The AI that learns how you work and starts doing it for you.
recal quietly watches how you work, finds the busywork worth automating, and takes more off your plate as you approve. Over time, it works like a second you. On your Mac. Your data never leaves.
Private by design · runs entirely on-device · you approve every action
The problem
Your day is full of work that isn't the work.
You feel busy because you are. But most of it never needed you, and you can't even see where it goes.
of your day is work that isn't the work
Asana · Anatomy of Work
apps switched a day — ~4 hrs/week just reorienting
Harvard Business Review, 2022
slower with AI — while feeling 20% faster
METR, 2025
You can't fix a gap you can't see. recal watches on your Mac, finds the busywork, and quietly takes it back.
See it work
It handles a real task while you watch.
No chatbot, no prompts. recal watches how you work, finds the busywork, and drafts the fix itself, then waits for your yes. Scroll to watch it happen.
- 01 · Observe
It watches. You do nothing
recal sees your real workday on-device. No prompt, no setup, no input box to fill.
- 02 · Notice
It finds what you can't see
A loop too small to notice, too big to ignore. Surfaced on its own, with the receipts.
- 03 · Act
It does the work, not you
No blank automation canvas. recal drafts the fix itself and carries it to the edge of done.
- 04 · Approve
You just say yes
Your only move is approve or deny. Approve once, and it earns the right to do the next on its own.
On your Mac
It does the busywork. You just approve.
A preview of recal working your week: it surfaces what it caught on-device, drafts each fix, and waits for your yes. Approve a couple, and it starts handling the rest the way you would.
recal found 5 ways to give your week back
Approve 2 to earn its autonomy →- Reporting+40m/wk
Your Monday status email, rebuilt by hand every week
3 weeks running, you copy the week's Slack updates and doc edits into the same status email — about 40 minutes each Monday morning.
Draft Monday's status email from the week I already watched — waiting in your drafts to review.
- Expenses+55m/wk
You tried to automate this twice — and gave up
Two abandoned attempts to auto-build your expense report from receipts (Aug 12, Sep 3). Each time, wiring it up took longer than just doing it.
I already built it: receipts matched into a filled report, held for your one review. You carry none of the setup.
- Focus+1h 30m/wk
Re-finding the same 4 docs & threads, 38× before noon
Slack → doc → Chrome and back, 38 switches before lunch — roughly 22 minutes a day spent just re-finding the same four tabs.
Keep this project's docs and threads one keystroke away, assembled before you go looking.
- Reality check+3h/wk
You felt productive — here's where ~40 min/day actually went
One copy → reformat → send loop quietly ate ~40 min a day. (Tools tend to make us feel ~20% faster while measured ~19% slower.) Receipts, not vibes.
Cut that one loop — the single change with the most hours behind it. You approve it, nothing else.
- On-device+1h 15m/wk
You've watched this leak for weeks. Watching didn't fix it
Nearly half of time-trackers never change a thing — and a cloud one would've shipped your day off your Mac. recal saw the same leak locally, and acts on it instead of handing you another chart.
Turn the biggest leak into a one-tap automation — on-device, nothing leaves your Mac but the draft you approve.
The vision
Not a smarter tool. A second you.
Most AI waits for instructions. recal is built to climb past that: from a copilot you operate, to a colleague that works alongside you, to a system that can stand in for you on the parts you choose to hand over.
Watches
Learns the real shape of your work, privately, on your Mac.
Suggests
Surfaces the busywork worth automating, as proposals you can refuse.
Acts, you approve
Takes tasks to done and waits for your yes. Your hand stays on the brake.
Becomes a second you
Earns autonomy per task, learns your judgment, carries work the way you would.
It gets smarter every day from your decisions, until it can carry your work the way you would. That's the whole idea.
What it does
An assistant that behaves like a teammate
Think of it as several quiet assistants watching over your workflow and optimizing it. It's less a tool you operate than a team that sees what needs doing and handles it. The difference isn't a bigger model; it's a change in posture.
Notices the patterns
It learns the rituals you've stopped noticing you do: the repeats, the detours, the same six tabs every morning.
Delivers outcomes, not drafts
Not another thing to copy, paste and fix across five apps. recal takes the task to the threshold of done.
Asks before it acts
Every meaningful action is approve-or-deny first. You see exactly what would happen, and you can stop it.
Earns autonomy per task
Boring, proven chores graduate to “just do it.” Anything risky stays on the brake. Promotions are revocable.
Local-first by default
Your data and the model of how you work stay on your Mac. Private by design, fast because it's already here.
Compounds every day
It never starts over. Each correction sharpens its sense of your judgment, so it's more useful tomorrow than today.
Trust & control
Hand over the work without handing over control
The reason you'd let an AI learn the texture of your work, and eventually act on it, is that it never stops being yours to see, stop, and undo.
Local-first, always
The watching happens on your Mac, and what it learns stays there. Nothing is uploaded, indexed, or sold. The exceptions are explicit and yours to make.
Always in plain sight
Every action is legible before it happens. recal shows you exactly what it's about to do, and what would happen if you let it.
Always reversible
Autonomy is granted per task and can be revoked. A rung is a position, not a one-way door. You're never locked into trusting it.
“Autonomy you can't audit is a liability, not a feature.”The principle recal is built on.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is my data really private?+
Yes. recal is local-first. It runs on your Mac and the model of how you work stays there. Nothing is uploaded, indexed, or sold by default. When a task genuinely benefits from a larger cloud model, recal asks first and sends only what's needed.
What can it actually do today?+
recal is in private development. The first builds focus on the foundation of the trust ladder: privately observing your workflow and surfacing the patterns and busywork worth automating, with you in control of every step.
Does it work offline?+
The core runs on-device, so it keeps working on a plane, on bad wifi, or during a provider outage. Optional cloud assists need a connection, but they're the exception, not the default.
Will it ever act without my permission?+
No. Every meaningful action is approve-or-deny first. Routine, proven tasks can graduate to running on their own once you've approved them enough times, and you can revoke that autonomy at any time.
Which platform does it run on?+
recal is a native macOS app to start. Join the early-access list to be first in line as we open it up.
Be early to your second self.
recal is in private development. Join the early-access list and help shape an AI that works the way you do.
No spam. Just an invite when it's your turn.