Remindbot · Allentown, PA · est. 2023 Sheet 2 of 3 · The shop

Form 2 — shop record

Two people, a rented room, and a stack of manila folders.

Remindbot is owned by Mara Ellison and Niles Park. We rent Suite 2B at 414 West Tilghman Street, above Park & Sons Printing. There is no reception. The door at the top of the stairs is the one with the brass 2B.

A small rented office with two sash windows onto a brick building, a spider plant on the radiator, a scuffed wooden desk stacked with manila folders, and a cork board of paper notes.
Suite 2B, looking onto the alley · overcast Tuesday
Item 01

Who keeps the desk

Mara Ellison

Mara spent eleven years as the front-desk scheduler at a family clinic on Union Boulevard. She got tired of patients missing the refill window, and of her own parking tickets on Hamilton Street — three in one week, October 2022. She still answers the phone here, weekdays, in the hours posted on the home sheet.

Niles Park

Niles kept the books at his brother’s print shop downstairs and wrote the first scheduler on evenings in 2022, originally as a list that printed on leftover card stock. He still walks the quarterly digest down the stairs on the last Friday of March, June, September, and December.

Item 02

Why it exists

The product is the product. We do not run a marketplace, a social feed, or a coaching program. If Remindbot does not suit you, a paper planner and a kitchen timer still work; we keep both on the desk.

We built this because the reminders we needed were not “tomorrow at 9.” They were “while the counter is still open,” “the Tuesday after a holiday,” “two days before the due date, then the morning of, and not after they lock the lot.”

Staff: two. Contractors: one accountant in Bethlehem, and the printer downstairs for the digest. We have not taken outside investment. We would rather stay small than explain a dashboard to a board.

A stack of worn hardcover books on a wooden table with a yellowed due-date card on top and a rubber date stamp lying beside a purple ink mark.
Niles still stamps the digest run by hand
Item 03

Shop log, abbreviated

  1. Oct 2022 Mara collects three parking tickets in seven days. Niles prints a joke “notice of missed hours” on scrap card. It is not a joke for long.
  2. Mar 2023 First twenty households, all people who already knew one of us. Email only. The windows feature is a spreadsheet column.
  3. Nov 2023 We start sending text copies from a 610 number. Quiet hours are added after a 1:10 a.m. furnace-filter ping that nobody needed.
  4. Apr 2024 Household lists, three people max. We refuse a fourth because the arguments about who was supposed to call stop being funny at four.
  5. Jan 2025 Paper digest begins, printed downstairs. Some people pin it to the fridge and that is the entire relationship they want with us, which is fine.
  6. Sep 2026 Rates unchanged for a second year: $0 / $4 / $8. This sheet is the public notice.
Item 04

Mail, phone, hours

Remindbot
414 W Tilghman St, Suite 2B
Allentown, PA 18102
610-555-0148
hello@remindbot.ai
desk@remindbot.ai (reminders)

Weekdays 9:30–4:00 Eastern, Friday until 1:00. We close the week of Christmas and the afternoon of the Allentown Fair’s opening day. If you come up the stairs, knock; we do not keep a bell.

Accounts are opened by email, subject line OPEN. See the home sheet for rates. Records questions go to the privacy sheet.