About
A tool for one question, asked constantly.
Knode exists because “who’s around on Thursday?” is a question teams ask every single day, and almost nobody has a good place to look for the answer.
Where it came from
Every team we’ve worked on has solved availability the same way: a spreadsheet somebody made, a Slack channel where people announce things, and a lot of asking around. The spreadsheet goes stale within a fortnight. The Slack messages scroll away. The asking around never stops.
None of that is anyone’s fault. The information genuinely exists — every person on the team knows their own week perfectly well. The problem is that it lives in six places and none of them is the one you check when you actually need it.
Knode is the place you check.
What it does
You mark your days. Your team sees them. When someone needs to staff a project, they pick the dates and Knode says who can take it.
That’s the whole product. There is a calendar, a summary, a Slack connection and a screen called Who’s available that answers the question in the title. Everything else we’ve been tempted to build, we’ve left out.
What it deliberately isn’t
Knode is not an HR system. It won’t approve your leave, hold your contract, run payroll or store anything a manager shouldn’t be reading. Your HR software already does that job and does it properly.
It’s also not a time tracker. Knode records that you’re working from home on Thursday. It does not record when you started, when you stopped, or what you did. There is no productivity score and there never will be one — a tool people feel monitored by is a tool people stop updating, and a stale availability view is worse than none.
The line we hold: your HR system manages leave. Slack manages conversations. Knode helps you plan the work.
Who it’s for
- Project managers and team leads staffing work across a group of people, who need to know who’s free before they promise anything.
- Hybrid and remote teams where “is she in today?” is a real question with a real cost.
- Agencies juggling several clients at once, where the same designer can’t be on three projects in the same week.
- Everyone else on the team, who would like to say where they’ll be once and not be asked again.
How it works, technically
Knode is a web application — nothing to install, nothing to update. Open it in a browser and sign in. If you connect Slack, availability can move between your conversations and Knode in both directions, so people can carry on saying “wfh tomorrow” the way they always have.
Each workspace holds its own team’s data. Members see the workspace they belong to and nothing else.
What it costs
Nothing. Knode is free for teams — no card, no trial clock, no seat you have to justify to someone. If that changes, it will change for new workspaces first and we’ll say so clearly and in advance.
Who’s behind it
Knode is designed and built by one person. It started as an internal tool for a design team that was tired of the spreadsheet, and it’s still shaped by the way that team actually works rather than by a feature list.
Creator of Knode
Sudhanshu Kadu
Designer, based in Mumbai. Built Knode after one too many rounds of “who’s free on Thursday?” — and kept it deliberately small ever since.
Talk to us
Missing something, found something broken, or want to know whether Knode fits the way your team runs? Get in touch — we read everything.