Fair work time,
agreed by everyone.

Nothing anyone types is ever recorded: no keystrokes, passwords or messages. Screenshots are the owner's choice and can be turned off; when they're on, they're only taken while someone works at the computer, chats and password managers are always made unreadable in them, and everyone sees their own and can delete a few as personal.

Each minute of work gets its project from, in order: the person's own change on their timesheet, approved time away with a project, the project picked in the desktop app, or a company rule (an app or website that counts for a project). Most of the week fills in by itself; the rest takes a few clicks.

Common ones don't count. Only a person's own input counts: a key, a click, a scroll, a touch, or a hand moving the mouse. The app tells a hand's movement from a machine's on the computer (a hand speeds up and slows down, and never moves the same way twice; a USB mouse-mover or a mouse on a turntable moves evenly, repeats itself, or keeps a fixed beat), without keeping where the pointer was. Input a program makes, such as a mouse-mover app, an auto-clicker or a script pressing keys, is marked by the computer (Windows or macOS) and doesn't count either. Pointer movement alone counts for at most 15 minutes after the last key, click or scroll. That time is Inactive, like an untouched computer; when it clearly came from a machine or from the pointer alone, the person's day says why. If it was real work, the person says so and their manager decides. No software on the computer can catch every gadget: one built to press real keys at random times can still pass.

When someone hands work to a known AI agent program (like Claude Code or Codex) and pauses, part of the pause counts as work while the agent keeps working: 20 minutes by default, at most 2 hours a day, only if the agent was working when the pause began. It never counts on breaks or in meetings, never earns a piece of the Kudos star, and shows as "AI agent working" on every report.

No. We see which AI tool was used and for how long, by app and website name only. Never prompts, answers, files or command lines.

Everyone sees all of their own data. Managers see their own team; the owner sees the whole company. Money (rates, amounts, seat costs) is only for the owner and managers. Nobody is ranked by AI use.

No. Kudos gives each work day a star made of five good habits: starting on time, focus, a break, a full day, and ending the day yourself. Only wins (a full star or a new sticker) are shared with the team, who can cheer them with one-tap kudos; missing pieces, hours and apps never show in Kudos. A weekly board is only for people who choose to join it, and nobody on it sees who is last. Stars decide nothing about anyone, and the owner can turn Kudos off.

The desktop app runs on Windows 10 and 11, and on Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or newer, on company or personal computers. The dashboard works in any browser, on phones and tablets too.

The app keeps its records on the computer and sends them when it's back online; nothing is lost. If a week was already approved, it's marked "changed after approval" so a manager can reopen it.

It's built the way these laws ask: a plain notice everyone reads and agrees to before anything is recorded, only what work needs, everyone seeing all of their own data, and a way to ask for corrections. Your company chooses how long data is kept. You're still responsible for using it lawfully where your people work, so please check with your adviser; our privacy policy explains our part.

A few minutes: create your company, invite people by email, and they install the desktop app (Windows or Mac) and press Start Work. Projects, rules and approvals are optional and can be added any time.

WorKudos is made and run by Maurya Patel, in India, as an individual (not a company yet). Write to support@workudos.com for help with the app, privacy@workudos.com about privacy, and hello@workudos.com about anything else. A person reads every email and answers within 24 hours.