About Zaphiri

Your best hours, on the work that matters.

Your most important work shouldn't get whatever time is left over.

Yet it often does. Messages arrive, meetings fill the calendar, and the day becomes a series of responses to everyone else's priorities. You can finish the day feeling busy without having made room for the work you care about most. We built Zaphiri to help change that.

The Zaphiri sapphire Zaphiri zah-FEER-ee

Our name

Inspired by the sapphire.

To us, it represents something precious, enduring and worth protecting: your time and attention.

The sapphire in our logo is a small daily reminder of that belief. Its smooth shape reflects the calm we want software to bring to your day. Its layers of colour suggest depth and perspective, while its protective frame echoes our commitment to treating your work with care. Sapphire blue, violet and a warm ruby accent bring together clarity, character and energy.

Every time you see it, we hope it prompts a simple question: Am I making room for what matters?

Where it began

Built from a familiar frustration.

Zaphiri began with the experience of trying to organise one working life across several disconnected tools. Personal tasks lived in one place, daily planning in another, and team projects somewhere else. Keeping those systems aligned became work of its own.

We wanted a closer connection between what a team needs to achieve and what each person can realistically do today. Somewhere to capture a thought, understand a shared priority, find the context and take the next step.

That is the connection at the heart of Zaphiri: shared priorities becoming purposeful days.

What we believe

Your time is precious.

Your best hours deserve a plan

An hour on the calendar doesn't always mean an hour of focused attention. Some work needs clear thinking and uninterrupted time. Other work fits the quieter moments between commitments.

Zaphiri brings together planning, shared work and tools for understanding where your time goes. Start simply. As you need more, explore planning around your energy, protecting deep work and learning from the difference between what you planned and what happened.

The aim is a day you can approach with intention and finish with a clearer understanding of your progress.

Trust belongs in the experience

We believe people should understand where their work lives, who can access it and what they are paying for.

That belief shapes how we approach permissions, privacy and our work on private hosting for organisations.

Control should be clear and practical, with promises that match how the product actually works.

How we handle security

Who we are

A Cedar Creek product.

Zaphiri is created by Cedar Creek Ltd, a UK software company. We bring our experience of building software for real organisations to a problem we know personally: making space for meaningful work while keeping everyday responsibilities moving.

We want Zaphiri to feel thoughtful, dependable and easy to return to. A place where individuals can find focus and teams can move forward together.

1997 building software for professionals
Remote a team around the world, registered in London
4 energy states at the heart of the plan

Make room for the work that matters.

Questions, feedback, or just hello? We are intentionally small, so every conversation reaches the people who build Zaphiri.