Metric House, LLC · Est. 2026 · North Carolina

Software for the
way people actually
want to work.

We build tools that fix specific, irritating problems in modern work. Finding a good place to focus. Writing a survey that won't embarrass you. Filling a study with the right participants. Three products so far. More on the way.

Studio
Independent · self-funded
Based
Chapel Hill, NC
Products live
Knowmad, Formulate, Recruit
Hiring
Not yet. Say hi anyway.

§01 · About

01/03

A small studio that builds the software it wishes existed.

Metric House started in 2026 as a software company built around Knowmad, a remote-work discovery app, and grew into a second product, Formulate, when we realized the surveys we needed didn't exist either. Recruit came next, for the university subject pools that so much of that research depends on.

That's the pattern. We notice a workflow that's quietly broken. The kind of thing people put up with because they think it's just how it is. We build the version we'd actually want to use and ship it.

01

Specific over general

Each product solves one problem well. We'd rather make Knowmad excellent than build a platform.

02

Quiet by default

No dark patterns, no growth-hacked notifications. The software gets out of your way.

03

Independent

Self-funded so we can move slow on the things worth getting right.

§02 · Products

Three things, made well.

Each is independently developed and supported by Metric House. Click through for full product sites.

P/01Live in NC Triangle

Knowmad

Find the right place to work. Today, near you.

Tell Knowmad what you need: focus work, light tasks, solo or with a group. It matches you with cafés, libraries, and coworking spots nearby that actually fit. No more rolling the dice on a noisy bakery at 9am.

Coverage
Chapel Hill · Durham · Carrboro
For
Remote & hybrid workers
Visit knowmad.work→
P/02Live

Formulate

The AI-powered survey teammate you need to develop, deploy, and analyze your work.

Trained on PhD-level and corporate-level knowledge and experience, Formulate gives you the methodology guardrails to generate the insights you actually need. It catches the leading questions, vague scales, and double-barreled prompts before your respondents ever see them.

Stage
Live
For
Researchers, PMs, ops teams
Visit formulatesurveys.com→
P/03Now piloting

Recruit

Find the right people for research.

Recruit runs a university research subject pool in one place. Researchers submit studies for review, coordinators decide what fields and when, and students sign up and earn course credit that is tracked against the right class. Researchers never see student names or IDs, and survey responses stay in the researcher's own tool.

Stage
Pilot programs
For
University subject pools
Visit recruit.metric-house.com→

§03 · Contact

We'd love to hear from you.

Questions about Knowmad or Formulate, partnerships, press, or just want to say hi. The inbox is small and we read everything.

WRITE TO USinfo@metric-house.com