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CASE FILE · PRODUCT · WEB + MOBILE · 2026

Zen

a work tracker that doesn't care how many hours you sat there. it tracks what KIND of value you added — owned it, supported it, showed up — and pays you on that. your private life-tokens stay yours; no admin query can reach them.

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Zen is a value-based work tracker, built web-first with a mobile app alongside it. Instead of counting hours, it classifies work into tokens — own, support, assist, attend — and derives internal pay from the mix, so owning an outcome is worth more than being present for one. Life tokens are private to the person by design: admin queries cannot reach them, enforced at the data layer rather than hidden in the UI. Weekly reviews score a period against fixed thresholds, and the grading is deliberately AI-free: the model supplies raw sub-scores and prose, but the blending and banding happen in plain code, so the same week always scores the same and the rubric is tunable without touching prompts. Next.js 16, React 19, Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Storage). The same platform also carries Zemenay's recruitment automation.

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