Stage 1
Nudge
Soft sound, haptic pulse, and a calm first touch that respects the morning.
Sunbird
BentLo Labs product
Trigger → Challenge → Verification
Sunbird is the progressive alarm app from BentLo Labs. It starts with a nudge and escalates only when the first signal fails — until the morning actually happens.
Wake-through-silence
Yes
Designed to keep sounding when simple reminders fail.
Escalation stages
6
Nudge → Wake → Engage → Move → Prove It → Lock In.
State tracking
Live
Created, armed, ringing, snoozed, dismissed, failed.
Studio
BentLo
Built as part of the BentLo Labs product family.
What Sunbird promises
Sunbird is meant to be more than a timer with a chime. It should keep pressure on, prove the user is awake, and make the final dismissal meaningful instead of accidental.
Starts gentle, then gets serious only when needed.
Built around wake-through-silence behavior for real mornings.
Tracks what happened after the alarm: dismissed, snoozed, failed, or confirmed.
Designed as an escalation engine, not a pile of disconnected alarms.
Why it works
Sunbird assumes the first alarm may fail. So it escalates, verifies, and checks back until the morning is actually won.
Alarm that keeps its promise
Sunbird is designed to keep escalating until the user is actually awake, not merely alerted.
Verification, not vibes
Each stage can require a response, a move, or a check so the morning becomes real.
Built for silenced phones
The product is shaped around the failure mode most alarm apps ignore: the phone is quiet, but the user still needs to wake up.
Escalation ladder
This is the product philosophy in one line: start soft, gain force, and keep checking until the user is actually up.
Stage 1
Soft sound, haptic pulse, and a calm first touch that respects the morning.
Stage 2
Volume and urgency increase when the first signal is ignored.
Stage 3
A persistent full-screen alarm keeps the moment alive until you respond.
Stage 4
Sunbird pushes the user out of bed with a physical or attention-grabbing prompt.
Stage 5
Verification locks in the wake state so the alarm does not end too early.
Stage 6
Follow-up checks prevent the classic half-awake, back-to-sleep failure.