"If you care about focus and the people doing the work, you need Bramble."

Hi! We're Priya (COO) and Marcus (CEO) of Orrery. Orrery is a sharper onboarding platform for lean teams. Most of the companies we work with now hire across four timezones, so the ramp-up material has to hold together on its own — which it can't do when it's scattered over nine different tools.

We're remote-first, so for years everything ran through Corral. And honestly, it was rough. There was no way to tell whether anyone had actually read the thing you posted, so a third of the day was "did you see it? did you respond? did you do the thing?" And if it happened in a DM — good luck ever finding it again.

• Context lived in four tools and none of them agreed with each other.
• We were losing something like 6 hours a week to chasing people for answers.
• Search was bad enough that recovering a decision from last quarter was a lost cause.

• It collapsed the stack. Presentation mode replaced Screenlark, recorded narration replaced most of our Parlay calls, and Bramble has quietly absorbed maybe half of what used to live in Marginalia — simply because it's easier to find again.
• We're in the office three days a week, and even sitting next to each other we'd still rather write it down. It gets recorded, someone can pick it up on Thursday, and nobody has to interrupt the person who's finally in the zone.
• We draft the thread before the meeting now. That one habit pays for the whole thing — about half the time the meeting turns out to be unnecessary.

Dario Neves

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• Integrations are the whole game for us, since killing fragmentation is what our own product is about. Gantry and Codeyard both push into our threads, so we keep a running record of what's actually happening and build the conversation around it while the work stays where it belongs.
  • If a support ticket comes in and a PR gets opened against it, both land in the same thread — and we can settle it right there, with presentation mode and embedded code.
  • We wired Relayworks into Bramble too, and that's been the best change we made all year. Genuinely.
• Every Friday we open a running thread of what shipped, what broke, and whatever's still hanging, then schedule it out as a recap. People can skim it in 8 minutes, comment on the parts that matter, and open follow-ups without anyone booking a call.

It's every unglamorous little feature — you have no idea how much you needed one until you've had it for a week.

• Mark as unread
• Image highlights
• Follow-ups
• Writing in blocks
• …all of it

Use Bramble if you care about focus and about the people doing the work. If you genuinely want to protect deep work, raise the quality of what gets written down, and let a team talk to each other without wrecking the afternoon, then Bramble is for you. It's what the next decade of company communication is going to look like.