Notice the imbalance before you feel it.
Effort and recovery drift out of balance long before burnout shows up. Ambera makes that balance visible — for the energy you spend day to day, and for the work your team takes on. Pick where you want to start.
For you
Ambera
A debt tracker for your energy. Log what spends and restores you, and watch the running balance — so you can adjust while it’s still yours to adjust.
- Today’s net & 7-day balance
- The cumulative debt forecast
- A nudge when you drift
For teams
Ambera Forge
Capacity-honest effort estimation. Story points sized to the engineer doing the work, a QA reserve, and over-commitment flagged before it costs you the sprint.
- Per-person velocity
- A sprint QA reserve
- Privacy membrane — energy stays yours
The founding story
Every company I worked at ran on the same quiet assumption — that a good engineer can always give a little more. There’s always one more sprint, one more launch, one more thing only you can ship. And the people who keep answering that call, the ones who care most about the work, are usually the ones who pay for it.
I was one of them. I pushed hard everywhere I went, because the work mattered and because that’s what good engineers do. And every time, the same thing happened — the fire went out before I noticed it was burning low. Not because anyone was careless, but because nothing was keeping score. My output was tracked to the hour; what it cost me was tracked by no one.
That’s the part that stayed with me. The burnout was never the surprise. The surprise was that it arrived in silence — by the time I could feel it, the debt had been building for weeks. Feeling it was the last step, not the first.
An ember is heat held steady. A flame burns bright and consumes its fuel — the engineer who ships hard for eighteen months and then can’t open their laptop. A cold coal is the other way to lose the fire. Staying at ember temperature is a deliberate act, and it takes an instrument to do it.
Ambera is the instrument I wish I’d had — the one I wish every one of those companies had put in my hands. A thermostat for effort, not a thermometer for mood.
— Maki, founder