Why I built Chronos
Chronos started as a simple tracker I built during my Bachelor of Software Engineering at UC. At the time I was working a full-time job — both day and night shifts, up to 60 hours a week just at work — while studying full time. I was missing deadlines. I had tried Motion briefly but even working those hours the cost wasn't sustainable, and nothing else came close for actually scheduling tasks around a calendar automatically.
So I built a single place to organise my university subjects, units, and side projects. It was nothing fancy — just something that worked for me. The longer I used it, the more it grew. By the time I finished my degree, it had become a real product. I decided to release it.
Where I come from
Working in extremely bloated, inefficient workplaces previously has given me insight into how things could be done better, specifically where a lot of waste was. I have seen what happens when coordination overhead swallows the actual work. Every meeting that could have been a message, every status update that could have been automated, every "quick check-in" that fractured a two-hour focus block — I have lived all of it. I find it a wasteful use of time, and it doesn't have to be.
What I think AI scheduling got wrong
The AI scheduling tools that emerged from 2022 to 2025 were genuinely impressive — for a while. Then something shifted. Motion rebranded from "AI-powered calendar" to "AI Employee SuperApp" and went all-in on team workflows. Reclaim was acquired by Dropbox for $40.2M and its roadmap quietly stalled. Sunsama went premium and doubled down on knowledge workers at large organisations.
Every major player drifted toward the enterprise. They forgot the individual working their ass off just to make it work — the freelancer managing 5 clients from a single laptop, the busy parent who has 45 minutes between school drop-off and the first call, the struggling student juggling a part-time job and 3 assignment deadlines.
I call this the Solo Squeeze: the systematic exit of solo-use AI scheduling tools from the market between 2022 and 2026. The tools that existed for individuals either priced them out, pivoted upmarket, or stagnated post-acquisition. That left a gap I intend to fill.
Chronos is built for the individual first. No team-booking upsells, no enterprise dashboards, no AI employee framing. Just AI that quietly handles the scheduling so you can focus on the work.
About Byte Size Labs
Byte Size Labs is the company I created once Chronos had grown into something real — I needed a proper home for it. It's based in Canberra, Australia. The name is a nod to building things incrementally — shipping something small and useful, then making it better. I started it about 18 months ago and we are now just days from launching.
The name
Chronos is the Greek personification of time. It felt right — the whole product is about taking control of your time, not just tracking it. It's also short, easy to say, and easy to remember. I didn't want something that sounded like every other productivity SaaS.
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