Launchbench

What we're building

Three more tools are in development. They are listed here because we would rather tell you what is coming than pretend the shop is fuller than it is.

None of them is available yet, and none has a date we are confident enough to print. Odo is the one you can actually get.

Web · in development

Coaching and review, built for para ice hockey

Analyse a game, build and review a library of drills against what it showed, and layer classroom sessions on top of both — so what the coach saw on Saturday becomes something the squad can actually work through together.

Para ice hockey is usually served by tools built for the stand-up game and adapted afterwards, which shows in every part of them that assumes a player on two feet. This one starts from the sled.

Intended as a paid service for clubs and programmes.

Web · for photographers · in development

A photobook tool for photographers

Most photobook software is a shop with an editor attached. The layout tools exist to sell you a print run, the output is locked to their presses, and the file is never yours. That is a poor deal for anyone, and an impossible one for somebody producing a book to sell.

This is the editor on its own. Lay out a book that shows the work as you want it seen, and export it to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing's specifications — trim size, bleed and cover wrap handled to spec rather than left for you to work out at two in the morning. A finished book can go up as a print-on-demand title and start selling without you paying for a print run first, or carrying boxes of unsold copies.

Nothing is locked to that. The output is a file built to a standard, so it can be built to whatever another printer asks for instead — a portfolio, a product for a client, or a book you sell yourself. We do not print anything and have no interest in owning that part.

Intended to be bought once, or subscribed to.

Web, iOS and Android · in development

A CRM with the day's work built into it

Most CRMs make you bolt on a separate tool to actually get anything done. Most tools for getting things done have no idea who your people are. So the records live in one system, the work lives in another, and nobody updates both.

This is both: a real CRM, and a low-friction way for a team to do its work, in one place.

Your people and your pipeline

Contacts and companies with custom fields set per organisation, so the same system fits a sales team's leads, a charity's participants, its donors and its funders. Pipelines with configurable stages, values and close dates, a timelined log of every call, email, note and meeting, and lists, tags and segments to slice it however you work.

The work itself

Kanban boards with list, calendar and Gantt views, task dependencies, and sharing that is private by default. My Tasks gathers everything assigned to you across every board; an attention centre surfaces what is overdue, due soon, or waiting on your approval.

Running the organisation

Import your structure from a spreadsheet, with column mapping and a formula tool, view it as a chart and roll a change back if it was wrong. Roles from owner down to member with per-record and per-board access, invites and join codes, a lightweight directory with per-field privacy, and theming so the app looks like your organisation rather than ours.

Sensitive records, taken seriously from the start

Charities hold information about people that a sales CRM was never designed to carry — including health data. That was a design constraint from the first day rather than a setting added later.

Everyone gets a personal workspace and can belong to any number of organisations. Web, iOS and Android, from one codebase.

Tools this capable do exist. They are priced for organisations with a budget line for software, which is not most charities, non-profits or small businesses — so the real choice has been one expensive system, or five cheap ones that do not talk to each other. This is meant to be neither: powerful, priced to be worth it, and quiet enough that the time goes on the work rather than on the admin around it.

Intended as a paid service.