deeper checklist logic
Tasks that unlock other tasks, so a laptop request only opens after the offer is signed, and role-based branches inside one template.
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About Clipboard
a task without an owner and a due date is a wish.
Clipboard exists because most people-ops work fails in the handoff: the handbook nobody chased, the leave request that sat in an inbox, the unhappy team nobody measured. We build one thing: the checklist that makes the next action impossible to miss.
One owner per taskA due date on every lineDone is binarySignatures timestamped in UTCSurveys stay anonymousBalances accrue themselves
§ 01 — The problem
hr work leaks in the gaps between tools.
Observed pattern: three systems, zero shared record.
A new hire’s first week touches an offer letter in one tool, a W-4 in another, a laptop request in a ticket queue and a leave policy in a spreadsheet. Each step has a person who assumes someone else is chasing it.
The same pattern repeats for time off, where approvals wait in an inbox and balances are recalculated by hand, and for engagement, where the first signal is a resignation. Clipboard was built to replace that relay with a single record per employee and a checklist that names who acts next.
before
- Paperwork scattered across email threads
- Leave balances kept in a spreadsheet
- Overtime found after payroll closes
- Team sentiment learned at the exit interview
with clipboard
- Every task has an owner and a due date
- Accrual runs by policy, balances stay current
- Overtime flagged at your threshold
- Anonymous pulse trends, week over week
§ 02 — Design rules
five rules every feature has to pass.
If a proposed feature breaks one of these, it does not ship. They are the reason the product looks plain.
01
every task has one owner
Shared responsibility is how tasks stall. A checklist line holds exactly one assignee, with a fallback only for approvals.
rule: assignee count = 1
02
done is binary
No “in progress at 60%” on a single line. A task is open or closed, so a progress bar means what it says.
rule: states = open | done
03
one record per person
A signed handbook, an approved day off and a flagged timesheet write to the same employee profile. Nobody reconciles two systems.
rule: single source of record
04
anonymous means untraceable
Pulse results for groups under five people are suppressed by default, so a small team cannot be reverse-engineered from a chart.
rule: minimum group size = 5
05
pricing follows headcount
You pay per year by how many people you employ, not per feature unlocked or per seat added mid-quarter.
rule: one annual price per planChecklistsLeaveTimesheetsPulseSlackGoogle CalendarZoomNotion
§ 03 — Build & support
boring on purpose, reliable by design.
HR data is not the place for novelty. Clipboard keeps its surface small, records every signature with a UTC audit timestamp, and treats a sync failure as a visible state instead of a silent one.
support reads the same docs you do
Questions go to contact@clipboardstudios.com and are answered against written documentation, so the answer you get is one anyone else could look up.
changes are logged, not announced
Every release lands in the changelog with what changed and what it affects. Policy-related changes call out whether existing balances move.
build notes · v4 workspace
signaturese-signed, UTC audit timestamp, attached to the record on signing
templatesversioned; a new version never rewrites a finished checklist
accrualby policy or tenure, with cap and carryover, recalculated automatically
approvalsapprover chain with a fallback, written back to calendar and chat status
surveysanonymous; groups under 5 suppressed
syncstate shown on screen: “Synced 2m ago” or a visible warning
§ 04 — Direction
where the checklist goes next.
Direction, not promises with dates. Each item extends the existing record instead of adding a new silo.
more away-state readers
Approved leave already reaches Google Calendar and Slack. The same signal should reach the rest of the tools a team routes work through.
in designearlier warnings
Sharper alerts when a team’s pulse trend and overtime hours decline together, with the underlying numbers shown beside the alert.
exploringPlans start at $59 per year and cover everything shipped today.
§ 05 — Begin
give every task an owner by friday.
Pick the plan that matches your headcount: $59, $249 or $400 per year, billed annually.