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Productivity SaaS AuraOne (Canny in-house product) Australia / Global 13 months

AuraOne — One Platform for Work and Life

Most people run their week across six apps that never speak to each other — a calendar in one, tasks in another, habits in a third, money in a fourth.

13 mo
Continuous build, one product line
3
Clients on one shared API (web, iOS, Android)
19/19
Launch-readiness QA checks green
v150
Mobile release, iterated from v112
8
Life pillars scored (signal + feel)
5
Product surfaces on one schema

The Challenge

Most people run their week across six apps that never speak to each other — a calendar in one, tasks in another, habits in a third, money in a fourth. Nothing reconciles, so the real question — is the effort adding up to the life I wanted? — has no system that can answer it. Work tools model the user as a resource and ignore personal commitments; life and wellbeing apps plan against an empty calendar and blame the user when the plan fails. Planning is divorced from capacity, context switching between 'founder at 10am' and 'parent at 6pm' is constant, and nothing measures whether time actually went to the areas of life that were said to matter.

Our Solution

We built AuraOne around three verbs — plan, do, reflect — sitting on a single data model and a context switch. Plan unifies calendar, tasks, reminders, goals, habits and notes on one surface with real two-way, multi-account Google and Outlook sync and an AI auto-scheduler. Do delivers team-capable workspaces with projects, milestones, Gantt timelines, files, messaging with WebRTC video, and per-project budget. Reflect is the part almost nothing else attempts — eight life pillars scored against both the data and the person's own rating, so the gap between what you are doing and what you meant to do becomes visible. Because every object — an event, task, habit, milestone or budget line — shares one schema and one permission model, a new module is a new view over existing data, not a new silo to sync.

Technical Architecture

React web application and React Native iOS/Android apps with home-screen widgets, all consuming one shared API

Node.js REST API with a single shared object model across events, tasks, habits, goals, notes, projects and budget lines

Work and personal context scoping enforced at the API boundary, not in each client

Single relational MySQL schema — life areas, workspaces and projects are rows and relationships, not separate stores

Two-way, multi-account calendar sync with Google and Outlook treated as a first-class product surface

LLM coaching and AI auto-scheduling layer with selectable tone and archetype-based onboarding

WebRTC for in-app video calling inside shared workspaces

Hosted on AWS (Sydney region) for an Australian-facing launch

Technologies Used

ReactReact NativeNode.jsMySQLGoogle Calendar APIMicrosoft Outlook APIWebRTCLLM / AI SchedulingAWS

Project Timeline

1

Mobile-first life app

Phase 1
  • Launched as a React Native life-management app with life pillars
  • AI coach and smart planner to prove demand for the reflective layer
  • Archetype-based onboarding with habit and goal tracking
2

Widened into work

Phase 2
  • Rebuilt and renamed AuraOne on the same schema
  • Added team workspaces, CRM and multi-account calendar
  • AI auto-scheduler placing work into real free time
3

Hardened for launch

Phase 3
  • Messaging with video, files, team workload and project timelines
  • Budget and finance across personal and business spaces
  • 19-point launch-readiness QA pass, marketing site, waitlist and pricing

AuraOne demonstrates the thing that is hardest to show in a portfolio — that we can carry a product across a year of scope change, from a personal life app to team workspaces, finance and native mobile, without the architecture ever giving way.

AuraOne Product Team, Canny Technologies

Long-Term Impact & ROI

AuraOne is a working product, not a prototype: live web and native mobile clients, real two-way calendar sync, team workspaces and finance — all on one schema, with a public marketing site, open waitlist and published pricing at auraone.app. The build validated the core bet — value lives in the seam between tools, in a single data model an incumbent with one silo cannot retrofit. Budget, project timelines and team load were each cheap to add precisely because none of them needed a new subsystem.

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