Why Liminal Desk exists

I built Liminal Desk first as a project of love for my partner, who is a death doula. She was running a real practice out of notebooks, a calendar, a spreadsheet, and her memory — and the administrative weight of it was taking time and attention away from the people she was sitting with.

So it was designed to help one person run one practice well before it was ever designed for many. Every feature started as something she actually needed on a particular day: a place to keep a client's comfort preferences, a way to write the visit down before the next one, a vigil plan the family could follow, an invoice that did not require starting over each month.

Accessibility was an intention from the beginning rather than something added at the end. Doulas live with disabilities too, and software that assumes a mouse, sharp eyesight, and a steady hand quietly excludes practitioners who would otherwise do this work beautifully. Keyboard navigation, screen-reader labelling, readable contrast, and large touch targets are part of how the product is built, not a later remediation project.

The goal is plain: make end-of-life doula work sustainable — and profitable — for the people who do it, including doulas with disabilities. This is emotionally demanding, chronically underpaid work. If better tools mean a doula can hold more clients without burning out, or can bill for the hours she actually worked, that is the whole point.