Independent by design. Principles in public.
FairlyRemote™ is independent and self-funded. No outside investors setting the roadmap, no growth-at-all-costs mandate, no acquirer handing decisions to product committees. The principles below are what customers can hold us to.
A fairness problem nobody owns.
Most distributed teams have a “fairness” problem nobody owns: the same teammate keeps drawing the early call, the same office keeps flexing into evenings, the same person always covers the holiday rotation. Teams talk about rotating, promise to fix it, then open the spreadsheet and flinch, because flipping it inconveniences someone right now.
Spreadsheets don’t fix this. Slack reminders don’t fix it. Round-robin polls and booking links distribute the inconvenience randomly, which isn’t the same as fairly.
FairlyRemote’s answer is to make the off-hours cost visible and weight the next group decision against it. Every candidate time gets one label, Low / Modest / Neutral / Notable / High impact, rolled up from four dimensions (accommodation, flexibility, social, rest). Weighted voting (0.5× to 2×) gives heavier voices to members who’ve already taken the awkward calls. Same scheduling motion as before, with the imbalance pulled into view.
Some decisions are about what to refuse.
These are binding commitments customers can hold the company to.
No AI training on customer data
We don’t feed team calendars into any model, ours or a third party’s. If that ever changes it will be opt-in, transparent, and announced in the changelog before it ships. (Google’s policies for Calendar data customers have already chosen to store with them are theirs to publish; we treat that as a customer decision, not ours to renegotiate on a customer’s behalf.)
No keystroke or activity monitoring
We measure rotation fairness, not whether someone was “active” during a meeting. There is no productivity score in the product today; if that ever changed it would be announced in the changelog before it shipped.
Your connected calendars stay yours
When customers connect Google Calendar (Team and above), we store an OAuth token to read and write the events they’ve authorised, not a copy of the calendar. Revoke access in one click; we drop the token immediately.
No fake urgency or fake reviews
No fabricated countdowns, no invented testimonials, no purchased reviews. Real customers, real names, or no quote.
No dark-pattern cancellation
Cancel from the account in one click. The confirmation email is a confirmation, not a guilt trip.
No vendor lock-in
JSON export of everything customers put in, including fairness history, boards, and members, at any time.
Change of ownership: 90 days’ notice, data stays exportable
We’re not promising never to sell. Circumstances change, and a brittle promise is worse than an honest one. The commitment that is binding is in the Terms (§16): 90-day advance notice before any change to data handling, and JSON export stays available throughout the window. We’d only hand the product to a buyer willing to defend the principles on this page.
Independent, self-funded, and honest about the trade-off.
No outside investment pulling the roadmap toward growth-at-all-costs, no acquirer roadmap, and no sales quota that overrides the “won’t build” list. The honest trade-off: support runs on working hours rather than 24/7 coverage.
If a customer needs 99.99% support availability today, they probably need a larger vendor, and we’d rather say so than oversell.
Built for a specific job, honest about the rest.
- Ops and people leads at 6 to 80 person remote-first teams who’ve watched the same teammate repeatedly draw the awkward-timezone slot.
- Engineering managers running standups, retros, and recurring meetings across 3+ timezones where the same person keeps drawing the short straw.
- Founders and chiefs of staff who want a defensible answer the next time someone asks “is this actually fair?”
- Solo consultants. An external-booking tool is a better fit.
- Co-located teams. No real fairness problem yet.
- 200+ person enterprises that need 24/7 vendor coverage we don’t offer. (Smaller enterprise teams of 25 to 200 seats are a fit; talk to us.)
What FairlyRemote does, and doesn’t, claim.
The single source of truth. The fairness-scoring, sleep-aware, and people-ops pages all defer to this rather than repeat it.
The detail is in the Terms, Privacy Policy, and the per-claim posture log we maintain internally.
How to reach us
FairlyRemote™ is a service of Meourobo Labs Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company no. 17277317), registered office 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.
For everything (support, sales and Enterprise enquiries, and privacy or data requests), email contact@fairlyremote.com. We read every message, usually within a working day.
For evidence the product is alive, read the public changelog.
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