In 2024, we looked at our own days. Fifteen tabs open. Six abandoned tracking tools. A spreadsheet we updated on Sunday nights, when we remembered. Timers started in a panic before a meeting, forgotten for three days, found by accident. Invoices sent late, with numbers that no longer matched what we'd actually done.
It wasn't a discipline problem. It was a tools problem. The software we used asked us to think like it did — in 15-minute blocks, in project codes, in weekly reports formatted for managers we didn't have. It asked us to be accountants in the morning, freelancers in the afternoon, and our own surveillants at night.
We built Sablio because we wanted to work differently. Less, not more. With tools that respect us instead of watching us.
"Software that measures your time should make you freer, not turn you into a justification machine."
Time is not a resource.
It's a life. When you log three hours on a project, you're logging three hours of your life. We refuse to treat those hours as spreadsheet rows. Every time block in Sablio carries context: what you did, for whom, with what intent. Because after the fact, only context matters.
Surveillance is not management.
Software that takes screenshots, counts keystrokes, alerts your boss when you take a break — that is not a work tool. That is a mistrust tool. Sablio won't do that, and won't do it even if a bigger client than us asks. That's why our workshop journal — the small memory that reminds you of forgotten grains — always stays on your machine: nothing leaves, 14-day purge, one-click off.
Simplicity is political.
In a world where every app wants to become a platform, where every feature spawns three more, staying simple is discipline. We refuse features that make the app more impressive on a marketing page but heavier to use. Fewer well-chosen options. More air around them.
Respect lives in the details.
The type that doesn't tire your eyes at 10 p.m. The invoice that exports cleanly without you cleaning up the PDF. The "delete everything" button that actually works. The emails we don't send you. The honest price, no renewal trap. Respect isn't a displayed value; it's a sum of daily choices.
What we promise you.
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You keep your data. Always. We export it, delete it, never sell it.
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We stay hosted in Québec. Not "in North America." In Québec.
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We'd rather lose a client than lose our posture.
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If we ever sell to a large company that changes these rules, we'll say so first — and refund you.
Thanks for reading. And thanks for choosing an unhurried tool.
If this speaks to you, come work with us.
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