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Most AI waitsfor you to ask.

Most AI waits for you to ask. We want Apprentice to recognise your open projects and offer work it can take on: check what’s stuck, prepare something, or pick up where you left off. Small nudges that make it easier to get moving again.

A small nudge. A few useful ways forward.

On your Mac Open a project ↓

Inbox

Working

Apprentice is running.

NEEDS YOU

Decision

Your research run stopped before it finished. I can check what happened, prepare a restart, or help you decide whether to keep going.The completed results are saved. You don’t need to start over.

When you’re away Tap the notification ↓

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Choose a project on the Mac, then open its notification on the phone. Each suggestion carries the context into the next conversation. Interactive illustration based on Apprentice’s interfaces.

Remember where you left off.

Work gets interrupted. You switch projects, wait on an answer, or leave something running. Apprentice keeps track of what’s open and where it stopped, then brings it back with a useful next step.

From conversations, connected email and calendars, and work already underway.

What needs you.

The answer, decision, or approval only you can give, with enough context to pick it up.

What Apprentice can pick up.

The checking, drafting, and preparation it can offer to do, without asking you to explain the whole thing again.

What you can let go.

Something that mattered last week might not matter now. You can tell Apprentice to stop bringing it back.

A reminder tells you to do it.
A collaborator offers to help.

“This is still unfinished” leaves the next step with you. Apprentice comes back with what it can do: check the problem, prepare a draft, or resume the work. You can give it more to take on, make a decision together, or leave it for later.

You can say “not now.”

Pick up the next step, talk it through, or leave it for another day. If you’ve already finished it, say so. If it no longer matters, stop the reminder.

Keep the final say.

Messages, purchases, and deletions wait for your go-ahead. You can review what Apprentice prepares before it acts.

Keep some things quiet.

Choose which apps Apprentice keeps up with, and when phone alerts can reach you.

We’re building Apprentice so unfinished work takes up less of your life, and you have more room for the things you care about.

Proactivity is in development. The examples are adapted from real projects; the phone flow is an interactive illustration. This preview doesn’t run tasks or send notifications.