An AI chief of staff for your working life.
Recall started as a way to remember what needs doing. The Chief of Staff is the layer on top that reasons about it — ranking the highest-value work, catching what would quietly slip, and listening to what gets agreed in meetings so nothing has to be written down by hand.
It isn't a concept or a demo. It's a working system, running every day behind a real consulting practice.
From a task list to a reasoning layer.
A to-do list remembers things. It doesn't tell you which of them matters today, notice when a stated goal has gone quiet, or catch the promise you made out loud in a meeting and never wrote down. Those are judgement calls — and judgement is exactly the part that didn't get cheaper as AI made everything else almost free.
So the Chief of Staff is built around a single spine — and it carries a captured thought all the way along it:
Three things a task list can't.
Keeps track of the work on its own
Every commitment, every change, every slip is recorded as it happens — across clients, projects and personal life. There's no priority field to groom and no weekly tidy-up. The record is always complete, and always queryable.
Resurfaces what actually matters
Not a due-date sort — a reasoned ranking. It weighs each piece of work against the goals you've set, and tells you the order and the why. Ask it "what have I been neglecting?" and it will tell you straight.
Hears what was agreed
It reads the transcripts of your meetings and reconciles what was said against what's tracked. The commitment you made in passing — yours or someone else's — becomes a captured task, proposed for a one-tap confirmation. Nothing relies on you remembering to write it down.
Four layers, one brain.
Insight is only ever as good as what the system can see. So it's built in layers — from the raw material in, through the reasoning, to the surfaces it speaks through, all sitting on a foundation of trust and control.
Ingestion
Getting the right raw material in — your meetings and your mail — and keeping it clean.
Explore →Intelligence
Turning the record into judgement: goals, value, anticipation, reconciliation.
Explore →Interaction
Where it speaks: the daily brief, the command centre, the assistant, the rituals.
Explore →Trust & control
Acting safely and earning delegation — it proposes before it acts.
Explore →It reasons in two voices, and records in a third.
Most of the interesting decisions involve a real tension — between the long game and the thing due tomorrow. Rather than flatten that into one bland recommendation, the Chief of Staff externalises it. Two reasoning voices argue it out; you only hear them disagree when it genuinely matters.
Seldon
The foresight half. Holds the goals, watches for drift, and asks the awkward question: “you said this matters — so why is nothing moving toward it?”
Demerzel
The accountability half. Guards the live commitments, presses on what's slipping, and keeps the day honest against what was promised.
Pirenne
The record-keeper. Captures, files and writes things down faithfully — but only ever acts once a decision has been made and approved.
Live today — and what's next.
Most of the core is built and in daily use. Some of the richest ideas are deliberately still ahead. Here's the honest split.
Live today
- Goals model — multi-horizon objectives the work is measured against
- Value reasoner — the ranked, explained “what matters now”
- Anticipation — slips, quiet projects, goals with no path
- Meeting reconciliation — said-vs-tracked from transcripts
- Daily brief, command centre & assistant
- Weekly, monthly & quarterly rituals
- Propose-and-approve + graduated autonomy
On the roadmap
- Vault synthesis — pre-meeting briefs from years of notes
- Real-time nudges — the right prompt at the right moment
- In-chat intervention — a careful aside, mid-conversation
- Broader mail ingestion — beyond meetings
- Agentic execution — handling the low-value busywork itself
Keep the record, lose the admin.
The point isn't a cleverer to-do list. It's that the mechanical part of staying on top of work — tracking it, ranking it, catching what slips, writing down what was agreed — can largely look after itself, leaving the judgement to you. This site is a tour of one working example of that.