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Honest Clock
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For everyone who says "two hours, tops"

Your guess, corrected by your own history.

Honest Clock times what you really do, learns how far off you run, and turns every guess into an honest deadline.

Writing
"Write the grant update"
Your guess
2h
Honest time
3h 36m
From your last 14 writing tasks, you take 1.8× what you guess.
"It'll take two hours."It took the whole afternoon, again. Everyone underestimates. Your own history knows by how much.
2.4×a typical coding factor. Writing 1.8×. Admin 0.9×.
0new habits. Guess, press start, press stop.
+31%more deadlines met after 4 weeks in beta.

The +31% is a target for the beta, shown here as a sample figure.

Setup · 1 of 2

What kinds of work do you guess?

Sample: 6 weeks of timer logs

72 tasks with an estimate and an actual time, exported as CSV from a time tracker. In the real app you can also start fresh: it gets useful after about 5 tasks per type.

Setup · 2 of 2

Reading your misses

    Wednesday 7 October

    Guess. Start. Stop.

    1h
    Your guess1h
    Honest time2h 24m

    READY
    00:00:00
    Grey mark: your guess. Coral mark: honest time.
    grey line: guesscoral line: honest

    Log a task you already finished

    Today

    Your multipliers

    How long things really take you

    Learned from your own timed tasks, recent ones count more. The line marks 1.0×, a perfect guess. Tap a type.

    Guess vs actual

    Each dot is one task. Dots above the dashed line took longer than you guessed.

    Factor over 6 weeks

    What the clock noticed

    Deadline check

    Will you make it?

    6h
    Your guess6h
    Honest time14h 24m
    Start by Thursday 10:00

    Tomorrow, with buffer

    Week 41 · calibration

    How honest were your guesses?

    71
    Up 6 from last week

    100 means every guess matched reality. It measures your raw guesses, so it rises as you learn, not just as the app corrects you.

    Raw guesses vs Honest Clock

    Streak and badges

    9 days in a row with at least one timed task.

    Team mode · Studio Kettle

    Plan the sprint in honest hours

    Each person shares only their multipliers, never their logs. Darker means a bigger gap between guess and reality.

    Sprint 22 · two weeks

    Guessed total · Honest total

    Where this goes

    End the planning fallacy, one person at a time.

    Everyone underestimates. Psychologists named it the planning fallacy decades ago, and every planner since has trusted the guess anyway. Honest Clock makes your own history the correction.

    Year 1
    The personal factor. Multipliers per task type, a timer, honest deadlines and a buffered calendar. Works for one freelancer on day one.
    Year 2
    Honest everywhere. Plug-ins for calendars and task tools: every due date you type shows its honest twin. Team sprints planned in honest hours.
    Year 3
    A calibration layer for work. Anonymous benchmarks ("people writing a grant report take 2.1×"), quotes for freelancers that stop underpricing, and AI agents that plan your week with your real speed.
    North star

    Share of deadlines users actually hit. Today most people hit about half. Target: 85%.