Capture the work
Add the tasks, projects, meetings and recurring work that genuinely compete for your attention.
A calmer way to run a demanding working day
Become calmer, more prepared and more dependable.
WorkRunner decides what you should work on next, gives you one current task to focus on, and shows whether you're actually moving important work forward.
Spend less of your day deciding what to do. Spend more of it doing the work that matters.
Paid signup through Stripe. Every new customer is protected by a 90-day founder guarantee.
The real problem
You don't need another to-do list.
You need help deciding what deserves your attention.
When several legitimate things need doing, the hard part is not remembering that they exist. It is deciding which one should win now.
Every meeting, email and interruption can force you to make those decisions again. WorkRunner is designed to reduce that decision load so you can get back to the work itself.
- What should I work on first?
- What can wait?
- Which deadline matters most?
- Should I finish what I'm doing or deal with the thing that just arrived?
- What important work am I neglecting while I handle everything else?
One current task. One clear decision.
What should I work on now?
Give WorkRunner the tasks, deadlines and responsibilities competing for your attention. WorkRunner assesses them, decides what should come next, and gives you one current task to focus on.
Let WorkRunner decide
WorkRunner scores the work and surfaces the task that should receive your attention now.
Focus, finish, repeat
Work on one thing, complete it, then return to WorkRunner for the next decision.
The WorkRunner idea
Your workload stays complicated.
Your current decision does not have to be.
One current task at a timeProgress, not busyness
Completing more tasks does not necessarily mean you had a better day.
Ten small jobs can matter less than one difficult piece of important work.
WorkRunner does not simply reward activity. Its scoring system looks at how much the work you complete moves important work forward.
The aim is not to do more. It is to make the time you have count.
- Not the most tasks
- Not the longest hours
- Not the most emails answered
- Meaningful progress on the work that matters
And once meaningful progress becomes visible, improving it can become surprisingly motivating.
Can you beat yesterday? Not by working longer. By working better.
The question that matters
Progress
Did the work I did today actually matter?
WorkRunner turns task value and time into visible progress, rather than treating every ticked box as equal.
Feel the core benefit quickly
You should not have to wait months to know whether WorkRunner is useful.
The deeper benefit comes from changing how you manage a demanding workload, but the first useful result should come much sooner.
First session
Let WorkRunner choose.
Add enough current work for WorkRunner to choose what should come next, then let it tell you what to work on.
First week
Stop rebuilding the list in your head.
Return to WorkRunner when one task finishes, priorities compete or the day gets disrupted.
First month
See how you are actually working.
Begin seeing patterns in how you estimate work, use your time and move important priorities forward.
By 90 days
Know whether it has earned its place.
You should know whether WorkRunner has become a genuinely better way for you to manage your workload.
Built for people whose job is bigger than their task list
Too many important things are competing for one person's attention.
WorkRunner is designed for people who:
- have significant freedom over what they work on
- manage several projects or responsibilities at once
- receive frequent interruptions and unexpected work
- regularly have more legitimate work than available time
- often have to choose between several important things
You might be an Operations Director, Programme Manager, Project Director, Head of Department, senior manager or executive. Your title matters less than the situation.
What a better working day looks like
Productivity is not really the goal.
The goal is to become the person who:
- knows what matters
- keeps important work moving
- catches deadlines before they become emergencies
- handles interruptions without losing everything else
- spends less mental energy continually reprioritising
- finishes the day knowing the available time was used well
Calm. Prepared. Dependable.
That is the outcome WorkRunner is being built around.
What success looks like
WorkRunner should earn its place in your working day.
We are not interested in whether WorkRunner feels impressive for the first few days or whether you like ticking things off. What matters is whether it genuinely helps you work more effectively.
Do you spend less time deciding what to work on?
Does important work move forward?
How quickly do you notice a benefit?
Do you feel more in control of competing priorities?
Do you use the time available more effectively?
Do you keep using WorkRunner once the novelty wears off?
That's how we'll judge whether WorkRunner is working.
A useful side effect
WorkRunner already knows what you worked on.
Because WorkRunner tracks the work you start and the time you spend on it, it can also make project time, timesheets and activity records easier to reconstruct later.
Because nobody wants to spend Friday afternoon trying to remember what they were doing on Tuesday.
Simple pricing
One WorkRunner product. Three ways to pay.
Every plan gives you the full WorkRunner app and the 90-day founder guarantee.
Monthly
$24
per month
Best if you want to try WorkRunner properly month by month.
- Full WorkRunner app
- Tasks, projects, Race page, timer and reports
- 90-day founder guarantee
Best value
Yearly
$199
per year
Best if you want to make WorkRunner part of your normal working routine.
- Full WorkRunner app
- Saves over 30% compared with monthly
- 90-day founder guarantee
WorkRunner Advisory
$1,999
per year
An annual recurring WorkRunner subscription.
- Full WorkRunner paid access
- Annual recurring subscription
- 90-day founder guarantee
Give WorkRunner 90 days to prove itself.
A productivity system should not be judged on one unusually organised Tuesday.
WorkRunner works best when you add your real tasks and projects and use it during real working days. That takes a little time. If WorkRunner does not help you feel more in control of your working day, email us within 90 days of your first payment and we will refund you. We may ask what did not work so we can improve WorkRunner, but you do not need to argue your case.
Use it through real meetings, deadlines, interruptions and busy weeks. By 90 days, you should know whether it has earned its place.
Why I built WorkRunner
I did not need somewhere else to put my tasks.
I already had task lists.
I built WorkRunner because my work regularly gives me several legitimate things I could be doing at the same time, and I was tired of spending mental energy continually deciding which one deserved my attention.
WorkRunner started with one question:
Given everything I could be doing, what should I actually do now?
That is still the problem at the centre of the product.
Read the full storyA quick walkthrough of how WorkRunner works in a real working day.
Frequently asked questions
A few things worth knowing before you start.
No. WorkRunner contains tasks, but storing tasks is not the main point. The important part is helping you decide which work deserves your attention now.
The goal is for you to experience the core benefit during your first working session. Give WorkRunner enough information to choose what should come next, then let it tell you what to work on. The deeper benefits should develop as WorkRunner becomes part of your normal working routine.
No. WorkRunner is designed around effectiveness, not raw activity. Different tasks move your important work forward by different amounts, and WorkRunner's internal scoring reflects that. You should not need to understand the calculations. The important question is simpler: did the work I did today actually matter?
No. Start with the work that genuinely competes for your attention. You do not need to construct the perfect productivity system before WorkRunner can help.
WorkRunner is primarily designed for managers, directors and executives handling several competing projects, deadlines, responsibilities, meetings and interruptions. It becomes particularly useful when deciding what deserves your attention has itself become a significant part of the job.
No. Meetings overrun. People interrupt you. Systems break. Unexpected work appears. WorkRunner is not built around the fantasy of the perfectly controlled working day. It is designed to help you make better decisions when reality interferes with the plan.
Yes. Every new customer is protected by the 90-day founder guarantee. See the guarantee section above or read the full terms for the exact conditions.
There will always be more work than time.
The goal is not to do everything. It is to keep moving the work that matters forward.
Reduce the decisions that drain your day. Focus on the work that matters now. See whether you are actually making progress.
Become calmer. More prepared. More dependable.