people, in a meeting nobody enjoys, after somebody objects.
The first enterprise client
With WorkMonitor
Gets a certificate they verify on a public page with no account.
How this usually goes
Asks for evidence of delivery, and you assemble something by hand.
Cost
With WorkMonitor
A free plan and self-serve seats, with entitlements gated by plan.
How this usually goes
Enterprise pricing for a ten-person team.
What you measure
With WorkMonitor
Focus and deep work, with every score opening into its breakdown.
How this usually goes
Hours, because it is the easy number, and the team resents it.
Burnout in a small team
With WorkMonitor
A capacity signal and a burnout warning on sustained evening drift.
How this usually goes
Noticed after somebody leaves, which at ten people is a real problem.
Integration
With WorkMonitor
Typed API, SDK and scoped keys available on day one.
How this usually goes
A CSV export, and a rewrite when you outgrow it.
- Projects
- Timesheets
- Time reports
- Invoices
- Payouts
- Billing
- INV-2081Harbour & Co.1–31 Aug214$23,540Paid
- INV-2082Meridian Health1–31 Aug186$22,320Paid
- INV-2083Vector LabsHours verified · certificate c73a…1f081–31 Aug342$37,620Sent
- INV-2084Bellrose Retail1–31 Aug128$14,080Sent
- INV-2085Ardenway Logistics11–31 Aug96$10,560Draft
- INV-2086Kite Foundation18–31 Aug64$6,720Draft
What a small team gets to work with
- Plans, seats, trials & subscription billing (Stripe self-serve)
- Plan entitlement gating
Ask AI
Ask AI about a small team
Answers grounded in the activity record, not in headcount assumptions.
Pick a question above and WorkMonitor AI will answer from your team's real numbers.
- Today
- Insights
- Activity board
- Live screens
- Team
- Agents
- Integrity
- App categories
- Reports & digests
- Capacity
- AKAria K.Figma92Active
- JMJon M.Terminal78Active
- SDSara D.Slack61Active
- RPRavi P.Notion34Idle 11m
- LMLena M.Teams55In a call
- TVTomas V.Off shift0Off
The status meeting, already written
Status is normally assembled by asking. Here it is already: hours, activity, attendance and risk on one board, for one person or the whole company. Set the thresholds once and it tells you who needs you.
Jobs to be done
The jobs a startup runs here
- Score productivity & focusOne score per person, team or company, with the breakdown behind every one. Your categories rather than our defaults, and a capacity signal that names who is running hot.
- Manage remote & hybrid teamsOne live board across every zone, attendance in each person’s local day, capacity bands that name who is drowning, and a rollout that never touches a machine.
- Prove work with certificatesA finalized invoice mints a signed certificate the client checks for themselves. Selective disclosure proves the work without handing over the work.
- Track time automaticallyNo timer to start, no Friday reconstruction. Idle is split out rather than estimated, and approved hours reach payroll and invoicing without a re-key.
Straight answers
The questions we would ask in your position
Every answer here is the one you would get on a call. Open as many as you like; they stay open, so two can be held side by side.
In the surveillance sense, probably. What small teams actually start for is the focus data, the burnout warning and the certificate their first enterprise client asks for. The second reason is cost: consent, deny-lists and the proof trail are a settings change now and a political event at a hundred and fifty people, and the retrofit is the expensive version.
A real free tier with 30-day screenshot retention and no seat minimum. It is a product rather than a trial. There is no countdown and no automatic conversion. The pricing page carries what each tier includes.
It does if it arrives as a surprise. The things that stop that are the same at fifteen people as at fifteen hundred: everyone can see their own data, per-app deny-lists keep named tools out of the record entirely, and every score opens into the activity that produced it. Introduce it as something people can inspect and it lands very differently.
Yes. The tiers are the same product with more of it. Plan changes are self-serve, seats are counted rather than committed, and nothing has to be re-implemented when you move up.
Nearby
Teams with the same problem, from another angle
Take these with you
The software is the easy part of a rollout
Here is what we would send a manager doing one for the first time: how to read a productivity number, what to say to a remote team before anything is installed, and a policy you can adopt as written.
Point it at one team for a week.
Create the account, put the agent on a handful of desks, and leave it alone. On Friday you read the week instead of reconstructing it: hours against their projects, focus and idle per person, and the timesheets already filled in.
Free for two seats. No card, and no sales call to sit through.