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software the size of the problem

Small teams keep getting sold big suites. We build software that does one job completely, and charges like it.

AttendFirst tracks attendance and leave for Indian teams. Meridian is a Git client for the Mac. Neither does anything else, on purpose.

what we run

why we exist

Most business software is sold by the module.

The software offered to a twenty-person company was designed for a two-thousand-person company, and it arrives with the price tag and the setup time to match. You buy an HR suite to sort out attendance. You buy an ERP to sort out stock. Most of it never gets opened, and the part you actually needed sits three menus deep behind the parts you didn't.

We build the other thing: one job, finished properly, at a price that makes sense for a business with ten people on the payroll.

products

01 / attendance and leavelive

attendfirst

Staff mark attendance from their own phone. GPS confirms the location, a selfie confirms the person, a QR code confirms the gate.

Free for teams up to 5 people
Runs in a browser with nothing to install
Replaces the paper register and the biometric machine

see how it works

02 / git client for the maclive

meridian

A native Git client for the Mac. Type mrd in any repository and it opens in under a second, rendering Markdown, images and data as documents instead of walls of red and green.

One payment, not a subscription
Opens from the terminal, one window per worktree
Renders prose, images, CSV and JSON old beside new

see how it works

03 / next

The next product starts as someone's problem.

We choose what to build from problems people send us, not from a market report. If a job in your business runs on a spreadsheet and a WhatsApp group, tell us how it works today.

how we build

  1. 01

    one job, finished

    AttendFirst does attendance and leave. Meridian gets you from reading a change to committing it. Deciding what a product shouldn't do is most of the work. It's what keeps each one simple enough to learn in a morning.

  2. 02

    nothing to install around it

    No biometric reader, no card printer, no server in a cupboard, no service to wire up first. If it doesn't run on the phone already in someone's pocket or the Mac already on their desk, we haven't finished.

  3. 03

    priced against the thing it sits next to

    A ten-person business shouldn't pay enterprise per-seat rates, and nobody should rent a desktop app forever. AttendFirst is free up to five people and ₹499 per person per year after that. Meridian is bought once.

  4. 04

    built for the case everyone else calls an edge

    Rotating shifts. Contract staff. Sites with no desks. A worktree an agent made two minutes ago. A README where a paragraph moved, not a line. Most software treats these as exceptions; ours start there.

Have a problem this size?

If the software you've been quoted is three times bigger than the thing you need fixed, we'd like to hear about it. It's how we choose what to build next.

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