Early access — 2026

A real workspace.
Inside your apartment.

Sound reducing panels that set up in minutes to create an enclosed workspace in any apartment. Your neighbor's music stays out. Your calls stay in. And when work is over, it packs flat so you can stop seeing your desk from your bed.

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Panl workspace set up in a corner apartment
Panl in a studio apartment home office setup
Panl panels set up in a living room corner
Panl workspace packed down in the evening
50%
ambient noise
reduction
<10
minutes
to set up
Zero
permanent changes
to your apartment
Fits
studios, 1BRs,
and shared spaces
The problem

Small apartments weren't built for eight hours of serious work.

There's no extra room. So your desk is in your bedroom or living room, and that creates three problems that no amount of noise-cancelling headphones will fix.

Cramped desk setup in a small apartment
01
You can see your desk from your bed
When work is always visible, it's always present. You deserve to relax in your own home without a monitor staring at you all night. It's time to mentally clock off.
02
Someone else's schedule is your problem
In space-limited apartments, there is nowhere to go when your partner or roommate is on a call. You end up whispering, muting, and tiptoeing — feeling guilty for doing your job.
03
Your building's noise is on your client calls
Thin walls, loud neighbors, and street noise are things you can't schedule around. Your upstairs neighbor's music shouldn't bleed into a call with a client. Panl wants to fix that.

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Why not just...

What people try before finding something that works.

There are workarounds for the noise, the visibility, and the space conflicts. None address all three.

Co-working space
Solves the problem — but at $400–800/month, you're paying to leave a home that's still broken when you get back.
  • Reintroduces a commute and makes early/late hours impractical
  • Open-plan coworking just trades neighbor noise for open-office noise
  • Private booths are limited and often cost extra — you can't rely on them
  • Your apartment is unchanged when you get home
Noise-cancelling headphones
They block what you hear — not what your mic picks up. And they do nothing for the desk you can see from your bed.
  • Your voice still travels across the apartment; clients still hear your building
  • ANC struggles with sharp, irregular sounds — slammed doors, neighbor TV dialogue
  • 6–8 hours of headphones causes fatigue and isolates you from people around you
  • Doesn't create any visual or physical separation between work and home
Working from a café
Gets you out of the apartment — but it's loud, unreliable, and costs $200–300/month in coffee you're buying to justify the seat.
  • Grinders, music, and chatter are often worse than thin walls for calls
  • Public Wi-Fi is slow or filtered — video calls are a gamble
  • No privacy: people can see your screen and hear your conversations
  • Cafés are pushing back on laptop campers with time limits and reduced Wi-Fi
From the forums

You're not the only person struggling with this.

Real posts from people like you who work from home.

"I used to work out of a studio apartment and had my desk in the 'living room' area. I had to literally put my work stuff away in drawers/closet when the day was over, otherwise I just kept thinking about work all the time because it was right there in my face."
r/WFH Studio apartment, struggling to mentally clock off
"My gf and I have been both WFH for nearly 3 years now in a small ~700 sq ft 1-bed apartment. I work on a makeshift floor desk in the bedroom and she uses a little den area. When she's on calls, my options are limited — I have to avoid the bedroom or living room during her meetings."
r/WFH Couple, 700 sq ft 1-bedroom, both fully remote
"Co-working spaces basically saved me. My flat is tiny and there's no real office space, just my laptop on the kitchen table with dishes and laundry in my face. I started paying about £200 a month for a coworking desk because I just couldn't focus at home. It felt stupid to 'pay to work' at first, but the separation from my cramped apartment made me way more productive."
r/CoWorking Remote worker, small flat, no dedicated office space
"I'm 28, work IT remotely, and share about a 600 sq ft place with my roommate who's hybrid. My job is all quick calls all day but he needs 'library level' quiet when he's home. I've been whispering on calls, constantly muting, feeling guilty just for doing my job. He keeps asking me to be quieter, but there really isn't anywhere else to go in a 600 sq ft apartment."
r/remotework IT, 600 sq ft shared apartment, constant call conflicts
"I'm stuck in my small apartment all day. No coworkers, no commute, just my desk a few feet from my bed. It was fun for a few months but now it feels like work has completely taken over my home. Some days I'm staring at screens for 18 hours straight and I miss having a physical separation between work and where I relax."
r/LivingAlone Remote worker, small apartment, desk next to bed
"I recently moved and found out the walls here are insanely thin. My downstairs neighbor blasts music, slams doors, talks loud. I work support from home and take inbound calls, so I can't plan around it. I'm constantly on the phone with clients and I'm mortified they can hear all this noise through my mic."
r/workfromhome Support role, older building, thin walls

This is the problem Panl is built to solve.

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The solution

An enclosed workspace inside your apartment. No construction. No commute.

Panl is a set of modular fabric-wrapped panels that connect together in minutes to create a walled-off workspace in any corner of your apartment. It fixes all three problems — and packs flat when work is done.

Keeps noise out — and in
The fabric-wrapped panels absorb sound coming in from neighbors and the street, while keeping your voice from travelling across the apartment. Your calls sound like you're in a room. Your partner can keep working.
Cuts background noise by ~50%
A defined space in a shared one
When Panl is up, everyone in the apartment knows you're in a meeting. No more tiptoeing, whispering, or retreating to the bathroom to take a call. You have a space. It has walls. The guilt goes away.
Studio, 1BR, shared — all configurations
Gone when work is over
Packs flat in under 3 minutes and leans against the wall. No desk staring at you from the couch. No monitor visible from bed. The thing people in studios say they want most — a workspace that stops existing after hours — is finally possible.
Packs flat in under 3 minutes
Panl workspace set up in studio apartment
Panl panels close-up
Panl packed flat against wall

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How it works

Set up. Work without interruption. Pack it away.

01
Assemble in the morning
Click the panels into position around your desk — takes about 7 minutes. The enclosure immediately puts a wall between you and the rest of the apartment. Your partner knows you're in work mode. The neighbor's noise stays outside.
02
Take calls. Focus. Actually work.
The panels absorb sound from outside and contain your voice inside. You stop whispering on calls. Your mic picks up your voice, not your building. And there's a clean, consistent backdrop behind you — no staging required.
03
Pack it flat at the end of the day
Three minutes. Panels fold flat and lean against the wall. The desk is gone from your sightline. You stop thinking about work the moment it disappears — because it does actually disappear. The thing studio apartments can never normally offer.
Panl workspace being set up in the morning
Morning deploy
Panl workspace packed down in the evening
Evening pack-down

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Common questions

Things people ask before they buy.

How much space does Panl take up?
The standard configuration fits a desk and chair within a footprint of roughly 6 × 5 feet — about the size of a walk-in wardrobe. It's designed to work in the corner of a studio or one-bedroom without dominating the room. When packed down, the panels lean flat against a wall and take up less than 8 inches of depth.
Will it actually reduce background noise on calls?
Yes — the fabric-wrapped panels absorb sound from outside and help contain your voice inside the enclosure. In testing, background noise levels dropped by around 50% compared to sitting in an open room. It won't eliminate a jackhammer outside your window, but neighbour TV, hallway noise, and ambient apartment sounds are significantly reduced.
Does it work with my existing desk?
Panl is designed to go around your desk, not replace it. As long as your desk fits within the enclosure footprint, you keep your existing setup — monitors, peripherals, chair, all of it. You don't need to buy a new desk or rearrange your furniture.
How long does it take to set up and pack down?
Assembly takes about 7 minutes the first few times, and closer to 3–4 once you have the routine down. Pack-down is under 3 minutes. The panels connect without tools and the process is quiet enough to do early in the morning without waking anyone up.
Do I need to set it up and take it down every day?
That's up to you. Some people leave it up all week and collapse it on weekends. Others set it up each morning as a deliberate start-of-day ritual — the physical act of building the space is part of how it signals "work mode" to your brain. Either way works. It's designed to be light enough that daily use isn't a chore.
Will it look out of place in my apartment?
Panl uses neutral linen-toned fabric and a matte frame — it's designed to read as furniture, not equipment. When it's up it looks considered rather than improvised. When it's down, it's out of sight. We'll publish full finish options before launch.
Can I use it if I share my apartment with a partner or roommate?
That's exactly who it's designed for. The enclosure gives you a defined space so your partner or roommate can move around, make noise, and live normally while you're on a call — without either of you having to tiptoe. It makes the shared-apartment dynamic significantly less fraught.
When will it be available, and how much will it cost?
Panl is in active development. We're not announcing pricing until we're closer to launch, but the waitlist is free and people on it will get early access and first notice of pricing. No commitment required to join.

What a workday looks like when you actually have a workspace.

In a 700 sq ft apartment, the difference between a good day and a frustrating one is often just whether you had somewhere to put your calls, your focus, and your voice — without it spilling into everyone else's space.

8:55am
Panels up. Your partner knows you're in. The neighbor's music is already muffled.
10:15am
Client call. Your voice stays in the enclosure. The construction across the street doesn't make it through.
12:30pm
Your partner takes a call. You're already inside Panl. Neither of you has to leave the room.
5:05pm
Panels flat. Leaning against the wall. You can't see the desk from the couch anymore.
8:00pm
No monitor in your eyeline. No half-finished work staring back. You're actually off the clock.
Who it's for

Four situations. The same underlying problem.

Panl is designed for anyone doing serious work in a space that wasn't built for it.

01
Two remote workers, one apartment
When she's on a call, you have to avoid the bedroom and the living room. In a 700 sq ft apartment, that's the whole apartment. Panl means you each have an enclosed space — and you stop bleeding into each other's meetings without either of you having to leave.
Couples WFH
02
Studio apartment, full-time remote
Your desk is three feet from your bed. You've started stashing your laptop in the closet at 5pm just to stop thinking about work. Panl packs flat and disappears — the workspace stops existing the moment you're done, not just when you cover it with a sheet.
Solo remote workers
03
Shared apartment, constant calls
Your roommate needs library-level quiet. Your job is all calls, all day. In 600 sq ft there's nowhere to go — so you've been whispering, muting, and apologising for doing your job. Panl contains your voice so you can both work without negotiating every meeting.
Shared living
04
You work from cafés because home doesn't work
You spend $10–15 a day at a coffee shop because sitting down there signals "work time" in a way your apartment never does. Home has the couch, the dishes, and the bed three feet away. Panl gives you the same mental switch — the physical act of setting it up tells your brain you've arrived at work — without the commute or the daily spend.
Café workers

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Your apartment. A real workspace inside it.

Built for remote workers in studios and 1-bedrooms who are tired of whispering on calls, seeing their desk from bed, and paying for coworking just to have somewhere they can actually work.

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