Mate

Make better decisions without giving up control.

Responsibilities rarely arrive one at a time. Mate helps you make sense of competing commitments, tasks, decisions, and open loops, understand what needs attention and what can safely wait, and choose a realistic next step based on your priorities, consequences, and current capacity.

Mate facilitates your judgement rather than replacing it.

Closed alpha

Understand the situation before choosing what to do.

Mate brings together the things competing for your attention and helps you understand their importance, consequences, dependencies, and feasibility before asking you to choose what comes next.

Everything you connect, in one place.
Mate reads the sources you choose to connect and pulls your open loops into one well. You do not file anything. You do not tag anything. The first connectors are Google Calendar and Gmail. Mate reads first: it sends nothing and changes nothing in your accounts until you confirm that action.
You correct it. It stays corrected.
Captured text is somebody else's subject line, not your task. So you rewrite it, give it the time it actually needs, say whose it is, and split off the part that was hiding inside it. Four edits, and the item finally says what you meant.
Seven lanes. One pass. Shown working.
Each item is scanned for the signal that decides it, and the phrase that matched lights up before the verdict lands. There are seven lanes because there are seven honest answers to a task, and exactly one of them is “do it now”.
What blocks what, and what can start now.
A list cannot tell you that one item is waiting on a person and four are not. A graph can. Mate draws the dependencies, marks the set that can run in parallel, finds the chain that decides your week — then throws the graph away and hands you three moves.

What Mate does

Built around the decisions behind the work.

Capturing work is only part of the problem. The harder questions are what deserves attention, what happens if something waits, what commitments are affected, what is realistic given your current state, and what kind of action makes sense. Mate helps you reason through those questions.

Understand what matters and why

Mate considers the consequences surrounding an action or decision and makes the relevant reasoning visible. Importance should remain understandable rather than appearing as a mysterious recommendation.

Commitments are more than tasks

Mate distinguishes ordinary actions from commitments, responsibilities, decisions, dependencies, and other things that may carry consequences beyond completing a task.

Capture without organising everything first

Capture something quickly in natural language. Mate helps clarify whether it is an action, commitment, decision, responsibility, project, dependency, open loop, or information worth keeping. You remain able to correct the interpretation.

Choose what kind of response makes sense

Mate can help you consider whether the right response is to act, defer, delegate, renegotiate, clarify, reduce the scope, or drop something. The product should not assume that doing it now is always the best answer.

See dependencies and consequences before they become problems

Mate helps surface stalled work, dependencies, approaching commitments, and consequences of delay so problems can become visible before they turn into crises.

No pressure mechanics

No competitive scores, artificial urgency, guilt mechanics, or engagement systems designed simply to bring you back. Mate should help you regain control of your responsibilities, not create another responsibility.

Capacity and context

Your capacity matters too.

The most important action is not always the most realistic action right now. Mate can help you consider available time, energy, focus, cognitive demand, location, tools, dependencies, and other practical constraints when thinking about the next step.

Importance and feasibility are different.

Something can matter greatly while still being unrealistic at this moment.

Find a smaller next step.

When the full action is unrealistic, Mate can help identify something smaller that still moves the situation forward.

Renegotiation is a valid action.

Sometimes the responsible next step is to communicate, renegotiate, delegate, or clarify rather than simply work harder.

After the decision

From understanding to action

Once you understand the situation, Mate can help turn the decision into action through focused views, communication drafts, reminders, and connected context from tools you choose to integrate.

Focused Action View

Focused Action View gives you one chosen action without surrounding noise once you have decided what deserves your attention.

Ready to Resume

Ready to Resume helps preserve enough context that returning to interrupted work does not require reconstructing everything from memory.

Communication support

Mate can help draft messages when a decision requires clarification, delegation, renegotiation, or communication with another person. Sending remains permissioned and visible.

Integrations

Mate's first connectors are Google Calendar and Gmail. Mate reads first: it sends nothing and changes nothing in your accounts until you confirm that action. More connectors are planned, and you choose which ones to turn on.

How it is built

Personal intelligence that remains understandable and under your control.

Mate should become more useful as it understands your context, but greater intelligence should improve understanding and personalisation rather than increase the product's authority over you.

Reasoning should remain visible

Mate should distinguish what comes from explicit information, structured rules, user choices, and model assistance wherever that distinction matters to the user.

Local by default

Mate's personal intelligence is designed to run locally on the user's computer. Core personal context should remain useful without continuous internet access, while connected services are used only when the user enables them.

Your context should remain yours

Personal data should not become training material for shared SustematiQ models by default.

Mate learns from the user for the user

Each correction, choice, deferment, and decision can help Mate better understand how that individual works without converting those patterns into authority over the user.

Permission model

The user's level of authority remains visible and configurable.

Stage 1
Suggest
Stage 2
Draft
Stage 3
Confirm and execute
Stage 4
Limited delegated execution under explicit rules

Built to help you return to your life and work

Mate is not designed to maximise time spent inside the product. A successful interaction should leave you with greater understanding, a realistic choice, and less reason to keep looking at the interface.

The intelligence of the system should increase the intelligence of the person using it.

What is in the build today

Capture from Google Calendar and Gmail; Mate sends or changes nothing in your accounts until you confirm.
All seven answers, including the two nobody else offers: renegotiate and drop.
One step on screen at a time, and a full export to plain JSON whenever you want out.

Not in it yet: the shared workspace, the mobile client, and FoQus itself — that is a separate invite. If one of those is the reason you are here, say so and we will tell you honestly how far off it is.

Help shape Mate before wider release.

Mate is currently being developed and tested with early users. We are looking for people willing to use it in real situations and help us understand where it genuinely reduces decision burden, where it gets in the way, and what needs to improve before wider release.