They hide. the gauge. We put it back on your desk.

RATION is a small, calm object that shows what your AI subscriptions are actually metering — in real time, on a screen that never closes. No menus. No dashboards. No multi-click menu journey, just to see your own usage.

Claude·Codex

Buy — $129

RATION on dark stone — cinematic product hero

F/1.4 · 50mm CN · LA · 26 1.69″ AMOLED · always-on USB-C · pair once

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The rationing era

Unlimited became unmarked.

The limits didn't arrive with a warning. They arrived quietly, buried in a settings drawer nobody opens. Every provider made the same call: hide the gauge, suppress awareness, protect the consumption. The number was always yours. They just made it hard to find.

We make it impossible to miss.

01BEFORE · The buried gauge

Multiple menus deep,
by design.

Open the app. Click the avatar. Click Settings. Click Billing. Scroll past the upsell. There's the number — 84% gone. They didn't hide it. They made finding it tedious on purpose.

02AFTER · The gauge on your desk

One glance.
Zero menus.

You don't open RATION. You glance at it — the same way you glance at the clock. The number lives on your desk now. Always there. Always honest. Nothing to click.

RATION gauge screen showing 68% current and 42% weekly usage

The object

Built like an instrument.
Read like a clock.

RATION is a finished consumer product. Pre-paired, pre-tuned, in a matte enclosure. It belongs on the desk next to your Hario kettle, your Muji notebook, your AirPods — ready to read the moment you plug it in.

1.69"AMOLED

Touchscreen with permanent visibility. Calm typography, no notifications.

22.4mm³

Compact desk object. Sits between a Hario kettle and your AirPods.

2Providers

Claude + Codex at launch.

USB-CPD

One cable. Pair once. Then forget it exists — until you don't.

60Hzrefresh

Smooth bar transitions. Real-time updates, not 15-min polling.

OTAfirmware

We add providers as they appear. Your unit gets better, not older.

<1Wdraw

Sips power. Doesn't fight your laptop charger for the same brick.

0Subscriptions

Hardware, not a service. Buy it once. Own it. Nothing to renew, nothing to upsell.

The manifesto · 04 lines

"You are being rationed.
The gauge is hidden on purpose.
We're putting it back where it belongs.
At a glance. Visible. Yours."

CLASS OF NØNE / LOS ANGELES / 2026

From the first 200 desks

People who noticed first.

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"Every time I needed to know my own number, it was three menus and a billing screen away. The friction was the whole point. Now the number just lives on my desk."

Sam Kessler

Solo Engineer · Austin

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"Hitting the limit always felt like a surprise — the number was somewhere I had to go find, usually after I'd already hit it. Now it's just there on my desk. I notice it before it catches me."

Maya Chen

Creative Director · Brooklyn

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"No notifications. No app to open. Just the number. I bought one for my partner and two for my studio and I'd buy a fourth."

Ezra Whitfield

Solo Developer · LA

The honest answers

Sharp questions.
Sharper answers.

Six honest questions we kept hearing from the first 200 desks. If yours isn't here, write us. We answer everything.

They hide. the gauge. We put it back on your desk.

Unlimited became unmarked.

They ration you.
They hide the gauge.
We can fix one of those.

Built like an instrument.
Read like a clock.

People who noticed first.

Sharp questions.
Sharper answers.

Put the gauge
back on your desk.

They hide. the gauge. We put it back on your desk.

Unlimited became unmarked.

They ration you. They hide the gauge. We can fix one of those.

Built like an instrument. Read like a clock.

People who noticed first.

Sharp questions. Sharper answers.

Put the gauge back on your desk.

They ration you.
They hide the gauge.
We can fix one of those.

Built like an instrument.
Read like a clock.

Sharp questions.
Sharper answers.

Put the gauge
back on your desk.