One thing, and the sum behind it
Due today is worth 30. Something you promised a person, 15. A project already slipping, 15. Mate adds it up and puts the winner at the top. Open the sum whenever you want to argue with it.
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The hard part was never the list.
You know what you have to do. What you have lost is the thread between fourteen open things and the one that actually matters before lunch. Mate holds all of it — tasks, the promises you made to other people, the half-thoughts you would rather not lose — and puts a single item in front of you, with the reason it came first.
Guided prototype. In private beta with a small group, not a download.
Five places for everything. One that asks for you.
Whatever you throw at Mate lands in one of five screens, and four of them keep quiet until you go looking. Scroll to walk through the prototype as it stands today.
One thing first.
Mate adds up what makes something urgent and puts the winner at the top, with the sum there to read. The rest of the day sits to one side under Safe to defer, which is exactly what it sounds like.
What Mate does
Built for the next ten minutes, not the perfect system.
Most tools are good at helping you write things down. The writing down was never the bottleneck. Mate is about what happens afterwards: what deserves the next ten minutes, and what can wait without anything breaking.
Promises are not tasks
What you told a colleague you'd send by Thursday is a different kind of thing from tidying your reading list. Mate tracks the two apart, and only marks the promises genuinely at risk.
Capture now, file never
One box. Empty your head into it in whatever order things fall out. Mate splits the result into tasks, promises and notes, and you correct it on the rare occasion it guesses wrong.
Three honest answers
Focus mode shows one item and offers Done, Blocked or Skip. No timer running down, no streak to protect, nothing that treats stopping as failure.
Projects tell you when they stall
Not a burndown chart. A quiet line that says two tasks in this project haven't moved all week, which is usually the thing you already half-knew.
Nothing here nags
No badges, no unread counts, no notification at nine in the morning about something from last Tuesday. Notes wait until you go looking for them.
How it is built
Rules you can read, not a verdict you have to trust.
Plenty of software will happily tell you what to do next and keep the reasoning to itself. We think a tool that ranks your day owes you the working, and should still run when you take the clever part out.
Rules first, model second
The ranking is dates and addition. The sorting is pattern matching. All of it is ordinary code you could read on a Sunday. That is deliberate: a tool that decides your day should not be a black box, and Mate keeps working exactly the same when the model is switched off.
AI is optional, and yours
If you want a model in the loop, it runs on your key or against one you host yourself. It suggests; it never gets the last word. We do not train anything on your work, and nothing leaves for a service you did not choose.
Built to be finished with
There is no engagement target here and no metric that rewards you staying. Mate is trying to get you to the end of your day and out of the app. If it has done its job, you close it.
Try it before it is finished.
Mate is a guided prototype in private beta. Some of it is rough, and we would rather tell you which parts than find out you noticed. If the way it works sounds like the way you think, write to us and we will add you to the group.