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The backstory

A brief history of Worknaut.

A million years of asking HR.

  1. 1 million years ago

    Humans learned to talk, marking the beginning of questions at work. The very first one was about time off.

    Response timeOne ice age

    A cave painting of a red ochre handprint, a figure raising a hand beside a question mark, and tally marks, lit by a torch

  2. 10,000 years ago

    During the Neolithic period, farming introduced the first fixed schedule, sunrise to sunset. The first overtime question arrived the next morning.

    Overtime approvalWeather permitting

    Neolithic standing stones framing a setting sun over a plowed field, with a lantern already lit for overtime

  3. 3000 BC ~ 2000 BC

    Sumerian scribes recorded wages, paid in beer, on clay tablets. It was an early form of the pay stub.

    Most askedIs the beer taxable?

    A clay tablet covered in cuneiform wedges next to a foaming jug of beer

  4. 1100s

    Pigeon posts carried messages across medieval kingdoms. Leave requests traveled by bird, and a few were lost to hawks.

    Tracking numberNot invented yet

    Two carrier pigeons flying with a scroll, followed by a distant hawk

  5. 1440s

    Gutenberg’s printing press made it possible to print a 400 page employee handbook. Reading it remained optional.

    Most read pageHolidays

    A tall stack of employee handbooks with a spider dangling above it

  6. 1844

    Samuel Morse sent the first long distance telegraph message. Billed by the word, questions got short and answers got shorter.

    Words in a typical reply1

    A brass telegraph key wired to a telegram slip that reads NO.

  7. 1876

    Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. Anyone could now call HR directly, as long as someone picked up.

    Rings before pickupStill counting

    An old wooden wall telephone with two brass bells, ringing with nobody picking up

  8. 1970s ~ 1980s

    Fax machines delivered questions on thermal paper that faded before anyone found time to answer them.

    Archive lifespanOne summer

    A beige fax machine printing a page whose lines fade away toward the bottom

  9. 1995

    Email landed on every office desk. HR inboxes filled up and have stayed that way ever since.

    Subject lineRE: FW: RE: Urgent

    A beige 1990s computer monitor with an inbox showing 99 plus unread messages and envelopes piling up beside it

  10. 2013 ~ 2025

    Questions escaped the inbox and scattered across Slack, Telegram, texts and hallway chats. Each client preferred its own channel, and each manager kept a private spreadsheet.

    Browser tabs open37

    A laptop with dozens of tabs, surrounded by chat bubbles and an envelope flying out of it

  11. 2026

    Worknaut arrived and pulled Gmail, Slack and Telegram onto one board. It was the first time since the cave wall that all the questions were in one place.

    Browser tabs open1

    A smiling astronaut floating on a tether, waving and holding a single task board

  12. ~ Present

    Each case finds its own manager. The Answer Engine drafts the reply from the client’s handbook and the law, finally reading all 400 pages. A manager approves it, and it goes back the way it came. Next in the queue: the overtime question from 10,000 years ago.

    First real stat on this page15 to 30 minutes saved per inquiry

    The 400 page handbook lies open with a highlighted passage, linked by a dotted line to a reply draft that is still being written

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