A founder note

A quiet rebellion — and a safer one.

I grew up in a small town in Canada — the kind of place where the world arrived in paperbacks, library atlases, and the occasional postcard from someone who'd made it out. My way out was frequent flights: cheap red-eyes booked months in advance, summer jobs spent saving for the next one, a stubborn habit of treating every layover as a country. That's how I learned the world — one underslept arrival at a time.

By graduate school, the trips had a different shape. My calendar filled with fixed anchors — a founder summit in one country, a conference in another, a stretch of remote work I could do from anywhere — and I kept asking myself the same question: given everywhere I already needed to be, where should I actually base myself in between? Close to the right entrepreneurial scene. On a student budget. Safe enough, as a woman travelling alone, that I could stop scanning the street and start doing the work.

Every tool I opened asked the wrong first question. Where are you flying from? Mine was the opposite — I knew where I had to land, I just needed help choosing the spaces in between. So I started sketching one that asked my question instead. Maunder is the planner I wish I'd had on every flight out of that small town, built by someone who has actually lived the in-between, and made for the founders, operators, and curious builders trying to do the same.