The idea

“What it is. A personal time-and-energy management platform for solo knowledge workers, founders, consultants, and hybrid professionals. Axis plans weeks around energy — not just calendar slots — by classifying every activity into 16 work modes across three domains (Work, Personal, Recovery), each with a measurable energy profile. Users build time blocks, link them to goals and tasks, generate weekly schedules from templates via a deterministic engine, and adjust through AI chat. Web (Next.js) plus native mobile (Expo). Positioned as a life operating system, not a productivity tool. The promise isn't "do more" — it's "end the workday with energy left for the gym, the kids, the side project, the evening." Principles Plans are hypotheses, not commitments. Divergence is diagnostic signal, not failure. The user always drives. Axis advises, never blocks. The system surfaces and recommends; the user decides. Research initializes, feedback adapts. Cognitive science provides defaults. Individual feedback determines actual parameters. The feedback loop is the product. Everything else is scaffolding to make capture fast enough that people actually do it. Progressive value. Every field is optional. The more context, the sharper the system. Honest research stance. Where the science is contested (ego depletion, Danziger parole study), Axis discloses replication problems openly. Key surfaces Week view — Drag-and-drop schedule grid, the primary canvas. Calendar events sync into an Inbox. Templates — Reusable dateless week layouts. The deterministic engine generates a week from a template in one click. Archetype Fit score on each. Today view — Linear day rendering with current-block accent, inline session feedback, post-session popup. Session feedback (two dimensions) — Outcome × Energy. Tier-aware: Deep Work gets full prompts, Life Admin gets yes/no. Highlight-reel logic silently auto-reviews trivial blocks. Trends — 21-widget customizable dashboard: hours by mode, productivity and energy trends, goal rollups, KPIs. AI chat (4 modes) — Edit, Plan, Coach, Help. Proposes changes via accept/reject cards; user approves before anything writes. Domains — Habits, Workouts, Rituals + consistency dashboard. The "life" half of the life OS. Daily / Week Review — Closes the feedback loop with lifecycle badges, accomplishments, AI-generated narrative. Onboarding — Archetype quiz → auto-generated template the user can apply or edit. Differentiator Most productivity tools fall into two camps. Static methodologies (GTD, time-blocking guides) say: "Here's the system, follow it." Algorithmic schedulers (Motion, Clockwise) say: "AI decides, you comply." Axis is neither. Research gives sensible starting points. Your data tells us who you actually are. You approve the adjustments. Three things make it specific: 1. Energy is a first-class primitive. The 16-mode taxonomy treats Deep Build, Deep Strategy, External Heavy, and Recovery as cognitively distinct categories with measurable drain profiles. Every trend, recommendation, and template fit runs on that substrate. 2. Deterministic engine for structure; AI for advice. Rule-based scheduling produces predictable weeks. AI is reserved for pattern recognition over feedback data and advisory chat — avoiding the paradox where opaque algorithms erode autonomy. 3. The feedback loop closes. Most tools capture intent without capturing what happened. Axis instruments every block with two-dimension feedback, then feeds it back into pattern detection, profile adjustment proposals, and trends. The moat isn't the feature catalog. It's the architecture.”