ChipClock is built by one person for the specific job of running a poker tournament well, for a season at a time, without a clipboard.
The existing tools fall into two buckets. Desktop tournament software (powerful but stuck on a laptop, no phone experience for the players). And free blind-timer apps (great for the clock, useless for a season). Neither handles the part most leagues actually care about: a shared roster, a season leaderboard, payouts that match the house rules, and a companion experience for every player who shows up.
The beta was shaped by a small group of league operators and home-game hosts who have patiently reported what broke, what confused a new host on a Friday night, and what was missing. The product is better because of them.
The other thing I wanted to get right is the agent-ready API. Poker tournaments have a lot of bookkeeping — payments, seats, knockouts, payouts, rebuys, color-ups — and an AI assistant is the right interface for most of it. ChipClock was designed from the start so an agent can do everything a host can do, via a single Bearer token.
If you run a league or host regularly and think something is missing, email feedback@chipclock.com — the tool is still being shaped.