Small company. Large whiteboard.
Productive Tangent makes thoughtful tools for creative work, game masters, and the wonderfully messy stretch between an idea and a system that actually helps.
Estimated arrival: when it’s genuinely useful.
Good ideas rarely travel in straight lines.
Current tangents
Two active products, each built around a real person trying to keep hold of a complicated world.
The Virtual GM Screen.
A desktop workspace that handles the Game Master’s attention while the VTT handles the game world. Summon, arrange, connect, collapse, and dismiss campaign information without losing the table.
A local-first personal command center.
Projects own the work. A shared Sanctum keeps the important pieces visible. Vox can understand and help with the workspace—without handing the keys to the whole machine to a mystery cloud.
Our highly scientific method*
*The whiteboard has been peer-reviewed by at least one cat.
Real work is lumpy. We learn the shape before we build the container.
Software should support judgment, not cosplay as it.
If a tool acts on your world, you should be able to see what happened and undo it.
Prototype the defining experience first. Add machinery only when the work asks for it.
The next bit is still being drawn
We’re building in public eventually. First, we’re building something worth showing.
