How WorkWitness works: from quiet capture to a 7 am brief
A Windows agent records activity, a masking layer protects what is sensitive, AI reads the day, and one paragraph per teammate lands on your WhatsApp before the first standup. Four stages, no timers.
Most tools give you data. You still have to figure out what it means.
Traditional time tracking ends at the dashboard. It hands you bar charts, activity percentages, and rows of hours — then leaves the interpretation to you, usually at the end of a long day when you have the least energy for it. The work of turning data into a decision never goes away; it just lands on you.
WorkWitness is built as a pipeline, not a dashboard. Each stage exists to remove work from your plate: capture removes manual timers, masking protects privacy, the AI does the interpreting, and the brief delivers the conclusion.
What reaches you is not raw data to analyse — it is the analysis itself, in plain language, before the day begins.
Capture, mask, read, brief
Capture — the Windows agent records activity
Install the lightweight agent on each Windows machine. It records app and window names, time per app, and browser domain — passively, with no timer to start. Keystrokes, webcam, mic, and file contents are never touched.
Mask — sensitive strings are stripped
Before any log reaches the AI, a masking layer removes account numbers, names, and confidential strings. The model sees behaviour — which app, how long, what pattern — never the content of the work.
Read — AI detects the day's signals
Every evening the AI scans each teammate's day for the four signals: Focus Stretch, Context-Switch Storm, Quietly Stuck, and Heroic Grind. It works out not just what happened, but what it means for you.
Brief — one paragraph per person at 7 am
The AI writes a founder-readable paragraph per teammate and delivers it to WhatsApp before your first standup. You start the day knowing who shipped, who is stuck, and who carried the load.
Built for founders who want the conclusion, not the spreadsheet
Founders running 5–50 person teams
You cannot walk the floor anymore. The 7 am brief gives back the daily pulse you lost when the team grew or went remote.
Operations leads who killed the status meeting
The brief replaces the daily standup that only existed to find out what happened yesterday. Read it before the day starts.
Agencies billing client hours
Accurate hours assembled automatically, with billable separated from internal — ready when you invoice, no chasing.
Regulated and confidentiality-bound teams
Legal, finance, and healthcare teams run events-only mode and masked AI so client and patient detail never enters the system.
Activity becomes an accurate timesheet, with no timer to start
The foundation is passive capture. As your team works on Windows, the agent logs each app and how long it was active, assembling a timesheet on its own — accurate to the minute, with nothing for anyone to start, stop, or submit. Press play beside this to watch a real day fill itself.
The AI looks for four signals in every teammate's day
A timesheet tells you hours. The signal layer tells you meaning. The AI reads the shape of each day and names what it sees — a long uninterrupted block is a Focus Stretch, thirty-plus window hops is a Switch Storm, a stalled file is Quietly Stuck, a late night carrying the load is a Heroic Grind. Click a chip beside this to filter the team.
Everything arrives as one paragraph per teammate, on WhatsApp
The output is not a dashboard you have to log into and decode. It is a written brief, one paragraph per person, delivered to the app you already check at 7 am. Sara carried the release; Kabir is stuck; Yash had his cleanest focus day this week. You walk into your standup already knowing.
You control how the agent runs and what it captures — per person
Underpinning all of it is owner control. You set, per employee, whether the agent runs visible or silent and whether screenshots are captured. Screenshots are off by default. The controls beside this are live — click a toggle, switch a mode. Employees never see this screen.
Privacy and control are part of the pipeline, not a setting
Owner control, end to end
Every capture setting — agent mode, screenshots, browser detail — is yours to set per employee from one dashboard. Screenshots are off by default. Employees have no access to these controls. The capture level is your decision, never a default we imposed.
Masked AI and events-only mode
Sensitive strings are stripped before the AI sees them, so the model summarises behaviour, not content. Events-only mode goes further for legal, finance, and healthcare teams — app-level signals with no window titles or URLs at all.
DPDP-aligned, disclosure-first
WorkWitness is built with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act in mind. Silent mode is a legitimate owner choice and is available, but we recommend telling your team that recording is in place — disclosure beats concealment and is a legal requirement in many regions.
The honest scope — nothing oversold
We would rather you know the limits up front. Rows marked "never captured" are architectural decisions, and we do not pretend to do things — like payroll or GPS — that we do not.
Free to start. ₹65 per person above that.
All features. Unlimited history. DPDP-aligned.
How it works, what it captures, what it does not
Set it up today. The pipeline runs tonight. Your brief lands at 7 am.
Free for teams of three or fewer. ₹65 / $1 per person per month above that. No credit card to start.
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Your first daily brief lands tomorrow at 7am IST. Set it up yourself in five minutes, or walk through it live with us first — whichever you prefer.
Free during early access · No card required · 5-minute Windows install