Anchor Labs — an independent software studio
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Anchor Labs builds products that take on our toughest personal challenges — the ones willpower alone doesn't fix. We design the environment so the right thing becomes the easy thing.
The studio
Built where willpower fails.
Problem-first
Every product starts as a problem we couldn't stop living with. If it doesn't change how a day actually goes, it doesn't ship.
Design over discipline
Willpower is a bad dependency. We engineer the environment instead — tools that make the right choice the easy one at 6 AM, or on payday.
Small by design
A focused studio means founder-level attention on every detail, and products that go from idea to market in months — not years.
AnchorMorning
Wake on time. Stay off your phone.
An alarm built on Apple's AlarmKit that survives Silent Mode and force-quit. The only way to dismiss it is scanning a barcode or NFC tag in another room — and once you're up, it blocks the apps that pull you back into bed.
Uncancelable alarm
Built on AlarmKit, it rings through Silent Mode, Focus, and force-quit. The snooze button never wins again.
Scan to dismiss
Silence it only by scanning a barcode, QR code, or NFC tag you placed across the house. You're up now.
Blocks apps on wake
Distracting apps lock automatically when the alarm fires, so your first hour belongs to you — not your feed.
Honest escape hatch
Three emergency overrides a month, for real emergencies. Enough for life, too few to cheat.
EarnwiseHQ
Finally, your commissions make sense.
A personal earnings cockpit for commission-based salespeople. Track after-tax take-home, draw balances, and payouts across any comp structure — and stop wondering whether payroll got it right.
Earnings cockpit
See your real after-tax take-home and monthly projections at a glance, not after an evening of spreadsheet math.
“Did they pay me right?”
Reconcile commission statements against your own records and catch discrepancies before they cost you.
Any comp structure
Draws, OTE, base plus commission, accelerators — model how you're actually paid, in plain language.
Scenario Lab
Stress-test your income: what happens if a deal slips a quarter, or you blow past quota in November?
Partner with us
Have an idea that won't leave you alone?
That's how every Anchor Labs product started. We partner with founders and teams to take products from napkin sketch to shipped — the same strategy, design, and engineering we put behind our own.
About
Built by one stubborn founder.
I'm Brady Davis, founder of Anchor Labs. I build software around problems I couldn't stop thinking about — an alarm clock, because the snooze button was winning every morning, and a commission tracker, because a paycheck shouldn't require a forensic accountant to verify.
Anchor Labs is small on purpose. Every product gets obsessive attention to the details that actually change your day.
Brady DavisFounder, Anchor Labs
Say hello.
Questions, ideas, or feedback on a product? The inbox is open — and unlike our alarm, replying doesn't require scanning anything.