For founders & entrepreneurs
WorkWitness gives founders an AI-written daily read on what your team focused on, where time actually went, and who needs your attention this week. Visible to your team. Free during early access.
How the data flows
Three laptops. One AI. One daily read of where the day went — delivered where you already live.
Your top performer says they're heads-down. Your gut says otherwise. The new hire's status reports look great — but the project is somehow three weeks behind. You don't want to install spyware. You want a way to know what's actually happening, so you can lead instead of guess.
The category sold founders a problem and a tool to surveil it. What you actually needed was a record. One the team can see. One you can point to in a 1:1 and say let's talk about what this is showing. Not a weapon. A document.
That's what WorkWitness is.
The tracker installs on each team member's computer and runs visibly — a status icon, a running process, no stealth mode. Every 12 seconds it logs what application is active. Every 5 minutes it captures a screenshot. AI summarizes the day into focus time, top categories, and a plain-language recap delivered to you by email and WhatsApp.
Your team installs the app. They see it running — there's a process, a status icon, and a system tray indicator. No hidden agent, no kernel driver, no secret mode. Roll it out openly. Tell them.
Active application, idle time, periodic screenshots. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Stored in your isolated workspace. We don't read keystrokes, access cameras, or touch microphones.
Each evening, an AI summary lands on your email and WhatsApp. Within the first week you'll see who's locked in, who's switching contexts every four minutes, and which projects are quietly eating the hours.
This is the part the rest of the category gets backwards. They sell stealth as a feature. We treat openness as the default — because trackers your team finds out about the wrong way cost more than they save.
What you actually get
No timesheets to chase. No status meetings to schedule. WorkWitness watches the work, makes sense of it, and tells you what changed today — in plain English, on the channels you already use.
Every evening, each team member's day arrives on email and WhatsApp. Total focused work, top categories, applications and sites used, idle time, and a short AI-written paragraph on what got done. By Friday you have a complete week. No login required to read it.
The summary flags team members whose focus is dropping, whose categories are drifting off-work, or whose patterns suggest they're stuck. Not to punish — to coach. You see the signal before it becomes a problem.
Hours logged are hours observed. Every application, every site, every focus block — categorized automatically. If you bill clients by time, this is the audit trail. If you don't, it's the answer to where did the day go.
Click any summary and open the full timeline — screenshots, application history, idle gaps. The summary is the headline. The portal is the receipt — for the rare 1:1 where you need to point at something specific.
What's coming next
Today, WorkWitness gives you the read. Next, it'll close the loop — turning daily observations into the founder operating system you actually wanted.
Today
Daily AI report on what each team member focused on, where the day broke down, who's locked in and who's drifting. Live now.
Next
Each report becomes a coaching note — the AI drafts the observation you'd raise in a 1:1, with the specific moment from the timeline to point at. You edit and send. The conversation gets easier because the data did the diplomacy.
After
You set the week's priorities. WorkWitness checks each day's work against them — not as a stopwatch, but as a mirror. Are people actually working on the things you said matter most? When they're not, you'll know early.
If you start with WorkWitness today, you get the visibility. As coaching and alignment ship, you get them at the founder-friendly price you already signed up for — no migrations, no upcharges.
Real screens from the WorkWitness admin portal. No mocked dashboards, no aspirational UI — this is the product running today, with real data flowing in from a real team member's machine.
Sixty seconds. The tracker running, the data flowing, the daily report landing on email and WhatsApp. If you've wondered what "honest tracking" actually looks like in practice — this is the answer.
The full feature list, in the open — same way the tracker installs.
A second-by-second record of which applications and websites were active, with idle time clearly marked. No interpretation, no judgment — just the raw shape of the day.
Every evening, an AI summary lands on email and WhatsApp. What got worked on, where focus blocks happened, where the day broke down — in plain English, no jargon, no scoring you'd have to defend.
A single number that captures sustained focused work versus context-switching — the kind of signal you can actually open a 1:1 with. Not a verdict. A conversation starter that points at a specific block of the day.
One screenshot every five minutes, encrypted at rest, linked to what was happening on screen at the time. The receipt behind the summary — for when you need to look deeper.
Python-based tracker. Under 50MB memory footprint. No noticeable performance impact. No kernel extensions, no driver installs, no admin agents in the background.
Each business has its own isolated workspace with strict row-level security. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Owners control retention, exports, and deletion of everything in their workspace.
Enterprise monitoring suites come with a 60-page implementation guide, an HR policy template, an IT readiness checklist, and a quarterly compliance review. You don't need any of that. You don't have a CHRO — you have you. WorkWitness installs in under five minutes per machine. It's built for owners running three things at once, with teams small enough to know everyone's name and big enough that you can't be in every meeting.
Remote and hybrid teams where output is hard to see in real time. The daily report gives both sides a fair basis for one-on-ones and performance conversations — without anyone having to write a timesheet.
Creatives, project managers, account leads. WorkWitness tells you which projects are eating hours and which clients are actually getting the time they're billed for. The honest version of utilization tracking.
HVAC, roofing, electrical, plumbing, sealcoating. Office staff get the work record — the back-office clarity that's always been your blind spot. Field crews keep using the mobile tools you already have.
Here's how WorkWitness is different from every other tool in this category — and what we will and won't do with the data your team's work generates.
A running process, a system tray icon, a status indicator. Your team can see it any time. We don't ship a hidden mode, an "admin override," or anything that lets you monitor without their knowledge. If you need stealth, WorkWitness is the wrong tool.
No keystroke logging. No camera access. No microphone access. No clipboard reading. No file contents. We log the active application, idle state, and take periodic screenshots. That's the entire data model. Anything else isn't shipped, isn't on the roadmap, and isn't a tradable feature.
Each business has an isolated workspace with strict row-level security. There is no cross-tenant access. Within your workspace, only authorized admins you invite can read the data. WorkWitness staff do not access customer data — not for analytics, not for "support quality," not at all — unless you explicitly request help and grant access.
Your team's activity logs are not used to train AI models. We don't aggregate and resell behavior data. We don't share with advertisers, brokers, or analytics partners. Encrypted in transit. Encrypted at rest. If you cancel, you can export everything and we delete what's ours to delete.
This isn't a privacy policy buried in a footer. This is the product architecture.
What changes when you build a productivity tracker around honesty instead of stealth.
| Dimension | Most monitoring tools | WorkWitness |
|---|---|---|
| Default visibility to team | Hidden. Stealth mode shipped as a feature. | Visible by default. No stealth mode. Ever. |
| Where reports land | Admin dashboard. Log in, drill down, build reports. | Email + WhatsApp every evening. Login optional. |
| Keystroke logging | Often available, sometimes default-on. | Not captured. Not shipped. Not on roadmap. |
| Camera / microphone access | Optional add-on or enterprise feature. | Never. We don't request the permission. |
| Pricing for a 20-person team | Roughly $140–$400 per month, per-seat. | Free during early access. Honest pricing later. |
| Data resale or model training | Buried in fine print. Often yes for "aggregate analytics." | Never. Not for training, not for analytics, not at all. |
| Rollout posture | Quiet install. Manager-only knowledge. | Designed for open rollout. We tell you how. |
| Cost when team finds out | Eroded trust, morale dip, occasional resignations. | One harder conversation up front. Durable trust after. |
A note from the founder
I built WorkWitness because every monitoring tool I'd seen treated the team like a problem and the owner like a paying spectator. Stealth installs, hidden dashboards, productivity scores engineered to make people look bad. The whole category was built on a posture of suspicion — and the founders I talked to didn't actually want that. They wanted clarity, not surveillance.
So I built the opposite. A tracker your team sees. A daily report on your phone instead of a dashboard to log into. A small product, intentionally narrow, that does one thing honestly — and is heading toward becoming the founder operating system I always wanted.
It's early days. The product is real, the daily reports work, a real team is running it as I write this. If you're a founder who's tired of the stealth-monitoring playbook and wants to try something different — I'd genuinely like to hear what you think.
Manish Mandot
Founder, WorkWitness · GrowwStacks
Early access
Currently free for every team
WorkWitness is in early access. The product is real, the tracker works, the daily reports land. We're using this period to shape the roadmap with real founders and real teams — so we'd rather have you using it than pricing you out.
Pricing will arrive later, and when it does it'll be honest: a generous free tier for very small teams, and a per-user monthly fee for everyone else. We'll tell you what's changing well before it changes — no surprise charges, no quiet conversions, no credit card walls. If you're using WorkWitness when paid plans launch, you'll have time to decide.
Yes. There's a visible process, a system tray icon, and a status indicator on each machine. WorkWitness does not ship a stealth mode — not as a feature, not as an admin override, not as anything. If your model requires hidden monitoring, this isn't the right tool.
Our recommendation: roll it out openly. We give you a script and an email template for the rollout conversation. Trackers your team finds out about the wrong way cost more than they save.
Day 1: the first daily summary lands on your email and WhatsApp that evening — active applications, focus blocks, idle gaps for each team member.
Week 1: patterns become visible. Who's locked in, who's context-switching constantly, which projects are quietly eating hours.
Week 2 onward: trends become directional. You'll have concrete observations ready for 1:1s — not gut feel, not annual-review hindsight. The product is designed so you don't have to wait a quarter to know whether it's working.
On their machine, yes — administrative privileges allow uninstall, same as any other application. We don't try to hide the uninstaller or make removal punitive. If an employee uninstalls it, the agent stops reporting and you'll see that in the dashboard. That's a conversation to have, not a feature to defeat.
Three things. The currently active application or browser tab, categorized at the level of "code editor" or "design tool" or "social media" — sampled every 12 seconds. A desktop screenshot every 5 minutes, stored encrypted. Idle time, when there's no keyboard or mouse input.
That's the entire data model. We do not log keystrokes, do not access cameras, do not access microphones, do not read file contents, and do not capture clipboard data. Those features aren't shipped, aren't on the roadmap, and aren't tradable.
Yes. Both supported. The tracker is a lightweight Python application — under 50MB memory footprint, negligible CPU impact. No kernel extensions, no driver installs, no admin agents running in the background. Linux support is not currently planned.
Data is stored in our Supabase infrastructure with row-level security enforcing strict tenant isolation. There is no cross-tenant access — ever. Within your workspace, only authorized admins you invite can read the data.
WorkWitness staff do not access customer data unless you explicitly request support and grant temporary access. We are not running a data-harvesting business. Your data is not used to train models, not sold to advertisers, not shared with analytics partners.
This is the question founders ask most, and we take it seriously. WorkWitness comes with a rollout kit: a team email template, talking points for an all-hands or one-on-ones, and a one-pager you can share that explains what we capture and what we don't.
The shortest version: lead with why ("I want better data on how our days actually go so we can spend our time on the right things"), be clear about what's tracked, point at the visible status indicator, and answer questions in the open. The teams who roll WorkWitness out this way report dramatically less friction than the teams who try to do it quietly.
The capture mechanics are similar — that's table stakes for the category. The difference is architectural and philosophical.
Those tools default to stealth and treat employee awareness as a setting. WorkWitness defaults to visibility and ships zero stealth features. Those tools build deeper monitoring (keystroke logging, video recording, app blocking) as upsells. WorkWitness commits to the opposite: a narrower, more honest data model, intentionally. And the daily summary on email and WhatsApp means you don't have to log into a dashboard to do your job — the report comes to you.
It's really free today. WorkWitness is in early access, and during this period the entire product is free for every team that signs up. No credit card, no trial that converts to a charge, no quiet seat caps.
The honest part: pricing will arrive eventually. When it does, we'll keep a generous free tier for very small teams and charge a per-user monthly fee for everyone else. The free tier won't disappear, and you'll see any change announced well before it lands. We're betting that adoption-first is the right way to fix a category that's been broken on trust for a decade — and that means meeting you honestly about where we are.