Independent by design. Principles in public.
FairlyRemote® is independent and self-funded. No outside investors setting the roadmap. Below: why we built it, the choices we’ve made, and who it’s for.
A fairness problem nobody owns.
Most distributed teams have a “fairness” problem nobody owns: the same teammate keeps getting 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, from whether it falls in someone’s sleep hours or evening, who has taken early or late meetings lately, and when people like to meet. Same scheduling motion as before, with the imbalance pulled into view.
Some decisions are about what to refuse.
How we run FairlyRemote today. The Terms and privacy policy are the documents that apply.
No AI training on customer data
We don’t use your calendars or team data to train AI models. Meeting times are ranked by a formula, not a machine-learning model.
No keystroke or activity monitoring
FairlyRemote looks at when meetings fall, not whether someone was “active”. It doesn’t track activity, keyboards or screens, and it gives no productivity score.
Your connected calendars stay yours
Connecting a calendar (Solo and above) stores the connection encrypted, and we use each event’s time and title to find conflicts. Disconnecting deletes the stored connection, and you can also remove access in your Google or Microsoft account settings. What we store →
No fake urgency or fake reviews
No countdown timers, invented testimonials or bought reviews.
No hard-to-find cancellation
You can cancel your plan from your account. How cancellation and refunds work is set out in the Terms.
You can take your data
A button in Settings downloads the data in your browser as a JSON file. To request a copy of other data we hold about you, email us.
If ownership changes
What happens if FairlyRemote is sold is set out in the Terms (§16) and the privacy policy.
Independent, self-funded, and honest about the trade-off.
No outside investment and no sales quota steering the roadmap. The trade-off: support is by email during UK business hours, not around the clock. The Terms (§18) have the details.
Built for a specific job, honest about the rest.
- Ops and people leads at small and mid-sized 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 clear answer the next time someone asks “is this actually fair?”
- Consultants and freelancers who meet clients across timezones and want to offer times that are fair for both sides (the Solo plan).
- A booking link and nothing else. If you never meet across timezones, a plain booking tool is simpler.
- Co-located teams. No real fairness problem yet.
- Large organisations needing round-the-clock support. We don’t offer it. For Enterprise, talk to us.
What FairlyRemote does, and doesn’t, claim.
What the product is for, and what it isn’t.
The detail is in the Terms and privacy policy.
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.
To see what has changed recently, read the public changelog.
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