The debt tracker that’s been missing.
The only way to work long-term is to stay in balance. Push past it and effectiveness, mood, and health start sliding together — usually before you notice. Ambera makes the balance visible, while it’s still yours to adjust.
This week
-5signed points
Recent activity
- Deep work — payments migration
- Walk after lunch
- 1:1 with managercalendar
Built on three things we won’t compromise.
Debt, not mood.
Feelings are lagging indicators. The ledger surfaces the underlying balance — what you’ve spent vs. what you’ve recovered — so the drift shows up weeks before the crash.
The ember, not the flame.
An ember is heat that’s sustained. We design for the practice of staying there — no streaks, no XP, no pressure notifications. If a feature would make you feel watched, it doesn’t ship.
You decide what it means.
Ambera reports patterns; it doesn’t prescribe. “Your week is leaning depletive” — never “you should rest.” The interpretation stays yours.
How it works
One primitive. Three quiet rituals.
01 · Log
Book what shaped your day.
A meeting, a walk, a hard conversation, eight hours of sleep. Mark whether it spent or restored energy, and give it a 1–5 intensity. Two taps.
02 · See the balance
Today, this week, the trend.
Your net for today. Your rolling week. A cumulative line that shows whether the trajectory is recovering or sinking. The math lives in one place; every screen pulls from it.
03 · Catch the drift
A nudge when the line starts leaning.
When the week tilts depletive and the trajectory keeps sloping down, Ambera surfaces it on Patterns — and a single quiet notification meets you where you are. Never to prescribe. Just to make the drift visible while it’s still cheap to correct.
Ambera
now
Your week is leaning depletive — log anything that shaped today.
Integrations
Bring the rest of your week with you.
A meeting, a workout, a sprint week — Ambera proposes the activity, you confirm or override. Never silent inference. Google Calendar is live today; the rest is shaped by the supporters who get there first.
Google Calendar
LiveSynchronize your meetings and events into the ledger automatically.
Outlook & Office 365
PlannedMap work meetings into the ledger without copy-paste.
Apple Health
PlannedWorkouts, sleep, mindful minutes — booked as recoveries.
Linear
PlannedSee the weight of a sprint week against your real balance.
Jira
PlannedSame idea for teams already living in Atlassian.
What lands next is what you ask for. Become an early supporter →
Pricing
The core loop is free, forever.
Gating the ledger would betray the tone the whole product is built on. Early supporters fund the work, get into the room, and lock in their price for as long as Ambera exists.
Free
A real product, not a trial.
- Manual logging
- Today + 7-day balance
- Cumulative trend chart
- Daily notification when your trend is decreasing
- Imbalance nudge when the week drifts
Early Supporter
Shape the product while it’s still being built.
- Private Discord — talk to the founder, vote on the roadmap
- Multi-calendar sync — Google, Apple, Outlook into one ledger
- First access to AI guidance — the future “what can I do about this?”
- Lifetime supporter pricing — your rate never goes up
Why I’m building this
I was a good developer at company after company, pushing hard each time, and burning out repeatedly without seeing it coming. There wasn’t any tool to warn me — and yet the debt kept quietly building, week after week.
An ember is heat that is sustained. A flame burns bright and consumes its fuel. A dead coal is the other failure mode. Ambera is the instrument I wish I’d had — a thermostat for effort, not a thermometer for mood.
— Maki, founder
Watch your balance, before you feel it.
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