Cardboard Pulse
A privacy-first usage insights tool
Right now, your software stack is under stress.
How many seats are you paying for? How many are actually being used? Which subscriptions have been silently draining your budget for months?
These are simple questions. But getting answers usually means installing tools that want access to everything – URLs, timestamps, browsing habits, the lot. Basically, a full-body scan when all you needed was a pulse check.
That's surveillance dressed up as software management. And your team deserves better than that.
Meet Pulse.
Pulse is Cardboard's privacy-first usage insights tool. Cardboard's lightweight browser extension tells you which software subscriptions are alive and well, and which ones are flatlined.
It's not about tracking people. It's about understanding patterns. Not who clicked what or when, but whether you're paying for tools nobody's using.
Your software stack's health check. Done the right way.
Privacy isn't a feature. It's the foundation.
See what's actually being used, which tools have a pulse, and which ones are flatlined, without feeling like you're spying on your team.
Most usage-tracking tools treat privacy as a problem to get around. We think it's a design principle to build around.
Client-side filtering
Only data relevant to your tracked subscriptions ever leaves the browser. Everything else? Ignored. Forgotten. Gone.
Client-side masking
Before anything is transmitted, Pulse strips it down to the bare essentials. No exact URLs. No timestamps. No session durations. We're talking minimalism that would make Marie Kondo proud.
Curated exclusions
Personal stuff stays personal. Health services, LinkedIn, anything with no legitimate business reason to track – it's all off-limits. Automatically.
Know your real software spend
Spot unused licenses draining your budget and see your real software costs at a glance. No guesswork. No spreadsheet archaeology.
What we don't collect
No exact URLs. No timestamps. No session durations. No browsing history. No data on other subscriptions. Basically, nothing your employees would be uncomfortable with.
How it works
Install
Roll out the Cardboard browser extension to your team. Employees opt in because consent matters.
Check
Pulse quietly checks which tracked subscriptions are being used. Everything is filtered, masked, and minimized before it leaves the browser.
Breathe
Relieve the stress with clear, actionable insights on your zombie subscriptions. Cancel what's flatlined. Reallocate what's underused. Save money. Breathe easy.
Stop guessing. Start knowing.
With Pulse, you finally get answers to the questions keeping you up at night:
- See which tools are actually being used (without watching how)
- Spot unused licenses draining your budget
- Know your real SaaS spend at a glance
- Keep privacy first, always
It's not about tracking people. It's about understanding patterns. Not who clicked what, but whether you're paying for software nobody's touching.
Because your money should go toward building the future, not funding unused subscriptions.
Read more about our privacy-first design principle.
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