Thoughtful software
for experiences worth remembering.
We make carefully designed tools for exploring the real world, preserving personal history, and using technology without letting it take over the experience.
Our first release is Fourteeners Journal, a private field journal for Colorado’s 14ers.
Explore Fourteeners Journal →Fourteeners Journal
A digital field journal for Colorado’s 14ers.
Record the mountains you’ve climbed, the attempts that became stories of their own, and the details you’ll want to remember years from now.
Add photographs, notes, historical climbs, repeat ascents, compatible Apple Health hike data, and progress across all 58 peaks.
No followers. No public rankings. No social feed.
Just your mountains, your memories, and your history.
Explore Fourteeners Journal →The software is not meant to become the experience.
It should help you prepare for it, preserve it, understand it—and then get out of the way.
Experience first
The screen should support the thing you actually came to do.
Our products are designed around real places, real activities, and personal history rather than endless engagement.
We are not interested in making software that succeeds by keeping you inside it.
Private by default
Not every experience needs an audience.
Personal history can remain personal.
We favor products that let people preserve meaningful information without requiring them to turn it into public content, build a following, or participate in a social feed.
Sharing should be intentional.
Built to last
The things worth remembering usually become more valuable with time.
We design around durable personal archives rather than disposable streams of content.
A good journal should be more interesting after ten years than after ten minutes.
Carefully made
We care about the details.
Typography. Information hierarchy. The feel of an interface.
Whether a button belongs where it is.
Whether the software tells the truth about what it can and cannot do.
Whether a feature actually improves the experience before we add it.
Good software should feel considered.
Software should send you back into the world.
A mountain climbed.
A road traveled.
A place revisited decades later.
A story reconstructed from an old photograph.
More is taking shape in the workshop.
Oberon Works began with mountains, but the idea is larger than a single app.
There are other experiences worth preserving. Other places worth remembering. Other ways technology can help without becoming the center of attention.
We’re working on them.
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