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Lode
Personal instrumentationMoney / Time / BodyIndependent

The Lode ecosystem

You are what you measure.

A set of personal instruments for understanding where your money went, how your time was lived, and what your body responds to.

Is this for you?
00For whom

For people who put data over hunches.

You already know if this is for you. You've built the spreadsheet. You've tried other trackers. You feel anxious when you don't know exactly where your time and money went.

  1. 01

    Where did my money actually go?

  2. 02

    How close was I to my plan last week?

  3. 03

    What changes when I sleep, eat, or train differently?

If those questions sound excessive – Lode is not for you.
If not asking them feels careless, welcome home.

01The premise

Intention matters as much as execution.

Most trackers only record what happened. They completely ignore what you meant to happen. When you lose that context, you lose the ability to optimize your life.

How can you know if you improved when you can't measure your actual results against your original plan?

Lode was built exactly for this.

Compare plan and reality
Intention and outcome remain separate so you can analyze the difference.
Keep context over time
Every record keeps the context that makes it meaningful in the long term.
Gather clean data
The data model is lean and cohesive, so you can analyze years of records with LLMs to find patterns you missed.
02The system

Three instruments.
One coherent picture.

Gain tracks money. Beat tracks time. Peak tracks health. Each instrument works independently, but together they form an exact, enduring model of your life.

Identity / SSO

One account covers the entire suite. Each app uses the same identity service and shares the session automatically.

01 / MONEY

Advanced personal budgeting

Lode Gain

v2.4.0

For personal finances that have outgrown the Excel sheet.

Multiple currencies, shared ledgers, transfers, investments, and plans you can compare against real expenses.

Open Gain

Features

  • Multi-user ledgers with separate record ownership and shared historyready
  • 18,000+ crypto tokens plus global fiat currenciesready
  • Live and historical currency conversionready
  • Transfers, fees, adjustments, contra offsets, and P&Lready
  • Planning, category breakdowns, and period analysisready
  • Auto-create records from PDFs and receipt photosin progress
  • Compare financial estimates against what actually happenedplanned
  • Budget buckets for income and spending categoriesplanned
  • LLM queries to find spending patterns you missedplanned
Gain interface / current buildMobile-first PWA

Records

Transactions, transfers, adjustments and charts.

02 / TIME

Personal time tracking and planning

Lode Beat

v0.23.0

Time tracking that treats intention and execution as different facts.

Beat puts the plan beside the lived day. It records what you intended and what actually happened, through the prism of projects and activities. The point is not to fill every minute. It is to see the variance clearly and analyze it.

Open Beat

Features

  • Live timers and precise manual time logsready
  • Planned time and actual time side by sideready
  • Fast mobile capture and full-width desktop timelineready
  • Projects, nested activities, and breakdown chartsready
  • Versioned long-range roadmapsready
  • Custom heatmaps to check your consistencyin progress
  • Shared spaces to track time with othersplanned
  • Insights dashboard for pattern and variance analysisplanned
  • LLM queries to find patterns in how you spend timeplanned
Beat interface / current buildMobile capture / desktop analysis

Timeline

The daily view on the phone; the week view on desktop.

03 / BODY

Holistic physical wellbeing

Lode Peak

Concept

Physical wellbeing treated as one connected system.

Peak will connect nutrition, training, movement, recovery, sleep, meditation, and any other practice that affects the body. It will also take data from Beat and Gain, so you can see how your finances and schedule affect your health and wellbeing.

Features

  • Food and nutrition loggingplanned
  • Workouts, movement, and physical trainingplanned
  • Sleep, recovery, and daily wellbeing check-insplanned
  • Cross-analysis connecting money, time, and body dataplanned
03The marks

Old symbols.
New context.

The logos are a quiet homage to Norse culture. Each Elder Futhark rune was chosen for the meaning and energy it conveys.

01

Lode / Ingwaz

Potential. Long-term goals. The amber line is a literal vein of gold inside dark stone.

02

Gain / Fehu

Wealth, abundance, prosperity. The right energy for a ledger that treats money as a system.

03

Beat / Jera

The year, the harvest, the cycle. Time understood through repetition, intention, and consequence.

04

Peak / Tiwaz

Purpose, discipline, and willing sacrifice. The necessary components for a capable body.

04Origin

Built by one.
At first, for two.

Right now, the active user base is exactly two people: me and my girlfriend. We use Lode every single day.

I don't plan to build another growth-hacked SaaS. The backend is already built to scale, but I won't rush it – the right people will find us.

The core logic goes back to when I started living on my own at 16, surviving on $100 a month. I tracked every penny and every second, worked 12+ hours a day, and still managed to save $20 a month. Later on, life started changing and I snapped in the other direction. I was earning a hundred times more, but tracked nothing and didn't save a single dollar.

That taught me firsthand that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you optimize against yourself, you will snap – and snap hard. Humans are not machines. We need balance to stay sane.

I built Lode around that lesson. It respects human nature, accounts for our limits, and contains our chaotic essence.

Andrei Furdui, creator of Lode

“We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us.

And discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.”

Donella MeadowsSystems scientist · MIT research fellow · Dartmouth professor · Thinking in Systems

Keep the record.
Learn from patterns.

Dance with chaos.