Problem
SF startup life runs past sunset
A morning coffee meetup can become an afternoon customer call, an evening founder dinner, and a late launch push back at the keyboard.
For San Francisco startup teams
For San Francisco teams still building after sunset
ScreenMercy gives Mac-heavy startup teams a quieter screen layer for the long nights around demos, launches, fundraising, and AI builder momentum. It warms every display with the real local sunset, using optional auto-location or manual coordinates, then clears it by sunrise.
Built for Mac teams. Zero telemetry in the product app. Ready for Jamf, Kandji, Mosyle, and Intune package deployment.
Agitate
The city rewards speed, but your team still has bodies
Demo pressure, hiring pressure, investor pressure, and AI competition can normalize cold bright screens at hours when people should be winding down.
Solution
Give every Mac a softer landing at night
ScreenMercy follows each teammate's real horizon with optional auto-location or manual coordinates, then warms the screen without accounts, tracking, or another dashboard. It is small enough for a seed-stage team and deployable enough for growth.
Why SF is a real niche
The startup calendar is dense. The screen hours are real.
San Francisco's tech scene is full of AI meetups, founder coffees, hackathons, demo nights, and builder gatherings. That energy is useful, but it also creates a work rhythm where people leave the room and keep shipping on a Mac long after dark.
Public calendars like Luma AI Events San Francisco, Founders Bay, GarysGuide, and Cerebral Valley show how much of the ecosystem is built around active, in-person builder momentum. ScreenMercy is for the teams who go back from those events and keep working.
Product fit
A small perk that matches the way SF teams actually work
Made for builder nights
Launch pushes, hackathon weekends, demo prep, and product sprints are exactly where a calmer screen earns its keep.
Local sunset, not office policy
The app follows the real sun position where each person is working, whether auto-detected or manually set, in SoMa, the Mission, Oakland, or remote for the week.
Privacy-first by default
No employee accounts, no usage analytics, no outbound network calls from the Mac app. That matters for young companies building trust early.
Ready when IT arrives
Start as a simple team pilot, then graduate to MDM rollout, managed defaults, invoicing, and procurement artifacts as the company matures.
Pricing
Start lean. Keep it deployable.
One quiet utility for the whole team. Compare plans by monthly seat cost, then pick monthly or annual billing.
Starter
2 to 9 seats
$2 /seat/mo
per seat / month, billed annually at $24 / seat / year
Small teams buying on a card
Buy nowTeam
10 to 49 seats
$1.67 /seat/mo
per seat / month, billed annually at $20 / seat / year
Growing engineering or ops teams
Buy nowBusiness
50 to 199 seats
$1.33 /seat/mo
per seat / month, billed annually at $16 / seat / year
Department or company rollouts
Request a quoteEnterprise
200+ seats
$1-$1.17 /seat/mo
per seat / month, billed annually at $12-$14 / seat / year
Fleet-wide rollout, invoice / purchase order, and security review support
Contact us- Annual billing is the best value; monthly billing is available when flexibility matters more than the lowest seat cost.
- All plans include free updates for the license term and direct support.
- 14-day free team pilot available on every plan. No credit card required.
- Business and Enterprise plans support invoices, purchase orders, vendor onboarding, and security review.
- Custom contract terms are available case by case for larger Business and Enterprise rollouts.
FAQ
SF startup questions, answered.
Is this only for San Francisco teams?
No. ScreenMercy works anywhere your team uses Macs. This page speaks to San Francisco startup culture because late builder hours, hackathons, AI events, and founder-led buying are especially common there.
Does ScreenMercy have any affiliation with SF event communities?
No. Event calendars and communities are mentioned only as cultural context for where startup builders gather. ScreenMercy is not claiming partnership or endorsement.
Can a founder buy this before a formal IT function exists?
Yes. Small teams can start with a pilot. Larger or later-stage teams can use MDM deployment and invoicing when the process catches up.
What if some teammates are remote?
ScreenMercy follows each person's own sunrise and sunset using optional auto-location or manual coordinates, so remote teammates are not forced into a San Francisco schedule.
Explore teams
More ways ScreenMercy fits Mac-heavy teams
Find the page closest to how your team works, buys, and deploys. Each one points back to pricing, privacy, and deployment details.
By team
- Engineering teams For Mac-heavy product and engineering teams shipping after sunset.
- On-call engineering For SRE, DevOps, and incident teams who meet the 3 a.m. page.
- Customer support and 24/7 ops For screen-bound support floors running around the clock.
- Trading desks and finance For desks and finance teams managing late-session judgment.
- Game studios For dev, art, and QA teams working through crunch on Mac.
- Design and creative For creative teams who need accurate color on demand.
- Startup teams For lean teams that need visible care without another tool to manage.
- AI startups For builders debugging models, agents, and demos deep into the night.
- Remote engineering For distributed Mac teams working across each person's own sunset.